Best Movie Remakes

[jonp]

A thread about movies got me thinking about the best movies remakes I've seen. I thought "3:10 To Yuma" with Russell Crowe was a decent movie.

Anyone else with their favorite or at least liked remakes?

[HWooldridge]

I thought the new "True Grit" with Bridges and Damon was good. The old one with John Wayne and Glen Campbell is a classic favorite but the newer one is also a good watch.

[higgins]

Another vote for the newer True Grit.

[NSB]

True Grit

[Targa]

Yep…True Grit and I will throw in the Magnificent Seven as well. I thought they were both pretty good.

[elmacgyver0]

I have rarely seen a remake that I liked as well as the original.
I guess they ran out of stories, so they have to rehash the old ones.

[725]

I'm with elmacgyver0. As good as the remakes can be, and they can be good, they just smack of a lower level of creativity.

[Beerd]

Monty Walsh with Tom Selleck is pretty good.
Never saw Lee Marvin in the original version.
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[Finster101]

Selleck's Monte Walsh was very good as was Crowes 3:10 To Yuma. Both being better than the originals in my opinion. The rest of the list above I will stick with the originals for my preference, but the remakes are entertaining, and I watch them if they are on.

[panhed65]

they did a remake of red dawn. far as I am concerned, it was not worth the time to watch.
Barry

[abunaitoo]

I thought "The Thing" remake was much better than the first one.
I like the first one, but the FX made the second spooky.
Another was "Cape Fear".
Robert Mitchum and Robert De Nero both made you hate them.

[scattershot]

Monte Walsh. I have seen both, and I think the new one is head and shoulders above the original.
3:10 to Yuma, too.

[derek45]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpRxj0QwgjY

[Mr Peabody]

I liked the remake of Point Break better than the first one

[wildwilly]

I enjoyed both versions of "Man On Fire", although the second version with Denzel Washington was much better with graphics.

[mtnman31]

The Last of the Mohicans remake, circa 1992 is preferable to the original. It's extra fancy, got sound and everything. The original, silent film, from 1920 is available on Amazon Prime.

[jonp]

The Last of the Mohicans remake, circa 1992 is preferable to the original. It's extra fancy, got sound and everything. The original, silent film, from 1920 is available on Amazon Prime.

Read the book and saw the movie but didn't know it was a remake. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the best actors out there.

[pworley1]

I think the Maltese Falcon with Bogart is one of the best remakes.

[Wag]

Another +1 on True Grit.

EDIT to add Ocean's Eleven. The George Clooney version.

--Wag--

[Sasquatch-1]

Not exactly a remake as a reboot, the Star Trek movies with Chris Pine (The Kelvin Line). Also, I am not a big Will Smith fan, but his remake of the Last Man on Earth and the Omega Man "I Am Legend" was well done.

[GregLaROCHE]

I preferred the original True Grit. I guess I’m just a die hard John Wayne fan. Man on fire with Denzel Washington, I really enjoyed. I’m still not sure if that was the best ending or not, but it sure was dramatic. I only saw the original years after the remake and wasn’t nearly impressed.

[Ickisrulz]

I liked the remake of Point Break better than the first one

I think you might be the only one to think that.

[Bent Ramrod]

I thought the remake of Planet of the Apes did a much better job of suspending disbelief than the original did. It wasn’t just the superior special effects and costuming; the acting was more believable too.

The same with True Grit. John Wayne did a good enough portrayal of John Wayne doing Rooster Cogburn, but when Jeff Bridges did Rooster Cogburn, you could almost smell him.

And that hard-boiled little girl in the remake was much more believable than the chirpy, cheery performance of the starlet (forget her name) in the first one.

But in general, movie remakes are so poor that I can’t even remember most of them. I didn’t see it, but when they announce that the reboot of Psycho was a megadud, I was not astonished.

[Hogtamer]

Robin Hood with Russell Crowe was well done, the archery equipment was spot on.

[Mk42gunner]

Stagecoach wasn't bad as a remake, after all it had Ann Margaret in it. I first saw it on TV as a kid.

