If you could remake a movie the RIGHT way, what would it be?

[Tyler Durden4]

I have no idea what I would do...

You?

[Donnie_Darko]

Shit... I don't know if I should say or not. Every time I think, "Yea, that would be cool to update and remake", it fucking happens! So... uhm...

The Car (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075809/)

and

The Towering Inferno (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072308/)

...and if they happen, I'll be pissed... unless my name is attached... which it won't be. :cool:

[ilovemovies]

North by Northwest

[Shockwave]

HARVEY

No one seems to know about this movie and it makes me sad.:(

[QUENTIN]

Kurosawa's High and Low

[Gordon]

The Petrified Forest.

[APzombie]

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

brilliant title. Make it a good thriller.

[blk_flower]

wouldn't remake anything

I might consider trying to get some approval to a good ghost in the shell sequel.

[Le_Big_Mac]

I'd much prefer re-releasing a movie to remaking one and I'd much less want to do one just to bring attention to the original. But if I had to choose a movie, it would be The Incredible Shrinking Man.

[Gordon]

Yeah, now, the point of the thread wasn't whether or not you would actually want to spend a couple years of your life making one. Or whether you want to or not. But if you were to do one, which one would you do?

And it's probably worth further noting that any motherfucker in here would be lucky to get the chance to make any movie with any budget at all.

[DarkKnight81]

The Lost World. For anyone who's read the Michael Crichton's books you know what I am talking about. Jurassic Park was a great movie but wasnt as good as the book. The Lost World book was even better than the JP book yet the movie was a huge step backwards from JP. Easily Spielbergs biggest debacle, he had better source material and somehow managed to make a far inferior movie.

[DarthWade]

As much as I usually hate remakes, I'd kill to have James Cameron re-make Alien 3 and 4. Would never happen, but it'd be nice.

As for me re-making a movie? I'd be afraid to.

[Worthystevens]

X-Men. Start the series off with the original 5 from the beginning. And do a better job with Angel, Iceman and Cyclops.

[echo_bravo]

Spiderman 3. This time lets make Venom a BADASS and not a complete wisecrackin little pussy okay?

The Island of Dr. Moreu (spell)
Directed by David Fincher

[monkeybutler]

Spiderman 3. This time lets make Venom a BADASS and not a complete wisecrackin little pussy okay?


Hell yes, I agree ten thousand percent on this. Venom is supposed to be a badass not Foreman (which is the only way I see Topher Grace now).

wouldn't remake anything

I might consider trying to get some approval to a good ghost in the shell sequel.

I agree with this too, I fell asleep when they were in that part of the movie where it was looping back to the same scene or something, I kept waking up and I thought I was going crazy because it seemed like the same scene over and over again.

[Bourne101]

I agree with Spider-Man 3 (7/10). I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, but it was a mess. Even if it had to be a bit longer, or if a character was cut from the film, it would make it better.

I would also remake Hitman (4/10). What a mess that was. It wasn't even a fun action movie. There were like 3 action sequences and they were all boring as fuck.

Hostel: Part II (6/10). I would make the movie from the POV of the two men who win the bid to kill the girls. I'm sure once Eli Roth heard this idea, he was probably hitting himself in the head. It would have been so much better, possibly better than the first Hostel (7/10)

I can already tell that I would want to remake The Ruins. I read the book, and it is simply one of the most haunting novels ever written. I have read spoilers from the movie, and some of the best shit that happens in the novel is different in the movie, which is not a good thing at all. I would re-write the script using the book and copying it in script form, page by page and then make a 4-hour epic horror movie! Wouldn't that be fucking awesome! Regardless, I can't wait to see what it ends up like, but there is almost no chance it will be better than the novel.

[Dragula]

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Hostel
All the Jason sequeals except for part 2
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning

[Zeeboe]

I'd like a remake of "Faster Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill!" as well as a remake of "Network". I think that film needs to be remade now more then ever.

[Tyler Durden4]

I agree about Hitman, Bourne.

[Gian-Sergio]

Dawn of the Dead(1978). The First time I saw it, I got so jealous of it I wanted to make a kick ass zombie film just like that. The Wrong People made the remake.

[muttly69]

I would do Star Ship Troopers. That movie had potential for a trilogy.

