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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.

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No, but the new True Grit has the exact same plot as the old True Grit. How is that not a remake?

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Casino Royale isn't a remake.

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Well "other" was a poll option, so you could have named any remake you wanted to, it didn't have to be any of the films listed. :shrug:

But yeah it's a pretty vague poll, it's all over the place :lol:

I should have tightened it up. :sad:

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True Grit...same characters, same plot. That's a fucking remake.

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Evil Dead II

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Honestly, I haven't seen either version and I'm not familiar with the source material. It sounds like a remake to me!

Another example of "returning to the source material" is Planet of the Apes. Tim Burton's is a revsiting of the source material. There are enough core differences between the two films that you cannot call the more recent a "remake." (Yet neither is still really close to the source material beyond the concept.)

On a side note ... can anybody tell me the story of why the new The Thing was titled The Thing? Why did they not select a different title to better distinguish the two?

(BTW, I voted "other" ... I'm not big on remakes, but I am partial to Dawn of the Dead.)

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It is NOT a remake. It's based on the same story as the 1951 movie, more closely based, but it's not a remake.

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That is such a slippery slope distinction to make. By your definition, a remake can only exist of a film with an original script. In theory, every film that remakes a film that is an adaption of a play or novel, is revisiting the source material unless they don't hire a new screenwriter and shoot off the original film's script (Psycho remake falls into this category).

If you want to narrowly define "remake" like that, I can get on board with it. But, if that's the case then any film that is based upon a film adaptation cannot be called a remake. This would include the recent Straw Dogs (original was an adaptation), which went so far as to replicate the original film's poster...but, cannot be considered a remake under your rubric.

The Departed is still a remake. Cape Fear is not.

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No question.

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I think to keep it simple, a remake should simply be defined as a movie that very closely follows the plot of a movie made in the past. Perhaps they have different names (The Departed/Infernal Affairs) and perhaps some plot points are slightly different, but if they're essentially the same movie but with different actors and possibly an updated/more modern tone, then it's a remake. Take the new Karate Kid movie...I haven't seen it so I don't know all the specifics, but even if it's not exactly the same as the original, it's still about a kid who betters himself by learning karate from an older man.

That would make it much simpler and we wouldn't have to squabble about what's TECHNICALLY a remake vs a different adaptation of souce material.

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Don't know where you got that. The Thing isn't a remake. Let's say there's a story. A movie is made from that story. Then, a few years later, another film is made. The first movie was based on the story. The second movie was also based on the story, but followed the story more closely. This second movie, by definition, is an adaptation. This is the case with the 1982 Thing.

Of course, you could watch the first movie and think that you could improve on it, so you make the movie over again. THAT is a remake.

John Carpenter himself has said that his Thing movie wasn't a remake because "I couldn't imitate it." So, he made a version of the story the first movie was based on.

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If I went with this, The Thing 2011 could definitely be counted as a remake(pre-make?). But then again, The Thing 2011 shouldn't even be mentioned in a favorites thread unless it's your favorite shit stain.

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Well it looks like we could try to define remake all day. I knee-jerk chose Casino Royale (over Fly & Thing) merely because the orginals of those 2 were good too but in the case of CR, it's 'remake' was a 100% improvement.

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And that's because they're based on a book. The Coen film doesn't base itself on the classic Wayne film. I think it takes the eye patch from it, did Cogburn have an eyepatch in the book cuz I've forgotten.

In film, a remake is a film basing itself on a previous film as it's source material. The Coen film didn't. Casino Royale didn't. Their source text was the literature. So merely another adaptation.

The Thing, prequel, plays it in a cheap way. It's a prequel because it leads to the film we love. But...it does it by essentially remaking moments from Carpenter's film. But it's dominantly a prequel by it's narrative.

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guess gonna have to watch that 2011 Thing remake, and i thought it looked kinda silly :shrug: what do u know