I'm looking for instances where a movie remake is superior than the original. I know the classic examples are The Maltese Falcon and His Girl Friday, but I'm especially wondering if any films during the present Hollywood Remake Glut have been worthwhile.
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Tom Scola - Nov 16, 2009 7:38:37 am PST #4967 of 30000
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§ ita § - Nov 16, 2009 7:39:06 am PST #4968 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ocean's Eleven?
-t - Nov 16, 2009 7:39:26 am PST #4969 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ocean's 11. The original was pretty awful, really.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2009 7:39:45 am PST #4970 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm looking for instances where a movie remake is superior than the original. I know the classic examples are The Maltese Falcon and His Girl Friday, but I'm especially wondering if any films during the present Hollywood Remake Glut have been worthwhile.
JZ will make the case that the Julia Ormond/Harrison Ford Sabrina is better written and cast than the original with Audrey.
Kathy A - Nov 16, 2009 7:41:25 am PST #4971 of 30000
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I prefer the Winona Ryder/Susan Sarandon Little Women over the other feature film versions, but it's more a remake of the book than of any of the previous films.
Lee - Nov 16, 2009 7:44:30 am PST #4972 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
The Italian Job.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2009 7:45:01 am PST #4973 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I prefer the Winona Ryder/Susan Sarandon Little Women over the other feature film versions, but it's more a remake of the book than of any of the previous films.
I was thinking about Pride & Prejudice, but it's the same issue.
(See also, Peter Jackson LotR)
I fell asleep during both iterations of Solaris, but the only thing I could say was definitively better about the Soderbergh version was that it was significantly shorter.
-t - Nov 16, 2009 7:46:18 am PST #4974 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I haven't seen Inglourious Basterds, but the original Inglorious Bastards was not good.
Huh, Safari's spellcheck doesn't mind 'basterd" but flags "inglourious"
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2009 7:47:38 am PST #4975 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do folks know there's gonna be an American version of Let the Right One In, directed by the guy who did Cloverfield? (It's called Let Me In.)
It's not so much a remake of the original movie as a new version of the book.
Lee - Nov 16, 2009 7:48:26 am PST #4976 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Will it still be boring?