Remake You Would Like To See

hey.

i kind of want a remake of To Kill A Mokingbird.
we just read it in class and watched the movie - it's great, but i would like to see a newer version. anyone agree?
 
*Hmm* Interesting. I don't know. I'd have to see it i guess. Or at least a trailer for it. I don't know if anyone could (sucessfully) modernize "West Side Story".

Usually i see remakes and just... *shudder* Especially of classics. Know what i mean? Anyone else understand what i'm talking about?
 
coming this fall more remakes....:(..........out of all the originals listed below...the only one i've missed so far has been 'taxi'...can't say it loud enough....just say no to remakes..........






NINE QUEENS (2000)

THE ORIGINAL: The feature debut by Argentina's Fabian Bielinsky is the most cunning piece of cinematic misdirection since The Spanish Prisoner. Opportunity knocks for two Buenos Aires con men -- veteran Marcos (Ricardo Darin) and newbie Juan (Gaston Pauls) -- when a fellow swindler offers them the chance to sell a forged set of rare stamps. The double crosses come fast and hard as Marcos and Juan try to keep the not-so-perfect plan from unravelling.

THE REMAKE: Criminal, out Sept. 24. The action moves from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles. John C. Reilly is the vet and Diego Luna is the protegé. Director Gregory Jacobs was a longtime assistant director to Steven Soderbergh, who co-wrote the script with Jacobs and co-produced the film with George Clooney. Will this solid pedigree yield another Out of Sight or a Welcome to Collinwood?

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: The original's flat visual style betrays its modest budget. Chris Menges -- who shot The Good Thief, Neil Jordan's fine remake of Bob le flambeur -- is bound to gussy it up.

ADVERSE EFFECT OF AMERICANIZATION: There'll be little room for Nine Queens' sly subtext about Argentina's economic woes.



TAXI (1998)

THE ORIGINAL: A blockbuster in France, this car-chase pic may be as boneheaded as any Hollywood actioner but the vehicular stunts are far wilder (and realer) than anything in The Fast and the Furious. This buddy comedy pairs an unusually skilled cabbie with a clumsy cop, but the real star is a kitted-out Peugeot, which comes in handy when the Marseilles police force tries to take down a bunch of Mercedes-loving German bank robbers.

THE REMAKE: Taxi, out Oct. 8. The cabbie gets a change in sex and race in order to accommodate the ever-popular Queen Latifah. A Bringing Down the House-like education in realness awaits Jimmy Fallon as the cop.

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: No more French hip-hop. Plus, the banter can't be any worse in English -- can it?

ADVERSE EFFECT OF AMERICANIZATION: Say goodbye to the scene in which a car smashes into a boulangerie; Hollywood prefers to demolish patisseries.



SHALL WE DANCE? (1996)

THE ORIGINAL: In Masayuki Suo's charming Japanese hit, a depressed accountant (Koji Yakusho, a regular in the sinister movies of Kiyoshi Kurosawa) finds new inspiration after he enrolls in a dancing school. The social stigma surrounding ballroom dancing in Japan is one reason why he conceals the pursuit from his family. The other is his attraction to his teacher.

THE REMAKE: Shall We Dance?, out Oct. 15. Richard Gere now plays the harried accountant and Jennifer Lopez is the teacher. The resumé of director Peter Chelsom (Serendipity, Town & Country) inspires less confidence than his birthplace, Blackpool. As we learned from the original and from Strictly Ballroom, the English resort town is the international mecca of ballroom dancing, which is exactly why the movie is set in Chicago.

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: Not much.

ADVERSE EFFECT OF AMERICANIZATION: The disappearance of a reason for the accountant's shame. According to the Japanese version's prologue, "The idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing." The abundance of Girls Gone Wild videos proves Yanks aren't embarrassed about anything.



JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2003)

THE ORIGINAL: This Japanese horror movie does for real estate what Ringu did for videotapes. In Takashi Shimizu's film (itself adapted from a TV series), supernatural nastiness befalls anyone who comes into contact with a house that was the site of a violent crime. Don't get too attached to the living characters -- the real protagonists are the angry spirits, a.k.a. Creepy Cat Boy, Crawling Spider Lady and the Black Blob Thing. You will not be happy to see them.

THE REMAKE: The Grudge, out Oct. 22. Producer Sam Raimi wisely enlisted Takashi Shimizu to direct. The setting also remains in Japan, now the home of an American heroine played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. The possibility of seeing Gellar in a smart horror pic is tantalizing to her Buffy fan base.

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: Though the original's incoherent narrative actually works in its favour, it would be nice to have a character who isn't dispatched immediately.

ADVERSE EFFECT OF AMERICANIZATION: Pervy viewers will be disappointed with the scarcity of Japanese schoolgirls, though Gellar's shower sequence seems like fair compensation.
 
Hmm. I never thought of it that way.

Still, I have found some remakes to be just as interesting as the originals.

Also, remakes often introduce a new audience to the original. A lot of people who got to the remakes (for whatever reason) don't even know that it is a remake, or have never seent eh original, so they have nothing to wich to compare the remake.
 
Great minds! :lol: I thought of this place too!

I'm interested in a remake/reinvention but I'm nervous at the same time. :nod: Let's hope it's at least decent! Hee.
 
Remaking The Crow? What Brandon Lee is The Crow and why don't they leave it at that for gosh sakes. I don't think I could watch a remake of that one.
 
Sounds good. Liam Neeson has signed on to be Zeus and Ralph Fiennes is Hades. Not sure how I feel about the unknown director, but I like that Lawrence Kasdan is doing the screenplay.

The news about Earle Haley as Freddy is interesting. But the directing and writing behind Nightmare... well, it doesn't sound so hot. Whenever I hear the phrase 'music video director' attached to a film it is usually bad news. For those who have not seen the original Nightmare on Elm Street series, I would recommend seeing parts 1 & 3. IMO those were the best because of the continuity with the Nancy character.
 
They should remake Johnny Tremain - its one of my favorite books ever & it had such a bad movie in the 1960s.

Also should be remade:
How to deal BUT just as 2 separate movies (The movie was based off of 2 different books!!!!)
 
Hmm... With the special effects that they have now, "The Fly" could be really amazing. I wonder who they would get to play the fly, though?
 
I heard that there will be a remake of Clash of The Titans and the lead guy is Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation, Avatar). This could be very intriguing.

I like a Japanese film to be remade by Hollywood - Death Note. As much as I hated any Hollywood remakes of foreign films, I believe that Hollywood can do a fine job interpreting this cool story. Plus, the Japanese film is so bad and didn't do the anime and manga justice.
 
What Profaine Angel said - although I have to add the one exception, which is Tortilla Soup. It was much more engaging than the original, Eat Drink Man Woman.

But that's the only exception I've ever found.

As for books - I don't consider those remakes and feel that a close adaptation versus an interpretation is not necessarily a remake, or vice versa.
 
i think they should do a remake of Fiddler on the Roof, but a little more porfessionally than the movie and maybe with some big name jewish actors like Barbra could play the mother .... etc. i think it would reach alot of people!!
 
They remake the good movies because they figure that if they made money the first time (or whatever) then they will make money this time, too. Which sometimes proves right, and sometimes proves wrong.

I guess they don't have enough imagination to figure out what was wrong with the bad movies, and since they can't figure out what was wrong, they can't fix it. :lol:
 
Dude, I just read about this today and I instantly thought of our discussion in this thread! :lol: How crazy is that? I honestly never thought they'd ever remake The Crow, but it goes to show, you never know. I heard Norrington said his take will be "almost documentary-style", so I'm definitely intrigued, to say the least. I hope it at least matches the dark, grittiness of the original.
 
I heard part of a bit a comedian did on the radio the other day and the gist of it was...why does Hollywood remake the GOOD movies? They should remake the BAD ones and try to get it right this time. :D
 
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