Remakes - are there any good ones?

Following on from Truss' remake/turd list below, I thought I would start a thread dedicated to good remakes.

Here was the original list:

Hills have eyes - Turd..........
Total recall - Turd
Fright Night - Turd
The Fog - Worst remake in history..
Halloween - Turd......
Friday the 13th - Turd
Nightmare on elm street - Turd
Assault on Precinct 13 - Turd......


Now I actually disagree with a couple of these (Hills and Friday) were both decent enough remakes where the originals were not that great anyway.


However, there have been a few remakes that really deserve a shout out.


The obvious one is the Thing which was just simply fantastic. Its so good, most people dont realise it was a remake!


But my personal fave remake is Dawn of the Dead. The original is brilliant and possibly Romeros best but for me the opening 10 minutes of the remake are the best slice of horror in the last 20 years. The rest of the film was good (not great) but that opening precredits sequence is up there with the best.


Any other suggestions?

Invasion of the bodysnatchers....
Scarface
A Fistful of dollars..

Oceans 11 was considerably better than the original, which is little more than rat pack jolly up.

Didnt know that Fistfull of Dollars was a remake.

The original Invasion was fantastic. I even enjoyed the remake of the remake by Abel Ferrara from memory set on a military base.

The Donald Sutherland one was good, if nothing more that for the screech that they all do when they spot someone. Going back to your lines from movies thread, I used to do that now and again!

True Grit is good. I haven't seen the original, so can't compare.

Heat
12 Angry Men

The Departed (Damon/Dicaprio/Nicholson et al) remake of Internal Affairs (Hong Kong)

cape fear
scarface
nosferatu

Agree that Hills have Eyes was OK. Quite enjoyed it personally.

The Departed is a good shout, although the original is also very good IMO.

Are we allowed Dredd? Much as I didn't really like the last one, the consensus is that it's quite good, and certainly better than the original Stallone version.

I've got a controversial one - given that the thread is asking for good remakes rather than necessarily better than the originals: I actually enjoyed the new Robocop. Not a patch on the original of course, and very very different in style and feel, but on its own a decent action movie with interesting themes.

The Fly? Pretty good, I think the original was from the 50's or something.

And I recently read that Scarface was actually a remake from a 1930's movie .

Theres a whole host of remakes on their way:

Stevens Kings IT
Ghostbusters
Flash Gordon
Mad Max - is this out yet?
Point Break
The Crow
Barbarella
Dirty Dancing
AN American Warewolf in London
Starship Troopers - Already
Neverending Story
The Time Bandits

And rumoured remakes in plan
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Commando (Arnie)
Death Wish with Stallone as the lead
Escape from New York
Highlander
Porkies
Romancing the stone
Westworld - the old Yul Bryner classic
Short Circuit

And worst of all......

They are considering remaing .....Scarface????!!!! WTF

Safe to say Hollywood has ran out of ideas!

Can't imagine what they would do with a commando remake, it's the most unintentionally funny film I've ever seen.

As an action movie it is brutal so may as well just make a generic action film.

GeordieFalcon wrote:The Fly? Pretty good, I think the original was from the 50's or something.

And I recently read that Scarface was actually a remake from a 1930's movie .

Theres a whole host of remakes on their way:

Stevens Kings  IT
Ghostbusters
Flash Gordon
Mad Max - is this out yet?
Point Break
The Crow
Barbarella
Dirty Dancing
AN American Warewolf in London
Starship Troopers - Already
Neverending Story
The Time Bandits

And rumoured remakes in plan
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Commando (Arnie)
Death Wish with Stallone as the lead
Escape from New York
Highlander
Porkies
Romancing the stone
Westworld - the old Yul Bryner classic
Short Circuit

And worst of all......

They are considering remaing .....Scarface????!!!!  WTF

Safe to say Hollywood has ran out of ideas!

The Fly 1958 was turd but I thought it was one of the best endings in horror history............Stuck in that web with a huge spider coming over.."Help me"..was truly terrifying and a real mesage not to interfere with nature....

