For all that is holy ! Hollywood, stop with the @?&%^#! remakes !!!

[Zoidberg]

Nothing beats the number of remakes of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS:

1956 (Original): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049366/
1978 (still a favorite): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/
1993: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106452/
2007: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427392/

I figure another one around 2020.

A lot of times it's purely a money issue, of course; a viable product, rework a script a bit, and you have a "re-vision". Sometimes it works (above; the 1978 version of INVASION was quite enjoyable, I thought) sometimes it doesn't (I always think of the remake of THE IN-LAWS when I think of remakes that didn't work).

Sometimes it's a good re-imagining; though not a movie, I'm inclined to mention BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. I think the new STAR TREK will be quite good, but we'll see. Loved the revision of THE ADDAMS FAMILY back in the 90s.

So not all remakes and re-imagined films and stories are bad. Some are stupendously awful at almost Biblical proportion. But, like song covers, some are great, and supersede the original.

YMMV & TEHO.

[bazookaman]

[quote Zoidberg]1978 (still a favorite): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/
oh yes. that was a good one. I especially liked Kevin McCarthy's cameo at the beginning picking up where the original left off...sort of...kind of.

[graylocks]

maybe the movie industry thinks like live theater in which there are always new productions of classic plays?

[DavidS]

[quote Gutenberg][quote bazookaman]yes, its bad enough when they remake a classic. but remaking a classic remake of a classic??? WTF!
"Hairspray" boggles my mind. It's a movie adaptation of a Broadway musical adaptation of a movie.
This is similar to "The Producers."
"Young Frankenstein" is now on Broadway, so I assume that there will be a movie adaptation of the play in the next couple of years (hopefully not, as the original IS a classic Mel Brooks comedy).


I'd like to know WHY Marvel is doing another movie of The Hulk. Wasn't it just out 2-3 years ago (Eric Bana).

[volcs0]

I thought John Carpenter's The Thing was a great remake.

The Blob... not so much. The original had me scared of the dark for months...

[Robert M]

David,

Simple. The Erica Bana version of The Hulk was awful. No doubt Marvel is hoping to redeem itself with the new version. That said, it'd've been nice of Marvel to push up production on one of the other movies and save a remake of The Hulk for further down the line.

Robert

[PeterB]

There's no question that SOME remakes are better than the original. But most aren't. And Mike Johnson's link above just proves, once more, that the proles will eat whatever slop they're fed.

[Zoidberg]

[quote bazookaman][quote Zoidberg]1978 (still a favorite): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/
oh yes. that was a good one. I especially liked Kevin McCarthy's cameo at the beginning picking up where the original left off...sort of...kind of.
What's funny is, when I was a kid and saw it (I think I was 11 or 12), I had not seen the original yet. Afterwards, I caught it on a late-night Saturday Monster Movie Show (remember, you younglings, this was before movies were commercially available on videotape).

Also love the revised ending, in retrospect; if I remember right, I did a paper on it in school at some point, comparing/contrasting the whole "USA wins" vision of the 50's genre with the "we are doomed" attitude of the 70s.

[Mr Downtown]

[quote DavidS]
"Young Frankenstein" is now on Broadway, so I assume that there will be a movie adaptation of the play in the next couple of years
Yeah, cause the original isn't even in color. :-)

[bazookaman]

[quote volcs0]I thought John Carpenter's The Thing was a great remake.
Oh yes. Wonderful remake IMHO.

And although i cannot compare to the original, I like the Oceans Eleven remake. However, i do prefer the original Manchurian Candidate over the remake.