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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.

What remakes are better than the original?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

None I can think of. Usually remakes were hits the first time round and often spoilt take Get Carter original brilliant Stallone shit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was so disappointed in the clash of the titans remake... give me the cheesy claymation version every time. I hope the highlander remake will be good. I honestly can not think of a remake that is better than the original.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm hoping the do a waterworld remake

C'mon it couldnt be any worse could it

Gimp

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

I'm afraid to say I do prefer the newer Poseidon and Carrie movies...

The Evil Dead remake was awful.

- Amy. x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watched that Ealing Studios Ladykillers last night as well. Unrivaled.

It's messed up because all these remakes are for younger generations that weren't even old enough to watch some of the originals (Robocop). If it made a lot of cash or if it's a cult classic, studios are certain they can make a trilogy out of it.

All the same, kids are spoiled now with remakes. All the greatest films were pushed to creative boundaries at a time when they didn't have the gadgets we do.

I also watched Quarantine last night, which was the American version of the Spanish [REC] made one year later. Was nowhere near as good!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A remake that's better than the original? Wow that's a tough one...here's a couple that come to mind...

Heat was essentially a remake of LA Takedown...Heat was amazing whilst LA Takedown was shit

Poseidon was a cheesy 70's disaster movie. I'm sure many people still have a soft spot for it...but in my mind the remake was a vast improvement

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Christian Bale Batman I prefer to the Michael Keaton ones, but that's classed as a reboot, not a remake.

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By *exyfuncouple-40Couple
over a year ago

Bloxham

Texas chainsaw massacre new one quite good

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I thought The Italian Job was a good effort.

The recent Les Miserables another one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cape fear was an excellent remake.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cape fear was an excellent remake. "

Also I really enjoyed the remake of Unforgiven.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How about true grit? Thought the remake was excellent.

Although on the whole remakes aren't very good, just cash cows living off the name of the past.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about true grit? Thought the remake was excellent.

Although on the whole remakes aren't very good, just cash cows living off the name of the past. "

Yeah that was a great film. Jeff Bridges can do no wrong by me, but the pure character he put into Rooster Cogburn was astounding.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about true grit? Thought the remake was excellent.

Although on the whole remakes aren't very good, just cash cows living off the name of the past.

Yeah that was a great film. Jeff Bridges can do no wrong by me, but the pure character he put into Rooster Cogburn was astounding."

That's the only remake we can think of as a better film than the original.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Shining mini series is much better and truer to the story than the Stanley Kubrick film version.

Dark Castle did a few good remakes in the early 2000s - Thirteen Ghosts, Gothica, Ghost Ship, House on the Haunted Hill; there's probably more!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Thomas Crown affair remake much better than the original in my opinion

Ocean's Eleven

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.

The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.

Never cared for the sequels though

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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"Cape fear was an excellent remake. "

I preferred the original. Mitchum was unsettling and sinister, whereas DeNiro just seemed like a nasty piece of work out for revenge.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cape fear was an excellent remake.

I preferred the original. Mitchum was unsettling and sinister, whereas DeNiro just seemed like a nasty piece of work out for revenge.

Fair point, but I have a bit of a thing for juliette Lewis and Jessica Lange.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's quite a few that are better, or at least pretty close:

The Fly

The Thing

Scent of a Woman

Scarface

Insomnia

True Grit

Blow Out

A Fistful of Dollars

The Departed

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the Kaufman version)

Heat

Sorcerer

The Maltese Falcon

Farewell, My Lovely

The Magnificent Seven

Ocean's Eleven (the original is awful)

Cape Fear (though Mitchum is the daddy)

Some like it hot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anybody mentions the cinematic whaleturd that was "The day the earth stood still" in a positive light and I'll eat my own liver with some favva beans and a nice bottle of chianti

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

The Hollywood remake of Let The Right One In wasn't bad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Italian Job remake oh dear and the Total Recall recall remake

why can't these people come up with some new ideas

what they going to do next remake Harry Potter?

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Texas chainsaw massacre new one quite good "

tbh it wasn't up against much competition..

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

"I thought The Italian Job was a good effort.

The recent Les Miserables another one."

no no No the remake of the Italian job was a sad shadow of shite

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I thought that the new Total Recall was better than the original... and I thought the original was good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There's quite a few that are better, or at least pretty close:

Insomnia"

The remake of Insomnia was totally shit compared to the original...Hollywood rarely remakes foreign films well...look at how they ruined The Ring and The Vanishing. The original Insomnia gets under your skin and unhinges you. The remake is just a dull by-the-numbers detective story. Sorry just had to speak up on that one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think they're both above average but not much more. I'm quite fond of David Julyan scores, so if I had to sit and watch one, it'd be the US remake because of that.

The Vanishing & Ring remakes are bobbins of course. But then look at how wonderful Sorcerer is; it can be done.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm afraid to say I do prefer the newer Poseidon and Carrie movies...

The Evil Dead remake was awful.

- Amy. x"

The remake of Carrie was rather good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i liked dawn of the dead 2004..it just made the zombies more frightening in my opinion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also watch the Stephen King remake of Salem's Lot with Rob Lowe and Donald Sutherland. I loved it.

However, some pleb is remaking The Stand... as an hour and a half long movie...

1500 page novel. 6 hour long miniseries, 1.5 hour movie. Fuck right off!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.

The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.

Never cared for the sequels though"

hunt down the original, it has a very sinister, dark feel to it as it was made in the days when story ruled and fx were rare, expensive, usually poor quality so quite sparse- therefore the script needed to be good to carry the film

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

I got all 3 versions of King Kong+ sequals like kong lives King Kong V Godzilla etc on dvd.. I love the original and the new 3 hour epic but the 80s version was pants

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.