[RellimHcaz]

Spiderman 3. This time lets make Venom a BADASS and not a complete wisecrackin little pussy okay?

amen!

[muttly69]

I concur.

[MarcoPolo]

I would remake Cloverfield so you could see what was going on, and try to make an inkling of sense out of the "invincible" monster and its "wimpy" spawn.

[Dirtyfrog]

I would do Star Ship Troopers. That movie had potential for a trilogy.

Well , there's Starship Trooper 3 : Marauder for ya ! Direct-to-DvD sequel and Johnny Rico is back.

For a remake , mmmm dunno , prolly "7days in May" ... its a good old movie and deserves a little bit of recognition. Also , it fits the post-9/11 world we live in.

[mrsilkunderwear]

Forbidden Kingdom! 2 Asian legends and their fans deserve a better movie.

[Mr. Creasy]

TRANSFORMERS
X-MEN TRILOGY
SPIDER-MAN 3
SUPERMAN RETURNS

[Sixgun]

Kurosawa's High and Low

What is "wrong" with Kurosawa's version?

[Weapon X]

HIGHLANDER II.

'Nuff said.

[shawn-o]

I'd love to make a semi-gritty, surreal, live-action, Tim Burton-ish, ALICE IN WONDERLAND

[God of War]

AVP movies :rolleyes:

[echo_bravo]

Another film I want remade is Godzilla.

The film from 1998 was horrible!

The technology right now mixed in with the incredible CGI effects we have would make this film awesome.

Hire the guys that created Gollum and lets make it happen ASAP.

[Potzer! 37]

Either "Cube" with an a-list cast and some better more realistic effects or "The Great Escape" with the coolest actors of today. I just think it would be awesome to see 1 dozen of my favorite actors working together to fuck the Nazis.

[Jig Saw 123]

X-Men 3: Scrapped the whole cure plot, Nightcrawler would have been included, focused more on the humans using Sentinels to wage war against the X-Men.

Fantastic Four: Replaced all the Actors, Made The Thing bigger and more vicious, Dr. Doom more powerful and different costume.

Spider-Man 3: Harry would have became the 2nd Green Goblin (with a redesigned suit), No Sandman, Venom would have played a bigger part in the film, being more of the backbone of the story similar to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight.

Daredevil: Replaced all actors, Green screen-film similar to 300 and Sin City. Darker, Villains: Bullseye and Mister Hyde.

Superman Returns : complete reboot, different director and cast (except Kevin Spacey), Brainiac as villain.

Ghost Rider: rated-R, replace Nicholas Cage, different director and story, darker and more violent.

Halloween III: Either remake this film and not call it Halloween make it a completely separate film entirely or show a story of Michael Myers that hasn't been established or shown.

Freddy vs. Jason: Deeper plot, more fighting, more deaths

Child's Play 3- Seed of Chucky : scrap Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky. Chucky torments another child. more deaths, similar to the first Child's Play.

Saw IV: Replaced Detective Hoffman, better twist

[Powerslave]

North By Northwest? High and Low? Harvey? Very curious answers being thrown around in here...

First thing that pops into my mind when this question is answered is Hellraiser. There's a movie with a great concept and a distinct, brilliant visual style brought down by awful pacing and worse acting, not to mention a few shitty, dated SFX.

I'd also get Cameron Diaz the fuck out of Gangs of New York. Recasting Leo's role isn't 110% necessary, but it wouldn't hurt. But really, Diaz is the big mistake in what should've been, and was close to being, a masterpiece.

I know there's more, I think about this shit all the time....hmmm....

[MarcoPolo]

Another film I want remade is Godzilla.

*****POSSIBLE SPOILER********

I'd like to 2nd this. Haven't seen it in 10 years...but I seem to recall this movie really going out of the way to make sure Godzilla himself never actually kills anyone. Do I remember right??

[mongo_bcsd]

house of 1000 corpses
jason goes to hell
blair witch 2

[SpoonMan999]

Star Wars Episodes 1-3

[outsyder]

I'd also get Cameron Diaz the fuck out of Gangs of New York. Recasting Leo's role isn't 110% necessary, but it wouldn't hurt. But really, Diaz is the big mistake in what should've been, and was close to being, a masterpiece.


Getting rid of Leo would have also improved it. The guy has acting chops, but in this film, he and Diaz stuck out like a sore thumb.

