Bingo! That's always been my thought. Been waiting for a remake of this for years and years, and we finally see one, but not the original story. Still, I enjoyed the new film.

My thoughts on remakes is that they should take all the effort and funding and invest it into a new story. I've enjoyed lots of remakes (the dead remakes and TCM were all good) but I'd still rather see new and original ideas.

There are only a few horror films that in my opinion deserve a remake:

Black Christmas(coming soon to theatres)

The Burning(seen by very few. similar to friday the 13th)

The Boogens(pretty scary for its time, but the 'boogens' were lame. could be done better)

I do not have a problem with movies being remade. My problem is with the selection of which movies are getting remade. Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Night, Dawn, Day of the Dead? Psycho? These are already perfect films to begin with. A remake's purpose should be to improve a film's legacy, not tarnish it.

So basically, I agree with everything being said in this thread. Movies like Death Race 2000 and Black Christmas that had good elements but could have been done better.... Those are the types of films that should be getting remakes. Not something that's already a classic because there is absolutely zero chance of them ever being better than the original. If one were to remake House of the Dead or some other shit movie, one would have very little chance of not being lightyears better than original and thereby improving the legacy.

i'm assuming you havent read the book by HG Wells..

the story took place at the turn of the century (1900) england.
it would make a brilliant period piece.

an emotional and thrilling centerpiece of the book was a battle between the tripods and an old battle ship - fending off the tripods until a passenger liner could escape ...

it never needed to be moved to america and modernized ...
(let alone the george pal religious propoganda bersion)

I want to see a british film with unknown actors that takes place in the proper time period - with the kind of budget that would do it justice.

I don't think you can remake a movie like that and get the great cheese factor it had.

i agree ...

what was the other one like this ??

there were 2 at about the same time ... both about 'killing races'


was it Deathsport ?

Maybe one your thinking of is rollerball.

Wow, Spielberg really turned it up side down then. I guess when we read a book and then see the movie we tend to get disappointed. The one time that didn't happen to me (that I can remember) was with Lord of the Flies. I enjoyed both book and movie.

no - i'm very familiar with rollerball ..

there was one called deathsport - it also had carradine in it .. i think its the one ..

Same response as every other time this comes up:

The Bat (Or one of the oh-so-many similar films that came out around the same time)