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C'mon, you know those movies that you love, but you think could be better! Let's hear 'em!
I would love to see Ladyhawke remade. I just watched it tis evening for the first time; I absolutely loved it!!! Unfortunately, it was made in the 80s; in other words, bad music and special effects. I would love to see what modern special effects, and John Williams (or Howard Shore) could do with this movie.
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The movie version of Rain. Nothing like the book. The book was extradinary, it had this excellent feel to it... The movie version ruin it! And also Practical Magic. The movie sucked compared to the book!
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Didn't you get the news, Scott? They already have been. Direct to DVD release just about three days ago! Posts: 894 | Registered: Apr 2000
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The only way i'd ever want to see Ladyhawke remade would be if they got Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rutger Hauer to all do it again.
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The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything. It was a 1979/80(?) made for TV movie starring Robert Hays and Pam Dawber. I'd love to see a real remake; Clockstoppers was more a ripoff than a remake.
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"A Wrinkle in Time" was horrendously disappointing, mostly because the casting was dead on perfect (I thought). Would like to see the same cast with a radically different script and direction.
I would like to see Tom Hanks play the lead in remakes of several old Jimmy Stewart movies... just to see it.
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I would like to see LOTR remade... because you can never have enough Tolkien! And maybe they will actually get Denethor's character right! Posts: 4953 | Registered: Jan 2004
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I'd like to see every corny girl movie I've seen over the last five years remade into something remotely entertaining....oh wait, that isn't what you meant.
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I'd like to see the third Harry Potter remade by someone who realizes that it is part of a larger story and that there are elements of it that are too important to future events to leave out.
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The Postman. The book by David Brin is far, far superior to the movie, and is honestly one of my favorites. The movie does not follow the book's plot. At all.
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Starship Troopers With a cast that could act, and a script written by people who had actuall read the book.
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Annie, it's actually been out for a while. My wife and I picked it up a month or more ago. Though I guess that was through an LDS book store and not a mainstream source like amazon.
I thought it was pretty good too. I haven't seen much Mormon Cinema. Just "The R.M." which had several funny moments and wasn't too bad overall, and Brigham City which I really enjoyed. I am looking forward to seeing Saints & Soldiers and am curious about "The Best Two Years".
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Shame Jackson is remaking King Kong instead of doing the Hobbit movie... It would be so cool if they put Spider's Strategem by Dead Can Dance in that movie!!
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I would like to see a better Superman movie. Not so much a remake, as in the same exact scenes and dialogue, and not really a sequel or further adventure either. I would like to see Superman get the same treatment that Spiderman got.
And I would not like it to star Nicholas Cage.
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Honestly, I think the most recent Harry Potter movie is the worst of the bunch so far, though each has disappointed for different reasons. So no, I wouldn't like to see a Cuaron version of this.
Okay wait, I take it back. The second one was the worst of the three.
No. No. The third one was.
Actually, I was right before. The second one was the worst. But I still would not like a Cuaron remake.
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Yep, Starship Troopers needs to be remade... this time with the armored suits... I had hoped to see them making the big jumps... but old Verhooven just made a hash of it.
And they need to let Tim Burton remake all of the Batman movies that were done after his. Get rid of all that day-glo nonsense.
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I'd like to see them remake Clear and Present Danger in a way that doesn't involve the person who is supposed to become Attorney General dying in Columbia. Then they could complete the Jack Ryan series in movie version instead of reenvisioning him as a low-level analyst.
And for Clark not to be a mercenary. Bad, horrible changes.
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I haven't seen it, but I seem to have heard good things about it. What was wrong with it? Disappointed your Angela Lansbury fetish? j/k Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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I didn't see it either, but the plot overviews told me all I needed to know. They had something going with the Persian Gulf War, and then the "Manchurian Corporation?" What's with that? The trailers gave the impression that they were changing everything, but the name, which is a real shame because The Manchurian Canidate really could have been updated, especially when the original was not been widely scene.
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I'd love to see Arsenic and Old Lace redone, if it was done well. I love the original, but it would be fun to see what a director today could do with it.
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Yeah, although I enjoyed Starship Troopers - don't ask, I was young and foolish, now I'm old and... - I'd like to see a remake of it. And definitely with jump-suits this time.
And Dune. Although I realize that sadly there's no way one can put that book/series into a movie without losing much of its flavour...
King Arthur. Actually, it's been done one time too many... I just saw it yesterday, and although I'm a great admirer of... - err... don't know her name but you know who I'm talking about! - I think the overall efect of the movie was one of "been there, done that". Braveheart, Patriot, 13th Warrior, all of these and more seem to be quite of an inspiration for the battles and the history in itself.
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I think a new Wizard of Oz might be interesting to see. It would be hard to replicate that though. The original one was such a classic.
I'd also like to see such classics as The Blob, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Dracula, etc. Only without combining them into one terrible Hugh Jackman film with too many special efects.
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How about fixing recent travesties such as Matrix:Revolutions, and Starwars EP: I and II ? So add my votes to these since they've already been noted
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How about the movie Explorers only without the ugly, annoying Aliens at the end.
Seriously though, that movie is so awesome right up until that point. It has adventure and discovery, challenge and drama, then it just gets stupid. Make the aliens a tad bit more benevolent and faaaar less bumbling, and it'd be a movie worth watching over and over.
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There is a Dune remake, it was a 6 hour+ tv miniseries, and they did an amazing job with it in my opinion. I don't think a movie remake could really beat it, simply becuase movies tend to be limited to 3 and a half hours at most and you can't nearly fit enough of Dune into that time span.
There are a lot of movies that could seriously use being remade as ultra-high buget Tv mini-series. Kinda like Band of Brothers, that was one awesome TV series. Now we just need a Harry Potter one, that actually does it well... 6 - 10 hours per book Posts: 3295 | Registered: Jun 2004
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I thought the Dune miniseries was excellent. I've read the book(s) many times, and each time I come away with different revelations.
Plot and story aside (shudder), the major problem with the movie was the casting. Kyle McLachlan was absolutely the wrong choice to play Paul Atreides; when I first heard about the David Lynch movie being made, starring Sting, I (and everyone else I knew) assumed that Sting would be playing Paul. Then the movie came out and he was...Feyd Rautha? And Paul was a guy with perfect hair? What the hell?
The actor who played Paul in the miniseries at least looked like he had spent some time in the desert.
And the whole mystical internal dialog stuff that works well on the page and not at all on the screen... Posts: 173 | Registered: Jun 2002
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quote:Unfortunately, it was made in the 80s; in other words, bad music and special effects.
So says you little Miss Thang. You may not like it, but those of us who watched this movie as kids or young adults have other opinions on the subject.
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Super Mario Brothers - the most poorly done video game movie of them all... so much more could be done with it
The second and third Matrix movies - not just redone... completely replotted.
12 Angry Men - not because the original is bad, but because the original is too old for most people to appreciate it
Dune - both the movie and the miniseries were fairly bad. It could benefit from the sort of special effects used in Sky Captain.... and from a little less hollywood influence on the story.
The Phantom of the Opera - and it IS being remade! Hooray!
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