A few other remakes I think are better:Originally Posted by GuitarGeek
The Thing
Scarface
The Fly
A few other remakes I think are better:
The Thing
Scarface
The Fly
The American version of "Let the Right One In," aka "Let Me In," surprised me how good it was as I didn't expect much being a huge fan of the original.
"That gum you like is going to come back in style."
The only remakes I thought were as good or better:
His Girl Friday - a remake of The Front Page
A Pocketful of Miracles - a remake of Lady for a Day
The Thing - my favorite remake
The Nutty Professor - the original is a classic, of course, but Eddie Murphy's remake is soooo funny
Ocean's 11 - better than the original
The Omen - as good as the original... maybe better
The Ring - as good as the Japanese original Ringu, I thought
War of the Worlds - better than the '53 version, imo
Quarantine - as good as the Spanish original [Rec]
The Magnificent Seven - surprisingly better than the original, which was a remake itself of The Seven Samurai
The '56 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much could have been better if Hitch had Doris Day sing "Que Sera, Sera" only once.
Which was a remake of the '37 movie with Janet Gaynor and Frederic March.
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Generally I don't like remakes, and prefer the original. I like Carpenter's remake of The Thing, but I find nothing wrong and enjoy the original film as well. Probably has to do with when you were born and when you became movie conscious. A lot of the early films have a charm to me so much so that I avoid the remake unless I see a bunch of good reviews about it.
Casino Royale was a good remake though.
The Thing
The Wizard of Oz
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Vanilla Sky sort of perfect movie for Cruise, I thought
John Carpenter's remake of Howard Hawkes's The Thing (from Another World) is, in my humble opinion, better than the original. The original was damn good, mind you...especially given the technical limitations at the time it was made.
But none of them is a patch on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s original story "Who Goes There?" that they're all loosely based on.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Remake of what? There was never a movie in the proper James Bond series called "Casino Royale".
There was a 1954 semi-adaptation of the Fleming novel, as part of a tv series, starring Barry Nelson as CIA agent(!) "Jimmy Bond"; and there was the 1967 David Niven vehicle (with Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, William Holden, Charles Boyer, John Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, and many more), but that was a spoof with little to do with the book and less to do with the James Bond phenomenon.
I don't see the 2006 Daniel Craig film as meaningfully a "remake" of either of these.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Watched The Godfather last night. Still get lots out of it despite seeing it do many time. Al Pacino was so young, as was Duval.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
Yes! I thought this was well done too, but the ending of the original is just too damn good.
As far as remakes go as mentioned already Carpenter's The Thing is one of my favorite movies of all time
Another great remake (gave me nightmares as a kid for months) was Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
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^Yes, to both. Saw The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers at the Drive In.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
So did I! It was nuts! I love that film. FAR better than the original, just like Carpenter's The Thing and Aja's The Hills Have Eyes.
It's a gift that never stops giving. Absolutely brilliant filmmaking, as is part II. The nuance, the acting, the writing, the screenplay, the score... my god, that kind of magic can't be repeated. For years I had a poster of Brando and Pacino, from the scene where Vito is saying "I never wanted this for you, Michael". Marvelous - and I mean that in the purest sense of the word; I literally do marvel at those two films.
Have you ever seen the actor Titus Welliver do his Pacino through the ages impression? It's unbelievable, look it up.
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Watched Angel Heart again tonight, really enjoy the vibe of the movie, Rourke is good in it and Lisa Bonet is always easy on the eye.
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Yup, I can watch this one (and Godfather II) over and over again.
^^
My wife bought me The Godfather Notebook for my birthday a couple years ago. Great coffee-table book with tons of photos and actual annotations and writings from Coppola about the novel and the process of making the films. Heightened my already sky-high appreciation for those films.
David
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Nice, I'd like to read that. I do have a couple of books about it, but nothing that nice, by the sounds of it. I do have a beautiful trilogy DVD set with loads of extras.
The first two are essential for any lover of film, I'd say.
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Some horror remakes that I enjoyed as much or more than the original .......
Last House on the Left
The Hills Have Eyes
I Spit on Your Grave
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
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I also have that DVD set. It has been a while since I have watched it. Maybe it is time to pull it out for another view again.
You never tire of greatness. I will check out Titus.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
This one. I never said it was in the "proper" series.
Just coming into this thread, so sorry if this has already been discussed but..
Does anyone have any recommendations on good Asia/Pacific action movies. We are going to watch The Night Comes for Us tonight and since me and the wife have really been enjoying the Kdramas that Netflix has been bombarding us with, we wanna watch some movies too.
TIA
best
Michael
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We watched Chef on Netflix last night, starring Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Sophia Vergara, and a whole lot of other names we're all familiar with.
What a fun film. Jon Favreau plays the titular chef, and he takes his food very seriously. However, his artistic vision is not respected by the owner of his restaurant, played by Dustin Hoffman, nor by the local restaurant critic, played by Oliver Platt. So, after a social media battle with Platt's critic, Favreau and Leguizamo travel the country in a food truck.
I kept waiting for a "shoe to drop," or for some kind of tension to be introduced, but this is just a fun ride. And there's more to it than my very general description. I felt good when it was over.
And it turns out that the film is loosely inspired by the life of actual chef Roy Choi, who served as a consultant and helped trained Favreau. (Favreau actually attended culinary school to train for the role, and you can see that he has some talent and knows what he's doing). Choi and Favreau went on to do a show for Netflix, creatively titled "The Chef Show." This is also a fun, recommended watch for anyone who enjoys food, or going out to a good restaurant (remember doing that?).
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Never Grow Old on prime. A hybrid western/horror starring John Cusack as a very evil bastage. Creepy and artistic. Great.
I heard Chef was good, sort of from what I've read a feel-good film. I saw Being There last night and it might fit that description as well. Subtle humor, and I liked the optimism of the film.
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