General / Off-Topic What movie remake would you like to see?

Frank

Frank
A Face in the Crowd

They would have to change the ending though. When Lonesome says "Those morons out there? Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak. Sure, I got 'em like this... You know what the public's like? A cage of Guinea Pigs. Good Night you stupid idiots" we now know that the morons who followed him would just shrug their shoulders and continue following him.
 

Avago Earo

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Avago Earo
I always wanted to see The War Of The Worlds, based on the book. Thankfully, the BBC are starting filming a three part series this year, that's apparently going to be faithful to H G Wells' vision and it will be portrayed at the time of the end of the Nineteenth Century.

I just want to see steam trains melting and horseback cavalry, the Thunderchild at full steam, red weed choking the fields and hedgerows and a journalist going crazy with solitude amongst the rubble, stray dogs and insane remnants of his civilisation.
 
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Frank

Frank
Stigbob said:
The day the Earth stood Still, but without missing the whole point of the story.
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I'm all outta reps I can give you. That had to be one of the worst remakes ever (the prize for the worst going to The Wickerman)

They should have another crack at the remake. I heard that they pulled their punches in the original movie because they thought the audience would find the story too far-fetched. Maybe this time the Americans will be ready for the real ending of the story.

http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/library/Farewell_to_the_Master.pdf
 

Chevy66

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GreyAreaUK said:
Oooooooh, tricky!

I'm generally not in favour of remakes...I like most films to stand as they are, warts and all, especially the classics. That being said, I agree that Disney's The Black Hole would make a good candidate, especially if they aimed it away from being a kiddies film and gave it a much darker tone (although the original is pretty damn dark by Disney standards).

If we extend it to TV series then I'm cautiously ok with remaking Blake's 7, although if they alter Villa or Avon's character or the design of the Liberator then I will hunt them down!

Space:1999 would be an interesting candidate.
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They could be cool, I've been rewatching Blakes 7 for the first time since it was originally on. The story is still good The acting is a mixed bag, but Blake, Avon and Vila are pretty well acted
however the cheap special effects were rubbish in 1978 and are painfully bad these days
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Frank said:
I'm all outta reps I can give you. That had to be one of the worst remakes ever (the prize for the worst going to The Wickerman)

They should have another crack at the remake. I heard that they pulled their punches in the original movie because they thought the audience would find the story too far-fetched. Maybe this time the Americans will be ready for the real ending of the story.

http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/library/Farewell_to_the_Master.pdf
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The originals great an alien turns up with effectively limitless power representing a group of advanced civilizations worried about our behavior, we shoot him and start a manhunt when he escapes. He consistently tries to communicate with and learn more about us whilst struggling with the concept of how divided we are and how our society functions. He tries to address a meeting of scientists and diplomats, we shoot him again he patiently explains we are now confined to Earth until we can be trusted to behave better. Then he buggers off.

In the Keanu Reeves version he turns up makes a stupid knee jerk decision without research, then he instantly regrets it and spends the rest of the film trying to undo his own mistake.

In the remake Klaatu is no better than us.

Avago Ero said:
I always wanted to see The War Of The Worlds, based on the book. Thankfully, the BBC are starting filming a three part series this year, that's apparently going to be faithful to H G Wells' vision and it will be portrayed at the time of the end of the Nineteenth Century.

I just want to see steam trains melting and horseback cavalry, the Thunderchild at full steam, red weed choking the fields and hedgerows and a journalist going crazy with solitude amongst the rubble, stray dogs and insane remnants of his civilisation.
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That's great news, Kenneth Brannagh wanted to make a book faithful adaptation years ago but was stopped by Hollywood and Jeff Wayne (who wrote the album) screeching about copyright.
 

Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
Stigbob said:
The day the Earth stood Still, but without missing the whole point of the story.
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Funny thing, the b/w original is still one of my fav si fi movies of all time, what they did with the re make made me cry a little (and not in a nostalgic way btw) so yeah, as much as I want some movies to be re made I know the risk is huge with tudays movie trends.
 

Goose4291

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Goose4291
I'd say The Keep deserves another pass. That movie is woefully handled considering its concepts.

[video=youtube_share;y7t0B2URcT8]https://youtu.be/y7t0B2URcT8[/video]

Same goes for the Dune franchise.
 

seko

seko
Chris Simon said:
Please no remakes. Movies I like, I like for what they are. Movies I don't like won't miraculously become good just because someone "reimagine" them.

I want new movies. New GOOD movies, that is. I remember when I was young, I went to the cinema at least twice a week, because there was always something interesting to see. Nowadays I go twice a year.

Last film that I really really liked ("liked" as in being genuinely entertained and remembering that I liked it) was... Lucky number Slevin. And that was quite some time ago.
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over the past few years they appear to remaking all of them
 

Goose4291

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Goose4291
Stigbob said:
That's great news, Kenneth Brannagh wanted to make a book faithful adaptation years ago but was stopped by Hollywood and Jeff Wayne (who wrote the album) screeching about copyright.
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I dunno how true that story is Stig. There was a 'faithful' War of the Worlds adaptation that came out about the time of the Spielberg monstrosity.