Anybody know which British comedian appeared in the original Ladykillers? No search engining. And yes Tina we know you know.

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

"'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.

The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.

Never cared for the sequels though"

laughable..

how can you have an opinion on a movei you saw a picture or two in a book... Baffoon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.

The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.

Never cared for the sequels though

laughable..

how can you have an opinion on a movei you saw a picture or two in a book... Baffoon"

Judging by what he said, I'd say it was more a vote of non confidence than an opinion.

It's sad to me that he doesn't like old films like that because they're enjoyable, but he's allowed to not like that sort of thing. Wouldn't call that buffoonish though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the wickerman remake with nic cage was surely far superior. noooo.. not the bees!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thought the remake of 'little women'was better

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I really hope they never remake Big Trouble in Little China. I love little films like that.

Remakes are supposed to be for movies that had potential but weren't massively successful. Some films are ahead of their time.

George Orwell's 1984 deserves another go!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

the original producers with zero mostel and gene wilder was hilarious but the newer musical one was even funnier

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

dredd 3d tons better than sly stalones one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Be honest though, is it really ever hard to out act Sly? In Rocky wasn't he comprehensively out done by his own punchbag?

Though watching a Sly movie for anything other than fight scenes and explosions is like going to a club just to use the sauna lol

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The Hollywood remake of Let The Right One In wasn't bad."

I prefer the original.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"There's quite a few that are better, or at least pretty close:

The Departed

The Departed wasn't better than Infernal Affairs!

I preferred the remake of Total Recall, far more gritty.

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By *exyfuncouple-40Couple
over a year ago

Bloxham

"Texas chainsaw massacre new one quite good

tbh it wasn't up against much competition..

Lol the scary thing is based on true story

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like both a lot, and I'm a huge fan of HK gangster flicks (Milkyway Image stuff especially), but The Departed just has a little more meat on its bones. If it wasn't for the inclusion of the almost always awful Ray Winstone doing an utterly appalling American accent, I'd be even more in favour of it.

The Total Recall remake is typical Len Wiseman stuff - Hollywood sheen with zero brains - a travesty.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Thing was the only one.

The rest pale in comparison

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By *omMLMan
over a year ago

The Centre of the Universe

Gotta agree with Oldblueeyes. The Thing is the only remake I have seen which is better than the original version.

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By *iaFlashCouple
over a year ago

walsall

the new release of The Thing although supposedly a remake its not it is in fact technically a prequel

*SPOILER ALERT*

At the end of the new Thing movie the dog that runs away from the base is the same dog that is being shot down from a helicopter at the start of the original Thing movie.

Therefore a prequel as nothing has been announced so far for a new release sequel

also same can be said for the Evil Dead movies. In the new Evil Dead there are many elements left over from the previous movies like the abandoned car they sit on during the early part of the movie, also the fact that a lot of the cabin is already in bad condition when they get there plus the book of the dead is sealed in barbed wire. So really the new Evil Dead can be viewed as a sequel just a decade or so after the originals

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.

What remakes are better than the original?

i just hope they leave our ealing cinima well alone x

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

"dredd 3d tons better than sly stalones one"

wasn't realy a remake two totaly different stories with same character in the lead. That's like saying all Bond movies are remakes..

both wer good in own ways n both shit in other ways.. I AM THE LAW!!

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

ye I guess but u can say the same about many remakes story wise totally recall didn't even go to mars what's that all about.

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

oh and the Italian job totally.different plot not sure why they called that's remake

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Casino Royale with David Niven versus Casino Royale with Daniel Craig. Remake wee wees all over the original.

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

"Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.

Anybody know which British comedian appeared in the original Ladykillers? No search engining. And yes Tina we know you know."

frankie howerd...

also heard theres a remake of :the man in the white suit , in the pipeline.

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By *omMLMan
over a year ago

The Centre of the Universe

"Casino Royale with David Niven versus Casino Royale with Daniel Craig. Remake wee wees all over the original. "

I had forgotten all about that once. The original was charming the remake grittier. I like em both.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Four Feathers starring the sadly missed Heath Ledger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also the Charge of the light Brigade with Trevor Howard as Lord Cardigan , much better than the Errol Flyn one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Thing is one of my all time fav horror films ! And although technically a prequel the new version was very well done and a great homage to original

About the only remake / reboot etc i can think of really

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

the 80s thing is a remake of the original black and white 60s film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

While im on bed rest Mark's hooked me up with Netflix,Last night I watched Fright Night,and thought it was much better than the original version,in my opinion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was so disappointed in the clash of the titans remake... give me the cheesy claymation version every time. I hope the highlander remake will be good. I honestly can not think of a remake that is better than the original. "

dredd wasnt bad )

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"the 80s thing is a remake of the original black and white 60s film"

I've not seen the original, but the 80's version is one of my favourites...

I see there's a series version of West World being made...J J Aabrams producing and Anthony Hopkins starring - I shall give that a go when it comes out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I actually thought the Tom Cruise remake of War of the Worlds was quite good

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

"Casino Royale with David Niven versus Casino Royale with Daniel Craig. Remake wee wees all over the original. "

nope Niven in casino royale was far better

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lord of the Rings, although the original live action traced over to appear animated versions weren't finished so I guess only the first of the new ones counts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the 80s thing is a remake of the original black and white 60s film"

I know that's why i said The Thing.

I know the last film was a prequel. It wasn't too bad. Just a shame they were lazy and used cgi

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By *ifornowCouple
over a year ago

East Lincs

The 1978 remake of Nosferatu the vampyre starring Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula.

The original was made in 1922 !

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