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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jun 21, 2019 23:14:06 GMT
It's easy to get caught up on the bad ones, but a lot of film history is filled with not just good, but important remakes: silent to talky, B&W to colour, the Movie Brats remaking childhood favourites in the 70s/80s and even some newer ones that take properties in different direcitons and become their own entities (like the Sommers Mummy films went from horror to action-adventure). What are some of yours?
Also, for the purposes of streamlining, multiple adaptations of a book or comic don't count. It has to be specifically based on another film (for example, various Frankensteins and Draculas don't count as remakes, but seperate adaptations of the book. The ones that do would be, for instance, Herzog's Nosferatu).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 23:32:28 GMT
Oof, the ones that have stuck with me are: Andre DeToth's version of House of Wax (with Vincent Price)... John McTiernan's The Thomas Crown Affair (with Pierce Brosnan)... Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate (with Denzel Washington) might be on a technicality as its a reworking of a film based on the book.
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Post by Digi on Jun 21, 2019 23:54:42 GMT
Dawn of the Dead
The Fly
Ocean's 11
Scarface
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jun 22, 2019 4:42:29 GMT
I like when they remade Dances With Wolves but set it in space.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jun 22, 2019 8:40:18 GMT
Oof, the ones that have stuck with me are: Andre DeToth's version of House of Wax (with Vincent Price) An excellent choice sir. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 0:52:19 GMT
Oof, the ones that have stuck with me are: Andre DeToth's version of House of Wax (with Vincent Price) An excellent choice sir. Thanks! One of the great thrillers, isn't it? My favourite production fact about it is that for a film that dabbles briefly in 3D elements, they hired a man with one eye. Foresight.  Oh, it's just a really beautiful film. Well-made, well-acted and it has that quality Hinchcliffe/Holmes stories possess where it ends up feeling timeless. You really fear for the safety of the characters. Nothing feels guaranteed and, in a horror, to be able to capture that -- and keep it, despite the passing of time -- is a phenomenal achievement. |
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Post by Digi on Jun 23, 2019 1:01:01 GMT
I like when they remade Dances With Wolves but set it in space. I dislike that movie so, so much. Can't deny that it is/was an absolute technical marvel, but the story was just DwW/Pocahontas with blue people. And told over 784 hours, for some damned reason. |
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Post by Timelord007 on Jun 23, 2019 5:50:40 GMT
The Thing (1982).
One of my all time favourite films, i can watch this every week & it never gets stale.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 7:27:44 GMT
The Thing (1982). One of my all time favourite films, i can watch this every week & never it gets stale. Simon mate - we found one of those rare things we both 100% agree on!  I guess you can say Carpenter's is a new version of the book as much as it is a remake but he took enough - especially the stunning logo - that it's much of a muchness. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 7:43:08 GMT
All the replies and no love for Invasion of The Body Snatchers? One of the few where the remake and the original are both stone cold masterpieces. Even Abel Ferara's third version from the 90s, Body Snatchers is great. 2007's The Invasion with Daniel Craig....not so much.
I'll stick in a word for a remake that has no right to be as good pulpy fun as it is it'd be 2007's 3:10 To Yuma.