[video=youtube_share;WE6gu1lkUZ0]https://youtu.be/WE6gu1lkUZ0[/video]
 

Gortron

Gortron
1) 'War of the Worlds' how it was written; Super advanced alien technology set in Victorian Britain. The best part being like in the musical version where battleship fights a tripod:
[video=youtube;HczkDnQz82Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HczkDnQz82Q[/video]

2) 'The battle of Britain' Christopher Nolan style. Its enough to make a grown man cry:

**MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT.... CONTAINS END OF MOVIE CONTENT**!!!

[video=youtube;tbMiz53VkEc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMiz53VkEc[/video]
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Goose4291 said:
I dunno how true that story is Stig. There was a 'faithful' War of the Worlds adaptation that came out about the time of the Spielberg monstrosity.

https://youtu.be/WE6gu1lkUZ0
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There's not much I'm properly geeky about except this. The trailer you've shown is of the Pendragon film which was pants it was always going to be pants and no-one ever cared about it (except bad movie buffs), it came out around the time of the Spielberg film along with a War of the Worlds mockbuster from the Asylum. Both were just cashing in on the Hollywood hype (or trying to in Pendragons case).

The proposed Brannagh film was earlier, Jeff Wayne held the copyright and insisted on War of the Worlds being named Jeff Waynes war of the worlds and using his music (see the war of the worlds the game for an example of this) he tried the same thing with Brannagh who told him where to shove it and abandoned the project.

The Speilberg film came out just as the movie copyright was coming up for grabs and had been dormant since the 1950's George Pal version. The BBC adaptation is now possible as the book entered public domain and nobody can claim it's theirs anymore, it'll be interesting to see if Kenneth Brannagh is involved.
 
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Gortron

Gortron
Stigbob said:
There's not much I'm properly geeky about except this. The trailer you've shown is of the Pendragon film which was pants it was always going to be pants and no-one ever cared about it (except bad movie buffs), it came out around the time of the Spielberg film along with a War of the Worlds mockbuster from the Asylum. Both were just cashing in on the Hollywood hype (or trying to in Pendragons case).

The proposed Brannagh film was earlier, Jeff Wayne held the copyright and insisted on War of the Worlds being named Jeff Waynes war of the worlds and using his music (see the war of the worlds the game for an example of this) he tried the same thing with Brannagh who told him where to shove it and abandoned the project.

The Speilberg film came out just as the movie copyright was coming up for grabs and had been dormant since the 1950's George Pal version. The BBC adaptation is now possible as the book entered public domain and nobody can claim it's theirs anymore, it'll be interesting to see if Kenneth Brannagh is involved.
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Oh man, I remember the Pendragon attempt. I must have been about 20 and the two things I loved (other than Dance music) were War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne style) and Knight Rider. I ended up liking the Tom Cruise version much more than I expected.
 

Frank

Frank
Stigbob said:
There's not much I'm properly geeky about except this. The trailer you've shown is of the Pendragon film which was pants it was always going to be pants and no-one ever cared about it (except bad movie buffs), it came out around the time of the Spielberg film along with a War of the Worlds mockbuster from the Asylum. Both were just cashing in on the Hollywood hype (or trying to in Pendragons case).

The proposed Brannagh film was earlier, Jeff Wayne held the copyright and insisted on War of the Worlds being named Jeff Waynes war of the worlds and using his music (see the war of the worlds the game for an example of this) he tried the same thing with Brannagh who told him where to shove it and abandoned the project.

The Speilberg film came out just as the movie copyright was coming up for grabs and had been dormant since the 1950's George Pal version. The BBC adaptation is now possible as the book entered public domain and nobody can claim it's theirs anymore, it'll be interesting to see if Kenneth Brannagh is involved.
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I would love to see a Kenneth Brannagh steampunk version of War of the Worlds. But the thing about that book is that the story can be told many ways. I quite enjoyed the Spielberg version. The reason why HG Wells original story took place in Horsell Common at the time the book was written was to give his readers the feeling that the invasion could happen to them. A vast proportion of his readers would be around that area.

This is why I didn't mind Spielberg transporting the invasion to what most of the audience would see as the here and now. The movie focussed on an average Joe Schmoe and his family. The story is a morality tale. It was to make people think about how they'd feel if there were the ones being conquered by a more technically advance foe
 

Gortron

Gortron
Manticore said:
I saw Dunkirk. A good film; very surreal and atmospheric for a war movie.

Evidently Peter Jackson has been wanting to remake The Dambusters for years but I'm not sure what stage he's at with that.
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It seems to confuse the hell out of anyone that isn't British or that doesn't have a deep and natural understanding of British mentality (Canadians and Australians will get it as will people from NZ).
 
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