Didn't like the The Fly 86...............Thought it was disgusting for disgusting's sake and I also can't stand Geena Davis !!.............and thank Goodness they deleted the scene where he morphs together the baboon and a cat.............Cronenborg for me is overrated..........Apart from Deadringers and the half decent Scanners his films are pants.......

A remake of "IT" would be welcomed if Frank Darabont was at the helm. I've enjoyed his adaptations of Stephen King films immensely.

The Mad Max reboot will star Tom Hardy and is set after "Thunderdome"

Oceans 11 was better than the first.

DAVE667 wrote:A remake of "IT" would be welcomed if Frank Darabont was at the helm. I've enjoyed his adaptations of Stephen King films immensely.

The Mad Max reboot will star Tom Hardy and is set after "Thunderdome"

I enjoyed...... IT

Problem was the ending....

I'm surprised Farrell isn't doing mad Max...He's been in every other remake lately..

I hated "IT", having read it so many times, I'd imagined each and every character and to man the casting didn't match the image in my head. Stuttering Bill is a tall thin bald guy, not a geek with a ponytail. Richie Tozier is cripplingly unfunny yet he's supposed to be the funniest guy in America. (Maybe Chris Rock could play him in the reboot, eh?)There's so much depth to the story and they barely scratch the surface. Same with "The Stand", "The Walkin Dude" was supposedly a Clint Eastwood type figure and we end up with what exactly? That also deserves a remake but again the scope and breadth of the story means you're looking at a Lord of the Rings type trilogy

DAVE667 wrote:I hated "IT", having read it so many times, I'd imagined each and every character and to man the casting didn't match the image in my head. Stuttering Bill is a tall thin bald guy, not a geek with a ponytail. Richie Tozier is cripplingly unfunny yet he's supposed to be the funniest guy in America. (Maybe Chris Rock could play him in the reboot, eh?)There's so much depth to the story and they barely scratch the surface. Same with "The Stand",  "The Walkin Dude" was supposedly a Clint Eastwood type figure and we end up with what exactly? That also deserves a remake but again the scope and breadth of the story means you're looking at a Lord of the Rings type trilogy

It takes ten years to read.. It ...once.

I am impressed.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:I hated "IT", having read it so many times, I'd imagined each and every character and to man the casting didn't match the image in my head. Stuttering Bill is a tall thin bald guy, not a geek with a ponytail. Richie Tozier is cripplingly unfunny yet he's supposed to be the funniest guy in America. (Maybe Chris Rock could play him in the reboot, eh?)There's so much depth to the story and they barely scratch the surface. Same with "The Stand",  "The Walkin Dude" was supposedly a Clint Eastwood type figure and we end up with what exactly? That also deserves a remake but again the scope and breadth of the story means you're looking at a Lord of the Rings type trilogy

It takes ten years to read.. It ...once.

I am impressed.

Cheers mate, back in my single days, I could happily sit for hours reading. Even read it again recently AND re-watched the TV film (it's as sh!t as I remember).

Man of Steel is better than the original Superman movie. Even back in the day I thought Christopher Reeve's version was cheesy and poor.

However, Superman Returns was bollox of some magnitude.

Robocop's remake was actually very good.

None of the satire or gore associated with Verhoven's original but it's much more charcater driven. Showing how Murphy comes to terms with his situation.

I really enjoyed it.

GeordieFalcon wrote:The Fly? Pretty good, I think the original was from the 50's or something.

And I recently read that Scarface was actually a remake from a 1930's movie .

Theres a whole host of remakes on their way:

Stevens Kings  IT
Ghostbusters
Flash Gordon
Mad Max - is this out yet?
Point Break
The Crow
Barbarella
Dirty Dancing
AN American Warewolf in London

Starship Troopers - Already
Neverending Story
The Time Bandits

And rumoured remakes in plan
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Commando (Arnie)

Death Wish with Stallone as the lead
Escape from New York
Highlander
Porkies
Romancing the stone
Westworld - the old Yul Bryner classic
Short Circuit


And worst of all......

They are considering remaing .....Scarface????!!!!  WTF

Safe to say Hollywood has ran out of ideas!

Porkies was awesome, remake could be decent.
Another one of my favourites on that list, Flash Gordon, don't think a remake would be as good.
Brian Blessed "Gordon's alive" cant be beaten.

