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Scareface.
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13-06-2012, 10:54
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Carpenter's The Thing
The Magnificent Seven The Wizard of Oz (1939) - there had been two previous versions and an animated one. |
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13-06-2012, 11:24
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The Maltese Falcon [1941]
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13-06-2012, 11:42
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Star Trek the Kirk ones got better over time.
The 2009 one was OK but did felt much different. |
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13-06-2012, 11:43
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The best remake has to be 'The Maltese Falcon' with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet. Plus, it was directed by John Huston.
I know this might upset a lot of people, but I actually thought that Scorsese's remake of 'Cape Fear' was better than the original. Making the characters more morally ambiguous was very well done and added to the shock factor. Okay, it gets little OTT at the end, but it is still an accomplished movie. I agree that the remakes of 'Scarface' and 'The Fly' are better than the originals. They seemed to add something amazing fresh and didn't bother to much trying to imitate the originals. Mostly, I do think that remakes are a waste of time. Look what happened a couple of years ago with those Hitchcock remakes(A Perfect Murder - which was a remake of Dial M For Murder, Psycho - a shot-by-shot remake - what the hell was going on there? Even Rear Window - which wasn't that bad as it didn't try to copy the original, but it could never match the original's style!). |
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Does The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven count?
What about The Magnificient Seven/Battle Beyond the Stars?  The Hidden Fortress/Star Wars? Yojimbo/A Fistfull of Dollars? All good. |
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13-06-2012, 12:04
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Home Alone 2 is another one
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13-06-2012, 13:02
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i thought the texas chainsaw massacre remake was pretty good
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13-06-2012, 13:38
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Cape Fear - Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis ROCK!
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Oceans 11
The Departed (though not as good as the original, still a very good film) |
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13-06-2012, 14:03
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The Ring is a great remake - took the best plot elements of Ring and created a cracking horror film in a western style. Set the standard for re-makes of foreign horror films that none of the others have been able to shine at light to, sadly
 I haven't seen the original of The Fly, but the 80s version is brilliant. |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake isn't too bad.
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Let Me In is vastly superior then LTROI
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The Thing
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13-06-2012, 17:32
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Maybe not the best remake ever, it just sprang to my mind when reading the posts above, but the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the Donald Sutherland one filmed in the late seventies) deserves a mention. The original was a very good film and deserves being lauded, but I do think the remake improved on it not just with effects but with the acting and script, along with the political allegory.
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Last House on the Left (2009).
I haven't seen the 1972 original, so I don't know how it compares to that, but it's a great horror/thriller in it's own right. |
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