[Sonny Corleone]

Stalker
Pretty Poison
The Invisible Man
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Metropolis
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Diabolique
Cool Hand Luke
Yojimbo
Le Samouraï
Ran
Anatomy of a Murder
Frankenstein
The Wizard of Oz
The Blob
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Mummy (1959)
Homicidal

[MidnightAngel]

Rollerball-A remake more based on the original version and not the bad remake directed by John McTiernan.

The Grudge-An R rated version.

Judge Dredd-A fully british production and with british actors. No Stallone on this one.

Prom Night-An R rated horror slasher early 80's style and not as a teen dumb flick.

Hannibal-An exact adaptation of the novel by Thomas Harris.

Terminator 3-Written and directed by James Cameron.

[MarcoPolo]

Predator 2 cast without an aged and clumsy Danny Glover.

[Nazgul]

Definitely Spiderman 3

[gorila]

The Neverending Story
The Great Escape

[stringerbell]

If I get to be in it...Debbie Does Dallas

[axel2k8]

Robocop 3 - New script, R-rating, Peter Weller
Wedding Crashers - Keep the wedding crashing of the first 20 min going, no love story
Sunshine - no Pinbacker, see what happens when they run out of oxygen

[Stumbling Block]

The Fantastic Four with Michael Madsen as Ben Grimm and Maria Bello as Sue Storm.

[solidstealth]

matrix reloaded and matrix revolutions

[hasselbrad]

Pearl Harbor
The actual attack was less than two hours long.
The movie was three. Why?
I'd base the entire film on the actual attack, the end would be FDR's speech and during the credits, footage of Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and finishing with Hiroshima... fade to black.

King Arthur
Keira Knightley would fight naked.

[Antonio141]

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

[pinballwizard]

The Stand, as big budget trilogy in theaters, with no book content edited, so it would be a hard R, an excellent, A-list cast, and make it genuinely scary unlike the miniseries. Think Willem Defoe or Dennis Quaid as villain.

Maybe Shane, but do a reverse play on what Leone did, and adapt Shane to Samurai genre. I think that could be cool.

Maybe remake It as well...

[ElderPredator]

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR

I could have made that film a masterpiece to the fans who love it such as myself.

[greenmachine]

King Kong vs. Godzilla

[Rick-James]

I'd remake the X-Men trilogy circa 1986.

The Uncanny X-Men Written & Directed by James Cameron.

Starring;
Michael Biehn as Cylcops
Rutger Hauer as Magneto
Bill Paxton as Iceman
Sigourney Weaver as Jean Grey
Lance Henriksen as Pyro
Angela Bassett as Storm
Linda Hamilton as Rogue
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Colossus
Ed Harris as Professor X
Jack Nicholson as Wolverine

[starcat]

That sounds more like the geriatric X-Men

I would remake...

Alligator - It's time to give this bitch some special effects
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
The Outsiders - just as an experiment to see if you could cast a bunch of unknown actors who would go on to be mega stars again
Red Dawn
American Ninja
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Blob - the '88 remake is one of the greatest remakes ever, but with todays special effects, with another good story it could be good again
Jaws the Revenge - bring in the voodoo guy who is pissed at Mike Brody so he calls sicks the shark on his family, the way it was in the book. Just to make it make a tiny little bit of sence
Cheerleader Camp - Just because
Chopping Mall - I think it could be even better than the original
The Running Man - loved Arnolds version... but I think it could use a revamp
Thrashin

[mutant_gorilla]

1. The Mummy 3, with Rachel Weisz and a good storyline....

2. The Mortal Kombat series, with Tony Ja as Liu Kang, Chris Evans as Johnny Cage, and Ray Park as Sub-Zero. Epic.

3. The Ring 2, making it actually scary, and actually having an eerie plot like the 1st movie. The short film "Rings" had a sweet plot that should have been expanded on.

4. X-Men 3, nuff said

5. Jurassic Park 3, again......nuff said.

[Sad man]

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

[Rick-James]

That sounds more like the geriatric X-Men


Maybe you didn't read the "circa 1986".

[Gordon]

Personally I'd make a cut short of NC-17 Science Fiction version of Citizen Kane.

[Robot]

matrix reloaded and matrix revolutions

That was my first thought entering the thread.

