All the remakes you can eat

[Routie445]

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[Käsemeister]

It's a slightly unfair list as quite a few of those have been on the books for years, and are in perpetual Development Hell, but it's still scary reading as most of those are "our" generation films if you see what I mean.

[Disastrous]

Hugely depressing. Not least because I think of things like the Crow as being 'new' and then see they're almost 20 years old

>sigh<

[stuart]

Fright Night. I loved that film when I was a kid. I still remember the scene in either the original or one of the sequels of the vampire in the tunnel on rollerskates and the vampires using someones head as a bowling ball.

Also the Howling, it's awful now but I used to think it was great.

The Never Ending Story is still a brilliant film, it doesn't need a remake.

The same goes for Short Circuit.

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Orphanage’ isn't even old and it's bloody brilliant! There's no reason to remake this except for people who cant' read. It's a beautiful looking and sounding tame horror film. I love it. I don't see what a remake could add.

I think a lot of these are going to be awful

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[stuart]

Also see the remake of The Thing. I still haven't seen the original.

[Käsemeister]

Watch it Stuart.


Watch it now.

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[Strawman]

It's a slightly unfair list as quite a few of those have been on the books for years, and are in perpetual Development Hell,

Like The Final Symphony ? which has reputedly had 600 drafts

[Deuteronomy]

Hugely depressing. Not least because I think of things like the Crow as being 'new' and then see they're almost 20 years old

>sigh<

Ace film.

Agree with you and KM, these are our generations films, re-makes whilst we're still alive is plain fcuking rude.

cnuts.

[Deuteronomy]

Just read the list, so many good films on there that should be left alone.

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[Käsemeister]

It's a slightly unfair list as quite a few of those have been on the books for years, and are in perpetual Development Hell,

Like The Final Symphony ? which has reputedly had 600 drafts

Precisely that. The remake of the remake of the remake of Dune has been hobbling around for donkey's years too.

[Käsemeister]

Hugely depressing. Not least because I think of things like the Crow as being 'new' and then see they're almost 20 years old

>sigh<

Ace film.

Agree with you and KM, these are our generations films, re-makes whilst we're still alive is plain fcuking rude.

cnuts.

That's the thing - I don't mind a remake of All Quiet, yes it was a seminal film, but it's about time it was looked at again. Robocop and Short Circuit? Give me a break. Okay so they can "update" the FX, but it wasn't exactly that they look dated even now, given they were done so well in the first place.

[nakedninja]

but it wasn't exactly that they look dated even now, given they were done so well in the first place.

I disagree, I think they do look dated now. I don't want them to be remade though.

'Oh my goodness, I am sporting a tremendous woody right now'

[Käsemeister]

I'd buy that for a dollar.... etc.

Oh, and the cinematic debut of the Barrett .50 cal.

[Käsemeister]

SC and Robocop dated FX? Really?

Okay so ED209 is stop-motion, but anything else?

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[Käsemeister]

Robocop[/i] won't be improved by CGI dazzle. It isn't good because of its effects, it's good because of the idea and the script.

My thoughts exactly. Very much of its time too.

[stuart]

I must have missed something about Starship Troopers because I thought it was awful and ridiculous.

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[stuart]

I must have missed something about Starship Troopers because I thought it was awful and ridiculous.

You don't think the effects are good?

In Starship Troopers, yeah I think they are fine. I just thought the plot and the film was silly but it seems to have a huge cult following. I don't get it.

[Käsemeister]

Won't be the same without Basil either.

/thespstrop.

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[Aesgarth]

‘Conan’
‘The Crow’
‘Short Circuit’
‘Judge Dredd’
‘Mad Max’
‘Akira’
‘Escape From New York’
‘Drop Dead Fred’
‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’

And most of the others. No, just NO.

[Strawman]

‘Conan’
‘The Crow’
‘Short Circuit’
‘Judge Dredd’
‘Mad Max’
‘Akira’
‘Escape From New York’
‘Drop Dead Fred’
‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’

And most of the others. No, just NO.

I agree most of those shouldn't be remade, especially Mad Max and Conan (the republican), because they are iconic. But Judge Dredd was a steaming pile and so a remake could be better.

[Aesgarth]

I agree Dredd was a pile of turd, which is why i liked it.

[CJ+]

I must have missed something about Starship Troopers because I thought it was awful and ridiculous.

You don't think the effects are good?

In Starship Troopers, yeah I think they are fine. I just thought the plot and the film was silly but it seems to have a huge cult following. I don't get it.

It's actually quite a sly dig at America and jingoism.

Do you want to know more?

[Käsemeister]

Conan (the republican)

But Judge Dredd was a steaming pile and so a remake could be better.

Was so nearly saved visually by



Still, Karl Urban has already stated that in keeping "true" to the comic, in the new one Dredd will never remove his helmet, so there's a good start.