Favorite movie remake?
 

What is your favorite remake or re-imagining of all-time? I've listed a few in the poll, but there are so many others. Obviously, some of the remakes/re-imaginings have a different title than the original film.

I'll let you guys figure out that part on your own. :)

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Which "The Thing" is on the poll? If it's the 1982 remake, that's my choice.... 2011 remake not so much.

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Even though The Fly and many more on the list are some of my favorite films, I went with the Departed because its a favorite of mine and I think it improved upon the story without the benefit of a modern contrast.

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John Carpenter's The Thing. Easily.

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Yeah I should have clarified, some films have been remade more than once.
Oh well. In this case I was referring to the 1982 remake.

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While I like a lot of the remakes on that list, I still prefer the originals. I voted "other" and was thinking of John Huston's THE MALTESE FALCON (1941), the third version of that book made by Warner Bros. in a ten-year-period and the only one that's considered a classic.

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Can't really call the poll favorite remake of "All-Time" unless you wanna post every remake ever made. Should've been called "Favorite remake on this list". For me, it's a toss up between Cape Fear and Scarface. I chose Scarface though.

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comes down between a toss-up with The Thing and The Fly.

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The 2011 version isn't a remake, it's a prequel to the 1982 movie.

Anyway, I'll go with The Fly.

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The title makes it seem you can pick more than 1.

The Magnificent Seven, a great remake of a great movie.

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tough one between Scarface and The Departed. went with Scar.

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The Fly, with The Thing right behind.

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True dat. But it felt like a remake ;)

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John Carpenter's The Thing

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Scarface :thumbsup:

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Little Shop of Horrors.

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There are some good ones on that list, so I just went with the one I thought improved upon the idea of the original the most.

True Grit.

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True Grit and Casino Royale are not remakes though. TG is merely another adaption of the book, staying truer to it. And Casino Royale is a an actual adaptation of the book where the 1967 film was a satire film made only as such cuz it couldn't get worked out with Eon. It takes no real elements from that film.

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I voted other and am going with His Girl Friday. The best adaptation of The Front Page, but not the first.

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This exactly, the end of The Fly puts it over the top for me.

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Jackson's King Kong

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I was thinking the same thing ... I think most people don't even know what a "remake" is anymore. Just because it shares the title doesn't make it a remake.

Revisiting the source material is, to me, a borderline remake. While it isn't a true remake of the original movie, it is an attempt to revisit (and hopefully improve upon) the same story (IF the original movie was true to the source material -- Casino Royale was not).

Do people seriously think the newer The Thing is a remake of John Carpenter's The Thing?

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Not a remake. An amazing, practically perfect survival horror movie (and movie in general), but not a remake.

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It's a remake. Carpenter has admitted so while also using the source material. It's very much a remake.