No remake has irritated me more than the Bruce Willis reboot of (The day of) The Jackal. The original was just soooo badass.

Since "best" is a relative rating definitionally there must be a best remake. Even if you think they are all crap one would be less crappy and therefore the best.

I agree Vanilla Sky is one of the worst remakes.

Of course, since this is for ADD millenials, they didn't mention "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

Alfred Hitchcock didn't like his original enough. So he re-did it 20 years later with a different cast.

/note to George Lucas - this is how you do it, Mr. Film Student.

Gary Cooper, Ray Miland, Robert Preston and Brian Donlevy demand a recount

The remake of "Flight Of The Phoenix" was terrible.

mitchcumstein1: downstairs: mitchcumstein1: And as for Subby's rhetorical question:

The Departed
Father of The Bride
The Fly
The Magnificent Seven
Ocean's Eleven
3:10 to Yuma
Heaven Can Wait
Cape Fear
The Maltese Falcon

are all damn fine movies.


Exactly. Many of them took campy or poorly-done movies that had a great foundation and made them good.

I will say the original "The Maltese Falcon" is pretty damn good.

So were Seven Samurai, Cape Fear, and Infernal Affairs.

I hear that remake of Hidden Fortress with lazer guns and lazer swords was pretty good.

Best remakes?
1: The Magnificent Seven - remake of The Seven Samurai
2: Mean Machine - remake of The Longest Yard

One of the reasons these two are so good is that they are not shot-for-shot remakes, but cultural translations "Seven" taking the story of the Samurai defending a village from bandits and transferring to the old west, and "Machine" taking the story of a prisoners-VS-guards football game and transferring it to the UK. Both movies took the heart of the stories in question and re-imaged them in their cultural context. It doesn't hurt that in both cases the people making the remakes understood the original movies and what it was about them that made them so good in the first place.


Good remakes of garbage movies don't really count. 1982's The Thing beats the living shiat out of Howard Hawk's 1950's version in the same way that George Carling kicks the snot out of Larry The Cable Guy.

Vanilla Sky was a good movie.

The Pink Panther was a surreal experience for me since, save by one having white hair and the other having black hair, I've never been able to tell Steve Martin and Kevin Kline apart.

Apparently, there truly is, subby.

Since the writer and subby were obviously born in 1990, I humbly submit:

The Front Page (1931)

Best remake: His Girl Friday (1940)

Worst remake: Switching Channels (1988)

dahmers love zombie: List fails without this abomination:

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Tim Burton lost his magic a long time ago (some doubt he even had it). His last good movie was Big Fish. He's a turd of a director that thinks quirkiness doubles for talent.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

The remake with Cain and Martin had it's own charm and was more over the top funny. The original with Niven and Brando was wonderfully stylish and also very good. A good remake will re-explore the material and discover something new.

I notice that they didn't even mention the newest King Kong.

Ed Grubermann:
Good remakes of garbage movies don't really count. 1982's The Thing beats the living shiat out of Howard Hawk's 1950's version in the same way that George Carling kicks the snot out of Larry The Cable Guy.

Who the fark is George Carling? If you're talking about the standup comedian, his name is Carlin, and his career began in the 1960's, when Dan "Cable Guy" Whitney was an infant.

ThisNameSux: Vanilla Sky was a good movie.

You obviously haven't seen the original.

rocky_howard: dahmers love zombie: List fails without this abomination:

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Tim Burton lost his magic a long time ago (some doubt he even had it). His last good movie was Big Fish. He's a turd of a director that thinks quirkiness doubles for talent.

I thought Johnny Depp was excellent in it, considering how good the original was. Maybe that actually worked in his favor as I assumed it would be a load of crapola like Death Race.

Gobobo: rocky_howard: dahmers love zombie: List fails without this abomination:

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Tim Burton lost his magic a long time ago (some doubt he even had it). His last good movie was Big Fish. He's a turd of a director that thinks quirkiness doubles for talent.

I thought Johnny Depp was excellent in it, considering how good the original was. Maybe that actually worked in his favor as I assumed it would be a load of crapola like Death Race.

Oh no, Johnny is almost always excellent and he did a great job there.

BTW, do you read comics? I'd love for a live-action All Star Superman to have Johnny as Dr. Leo Quintum. His whimsical portrayal of Willy Wonka really fits the character.

People usually count The Silence of the Lambs as a remake, as the book that it was based on had been made into a movie before. But since Lambs isn't really thought of as a direct remake of the first one, I'm not sure that it belongs on this list.

No Thing? No Fistful of Dollars?

fail

dahmers love zombie: List fails without this abomination:

Fail. They were both abominations. I'm reading the book to my daughter now.

Though another good remake was "Thomas Crown Affair"

I preferred the newer version of Sabrina.

Fireproof: People usually count The Silence of the Lambs as a remake, as the book that it was based on had been made into a movie before. But since Lambs isn't really thought of as a direct remake of the first one, I'm not sure that it belongs on this list.

I guess the only way that my previous post makes any sense is if you replace "usually" with "sometimes."

/Yeah, hella tired ATM

puckrock2000: Since the writer and subby were obviously born in 1990, I humbly submit:

The Front Page (1931)

Best remake: His Girl Friday (1940)

Worst remake: Switching Channels (1988)

I am also enamored of the Lemmon/Matthau pairing, but His Girl Friday is the best.

/B. 1977

Fireproof: People usually count The Silence of the Lambs as a remake, as the book that it was based on had been made into a movie before. But since Lambs isn't really thought of as a direct remake of the first one, I'm not sure that it belongs on this list.

You're thinking of "Manhunter" and "Red Dragon". "Manhunter" was alot better as well.

Fireproof: People usually count The Silence of the Lambs as a remake, as the book that it was based on had been made into a movie before. But since Lambs isn't really thought of as a direct remake of the first one, I'm not sure that it belongs on this list.

No. No one counts The Silence of the Lambs as a remake. I think you're confusing it with Manhunter/Red Dragon.

rocky_howard: BTW, do you read comics? I'd love for a live-action All Star Superman to have Johnny as Dr. Leo Quintum. His whimsical portrayal of Willy Wonka really fits the character.

Can't say I've ever been into them; more into reading sci-fi books and current affairs

The Onanist: No mention of "True Grit."

Personally, I liked the Coen brother's version better.

Peter Jackson's remake of Lord of the Rings is better than Ralph Bakshi's.

People usually count my post as a remake of drewogatory's post. That's not really accurate. It's more of an Armageddon/Deep Impact thing.

Airplane?

FeedTheCollapse: haven't seen the original version of The Departed, but the remake was Generic Scorsese Gangster Film. I'm amazed at the amount of love it gets.

And yet a "Generic Scorcese Gangster Film" is usually far superior to other movies of its ilk, no?

/Saw both, very entertained by both.
//And how can you say that?! For all you know, the original WAS an imitation Scorcese movie that Scorcese turned into his own fine Scorcese product.
///Now I'm confused.

rocky_howard: The Pink Panther was a surreal experience for me since, save by one having white hair and the other having black hair, I've never been able to tell Steve Martin and Kevin Kline apart.

The cast the wrong people in that travesty. Kline should have been Clouseau.

Done, as they say, in one.