What classic movies would you like to see a remake of?

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Jeanne_S said:
I tend to agree.If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.😛
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Yes, but if they do a remake, doesn’t mean you can never watch the version you like again.

I think the 1939 Wizard of Oz was a remake and I don’t know if you ever saw The Imitation of Life with Lana Turner. It was a remake and I thought it was better than the
first one. Also My Fair Lady was a remake of Pygmalion.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Yes, but if they do a remake, doesn’t mean you can never watch the version you like again.

I think the 1939 Wizard of Oz was a remake and I don’t know if you ever saw The Imitation of Life with Lana Turner. It was a remake and I thought it was better than the
first one. Also My Fair Lady was a remake of Pygmalion.
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I saw “Imitation of Life”. I thought Juanita Moore gave the best performance in thie film. I didn’t care for Lana Turner. In my opinion, she overacted. Especially at the death scene. The other character was dying, and Lana seemed to make it about her. “No, I won’t listen!” I felt like saying “Can you please not be hysterical at this woman’s death bed!”

And I really disliked the daughter. After all she put her mom through, to the extent of saying she was her nanny to her roommate, at least show up on time for her funeral.

Mahalia Jackson sang a very powerful hymn though. That’s my favorite part.
 
meltzerboy said:
IMO it is sheer madness to remake ANY Alfred Hitchcock film with another director.
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I agree. I believe films either make it the first time, or they don’t.
I have no interest in viewing remakes.
 
pianistclare said:
I believe films either make it the first time, or they don’t.
I have no interest in viewing remakes.
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The Maltese Falcon is a remake.
Ben-Hur is a remake.
The 1939 Wizard of Oz is a remake.
The Parent Trap is a remake.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
I saw “Imitation of Life”. I thought Juanita Moore gave the best performance in thie film. I didn’t care for Lana Turner. In my opinion, she overacted. Especially at the death scene. The other character was dying, and Lana seemed to make it about her. “No, I won’t listen!” I felt like saying “Can you please not be hysterical at this woman’s death bed!”

And I really disliked the daughter. After all she put her mom through, to the extent of saying she was her nanny to her roommate, at least show up on time for her funeral.

Mahalia Jackson sang a very powerful hymn though. That’s my favorite part.
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I thought Juanita Moore was excellent! She should have been nominated for an Oscar
for best supporting actress. I don’t know if she was. Her daughter was so cruel
to her. I remember the first time I saw the movie just sobbing during the death scene.
 
randomuser said:
The Maltese Falcon is a remake.
Ben-Hur is a remake.
The 1939 Wizard of Oz is a remake.
The Parent Trap is a remake.
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The Parent Trap was a remake? That is right they remade it with Lindsay Lohan.
The original will always be my favorite because I was a Hayley Mills fan as a young girl.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I thought Juanita Moore was excellent! She should have been nominated for an Oscar
for best supporting actress. I don’t know if she was. Her daughter was so cruel
to her. I remember the first time I saw the movie just sobbing during the death scene.
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I cried at the death scene too, and the last time the daughter saw her mother and pretended she was her nanny.
 
po18guy said:
None! Remakes are always modernized disasters in my mind. I am perfectly content with back and white originals.
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👍 Agree with you here.

Would also add classic novels and classic TV to the list.

Seriously, if I see one more display of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” ('classic novel 'remake)

or one more bad Scooby Doo reanimation

one more ‘modern movie’ Leave it to Beaver, Dennis the Menace’, etc.

or another Fuller House or Roseanne (where is the ‘shudder emoji’. Didn’t care for the original series either but come on. . .)

I will seriously consider finding one of those places where you can live ‘1950s style’ and completely ‘unplug’ from this crazy world and be happy with stuff that hasn’t been improved and made ‘relevant’ to our ‘postmodern’ world. . .
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
I cried at the death scene too, and the last time the daughter saw her mother and pretended she was her nanny.
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Have you seen the 1934 version with Claudette Colbert? I have only seen a little of the beginning. She becomes wealthy by marketing a pancake batter. I hope to see the entire movie someday. She brings the black woman and her child to live with her. The recipe
for the pancake batter might have been developed by the black woman because I remember she has her sign a contract so she gets part of the profits and she also is able to become wealthy as well. I didn’t get to see enough of the movie to see how the relationship between the mother and daughter, but it is along the same lines I am sure.
 
Tantum_ergo said:
👍 Agree with you here.

Would also add classic novels and classic TV to the list.

Seriously, if I see one more display of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” ('classic novel 'remake)

or one more bad Scooby Doo reanimation

one more ‘modern movie’ Leave it to Beaver, Dennis the Menace’, etc.

or another Fuller House or Roseanne (where is the ‘shudder emoji’. Didn’t care for the original series either but come on. . .)

