Remakes - A good idea ?

[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]

Originally Posted by Despare

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.

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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