jeffkjoe

For me, my vote goes for:

ABOUT LAST NIGHT - The original with Rob Lowe was an average movie at best. The fact that we now have an all-African American cast does not justify that it needs to be re-done.

jeffkjoe

Awww, crap. I realize there's a thread similar to this one. Forget it, folks. Nothing to see here.

Jay G.

So you think they should only remake good movies? That there's no chance a remake of an average movie could improve upon it?

Ash Ketchum

The 1994 THE GETAWAY with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. It was a word-for-word, shot-for-shot remake of Peckinpah's 1972 film with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, which was already fine as it was. What was needed was a new adaptation that stays close to Jim Thompson's book, in which the two lead characters are out-and-out sociopaths.

Rockmjd23

Psycho (1998). I'm not opposed to the idea of a Psycho remake, but doing it that way was completely unnecessary and idiotic.

DaveyJoe

The Amazing Spider-Man

jeffkjoe

Good point. But I think there isn't that much meat to work from ABOUT LAST NIGHT.

Solid Snake

Interesting. I'll need to read the book now.

Why So Blu?

Evil Dead
Nightmare on Elm St.

Dan

I still can't believe anyone thought it was a good idea to make this one.

Supermallet

Solaris.

bluetoast

Probably Funny Games, considering it's a shot for shot remake by the same fucking person.

Hokeyboy

Recently? Carrie. It barely added anything to the original classic except for a whole bunch of unconvincing CGI. And no Edie McClurg-laced Phys Ed montage either

Was there any point of Demme remaking Charade as The Truth About Charlie? He did bring a sense of Euro-style but the subject matter was still lightweight 60s Hitchcock-lite, and the leads were dead-behind-the-eyes bad (Thandie Newton and Marky Mark vs. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant? Good fucking luck...)

Either way, I'd much rather see a remake of a shitty/mediocre movie and make it better rather than taking a classic (or much loved) movie and remaking it because of "brand recognition" (Total Recall, Robocop, Fame, etc.)

PhantomStranger

Except the remake is infinitely more watchable than the original.

inri222

The Vanishing
Diabolique
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Birdcage
Pulse
Halloween
Breathless

Supermallet

Soderbergh is one of my favorite American filmmakers, but Tarkovsky was on another level entirely.

Groucho

Apparently they remade "The Bunker" (with Sir Anthony Hopkins as Hitler) as "Downfall" with Bruno Mars.

stvn1974

Star Trek Into Darkness

Josh-da-man

The only memorable meat in the original was Demi Moore's tits.

Why So Blu?

Shit, dude is everywhere!

GoldenJCJ

I appreciate the fact that they wanted to make a shot-for-shot remake and that actually would have been a film "experiment" I would have been interested in seeing but then they decided their shot-for-shot remake should include new shots, as if they thought they were improving the original somehow.

So not only did it not work as a shot-for-shot remake it didn't even work as a re-imagining. Those fuckers failed on several levels.

MrSmearkase

We did get some pretty decent Basinger nudity out of The Getaway, though.

inri222

I agree 100%

The reason for that is Soderbergh's film sticks closer to the book while Tarkovsky took ideas from the book and made his own film.
Just like Steven King was pissed at Kubrick, Stanislaw Lem was pissed with what Tarkovsky did with his material.

J. Farley

Black Christmas and The Hitcher.

hanshotfirst1138

I hope not, one of my favorite remakes is The Magnificent Seven.