Name A Remake Better Than Original?

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The movies portray them as such, they share that much in common, i.e flesh eaters. If they are flesh eaters, well they're going to have to catch their prey somehow aren't they? Stumbling around isn't going to help is it.

And funny, Resident Evil 4 incorporates faster zombies into the series and that was the best RE game to date. I hear the Res Evil 5 will feature zombies that are intelligent and run fast. Guess they are upping their game to make it more exciting as well as horrific/scary.



I can't think of another remake that is better than it's original, but I'm dreading the Battle Royale remake being made in the US. That's the worst kind of remake in my opinion, SouthEast Asian horror remakes.
 
I am racking my brains trying to think of a film remake that was better than the original. Yes, you can do lots of tricks with CGI nowadays but that doesn't necessarily make the film better.

- Can anyone actually name a film?
 
If I might stick my two pennorth in - I think zombies work either way.

That slow, relentless pursuit as in the original Dawn of the Dead is very effective, in my opinion. There's just an awful inevitability about it. Run as fast you like, those zombies just aren't going to stop.

Of course, the humans in zombie films always make the fatal error of looking over their shoulder and tripping over a tree root when they're running away.

I've not seen the remake of Dawn of the Dead, but the zombies 28 Days Later where considerably more athletic than any I'd seen before and they were effective in an entirely different way.
 
They aren't Zombies in Resident Evil 4..... :rolleyes:

Resident Evil Zero and the original are also great games, superb since they got the Gamecube treatment.

As another poster mentioned, just because they run fast, doesn't mean they are more scary. Tension and suspense can be created at a slow pace.
 
Absolutely. Also, a major theme of Romero's films was the humans being overcome by the shuffling (almost harmless) zombies because they shut themselves away from the growing problem, only to find they couldn't live or work together in their 'safe' communities. The zombies were just a MacGuffin while the main story was the humans characters' self-destruction.
 
For me what really worked in DotD (2004) was the utter nihilism of it, the feeling that wherever you went the ZeRAB were there ready to jump out and get you. Fast Zombies aren't new, the Return of the Living Dead had fast ZeRAB.

The Fly is a great call (The Fly 2 as well), not sure about War of the WorlRAB, it was a big disappointment for me, I prefer Independence Day as a retelling of the HG Wells story, Godzilla was a good choice too, although I like the originals charm.

On bad remakes - The Time Machine, utter loblocks.
 
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Says your opinion.



excellent comment.

we all like different films for different reasons. no opinion is better then another's.

dare i say ive always loved star trek, everything about it - the movies, the next generation, etc - all of it except the very original itself (well - Enterprise was dire). thats sacrilige to some ears - but thats just my opinion.

i think the remake to dawn of the dead was good and very well done. but i prefer the original - just because i loved the whole lonleness aspect of it all - being the only ones left in a great shopping mall was just great! i didnt think the remake caught that aspect very well - but the zombies where much more a threat in the new version. again - thats just my opinion!
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You're JOKING aren't you??? Same goes for you who said Frankenstein, Thomas Crown Affair, The Thing, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. DOTD remake was enjoyable enough but very shallow throwaway stuff - wouldn't watch it twice. The original is a true classic.
Agree that The Fly was an excellent remake that was better than the original. The Fly 2 was a bad film, but then again it was probably better than the original Return of the Fly - not really a remake though. Loved the Roland Emmerich Godzilla - I thought the first third was a remake of the original Godzilla, the middle bit was stolen from Jurassic Park, and the last third was a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
WOTW and King Kong were superb remakes, but then the originals are classics as well, so difficult to say "better".
 
I totally agree. Some people generally close their mind to older movies, and feel "present day" updates are the best way to relate to them.

Next he/she'll say Planet of the Apes remake was far superior to the 1969 original! :rolleyes:
 
DepenRAB on what you mean by older, I much prefer the Cushing/Lee Hammer versions of Dracula and Frankenstein to the Karloff/Lugosi originals.

btw the Planet of the Apes remake was utter rubbish.

The problem many original films have is they date, the original Dawn of the Dead just doesn't have the impact it did in the 70s, there are a lot of rose tinted glasses being worn.
 
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