What movie classics would you like to see have a Reboot film?

dsturgeon said:
arnold had the accent and was learning English and not good at it, and I think both the accent and bad English helped him out.

Jason has the Samoan laid back type of voice and attitude and it is just not the same.
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Yep, I like Samoa as an action star but he seems more like a guy that I would like to have a beer with rather than Conan. Arnold's limitations helped him at the time so it was a perfect roll for him.
 
So all the reboots and remakes and everything else over the last ten years or so....


have ANY of them been all that good?

I mean several have really stank it up like Ben Hur, Ghostbusters, etc.
 
None, I have yet to see one reboot or remake as good as the original, which made it a classic.

Going to find any actor to play George Bailey when Jimmy Stewart owned that? Going to get better than Gable/Colbert in "It Happened One Night" or Bogart/Hepburn in "The African Queen"? Guess is depends on how and what we classify as classics.

Could the advance of CGI and technical improvements make a movie better? I don't think so. "The Hobbit" would have been much better had Peter Jackson not leaned on CGI and taken the same road he did with "Lord of the Rings".

That is not to say I would not like to have seen the Star Wars saga take a different path but that was in writing more than anything else.

Watch the making of "Aliens" on Netflix's "The Movies That Made Us", it is a marvel of human creativity and ingenuity and if CGI had existed then, I am not sure it comes off like it did or that I would have the appreciation for it that I do now.

"Jaws" had the Bruce the Shark issues and that is apparent in some scenes and putting the actual footage of a real shark in it only serves to accentuate that but it is still a classic with those flaws.
 
dsturgeon said:
i don't know if you read the previous post, but I think I explained it better. Or at least how i compared the 2
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Yes, I was replying to that. Still disagree. I see where you're going with it but I would still encourage you to watch his Khal Drago character.

Don't get me wrong, love Schwarzenegger's version too, but you could do much worse than Mamoa as Conan.
 
CouchCoach said:
None, I have yet to see one reboot or remake as good as the original, which made it a classic.
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Would do you think about these Reboot- Remake over their original versions?

- The Fly with Jeff Goldbloom (over Vincent Price's the Fly version)

- Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1978) over 1956 version ... Geez, were there 3 different versions ?

- The Thing (with Kurt Russell)

- The Mummy ( Brendon Fraser)

- Titanic (Lenardo version over '1953 version)

- Chicago 2002 (over 1968 version)
 
VaqueroTD said:
Yes, I was replying to that. Still disagree. I see where you're going with it but I would still encourage you to watch his Khal Drago character.

Don't get me wrong, love Schwarzenegger's version too, but you could do much worse than Mamoa as Conan.
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George rr Martin lost my business when I waited 5 years for a book, and then he split it in 2 with the characters split, and didn't release the 2nd one for another 5 or something. I won't watch his show.

I bet he did make a good drago
 
quickccc said:
Would do you think about these Reboot- Remake over their original versions?

- The Fly with Jeff Goldbloom (over Vincent Price's the Fly version)

- Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1978) over 1956 version ... Geez, were there 3 different versions ?

- The Thing (with Kurt Russell)

- The Mummy ( Brendon Fraser)

- Titanic (Lenardo version over '1953 version)

- Chicago 2002 (over 1968 version)
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To be blunt I do not see any of them as being all that great; and none of them I would consider classics. Titanic was an idiotic love story built around the sinking; Invasion of the Body Snatchers was an interesting movie but not a classic; none of them.
The Fly? Vincent Price owns Jeff Goldblume. The Mummy- Brendan Fraser? SERIOUSLY? Now Kurt Russel I will give a little bit on as the Original Thing was not all that to be blunt.
 
How about big trouble in little China as a classic? I don't know if it made the top 10 movies of all time, but it has to be close. I don't think it could be made any better as a remake.
 
CouchCoach said:
None, I have yet to see one reboot or remake as good as the original, which made it a classic.

Going to find any actor to play George Bailey when Jimmy Stewart owned that? Going to get better than Gable/Colbert in "It Happened One Night" or Bogart/Hepburn in "The African Queen"? Guess is depends on how and what we classify as classics.

Could the advance of CGI and technical improvements make a movie better? I don't think so. "The Hobbit" would have been much better had Peter Jackson not leaned on CGI and taken the same road he did with "Lord of the Rings".

That is not to say I would not like to have seen the Star Wars saga take a different path but that was in writing more than anything else.

Watch the making of "Aliens" on Netflix's "The Movies That Made Us", it is a marvel of human creativity and ingenuity and if CGI had existed then, I am not sure it comes off like it did or that I would have the appreciation for it that I do now.

"Jaws" had the Bruce the Shark issues and that is apparent in some scenes and putting the actual footage of a real shark in it only serves to accentuate that but it is still a classic with those flaws.
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Some people actually prefer the remake of True Grit. I prefer The Duke's version myself, but I've heard people say they...sigh...I don't wanna say it again.
 
If anybody says Back to the Future, I'm going to suggest to the mods a ban. :laugh:

Some movies are just untouchable in my opinion.
 
SlammedZero said:
If anybody says Back to the Future, I'm going to suggest to the mods a ban. :laugh:

Some movies are just untouchable in my opinion.
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I wouldn't mind. They could recast everyone except for biff. They would have to cut and paste his scenes in
 
Runwildboys said:
Some people actually prefer the remake of True Grit. I prefer The Duke's version myself, but I've heard people say they...sigh...I don't wanna say it again.
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Lot better supporting actors overall in the new version. Kim Darby and Glen Campbell were pretty bad. But no one can match the Duke as Rooster Cogburn.

"Fill your hand you Sonuva*****"
 
terra said:
Lot better supporting actors overall in the new version. Kim Darby and Glen Campbell were pretty bad. But no one can match the Duke as Rooster Cogburn.

"Fill your hand you Sonuva*****"
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One of my favorite lines of any movie! KIm Darby and Glen Campbell weren't great actors, but I think the fact that they didn't refuse to use contractions in the dialogue more than makes up for that. I don't know why they chose to do that in the remake. I assume maybe it's historically accurate, I don't know, but I found it very distracting that they all spoke like Data.
 
quickccc said:
Would do you think about these Reboot- Remake over their original versions?

- The Fly with Jeff Goldbloom (over Vincent Price's the Fly version)

- Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1978) over 1956 version ... Geez, were there 3 different versions ?

- The Thing (with Kurt Russell)

- The Mummy ( Brendon Fraser)

- Titanic (Lenardo version over '1953 version)

- Chicago 2002 (over 1968 version)
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I think The Thing is about the only one that is definitively better.
 
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