What classic film should never be remade?

[terrya]

Hands-off? Cannot be improved. Ever.

[Lavender Brown]

1. Casablanca

Shouldn't be colorized, either. :P

[NYCGirl]

28. Did you know there was a TV series made of "Casablanca"

with David Soul as Rick?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084994/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1DYXNhYmxhbmNhfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=5;ft=38;fm=1

[democracyindanger]

31. Thank jeebus that Affleck and J Lo broke up

They were planning on remaking it.

[derby378]

45. Agreed

I'll only watch it if it's black and white. Same with Citizen Kane, which should also be left alone.

[pres2032]

2. Wizard of OZ

Gone with the Wind

[Beaverhausen]

3. Some Like it Hot

although many have tried - in various disguises.

[JohnKleeb]

42. funny I was watching Some Like It Hot today

that movie is hilarious.

[XNASA]

4. Citizen Kane

[CO Liberal]

55. Definitely

Orson Welles' lighting and composition canot be duplicated.

[Richardo]

5. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

...but they are anyway. :grr: --> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422774/

From the writer of 'Saving Silverman' :eyes: and the director of 'Daddy Day Care' and Dr. Doolittle 2'


They really put the 'A' team on it, dint they?

[Lavender Brown]

12. Oh no... who will they cast?

No, actually I don't want to know. :scared:

[Fenris]

15. ROFL. Man, that's a high class production team right there!

Who can deny the sheer Shakespearean drama that was 'Saving Silverman' or the cinematic artistry that was 'Daddy Day Care'?:D

Hooray for Hollywood!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

25. I thought the remake was called The Money Pit

With the classic comedic team of Hanks and Long.

Same essential plot.

[Richardo]

26. Here's my prediction of the treatment for the re-make:

Rapper Jim 'Lil-Jay' Blandings builds a new mansion in the hills overlooking Oakland, ala M.C. Hammer. Hires contractor Jack Black to oversee construction. At the same time, under tremendous pressure to come up with hit song for his new CD, 'Wham'.

Hilarity ensues. :eyes:

[SPQR]

64. Man, here I thought I was safe

loving some little film that nobody ever heard of. I feel like packing up and moving to Shrunk Mills. *sigh*

[Richardo]

67. You and me both, my brother

:(

[EstimatedProphet]

6. The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh

[meegbear]

7. Birth of a Nation

While I don't consider it a "classic" in the strict sense of the word, I consider it horribly racist, it did leave a mark in filmmaking.

[On the Road]

33. The Remake of "Birth of a Nation"?

Oh, my. THAT would be something to see. The furor would be more entertaining than the film itself.

[WI_DEM]

8. all of them

If it's a classic don't touch it. Let Hollywood come up with new ideas instead of remaking great films. There are tons of bad films they could remake.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. I used to agree on this...

But why shouldn't other actors have a chance to recreate their favorite screen roles as they do stage roles?

Remakes of movies aren't (or shouldn't be) designed to take the place of the classic first editions...only to present a different, not necessarily better, perspective.

I do agree that Hollywood seems at a loss for new ideas of late, and ought to consider remaking some of the good ideas that flopped.

[SCDem]

9. Any movie with Jimmy Stewart

We don't have that many classic actors that could carry a movie without outstarring the movie.

[Rowdyboy]

Especially "Harvey"

Can you imagine how horribly today's comedians would screw it up? What a nightmare.

[SCDem]

18. I was thinking of that movie Exactly

I mean Harvey is so great and Jimmy Stewart was so subtle it was so great. No one could do that today.... it would be so goofy or slap stick or something but it wouldn't be the great movie that it was. I mean you had empathy for Stewart and you believed that he believed in Harvey.

Anyway I agree with your post whole-heartedly!

[Dookus]

10. None

I don't believe any movie should be off-limits. It's like asking what Broadway shows should never be revived.

[StopTheMorans]

11. Napolean Dynamite

:P

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Citizen Kane, Casablanca, all Hitchcock films

And, truth to tell, really none of them should be - people should be doing original stuff - but there some, such as the above, which are absolutely definitely hands off.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

32. What exactly do you consider a remake?

Velvet Goldmine was Citizen Kane set in the 70s world of glam rock.

Almost scene for scene. And was fairly successful both commercially and critically.

[Bridget Burke]

37. Yes, but we didn't see Orson's naughty bits!

(For which we are grateful.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

40. Thank God for that!

Although one wonders at the critics reaction had Welles played Kane as a frequently naked, androgynous, fireball-blowing glam rocker...

[Rabrrrrrr]

72. That's a re-interpretation or re-translation

Just like, for the most part, every story that gets told is a reinterpretation of something from ancient Greece or some other ancient story form.

Remakes are when some doofus says "Hitchock's 'Psycho' is amazing -I want to remake it with the same name, same characters, everything."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. Plan Nine From Outer Space

Seriously. Eventually, someone will try.

