I Hate Remakes, Discuss the remakes you detest or like

yeah my coworker said she has the original 17 Again which apparently was a tv movie, she said a very young Keanu Reeves is in it. i had only heard of 18 Again, not 17 Again, other than the new one i mean.

This is technically a remake--Father Knows Best. *GAG GAG*

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270761/

So soon??? Well, it feels too soon, at least

Here's the original:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069992/

"Land of the Lost." On the one hand, can it get any worse? On the other hand, when they remake something that sucked in the first place, there's nowhere to go but up.

Here's more. Friday the Thirteenth,The Birds etc.

http://www.collider.com/2009/06/15/produce...icles-and-more/

They're remaking A Nightmare On Elm Street?! Without Robert Englund?! My best friend is gonna hit the ceiling when she hears this!

It may be horrible, but this is one I'm pretty excited about myself. In any case, I think casting someone besides Robert Englund was the right choice: he seems a bit too old for the part now, and in any case a reboot could only possibly work with some new energy and a new vision. Also, though I was no fan of the Watchman movie, I do think Jackie Earle Haley gave a very effective (and chilling) performance.

Looks like Hallmark Channel remade Angel And The Badman as a tv movie.

All I can say is, my apologies to John Wayne.

When my mom read what Robert Downey Jr. was doing to Sherlock Holmes, her comment was to scrawl "RAT" across his picture. I am TOTALLY keeping that picture!

Which Sherlock Holmes movie is getting remade?

Not sure if it's a remake of an actual Holmes story. If so, they've taken huge liberties. More likely an original story appropriating and perverting the characters.

Newest stupid, useless remake: Red Dawn. Starring Tom Cruise's son, no less.

I saw an ad for a remake of The Stepfather. Wonder what Terry O'Quinn thinks of it? (he starred in the original)

Speaking of Tom Cruise, I really, really hated his Mission:Impossibles. He changed it from a show with an ensemble cast where the focus was on the cool plots to a "star vehicle" for himself.

Have you heard the latest? "Dark Shadows"! Friggin' REMAKE of a remake!

On the upside, Johnny Depp has to be about 1,000 times better than Ben Cross, and if they could get a kid who could act for David, I might watch.

Jay Leno asked, "Why take a good old movie and make it bad? Why not take a bad old movie and make it good?"

My nomination is "Man of La Mancha." Now, there is a movie which wouldn't hurt and might very likely be improved with a remake!

I nominate Krull!

Because... part of the whole point of doing a remake is to ride on the coattails of the original movie. If the original was a stinkeroo, then nobody will flock to see a remake of it.

A better idea would be to take the "idea" of a bad movie, change the names around a bit and market your own original. You still have the problem of getting the people in the theaters, but you don't have to deal with the "taint" of the bad original.

Actually, the Narnia and Lord of the Rings books were done a couple of times wrong first, but in those cases there were good popular original books to go back to.

They just made "A Christmas Carol" again, (but what else is new)?

This has got to be the number one remade movie story of all time. If you are referring to the Jim Carrey movie, I'm going to see it. It looks well done and a different way to see the Dickens' story.

When they made remakes of 13 Ghosts and House of Haunted Hill, I didn't mind so much, but when they remade my all time favorite horror film, The Haunting (based on the Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House), that was going too far. I simply love that classic B&W film that starred Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. Before silly computer graphics, film makers were more creative. Scenes were shot where the camera was tilted at an angle to give Hill House a demented and diseased look and feeling.
When you have a film like the 1963 version of The Haunting, that is literally a text book on how to film the perfect movie in a certain genre, that should be respected as a work of art, and be off limits, and not allowed to be redone. How can improve on perfection? I have that movie on DVD, and to this day, each time I watch it, I notice some small detail that never caught my eye before. A tradmark of a great film.

This has got to be the number one remade movie story of all time.

Including a version by Rod Serling!

King Kong

I never saw the 1976 remake (which I heard was awful) but I did see the most recent one. Peter Jackson took an enjoyable, 90-minute classic and turned it into a bloated 3-hour "epic." It took them FORTY-FIVE minutes to get to the island for God's sake.

Thank you! I called it King Long in a thread when it first came out.

There are at least two reasons not to remake it - it wouldn't have Sophia Loren.

Thank you! I called it King Long in a thread when it first came out.

I have only seen the first 10 minutes of the remake and couldn't take any more. For me, it was simply nowhere near the calibre of the original. I have seen the 1976 version as well and it wasn't bad, compared to this recent one. The original is the one to watch. Period.

Yeah, my nephew watched it one night. By the time they were fighting their way out of the valley of giant bugs I was saying, "ENOUGH already! Stop dragging it out!"

No comment here, no comment at all...

The giant bug scene was pretty creepy, by itself. Unfortunately, after everything else has happened. everyone is rolling their eyes "Jiminy christmas, what NOW?"

The whole island doesn't make any logical sense. No herbivores at all. (well I guess apes are plant eaters, but they're not really prey animals) What do the t-rexes and the giant snakes eat? Each other? Nothing can take two steps without something killing you, so the whole ecosystem would collapse.

Classic example of too much eye candy and not enough story.

In the 1976 version, the scene where Kong first appears still gives me the whim whams.

Oh, man, I just saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie ad. I hope my mom never does!

It's really too bad fictional characters can't sue for slander and libel. This makes Disney's "Jungle Book" look like a reverential treatment.