I will seriously consider finding one of those places where you can live ‘1950s style’ and completely ‘unplug’ from this crazy world and be happy with stuff that hasn’t been improved and made ‘relevant’ to our ‘postmodern’ world. . .
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Jane Eyre is another one they are fond of remaking. Also, The Christmas Carol.
 
No one has mentioned sci-fi films, so I will. 🙂

I’d love to see a remake of “When Worlds Collide.” I think a well done updated version could be quite interesting, fun, and a real CGI fest, for those who love that kind of thing. I’d trust someone like Peter Jackson with such a project, but not the typical Hollywood “geniuses” who have ruined many another remake.

The thing I love about 50’s/60’s sci-fi, though is the earnest belief that man could better himself–with God’s help, that is. Now, it’s not about bettering ourselves, but merely survival in most sci-fi films and God is nowhere to be seen or heard of.

The remake of the TV series “Lost in Space” didn’t make the grade. As with “Chips,” “Baywatch,” and other such attempts are adapting a beloved TV series onto the big screen, they missed the whole point of the originals as family fare and turned them into R rated films. Wake up, Hollywood.–that approach just doesn’t work.
 
Della said:
No one has mentioned sci-fi films, so I will. 🙂

I’d love to see a remake of “When Worlds Collide.” I think a well done updated version could be quite interesting, fun, and a real CGI fest, for those who love that kind of thing. I’d trust someone like Peter Jackson with such a project, but not the typical Hollywood “geniuses” who have ruined many another remake.

The thing I love about 50’s/60’s sci-fi, though is the earnest belief that man could better himself–with God’s help, that is. Now, it’s not about bettering ourselves, but merely survival in most sci-fi films and God is nowhere to be seen or heard of.

The remake of the TV series “Lost in Space” didn’t make the grade. As with “Chips,” “Baywatch,” and other such attempts are adapting a beloved TV series onto the big screen, they missed the whole point of the originals as family fare and turned them into R rated films. Wake up, Hollywood.–that approach just doesn’t work.
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I know they remade The Thing. It had Kurt Russell. I love the original with the guy who
played Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. The remake wasn’t that good.

Of course, they remade The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. That was pretty good.
And they remade The Day the Earth Stood Still which I was disappointed in.

I would like to see a remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
One of my favorite sci flicks was Them! about the mutated ants that were giants.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Yes, but if they do a remake, doesn’t mean you can never watch the version you like again.

I think the 1939 Wizard of Oz was a remake and I don’t know if you ever saw The Imitation of Life with Lana Turner. It was a remake and I thought it was better than the
first one. Also My Fair Lady was a remake of Pygmalion.
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I wasn’t aware the Imitation of Life with Lana Turner was a remake. So maybe I actually prefer the classic remakes of the original movies:p
When I think of any of the current remakes of older films ,I generally think they fall short.Except for Cape Fear,which was already mentioned
 
It feels like half the movies that come out are remakes, and they mostly suck. Like the remake of Ghostbusters, way to ruin a classic. I’m afraid of what they’re going to do with Top Gun.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Jane Eyre is another one they are fond of remaking. Also, The Christmas Carol.
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I actually I see different film (or TV) adaptations of books to be somewhat different than “remakes” of films based on original stories. ***Little Women ***has been “remade” many times, too, but that is also based on a book. If we use such a very strict definition of “remake” then most of Shakespeare’s plays are actually “remakes” of works by other playwrights.

For example, I’ve watched both movie adaptations of Dangerous Liasions; the very dark one with John Malkovich, Glenn Close, and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the lighter take on it, “Valmont”, with Colin Firth, Annette Benning and Meg Tilly in the major roles. While the Malkovich/Close version came out 1 year before the Firth/Benning version, I didn’t see the latter as a “remake” of the former but different interpretations of the source material.

I personally thought DL was too dark in that I just couldn’t see the Malkovich version of Valmont and the Close version of Mertueil to be the successful seducers they are supposed to be, they come across as way too creepy for that.

On the other hand, I found the version with Firth and Benning to overly romanticize their actions. I did think that Tilly’s take on Madame Tourvel was more believable than Pfieffer’s though.

So if someone wanted to film a third version I’d certainly be interested in watching that. I wouldn’t consider it a “remake” though, just a different interpretation.
 
Jeanne_S said:
I wasn’t aware the Imitation of Life with Lana Turner was a remake. So maybe I actually prefer the classic remakes of the original movies:p
When I think of any of the current remakes of older films ,I generally think they fall short.Except for Cape Fear,which was already mentioned
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Some remakes succeed and, sadly, others disappoint. I think it depends on the director
and screenwriter.

I can’t imagine never seeing Charleston Hesston as Moses if they had not remade The
Ten Commandments! Although Charlton Hesston was not Jewish, I thought he was
fantastic!
 
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