I also quite liked the Total Recall remake.

I could just about stomach the possibility of a Highlander remake only and I mean ONLY if they promised to rid the world of Highlander II, III and Endgame(?)

However, as cheesy as Highlander is in parts, there's something endearing about it...the p!ss poor Scottish accent of Lambert, the Scottish accent of the Spaniard Ramires/Connery even down to the visible wires you can see suspending Christopher Lambert in the Warehouse at the end.

Besides, no-one can "out-Kurgen Clancey" Brown and it would be an insult to him for anyone else to try

The Three Musketeers was infinitely better than the original.

The one with Oliver Reed and Michael Yorke? Blashphemy!

Michael York had a stick up his arris the entire film, the woman was annoying as hell, and Oliver Reed phoned it in. Kiefer Sutherland on the other hand? He gave a depth of performance like few other musketeers in history.

Azzy, stop annoying people on the forum

If I had a penny every time someone said that...

I hate the original 3Ms. I like the remake. Isn't that what this thread is all about? Discussing good remakes? I thought the new Robocop was a disgrace, but I'm not judging RR. I also hated the Total Recall remake, but respect the fact westy liked it. Each to their own.

TheSecondComing wrote:If I had a penny every time someone said that...

I hate the original 3Ms. I like the remake. Isn't that what this thread is all about? Discussing good remakes? I thought the new Robocop was a disgrace, but I'm not judging RR. I also hated the Total Recall remake, but respect the fact westy liked it. Each to their own.

You could buy three happy meals?

If I had a penny every time I've bought three happy meals...

I also liked the remake of Planet of the Apes. One of the very best remakes ever. Arthur was shocking though.

Which remake, the recent ones or that piece of sh!t with Mark Wahlberg?

There's that film with the punchably smug tw*t, his ret*rd mate and the two gormless tarts hanging onto his every word as they face hordes of brainless zombies all trying to take over the world

SCOOBY DOO.......or am I thinking about the X-Factor?

Oh, the recent ones. I forgot the Wahlberg 'epic'.

TheSecondComing wrote:Oh, the recent ones. I forgot the Wahlberg 'epic'.

Didn't like any of them to be honest... it was just Avatar with monkeys and Avatar was just like Braveheart wit blue space monkeys

The Thomas Crown Affair was a pretty good hash a of a remake. And there's just something about Rene Russo....

TheSecondComing wrote:If I had a penny every time someone said that...

I hate the original 3Ms. I like the remake. Isn't that what this thread is all about? Discussing good remakes? I thought the new Robocop was a disgrace, but I'm not judging RR. I also hated the Total Recall remake, but respect the fact westy liked it. Each to their own.

Cheers mate.

I actually preferred the Whalberg one to the Franco one.
Not seen the very recent one.

As a result of this thread I rewatched the remake of DREDD with Karl Urban. Enjoyed it just as much second time round.

Dredd was good, saw it in 3D. Mind you, anything with Karl Urban is good. Even Doom.

TheSecondComing wrote:Dredd was good, saw it in 3D. Mind you, anything with Karl Urban is good. Even Doom.

Too far Azzy, too far!!!!

GeordieFalcon wrote:The Fly? Pretty good, I think the original was from the 50's or something.


Theres a whole host of remakes on their way:

Flash Gordon

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo   I refuse to countenance it.

It is impossible to improve on the 1980 version

Sam J Jones' appalling acting
The cheesy sets
Brian Blessed completely over-acting
Max von Sydow hamming it up as Ming the Merciless
Ornella Muti in red spandex.  The little trollop...........        

all this AND.......

A BITCHING soundtrack by Queen.

Nobody can improve on that.   They shouldn't try.  That film should have a preservation order on it that specifically bans any attempt to remake it.

Has Brian Blessed ever not over acted........

Yep that chick in red spandex..........Could turn a gay man straight............

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Has Brian Blessed ever not over acted........

Yep that chick in red spandex..........Could turn a gay man straight............

Try watching that instead of Nightmare on Elm Street II....may just be the making of you TRUSSY