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3 films that can never be remade, plus one that should

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1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Name 'em. Your untouchables, plus one classic that deserves to be reimagined. 

Can't be done

  • Citizen Kane
  • Casablanca
  • Raging Bull

Reimagine

  • Rear Window

The Coen Brothers would absolutely nail this. As amazing as the original is, they were born for this. 

Who the fuck is going to look half as fucking hot as Grace Kelly did in this movie without showing hardly any skin at all?

My votes for never remake:

Bridge over the River Kwai

The Shawshank Redemption

Unforgiven

And remake:

No Way Out

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Can't be redone

Blazing Saddles

Airplane

The Godfather

Honorary Mention:

Animal House - the numerous attempts show the original can't be topped.

Remake/Re-Imagined

Behind the Green Door: The Sequel.  Mitchell Brothers should have been shot for that.

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Mach 1

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Cannot:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Cool Hand Luke

Bullitt

Remake:

1A Jason and the Argonauts

1B The Birds

*best Halloween costume I've ever scene was a girl with bent coat wires connected to her costume. she had fake birds on them and whenever someone would ask, who are you? she'd flail her arms and the birds would slide around, seemingly attacking her.*

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Trey3216

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Can’t be remade:

Office Space

Lebowski 
No Country for Old Men

Its a Wonderful Life
Wolf of Wall St

Cool Hand Luke 

Die Hard

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Pulp Fiction 

Castaway

Apocalypto

Last Samurai

 

Needs to/Should be remade:

 

Star Wars Ep 1 

Star Wars Ep 2

Star Wars Ep 3

Star Wars Ep 8

The Patriot 

Could be redone in a cool way with the right cast/re-write:

To Catch a Thief 

 

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we need to institute a rule that says "follow OP's rules/parameters". he asked for three films, not 30. narrow it down ya buncha jabronis. as for me:

don't remake: 

Lonesome Dove

True Grit (it was already done right twice)

The Sting

 

Could be cool to remake:

A League of Their Own with Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy, and Leslie Jones

 

 

 

lmao, jk, that was the worst idea i could come up with. worth a remake:

3 Ninjas 

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GhostOfTomJoad

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Wut?
The Wizard Of Oz is the first movie that should be on the never re-make list.
It's been done (sorta). The Wiz. Horribad.

Maybe I should have made the topic "directors you would trust to remake a classic. " Christopher Nolan is a guy I'd trust with about any material. If he said he was tackling Stalag 17 I'd genuinely be excited. But it would be a radical remake. I can't see him infusing the movie with the type of humor that Billy Wilder so wonderfully & effortlessly wove through the film.

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1 hour ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Wut?

The Wizard Of Oz is the first movie that should be on the never re-make list.

Agreed.  That transition from black and white to color is another one of those things whose significance lessens over time.

But if they did, Pink Floyd should have done the soundtrack.

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13 hours ago, HornPhD said:

No:

Raiders of the Lost Ark

this got me thinking about something.  old movies that were great usually get remade when they no longer hold up (in theory).  I’m aware there are plenty of exceptions.  I guess what I’m trying to say is that Raiders of the Lost Ark should hold up forever.  it’s not black and white, and has been remastered in HD, and it just seems like the characters should still entertain people 100 years from now just like they did 30 years ago and still do today.  so it, and other movies like it, should never, ever be remade.  

but of course they will be.  

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