Are remakes ever as good?

[Yume-chan]

Are these not just two films based on the same historical event?

 

[guitarplayer180]

Best remakes

Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Fly

Worst remake by a country mile

KING KONG (1976)

 

[Between the Trees..]

The new Ladykillers was good.

 

[*Angel]

I think most films that are straight remakes will not live up to the standard of the first film, however if the 'remake' is not a remake of the film but has gone back to the source material (book, comic) or is re-interpreting the concept than it will have a chance of being alrigfht

 

[Terry]

I liked the remakes of the fly and the Texas Chainsaw massacre. Most remakes are rubbish though

 

[friendly older kid]

That's right. Only the first few minutes of Evil Dead 2 count as a remake. Apparently, Sam Raimi couldn't get the rights to use clips from the original film, so he refilmed the salient scenes with just Ash and Linda.

 

[stewies_grl93]

Mchael Mann actually had the budget to do a proper version with the movie Heat (LA Takedown was a low udget TV movie - also directed by Michael Mann)

I alway think "Nikita" (the french film by Luc Besson) was so much better than the remake "The Assassin" (also by Luc Besson). He was given a budget and the film was in english but it never really had the spark. Sometimes you just can't improve on perfection.

 

[Gmathan]

Luc Besson didn't direct the remake of Nikita, that was John Badham.

 

[frnds]

The remake of the Italian job was not as good as the original-I would like to see a remake of Brief encounter though