Years later I saw the John Wayne version, and have to admit it is a better movie.

Robert

[Rapier]

Today, were it not for great previous movies and comic books there would be no 2022 Jollywood. Incredibly incompetent is a better title for an award.

[gwpercle]

Have they made a re-make of the 1953 Alan Ladd - Van Heflin movie " Shane "...
that has to be one of my favorites but I don't remember anyone redoing it .
I did a search but didn't see another .
Gary

[abunaitoo]

I've never seen 310 to yuma.

[Wag]

One movie they better not EVER remake is The Princess Bride. Guilty pleasure and if they mess with it, well..........

--Wag--

[JoeJames]

True Grit. I had read the book before I saw the first version, and was a bit disappointed in the first version. Second version was much better.

[HWooldridge]

I thought the remake of Planet of the Apes did a much better job of suspending disbelief than the original did. It wasn’t just the superior special effects and costuming; the acting was more believable too.

The same with True Grit. John Wayne did a good enough portrayal of John Wayne doing Rooster Cogburn, but when Jeff Bridges did Rooster Cogburn, you could almost smell him.

And that hard-boiled little girl in the remake was much more believable than the chirpy, cheery performance of the starlet (forget her name) in the first one.

But in general, movie remakes are so poor that I can’t even remember most of them. I didn’t see it, but when they announce that the reboot of Psycho was a megadud, I was not astonished.

You can dang sure smell “bear skin man”…LOL

[ChuckO]

On a comedic note, the remake of The Lady Killers with Tom Hanks is better than the Peter Sellers original. Then again, the Coen brothers always put strange twists on things.

[Beerd]

On a comedic note, the remake of The Lady Killers with Tom Hanks is better than the Peter Sellers original. Then again, the Coen brothers always put strange twists on things.

doubtful they could improve on the original Blazing Saddles :bigsmyl2:
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[Bigslug]

The 2021 Dune is a far better attempt at doing Frank Herbert's book justice than the 1984 effort - and they had the good sense to NOT try to fit the whole book into one movie.

[barnabus]

I thought "The Thing" remake was much better than the first one.
I like the first one, but the FX made the second spooky.
Another was "Cape Fear".
Robert Mitchum and Robert De Nero both made you hate them.

it didnt take much for me to hate denero as a communist liberal

[Finster101]

doubtful they could improve on the original Blazing Saddles :bigsmyl2:
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Twu, it's twu.

[jonp]

Twu, it's twu.
Is wat they say twu? It is, oh it is!!!!!

All hale Madelaine Kahn. Her character in this as the "Teutonic Tart" and in Young Frankenstine are epic. Watch a youtube of the legendary Gilder Radner playing Barbara Walters interview her as she plays the German Tart!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLRF7Lb-fOM

[Keyman]

1973 Papillion with Steve McQueen and Dustin Huffman was quite the story. The remake in 2017 helped explain some things missing in the original. Quite the real story. I think both need to be watched for full story.

[derek45]

doubtful they could improve on the original Blazing Saddles :bigsmyl2:
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It would impossible to remake that movie today

[1Hawkeye]

I'd like to see a remake of Sgt York I just hope that they do a better job than the jokers who did All quiet on the western front. We know so much more about Alvin York now than they did in 1941 he went from the hell of the Argonne to being the largest pillar in his community.

[Finster101]

I'd like to see a remake of Sgt York I just hope that they do a better job than the jokers who did All quiet on the western front. We know so much more about Alvin York now than they did in 1941 he went from the hell of the Argonne to being the largest pillar in his community.

I would like to see a more realistic portrayal of the man. They took great liberties with some of his story. Being struck by lightning being one of them. I also hate when actors can't or won't learn a dialect or accent properly. I grew up in Kentucky not all that far from York and the accents in the movie were horrible.

[1Hawkeye]

A remake of Blazing saddles using the cast from Robin Hood men in tights would work pretty good but I don't think they'd ever get it past the Hollywood sensors now a days. But o what they could do maybe a low rider wagon with spinning hubs or gang tats on Howard Johnsons outhouse:)