Anyone actually fans of remakes?

[Nr1Humanoid]

I love them myself, bring them on.

No movie should be exempt, the original will always be there.

Big fan.

[Bravo Echo November]

If it's for a movie that didn't do too well initially and deserves another chance, yes.

[Push R Truth]

My favorite movie of all time is a remake/reimaging (Carpenter's The Thing)

[mcmahonfan85]

some are good, some suck big time, and some movies do not need to be remade/rebooted

[mizerable]

I don't like when they're "remade".

But I don't mind if they're updated for a new age. Look at Scarface for example (although the original is a classic).

[xCompackx]

I like a few remakes (Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valentine, and Total Recall was okay), and Robocop looks fun.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 14, 2014 16:15:13 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

I like a few remakes (Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valentine, and Total Recall was okay), and Robocop looks fun.

I am also looking forward to Robocop.

They don't tape over the original, and if anything, it often just calls more attention to the original, so I am for remakes.

[Hit Girl]

If I liked the original, I don't watch remakes. If the original was shit, I may check them out.

[Big DSR Energy]

I'm not against the very concept of remakes, but I wouldn't give a blanket "Remakes are great!" statement. Some of them are great, some of them are terrible. Same thing with "original" movies.

[driver8]

I think, like most people, I judge it on a case by case basis

That said, I'm not a fan of the "take an r-rated well regarded sci-fi movie from the 80s and make a lifeless, bland pg-13 version" trend that Robocop and Total Recall seem to exemplify.

[Joker]

For every Thing, Oceans Eleven, The Fly or Fistful of Dollars there seem to be half a dozen remakes that are really not that good/terrible like Total Recall, Planet of the Apes, The Wicker Man, Godzilla (1998), Clash of the Titans or Poseidon.

I think the main reason is good remakes take the story and do something different with it or it's been so long nobody remembers that the film is a remake, a good idea is change the name if you can. I like The Departed but I Prefer Infernal Affairs the name change was a good move in my opinion. The Thing & The Fly take the idea down an entirely different route which is great & I like the orginals too, Posiedon and Psycho don't and both fail by being mostly dull/clones of the originals.

Of course sometimes these films are just bad remakes nobody wants (Oldboy?! Nightmare on Elm Street!) or plain suck because hollywood messes them up (Godzilla 98). Other times nostalgia or the previous actor in the movie is just too strong (Arnold Schwarzenegger films are going to be hard to remake as it's Arnie) likewise Clash of the Titans is great for it's Harryhausen special effects which most 80s children look back at fondly, the less said about the Worthington one with it's CGI and Robot Djinn the better.

I don't mind remakes but I do mind if they are clones, break childhood memories,fail to respect the source material or they flat out suck.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Jan 14, 2014 15:32:33 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

My favorite movie of all time is a remake/reimaging (Carpenter's The Thing)

Same

[Deleted]

Usually the best remakes are the ones with a timeless thematic story that can apply to any generation. Those remakes are essentially a remake in name only.

[Bub (BLM)]

Someone said it best in a remake thread a few weeks ago. Paraphrasing here, they said "If the actors are what made the movie, then a remake shouldn't even be considered. If the story outshined the actors involved, then a remake is okay". I couldn't agree with that more. Take Robocop for example. It wasn't a vehicle for Peter Weller. That role could have been filled by anyone. Updating it for a new audience makes sense.

On the other side of that, you have movies like Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones which all worked strictly based on the lead actor(s). You can't slap a fedora on some new actor and call him Indiana Jones, because it won't work. In wrestling terms, it's why multiple Doinks worked just fine but fake Razor was a complete failure.

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Jan 14, 2014 15:32:33 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

My favorite movie of all time is a remake/reimaging (Carpenter's The Thing)

Holy shit, that was going to be my exact response when I saw the thread title.

[Bad Moon]

Remakes are good when they're warranted. If whoever's at the helm actually has something worthwile to add to the original work, great. When Carpenter remade The Thing From Another World, he made a completely different monster and introduced a whole new facet to the horror via the infection angle and the shapeshifting effects. When they remade the 1982 version in 2009, they just made the exact same movie with the exact same monster and actually a smaller cast of characters with less depth to them.

tl;dr: Remakes are good when they're good and bad when they're bad.