Old vs. New

[Ticklerguy4u]

Here is a list of new movie remakes. Some already came out and some are going to come out. What do you think?

Dredd/ Death Wish
Carrie/ Escape from New York
Red Dawn/ Heavy Metal
Evil Dead/ Highlander
Robocop / House Party
All Quiet on the Western Front/ Lethal Weapon
Annie/ Little Shop of Horrors
A Star is Born/ My Fair Lady
Mad Max/ Overboard
Old Boy/ Porky's
Pet Semetary/ Romancing the Stone
Point Break/ Scarface
The Crow / The Bodyguard
The Orphanage/ The Phantom Tollbooth
An American Werewolf in London/ The Warriors
Barbarella/ The Wild Bunch
Child's Play/ The Westworld
Death Note/ Yellow Submarine
Dirty Dancing/ War Games
Drop Dead Fred/ Time Bandits
Fletch/ Akira
Starship Troopers/ About Last Night
Never Ending Story / American Psycho
The Seven Samarai / Commando
The Birds/ Creature from the Black Lagoon

 

[Jagermeistered]

They are remaking movies from the 80's and 90's?! I am not getting old, but the new generational writers - sucks terribly!

 

[Jagermeistered]

Kind of a mixed bag there, if all those are actually made.

Some should never be remade because they were done perfectly the first time (The Wild Bunch) or are too closely identified with certain artists (Yellow Submarine). The Seven Samurai sort of falls into this category; I say "sort of" because it was remade once. But from I've read of this newest version, it won't touch either Kurosawa's original or The Magnificent Seven.
Others may or may not be classics, but were done well enough that no remake is necessary (The Birds, Robocop, An American Werewolf in London).

Some just make no sense (why would anyone remake Drop Dead Fred or House Party?).

Quite a few have been remade before, so I wouldn't have a problem with another version (Carrie, All Quiet on the Western Front, Little Shop of Horrors, A Star is Born, My Fair Lady, Scarface). It would depend on how well the new versions were made.

And some might actually benefit from a remake, though I wouldn't count on that too much (Evil Dead, Highlander, Pet Semetary).

You had to throw Evil Dead on your list? Give Bruce Campbell a break! He is a blue-collar actor... He is no Dennis Quaid, but he gives it his all. 😛

 

[ChapInTheHat]

Well, the Dredd version was infinitely superior to the 90s version. But then that was less of a remake, and more of a seperate adaption of the source material.

Very concerned about the Evil Dead remake. Both Raimi and Campbell have given it their blessing, but...an Evil Dead movie without Bruce? It just doesn't seem right!

 

[Ticklerguy4u]

Call me crazy, but I liked the sequels better than the original. Anyway, it's no worse than Escape from New York without Kurt Russell or Lethal Weapon without Gibson and Glover.

The real disgrace, though, is that anyone even thought of remaking Peckinpah's masterpiece.

I believe the better remakes are the ones that rename the movie with a different title that way its can go into its own direction. Like Tin Man or The Wiz was a remake of the Wizard of Oz really worked in my opinion.