There is actually a new (2004) black & white movie that was made to "attempt" the old Plan Nine / Robot Monster / etc style, called "The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra." You can't PLAN cheese, though...it just happens.

:toast:

[madaboutharry]

16. To Kill a Mockingbird

n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

24. Absolutely.

[Goldmund]

17. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Kubrick.

[Richardo]

30. Abso-freakin-lutely

Speak the truth, brother-man

[BurtWorm]

19. King Kong

D'Oh! :evilfrown:

[CottonBear]

20. Willy Wonka.

Unfortunately, they've already remade it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

29. While I like the fact that they're making a version that is faithful

to the book, I will be incredibly distressed if the factory is all done with CGI.

Luckily, Burton seems to rely on actual special effects, lighting, sets, and animation except as a last resort.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. The Only Thing, Ty. . .

. . .is that sometime the movie becomes more a part of the culture than the book. So, a retreat to faithfulness can often be disappointing.
The Professor

[kerrywins]

44. Very well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

50. True, true

But as a ravenous Dahl fan as a child (and an adult), I think I had read the book about 20 times before I even knew a movie version existed.

So for me personally, the book is one of the seminal experiences of my own personal culture.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. That Makes Sense

See, two different perspectives, two different opinions and we still agree with one another. The Lounge is a fun place, is it not?
The Professor

[Tyrone Slothrop]

56. Some people say

It's a good place to Lounge.

;-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. The Seventh Seal

[Ekirh]

52. Definitely...

I have to go with this one as well.

[BurtWorm]

70. Can't you see Will Smith as Death?

[BOSSHOG]

22. Cool Hand Luke

[AlCzervik]

23. All about Eve, The Women, To kill a mocking bird

Citizen Kane, Gone with the wind, Stlag 17 and i wish they had left The Manchurian candidate alone, I love Meryl streep and Liev Schrieber but it dodn't come close to the original.

[Fenris]

27. A Fistful Of Dollars

For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

[DrWeird]

66. Ironic that you'd pick a remake...

for a film that should never be remade.

[asjr]

35. Gone with the Wind

[Patiod]

57. Absolutely GWTW

[ET Awful]

36. Miracle on 34th Street . . . oh wait, they alread f'ed that up.

Ummm. . .

Harvey :)

[Rowdyboy]

38. I'll tell you one that SHOULDN'T have been remade...

"Cheaper by the Dozen". What an ugly piece of slap-stick trash in comparison to the original which was a delight.

[Joe Chi Minh]

39. A Few Dollars More,

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Big Lebowski, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, All Quiet On the Western Front (pre-war version), "Buffet Froid", a French film with Gerard Depardieu and Carole Bouquet, who plays a vengeful psycho pursuer, like "Nately's whore" in Catch 22, with hilarious conviction. I mean she's beautiful, but she really looked the part.

[maveric]

41. "Chinatown". They'd probably cast Colin Farrel as Jake.

:puke:

[NoPasaran]

46. Un chien andalou

[sakabatou]

47. Godzilla 1954

If only they just had it subtitled... WHY DID THEY LET (FORGOT HIS NAME) INTO THE MOVIE?! WHY DID THEY DOWNPLAY THE SIDE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR DISASTERS AND WASTE?!

[TyeDye75]

48. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

wait too late... the bastards have already done it (shakes fist in anger)

[ScreamingMeemie]

60. That's because Johnny was too young the first time around...

;)

[dubyaD40web]

49. Dr. Strangelove

[Moloch]

51. I would like to see Citizen Kane remade.

One of my favorites of all time.

Perhaps instead of William Randolph Hearst, we could do Rupert Murdoch?

[NewJeffCT]

53. Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and a bunch more...

The Killing Fields
The 6th Sense
Gandhi
The Godfather, parts 1 and 2
Gone with the Wind

[mitchum]

58. The Zapruder film

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[Lydia Leftcoast]

61. Most of them

I can't think of a modern remake that was any good.

Today's directors should think up their own damn ideas.

[Tweed]

62. Amelie

What? It's a classic.

[livinginphotographs]

63. Assault on Precinct 13.

Oh wait... :eyes:

[Mike Niendorff]

65. Airplane

(I would've said Planet of the Apes, too, but it's a bit late)


MDN

[ikri]

68. ugh remakes

If directors, screenwriters and producers aren't talented enough to think of their own narratives to begin with then they certainly shouldn't be considering messing around with other people's work.

On the other hand, I'd love to see a huge Hollywood remake of either Un chien andalou or Last Year in Marienbad. I'd kill to see the reactions of most film-goers to either of those :)

[ceile]

69. El Mariachi

I can just see some big budget disaster...

[mr blur]

71. All of them, I think.

Isn't that why they're classics?