Remakes as good as original

[PD]

Seeing that they are re-making "the taking of pelham 1-2-3" makes me cringe.

I hate that they remade the classic Manchurian Candidate.

this led me to wonder - which remakes are as good as original?

Mutiny on the Bounty was good.

what other remakes were good?

[ANC]

Seeing that they are re-making "the taking of pelham 1-2-3" makes me cringe.

I hate that they remade the classic Manchurian Candidate.

this led me to wonder - which remakes are as good as original?

Mutiny on the Bounty was good.

what other remakes were good?

Is the remake of The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 supposed to take place in current times or the 70's?

[Furtherman]

Is the remake of The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 supposed to take place in current times or the 70's?

Present day.

But I'll be curious to see this... the original Taking Of The Pelham was good, but I never thought it was great. For one thing, it had a lousy ending.

[PD]

Is the remake of The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 supposed to take place in current times or the 70's?
I believe modern times.

Denzel, Travolta and gandolfini

http://www.esquire.com/features/movies/taking-of-pelham-1-2-3-0609-2

[PD]

But I'll be curious to see this... the original Taking Of The Pelham was good, but I never thought it was great. .
probably a good description. I always found it fun, but I didn't have the attachment to it that i had for Manchurian Candidate.

[ANC]

Present day.

But I'll be curious to see this... the original Taking Of The Pelham was good, but I never thought it was great. For one thing, it had a lousy ending.

I'm just not a Denzel Washington fan....

[underdog]

I'm just not a Denzel Washington fan....

How?!

[epo]

The Man Who Knew Too Much, when Hitchcock remade his own original.

[Hottub]

I'm just not a Denzel Washington fan....

I read this post 3 times, but still didn't see the smiley.
Maybe you forgot to put it in?

Or you are insane.

[Furtherman]

I'm just not a Denzel Washington fan....

Commie bastard!!!

[ANC]

How?!

I read this post 3 times, but still didn't see the smiley.
Maybe you forgot to put it in?

Or you are insane.

Commie bastard!!!

To clarify, I mean when he cast as the cool headed hero type, it all runs together for me. For me, it seems like he's playing the exact same role in a different context.

[ToiletCrusher]

impossible.

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

I'm looking forward to Ron Bennington's Planet of the Apes. :thumbup:

[PD]

The Man Who Knew Too Much, when Hitchcock remade his own original.

good choice

cape fear is good as well.

[AKA]

Gap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbkErFJ4v2M)

[TheMojoPin]

Thr original ToP123 is one of my all-time favorite flicks. Fuck all the haters. That ending rules. YOU CAN'T TAKE THE JOWEL-POWER.

[TooLowBrow]

i never saw the original, so this may be a stupid question but,

how do you steal a train?
isnt it on tracks?

or is this like money train where they just steal money off of a train?

[Dan G]

The Maltese Falcon

[ANC]

i never saw the original, so this may be a stupid question but,

how do you steal a train?
isnt it on tracks?

or is this like money train where they just steal money off of a train?

more of a hijacking and holding it for ransom.

[pennington]

i never saw the original, so this may be a stupid question but,

how do you steal a train?
isnt it on tracks?

or is this like money train where they just steal money off of a train?

It's available on www.hulu.com. Watch it, it's worth the 90 minutes.

[EliSnow]

The Wizard of Oz. So good, few people know it's not an original.

[drjoek]

It's available on www.hulu.com. Watch it, it's worth the 90 minutes.

X2 watch it, its great

[Dan G]

The Wizard of Oz. So good, few people know it's not an original.

I liked the 1925 version with a black actor named G. Howe Black, who just happens to be eating a watermelon in his first scene.

[KnoxHarrington]

To me, it can't be a movie that was great in the original; I'd say it has to be a pretty good movie that was remade into a pretty good movie. So, to that end...

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/64/41/61/18818372.jpg

COUNSELOR!

[Kublakhan61]

Cronenberg's The Fly absolutely destroys the Vincent Price version.
The only thing the Vincent Price version was good for was The Misfit song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_5OWn577c).
89 minutes watching paint dry + 1 minute of a mans head on a fly = not worth the investment.

[cougarjake13]

I liked the 1925 version with a black actor named G. Howe Black, who just happens to be eating a watermelon in his first scene.

never knew that

[TooLowBrow]

It's available on www.hulu.com. Watch it, it's worth the 90 minutes.

i refuse

[GreatAmericanZero]

if a movie is based on a book and then another movie is made based on the same book, is it a remake of the first movie?

[TooLowBrow]

if a movie is based on a book and then another movie is made based on the same book, is it a remake of the first movie?

i think it depends

the johnny depp willy wonka was not a remake of the movie, it was a remake of the book

i think the new total recal is a remake of the movie. the book was different from the first movie, but theyre not trying to show the book, they just want to remake to movie

[SatCam]

They actually remade The Taking of Pelham into a tv movie with Vincent D'Onofrio. it's terrible, they tried to pass the Toronto subway as a NYC subway

[PD]

never knew that

I didn't either.

[GreatAmericanZero]

i think it depends

the johnny depp willy wonka was not a remake of the movie, it was a remake of the book

i think the new total recal is a remake of the movie. the book was different from the first movie, but theyre not trying to show the book, they just want to remake to movie

i would think the johnny depp willy wonka remake was a real remake because it had a lot of the same visual look as the original. Like, he was dressed the same, a lot of the characters and the visuals looked the same, they just added a bunch of things to make the movie a lot more shitty

[PD]

The Man Who Knew Too Much, when Hitchcock remade his own original.

I finally watched the original today.
(I had seen the Jimmy Stewart / Doris Day one a few times, lastly over the weekend).

basically it seems it was an opportunity for Hitchcock to take a movie he made early with British actors and re-do it with bigger names and a bigger budget.

This may be the quintessential remake.

also it is Peter Lorre's first english language film

[TripleSkeet]

Oceans 11. The first one was fun but not great by any means. I loved the Clooney one. Although Sinatras had the Original Joker in his.

I never knew Wizard of Oz was a remake. Anyone know where I could watch the original?