Fantastic 4
- I would keep the casting of Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans.

[fervors]

Stalker
Cool Hand Luke
Frankenstein
The Wizard of Oz
The Neverending Story



ARE YOU JOKING?

You guys are fucking bonkers. Nothing to be remade. And the reasoning of remaking films that are bad, it's still no excuse! If it's bad, it's bad. Leave it. Make something else. People will see all this and think it's a good idea....SHHIYSHH!

[SykkBoy]

Rollerball...but make it a Hard-R action flick.
All of the media and corporate mergers going on lately cries out for some serious social satire along with lots of violence, gore and ass kicking....

[Frosty_86]

Id remake all the Spiderman movies with different actors for Spidey and Mary Jane (Im just not to big of fan of either actor) eventhough I like the movies I can only give them a 7/10.
Id remake XMen 3; no killing off Cyclops and Prof. X (eventhough they had that little scene at the end of the credits) have Rogue not go through with the cure (which that was actually in the deleted scenes I think shouldve done that), develop Colossus more, and keep Nightcrawler, I I cant decide if Id have Beast in there or not, put Gambit in there, and instead of killing Jean have starting to learn to control the Phoenix, and develop some of the bad guys. Shit Id make the movie at least 2 1/2 just so I could get major plot points across and be able to put in the mutants that Id like to see
I was thinking about Alien 3 then I decided no because it shouldnt have been made in the first place.

[SoulOnIce]

I was thinking about Alien 3 then I decided no because it shouldnt have been made in the first place.

Amen to that.


Def Godzilla cuz that movie was horrible. Matthew Broderick??? Damn that was an abomination.

The Halloween remake was ass cheeks as well. I would like to remove the white trash, average acting and slow pace...would like to of seen what QT would've done with it.

[Jamesadin]

I would remake Jesus Christ Superstar. Man, that would be awesome.

[Orson-Cockart]

The Big Heat
Commando
Winchester '73

[BadCoverVersion]

I would remake Jesus Christ Superstar. Man, that would be awesome.

I love this flick.

[SAI]

There's a Korean movie about to open here called The Chaser, which Leonardo DiCaprio has already snapped up remake rights for, and it's a good choice, because film has a great premise, but very flawed execution.

These character descriptions contain what you might consider spoilers, though nothing major

So... The Chaser
Joong-ho [Ex-detective, now a pimp, searching for a girl of his who he fears has been kidnapped by a rival]: Josh Brolin. Joong-ho (or whatever that name changes to) is definitely around his late 30's or early 40's. He has to be quite physically imposing, able to be threatening, but also charming because he's the anti-hero.

Young-min [A serial killer who has murdered several of Joong-ho's girls]: Leonardo DiCaprio. This role would be a good one for DiCaprio because he can play on, and then utterly shed, his clean cut image. It's a part for the last person you'd think of as a serial killer.

Mi-jin [Young-min's latest, not quite dead, victim]: Marley Shelton. She has to be delicate, vulnerable looking, but able to fight back convincingly. She also has to be beautiful and old enough to have a seven year old daughter.

[Frosty_86]

Oh yea Id remake the Star Wars prequels, I dont think they were bad movies my ratings for Clones and Phantom Menace is 7/10 I would just correct what I thought was wrong with them, mostly my problem with the prequels especially the first two is that George Lucas made them too cute to try to appeal to kids and the fact alot of the dialogue was just plain bad.
With Phantom Menace I would not have Jar Jar either that or not make him the clutzy goof ball whose a complete idiot have him banished because he like starting mischeif instead of him being clumsy. Then I would make Anakin older instead of being that annoying kid, I dont know whod Id pick to play him cuz the only actor thats the same age as Hayden that is a good actor is Chris Evans but hes probably not right for the part but whoever it would be itd definantly be an improve

As far as The Attack of the Clones remove all the cheesy dialogue between Anakin and Padme have the love story just not be so damn corny

Revenge of the Sith, I really enjoy Revenge of the Sith (8/10) the only reason why I cant give it a 9/10 or even a 10/10 is the corny ass way Padme dies, a broken heart are you kidding me that is the one of worst peices of melodrama Ive ever seen. At least have her go out by some spy murdering her after she delivered the babies and then Obi-wan kills him in a really violent way.