I already want HP:HBP redone.

I'll take a remake of LotR with a different director and producers and writers. And someone else playing Gimli.

I'm with you on the Gimli. Unfortunately for JRD and luckily for my viewing pleasure there was that latex allergy, so he barely showed in it...and then he showed himself to be a racist fuck, so even the times he was apparent grated.

But for the most part I really liked the production, and where I disagreed with it I have to concede that they were at least painstaking if wrong.

As for the SW trilogy, I'd be totally okay with it unmade, rather than remade.

I would love to see a director's cut of Idiocracy. That poor movie was cut to ribbons by the studio and dumped onto DVD, but there are such flashes of brilliance in there that really regret not being able to see the movie it was supposed to be.

But for the most part I really liked the production, and where I disagreed with it I have to concede that they were at least painstaking if wrong.

Production was gorgeous and fantastic, and it was painstakingly, microfocusedly detailed to a fault. There was so much love and craftsmanship put into the world building that the stories and characters seemed to come second.

Unmade for Epidsodes 1-3 is a viable option, but then I remember as a kid it finally hitting me that the movies were labeled 4, 5 & 6, and that there was intended to be more backstory, and it got me excited. So it's a nostalgic wish on my part.

Oh, and I want Ladyhawke rescored. And "Now that I'm a Woman" removed from The Last Unicorn. And Buttercup needed to be played by a much more beautiful actress.

then I remember as a kid it finally hitting me that the movies were labeled 4, 5 & 6

I read somewhere recently that they weren't initially numbered that way--but I can't remember where I read it so I can't cite any authority.

The BF and I were discussing how one might re-make the entire Star Wars sage to make it work episodically (so that the "I am your father" reveal is still a reveal, even if you watch from 1)

And Buttercup needed to be played by a much more beautiful actress.

With hair the color of autumn and skin like wintry cream.

In 30 years, I hope some of the kids who grew up with Harry Potter do a Peter Jackson and re-make the HP books properly (i.e.--with affection, devotion, and knowing how the damn thing ends before you start writing). Possibly as annual BBC mini-series for 7 years.

I know that there are movies I've seen where I've said, "Your basic idea was good, but wow did you screw it up." Can't recall many of them, though, at the moment.

And Buttercup needed to be played by a much more beautiful actress.

Man, I think Robin Wright was (and still is, really) breathtakingly beautiful. And she got the vapid just right too. I'd have tweaked the production values on the movie, if anything, but I love it just as is.

I'm with ita. I have no problems with Robin Wright.

Hmmm...There is, in my head, a distinct difference between book Buttercup and Movie Buttercup. It's not something that I can put my finger on, though.

I think, to me, the movie softens the edges of all the characters a bit, which makes sense, with the shortage of backstory on them (goes with the territory) and that it's more of a fairy tale than the book. I don't know that I love either less, but they're definitely different.

I think my recasting of Buttercup has nothing to do with RW and more to do with the description of book Buttercup, and that's a pretty high fricking standard. I saw the movie first, and she didn't bother me. But ever since I read the book, The Most Beautiful Woman EVER is always in the back of my brain, and RW is not my cuppa. Almost but not quite how Jen Garner is quite fugly to me.