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posted 02-05-2008 07:43
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I have no idea what Edge of Darkness is, but if we are going to make a list, I'd like to get in Psycho early.
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posted 02-05-2008 08:11
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Isn't the answer to this virtually all of them?
I've nothing against remakes in principle, but surely the best premise for a remake is to redo a rubbish film that had some good ideas in it. Instead they generally redo good stuff and make it worse.
The only worthy exceptions that spring to mind are the two remakes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, both of which I quite liked. Especially the Donald Sutherland one.
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posted 02-05-2008 09:51
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Breathless, featuring Richard Gere. What a load of old cock.
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posted 02-05-2008 09:52
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Yeah, the instinctive answer is "all of them", but that would include His Girl Friday and The Maltese Falcon.
All of them since 1960?
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posted 02-05-2008 11:36
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Day of the Jackal. The first was brilliant, the second unutterably awful.
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posted 02-05-2008 11:46
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The Thing From Another World and The Thing.
Both great films, just different approaches.
I really like the remakes of Assault on Precinct 13 and Dawn of the Dead, as well.
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posted 02-05-2008 14:59
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Ill-advised remake: The Italian Job
Well-advised remake: Ocean's 11.
Ill-advised sequal: Ocean's 12.
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posted 02-05-2008 18:45
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King On The Rye wrote:
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Breathless, featuring Richard Gere. What a load of old cock.
I had this film on VHS when I was a teenager, I never watched the whole film but there were two or three scenes that were practically worn out through constant rewinding and freeze framing.
Mmmmm...Valérie Kaprisky...
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posted 02-05-2008 21:14
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Anything European nicked by Hollywood, notably the superb The Vanishing ... director, of both, George Sluizer's fault.
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posted 06-05-2008 16:22
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The Fly is a bloody good remake.
A couple years ago Fox sanctioned another remake of The Fly. I can only assume that the project has been shelved.
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posted 06-05-2008 16:39
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Have I mentioned before how much I hate Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People? Well I'm doing it again.
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posted 06-05-2008 18:43
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May I mention "City of Angels". Nicholas Cage. I cannot say more.
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posted 06-05-2008 19:39
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Worst. Actor. Ever.
Except for Cuba Gooding Jr in 'A Murder of Crows'. A case of 'first mate not ready to be captain' if ever there was one.
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posted 06-05-2008 20:42
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The Thing From Another World and The Thing.
Both great films, just different approaches.
I really like the remakes of Assault on Precinct 13 and Dawn of the Dead, as well.
All very good remakes, as is the '78 version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (it's on again next week - lovely jubbly!). Actually, the more I watch it, the more I think it's a fucking great film.
If you get a few cans of alcoholic libation, a lazy night with nothing on telly and an 'I'll Watch Anything' mood simmering within you, then Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes remake is just the ticket.
As sober, essential viewing, it's a mess. A good-looking mess, but a mess, nontheless.
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posted 07-05-2008 08:30
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I really like the remakes of Assault on Precinct 13
Well Maria Bello is very good, and Laurence Fishburne is plenty watchable, but Ethan Hawke was a plank of wood in this and the ending? WTF was that all about?
I'm shocked at you lot - 15 posts on a "bad remakes" thread and nobody's mentioned the Sly Stallone Get Carter yet.
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