Which films do you think should be remade?

#1

Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 5:48pm

Endless Love (more in line with the book)
Flowers in the Attic (if you're going to make a movie about gothic mansions and incest, you need to go all out)

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#2

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 5:49pm

None of the classics

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#3

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 5:52pm

Ditto for Flowers in the Attic

The Handmaid's Tale
A Chorus Line

#4

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 5:55pm

A Chorus Line definitely as the version made definitely did not cut it

Ditto for Jesus Christ Superstar
Same for A Funny Thing.....

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#5

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 5:55pm

Kozijat Rog (The Goat Horn)

It is a classic and has already been remade, but the story is so powerful and like a Shakespearean classic, so easy to reinterpret in many ways. Both films were really directed toward the Bulgarian audience. I'd like to see or direct a version for the international audience, but please, not a Hollywood production.

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re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 6:05pm

There must be a wealth more awesome samurai films that could do with westernising. My contemporaries like to kvetch about Americans remaking Japanese films. I say that if that practice gives us stuff like 'The Seven Samurai' and 'A Fistful of Dollars', then let America remake the entirety of Japan!

Mmmmm, awesome westerns... :3

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#7

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 6:08pm

Earthquake

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#8

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 6:16pm

In about twenty years, they should remake the Harry Potter films.

They were making the films before the full series was out, so they'd devote a lot of time onscreen to something that ended up not mattering at all to the series, or they'd cut something of critical importance and have to reshape the whole plot of future films around that. I wish they'd waited until the whole series was out before they started making movies.

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#9

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 6:17pm

They should make a movie for spamalot

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#10

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 6:22pm

Ditto to A Chorus Line.

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#11

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 6:49pm

Musicals (ones that could be vastly improved on film):

A Chorus Line
The Wiz
Man of La Mancha
Brigadoon
Guys and Dolls
Carousel
A Little Night Music

Non-musicals (not necessarily because they were rotten the first time, but because they could be given a newer, stronger approach):

Agnes of God
The Beast With Five Fingers
Band of Angels
You Can't Take It With You
The Great Gatsby
The Children's Hour
The People (TV movie)
Blithe Spirit
'Night Mother
A Doll's House
Three Sisters

Musicals and plays that I think should be made first, before any of these remakes:

Fences
Sunday in the Park With George
Big River
Ragtime
Precious Sons
Into the Woods
Once On This Island
Jelly's Last Jam
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Most Happy Fella

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#12

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 6:57pm

The Harry Potter series.


I kid.

#13

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 7:03pm

Put me on the Once on this Island and Into the Woods wagon! But i don't know if this was a movie in the past, but I want a Separate Peace to be remade. Wait, now that I think of it, Wasn't there a showtime/HBO movie in the past decade?

#14

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 7:39pm

Airport

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#15

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Posted: 10/22/08 at 7:53pm

Hair - Preferably directed by Oliver Stone

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#16

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Posted: 10/22/08 at 8:15pm

JCS was such a disappointment.

And I'd say A Chorus Line but I really just think if they got rid of those goddamn greasy perms, recast Diana and got a better camera it'd satisfy me.

#17

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Posted: 10/22/08 at 8:20pm

I agree with A Chorus Line. RENT should be re-made and Spike Lee should direct.

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#18

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 8:22pm

Uncageg said that just to traumatize me.

#19

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 8:44pm

Brigadoon
My Fair Lady
Camelot

#20

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 9:17pm

I was going to say ReNt, too, but I was thinking of movies that weren't as recent (and whose wounds weren't as fresh).

#21

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 9:25pm

GYPSY. Both film versions messed it up.

#22

re: Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/22/08 at 10:34pm

I find the original film version of Gypsy, pretty perfect.

#23

Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/23/08 at 12:38am

some fairy tales:


The Stone Flower
Sadko
Father Frost
The Snow Queen

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Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/23/08 at 12:54am

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#25

Which films do you think should be remade?

Posted: 10/23/08 at 2:07am

I agree with Mr.Roxy- please leave the classics alone!!!!

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