Remakes - A good idea ?

[scarecrow666]

Are they a good thing or not ?

I think my favorite would be Invasion of the body snatchers (Abel Ferrara) , whats yours ?

What would you like to see re-made ?

[Grimm]

It depends what movie it is. If the movie has already done it's job, leave the movie alone. If the movie hasn't or the movie is really bad. Sure remake the movie.

I liked Invasions of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn't liked it to get remade.

I guess remakes can be good or bad thing.

[ManchestrMorgue]

I liked Invasions of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn't liked it to get remaded.



Which one, the original or the remake?
;) ;)

[Grimm]

The original

[Dante'sInferno]

Is killing yourself a good idea?






I think not.

[scarecrow666]

Which one, the original or the remake?
;) ;)

The Abel Ferrara version so i guess its the remake/remake?:confused:

[Disease]

In general I say no, But the occasional one is a good idea.

[Disease]

my faveroit is probably out of The Fly and Dawn of the dead, but it's hard to say.

[ManchestrMorgue]

I will second The Fly as a great remake.

Also, House of Wax (Vincent Price) was a good remake.


The problem with remakes is that it is usually films that were good at the time that are remade. Which are probably the movies that least need to be remade.

Sometimes it works well - when movies that were good but made on a modest budget are respectfully recreated with a larger budget but adhering to the same values an ideals of the original.

Unfortunately, this does not always happen. And so we have masterpieces such as the remake of The Wicker Man and many, many others.

[XtRaVa]

In general, I say no (which is what I voted). However in some cases remakes are essential in order to keep an awesome story alive through the ages.

Not all remakes are bad - or a poor homage to the first...sometimes they can be as good, or even better.

However, usually a remake is done just to cash in on the fact that theres a lot of ignorant movie-go-ers out there. This is when the movies are baaad and created without any love and never capture the atmosphere of the first.

[Despare]

Remakes can be great, unfortuanatly 95% of them aren't. I don't mind them if they're done correctly.

[Doc Faustus]

Mad Love was a good remake.

[XtRaVa]

Remakes can be great, unfortuanatly 95% of them aren't. I don't mind them if they're done correctly.

Exactly. :cool:

[LoudLon]

I'm not totally opposed to remakes, but prefer them to be of films which left room for improvement.

I'll also invoke The Fly as a great remake. The original was a clunky, mediocre little flick that, really, was unintentionally hilarious. Cronenberg took the core idea -- a man genetically splicing himself with a fly -- and ran with it. The result was outstanding.

Unfortunately, most remakes tend to merely copy the originals. I'd much rather the producers put their money into a whole new movie instead.

[XtRaVa]

Yeah 'The Fly' was a good remake. 'The Thing' was a good remake. 'Magnificent Seven' was a good remake (not better than the original though).

However the list of good remakes will always be far smaller than the list of bad remakes.

[Disease]

Would you consider the magnifecent seven a remake,rip off or homage?

[XtRaVa]

Well I said it was a "good remake".

I think it would be harsh to call it a rip-off, but it isnt exactly a homage, as its made in a completely different setting. I also doubt it was advertised back then as being influenced by Kurosawa, but that was more likely due to the audience not knowing much about asian cinema, rather than them being sneeky and trying to rip-off his immortal classic.

[scarecrow666]

After a lot of thought i am getting really excited about the Hellraiser remake.Its being Written by Clive Barker.

Quote:

According to Clive Barker's official website, Revelations, the writer/director is going to be revisitng, revamping and rewriting his very own Hellraiser for the Weinstein Company. The Weinsteins will be working with Dimension Films to produce the film, the same studio who has recently released a rash of subpar straight-to-video Hellraiser releases that have contained brief cameos by the franchise's star, Pinhead.

Here's the official statement from Barker's website...

"I just want to have five minutes to bring you up to date on the Hellraiser situation, so that we don't surprise anybody!

"They're going to remake Hellraiser One with a lot more money and they've invited me to write it - the invitation came from Bob Weinstein - which I am going to do, on the basis that if I don't do it, it will be done in some way that I probably won't like!

"It's only that one that I really, really, really care about in terms of its remake value - and it'll be kind of fun to have the extra money to do the effects and all that cool stuff.

"So it puts me in the situation of writing both the beginning and the end of Pinhead at the same time - 'In my end is my beginning...' I'm not in the middle, as it were, I'm leaving out his middle age, I'm just dealing with his beginning and his end.

"I'm excited about it - actually it'll be kinda cool to revisit it once and see if there are things we can do to it which will make it significantly better.

"I wouldn't wish to direct - I only want to write and be a part of the producing team. I wouldn't want to revisit something that I did as a director, something that I did all those years ago: that would be too, in a way, painful - not painful but weird, difficult, strange...

"I am very happy at the idea of having some more money for the cool stuff - I don't know how much more money, but it's got to be more than the $900,000 that we had the first time!"

:D