Lydia72

The Thomas Crown Affair remake was good I thought.

Sticking with the Steve McQueen theme; it's not a modern thing, going back fifty years - The Magnificent Seven (1960), six years after Seven Samurai.

MickWrx

I thought War of the worlds was a briliant success, I know it was a remake of a 1953 classic but it did do it justice IMO.

stilover

Sorry, but that remake was utter sh!te

Leslie

I find it interesting that repeats of many of the old programmes are much more entertaining and of superior quality to most of the newly produced ones.

Les

New_scooby_04

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Friday 13th. Remake surprisingly entertaining!
Texas chainsaw massacre. Has this been remade; original was awful
Amiteyville horror. As above
Halloween. Remake of one was quite bold and not bad, remake of two was beyond ****e!
The hills have eyes. Haven't seeen either!
I spit on your grave. Saw the first one..... no intention of watching the remake!

mart360

Agreed, another "Cruise" vehicle. They had the oppertunity to make a cracking version, but turned it into a cgi fest, very poor.

Trouble is whoever they cast, was always going to struggle given most of us grew up with Jeff Waynes interpritation, and casting

The remake followed Well's book more closely, (Intro etc)

Mart

J4CKO

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Still waiting for Ghostbusters 3....

DCI Gene Hunt

Better than the original

"The Thing"
"Lord of the Rings"
"Scarface"
"Cape Fear"

skoobidude

Someone asked me once if I'd seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I knew they were referring to the remake as it had just been released.
I said that I'd seen the "original" and they looked at me gone-out not realising what they'd seen was a remake.
Fools!

oldsplice

I agree with 'Thomas Crown'. Thought the remake was good.

'War Of The Worlds'..........utter ****e, IMHO......the kid screaming all the way through it, got on my wick!

ronjeramy

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I've seen all of the above and enjoyed them, with the exception of I spit on your grave, though i think I need to be in the right frame of mind to watch that

mart360

I watched the original Thomas crown affair properly last year, and thought it was good.

The remake... well ive seen bits of it, but held off, until i'd seen the original

TBH I prefer the original,


Mart

ScoobyDriverWannabe

Not a remake bur Ridley Scott has apparently signed up to make Blade Runner 2

SJ_Skyline

The remake of "The Ladykillers" was sh1te beyond belief. those involved should hang their heads in shame

Bubba po

You're joking? How could it have been made better?

billyray911

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It depresses me watching the remakes sometimes.I love Carpenter films and every time a new remake gets made ie assault on precinct 13,Halloween,the fog etc,I want it to be good or compliment the original,but they just f@ck it up-almost every single time.
I know that Carpenter produced the remake,so i can only assume that money is the motivator for a lot of the remakes...
The hills remakes,I thought,were quite good.But the rape/revenge films like I spit and last house-well you can't polish a turd-they were of their time...
The most depressing is the remake of the evil dead announced recently-why???

DCI Gene Hunt

The trouble with a remake is that you've already had the "initial experience" through the original version so it has to be very, very good with mind blowing acting and special effects for it to be considered better than the original as the script will largely be the same.

skoobidude

Evil Dead? Nooooooooooooo leave it well alone!!!!!!!

myblackwrx

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Well Evil Dead 2 was a remake of the original,if they keep to the similar low budget and Bruce Campbell as Ash don't particular mind them re doing it.

Looking forward to the Thing as the original 50s and Carpenter versions were great imo think there was a rumour that they would be trying to use more physical special effects not completely CGI.

Carlh

A_Team was actually .... ok i thought
I aint looking forward to a reboot of spiderman, they're doing the same with superman. The whole DC universe has changed (updated with the times). Expect a reboot of every superhero. (its a way of making money go round along with capturing a newer audience i suppose)

D6ale

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I saw the re-boot of predator tonight on sky. At first I was worried that it would ruin the original but it was ok, quite good actually