Movies worthy of a GOOD remake
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SammyChevelleTypeS3
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I would vote for most films made by Steve McQueen, his buddy & fellow race driver , James Garner.
Throw in a couple others while at it. Robert Mitchum , Anthony Quinn and another racer.... Paul Newman.
Then no list of oldies can be complete without two long time sidekicks..... Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster.
Throw in a couple others while at it. Robert Mitchum , Anthony Quinn and another racer.... Paul Newman.
Then no list of oldies can be complete without two long time sidekicks..... Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster.
Why remake them though?
Because nothing matters besides the Almighty dollar and nobody can write a decent screenplay these days, it seems.
My first thought when I heard they where making a Mary Poppins sequel was, "Is nothing sacred?," LOL.
I'm tired of remakes. Typically they are never as good as the original AND they are basically done with a cast that incorporates all of the politically correct ethnicities/sexual identities. No thanks.
Oh Albert...
Xanadu of course !! 
Not a fan of remakes. Mutiny on the Bounty was remade twice, and the original 1935 version with Clark Gable was superior (and I saw it last).
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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I rarely do like remakes after all. I really do not care for how they make parts II then III and on and on......
Your comment about all the social correct and other things they keep inserting into movies was recently talked about on an internet news article. It said that is one of the main reasons the majority of movie released in the past couple of years have bombed. It also said if Hollywood cant start writing some decent movies the stunt they been able to pull off making some money with all those comic book films will not last and it will become a ghost town.
It will be a ghost town, for a couple reasons. One being there is too much competition - foreign films, streaming, made for streaming.
A couple years ago we just happened to catch the movie "Blackberry" in theatre. Its a Canadian Film based roughly off of RIM (the company that came up with the first smart phone - the blackberry). I thought the movie was really well done. It won a ton of awards. I just looked it up - it cost $5M to make and made only $3M at box office - even with positive reviews and awards.
No one wants to take a risk anymore. Thats why we have nothing but super hero movies and yet one more Kevin Costner film.
sad.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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I forgot about the Costner film. I wonder if it is any good?
Remake Mame. Lucille Ball was not best for the role. Could not sing.
The first movie was supposed to be part 1. It was such a flop they pulled part 2.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...-removed-from-theatrical-calendar-1235937513/
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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I can vouch for one thing. In my area , there are 3-5 major theaters within about a 30 mile circle , maybe a few more I missed. I hear they have all reopened after covid. I sometimes pass by 2-3 of them and the parking lots are usually down to about only 10% to 15% of the amount of cars one used to see there. The wife took two of our grandkids to a movie last week (first time in ages) and they said the place seemed deserted. I guess just like how the internet killed off "print news," movie theatres are next thing to fade away. Now that there is so much streaming and the smart TVs are so cheap, society is about to completely turn their backs on something else. People getting together and going out to see movies like folks have done for so long is the next victim?
What's the point in remaking a great movie? And they did remake TWOK as 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, although it's set in an alternate timeline and it's not really Star Trek. It was written by those hacks Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci and produced by JJ Abrams and his company Bad Reboot*.
*Bad Robot
That's a matter of opinion. Following up TWOK was going to be difficult. Nimoy demanded to get the director's chair in return for coming back as Spock. The Search for Spock is not nearly the worst entry in my opinion.
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Pretty much. It doesn't help that I can't take 4 people to see a movie and buy them some popcorn for much less than a hundred bucks these days. Another issue is that with instant streaming, everyone is used to seeing whatever they want and finding something that everybody wants to watch at the same time is sometimes pretty difficult.
Many times they suck.
Hollywood is either not creative anymore, or they are running out of ideas, probably both.
No risk appetite.
We happened into the movie "Blackberry", which is sort of a docu-comedy on the founding and then collapse of the smart phone maker RIM. Its a Canadian Movie - it won tons of indy awards. It cost $5M to make and even with the awards only made $3M at box office.
Easier to remake Superman 28.
The remakes are usually for the younger generation that likely never saw the original. So to them they may even be great movies if you don’t know any better.
The same applies to movies vs books. I have yet to see a movie that’s better than the book it’s based on. Some come close to matching the book though.
The same applies to movies vs books. I have yet to see a movie that’s better than the book it’s based on. Some come close to matching the book though.
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