The Magnificent Seven-The Greatest Remake of The Finest Samurai Film evermade "Kurosawa's Seven Samurai" and also one of the greatest films ever.

Yes I have seen them all, and with the exception of The Fly, I hated them all. Scarface is the worst of the bunch though.

Fixed....there we go..yep, that's about right.

Dawn of the Dead hands down...one of my favorite movies. Sarah Polley

The Huston film "The Maltese Falcon" is an adaptation of Hammett's book. It is NOT a remake of "Satan Was A Lady", which was a piss-poor and completely unfaithful adaptation of Hammett to begin with.

Let's put it this way: 1995's "The Scarlet Letter", a total piece-of-shit adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne which took EXTREME liberties with the novel (Indian attacks? COME ON!!), was a disaster, even before you start dealing with the whole Demi Moore-As-Hester-Prynne angle. If I were to film an adaptation of "The Scarlet Letter" tomorrow, would I be (a) adapting Hawthorne's novel or (b) remaking the 1995 Demi Moore vehicle?

Adaptation of a non-film-originating work is NOT the same as remaking another movie.

If it's a remake, it will say "based on the screenplay by" in the credits. If it's based on the book, it will say that instead. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is another film based on the book and not the other movie.

Kong with The Thing a close second.

how is scarface a remake.

all it has in common is the word scarface.

Have you even seen the original (and superior) 1930s Scarface?

Whole plot points are lifted, including his turning on his former boss (who tried to have him killed) and his pseudo-incestuous infatuation with his sister. There are of course significant differences between, but to say that "all they have in common is the title" is a magnificent exercise in ignorance.

I have,
still I think not enough in common to be called a remake.
Thanks for not being insulting of my disagreement with your opinion.

Yours is certainly the minority opinion in that regard.

You announced that the 1930s "Scarface" and the 1980s "Scarface" share only a name and nothing else. Believe me, I was being kind.

Who called you a remake?

The Maltese Falcon

The Fly.

I haven't seen the original Departed or Ring.

Sometimes I can't understand people's tastes and think some people just act contrary towards popular movies in order to sound sophisticated. Every movie but one sucked? Wow, I don't think there’s a movie on that list that I wouldn't say is at least "good".

And the answer to the poll is (and always will be) "The Thing"

I also think "The Hills Have Eyes" remake deserves an honorable mention for being much better than the highly overrated original.

Same here

Don't some critics say that Alien was an unofficial remake of Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires. I watched a special on Bava and i think they brought that up. They mentioned that and then they mentioned Twitch of the death nerve getting ripped off by the 2nd Friday film.

And the first Friday as well.

Sunset Boulevard (loose remake of Dracula's Daughter)

I don't know if you're being serious, but I actually used to think that Gloria Holden and Gloria Swanson were the same person.

I think you're thinking of PLANET OF BLOOD (aka QUEEN OF BLOOD, 1966), directed by Curtis Harrington for AIP using footage from a Russian sci-fi film. Its plot has a lot more in common with ALIEN than PLANET OF VAMPIRES. The crew in PLANET OF BLOOD picks up a female alien who turns out to be a plant creature who thrives on blood and starts going after the crew one by one.

PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES involves a crew landing on a planet and each crewman dying and then being possessed by spirits of the now-dead inhabitants of the planet, called vampires in the English dub, but they're more like zombies. The idea of a now-dead ancient race on another planet recalls FORBIDDEN PLANET and Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles." Some of the possessed look and behave differently than others. There's even a trace of Campbell's "Who Goes There?" (THE THING) in it.