I like a remake that tries to do something different with the source, 12 Monkeys taking La Jetee and turning it into a totally different type of classic deserves mention. I also like Hitchcock remaking his own Man Who Knew Too Much and turning it into a more sumptuous international thriller - though I miss Peter Lorre's villain from the first film.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 8:11:29 GMT
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 8:59:10 GMT
So few people realise that's even a remake - almost understandably given that the Prince Ruprecht bit seems SO Steve Martin it's almost hard to believe Marlon Brando of all people did it first 25 years earlier. |
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Post by aemiliapaula on Jun 23, 2019 23:09:26 GMT
Both versions of To Be or Not to Be
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Post by Timelord007 on Jun 24, 2019 6:30:19 GMT
The Thing (1982). One of my all time favourite films, i can watch this every week & never it gets stale. Simon mate - we found one of those rare things we both 100% agree on! I guess you can say Carpenter's is a new version of the book as much as it is a remake but he took enough - especially the stunning logo - that it's much of a muchness. It's just a amazing movie, Carpenter shows why he's the master of suspense with this film building up the paranoia, great cast of actor's, outstanding music score & that classic blood test scene still gives me chills. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 7:05:13 GMT
Simon mate - we found one of those rare things we both 100% agree on! I guess you can say Carpenter's is a new version of the book as much as it is a remake but he took enough - especially the stunning logo - that it's much of a muchness. It's just a amazing movie, Carpenter shows why he's the master of suspense with this film building up the paranoia, great cast of actor's, outstanding music score & that classic blood test scene still gives me chills. I want to posthumously append that to my list actually. It's so good, I forgot that it was a remake. Oops. I'm glad Carpenter's still writing music scores and participating in documentaries. It's always great to hear the man's thought processes. He has a very distinctive storytelling style that I think has inspired nearly two decades worth of video games after the fact. Watching one of his films for the first time (waaay back) felt like, well, returning to a place that knew me, even if I didn't know it. He's exceptionally good at environmental storytelling. Letting a setting -- whether it be the deepest city or the most deserted arctic desert -- speak as much as the characters. |
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Post by Timelord007 on Jun 24, 2019 11:04:01 GMT
It's just a amazing movie, Carpenter shows why he's the master of suspense with this film building up the paranoia, great cast of actor's, outstanding music score & that classic blood test scene still gives me chills. I want to posthumously append that to my list actually. It's so good, I forgot that it was a remake. Oops. I'm glad Carpenter's still writing music scores and participating in documentaries. It's always great to hear the man's thought processes. He has a very distinctive storytelling style that I think has inspired nearly two decades worth of video games after the fact. Watching one of his films for the first time (waaay back) felt like, well, returning to a place that knew me, even if I didn't know it. He's exceptionally good at environmental storytelling. Letting a setting -- whether it be the deepest city or the most deserted arctic desert -- speak as much as the characters. I love Carpenters music scores however this is one of couple of his films he didn't score as Ennio Morricone scored this film & what a terrifying score it is too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 11:19:58 GMT
I want to posthumously append that to my list actually. It's so good, I forgot that it was a remake. Oops. I'm glad Carpenter's still writing music scores and participating in documentaries. It's always great to hear the man's thought processes. He has a very distinctive storytelling style that I think has inspired nearly two decades worth of video games after the fact. Watching one of his films for the first time (waaay back) felt like, well, returning to a place that knew me, even if I didn't know it. He's exceptionally good at environmental storytelling. Letting a setting -- whether it be the deepest city or the most deserted arctic desert -- speak as much as the characters. I love Carpenters music scores however this is one of couple of his films he didn't score as Ennio Morricone scored this film & what a terrifying score it is too. He did it very much in the Carpenter vein though - hence so many thinking JC did it himself. Some of the unused Morricone tracks for it were used for Tarantino's Hateful Eight. |
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Post by number13 on Jun 24, 2019 11:43:15 GMT
#Little Shop of Horrors# ("Feed me, Seymour!")
True Grit (the original is great too)
Pale Rider (after Shane)
The Maltese Falcon
Ben-Hur (not the recent one, I mean the 1959 classic - it's the ultimate remake imo)
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jun 24, 2019 11:54:25 GMT
OMG! Gus Van Sant's shot for shot remake of "Rubber" (except with a bicycle tyre), is amazing.
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Post by agentten on Jun 25, 2019 0:18:45 GMT
I clicked here specifically to say John Carpenter's The Thing, so I'm happy to see it getting lots of love already.
Some other favorite remakes of mine:
Cape Fear Let Me In Invasion of The Body Snatchers Fright Night Village of The Damned |
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Oh, it's just a really beautiful film. Well-made, well-acted and it has that quality Hinchcliffe/Holmes stories possess where it ends up feeling timeless. You really fear for the safety of the characters. Nothing feels guaranteed and, in a horror, to be able to capture that -- and keep it, despite the passing of time -- is a phenomenal achievement.
I guess you can say Carpenter's is a new version of the book as much as it is a remake but he took enough - especially the stunning logo - that it's much of a muchness.
