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1. druidh - Member

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14991205

   But will they also re-do that plot-essential strip by Jenny Agutter?

   Posted 8 months ago #
2. Rorschach - Member

   NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

   Posted 8 months ago #
3. clubber - Member

   why not? with the caveat of so long as it's good.

   Posted 8 months ago #
4. Underhill - Member

   As long as they don't try & resurrect the tv show. My fond rose-tinted memories were cruelly shattered when I recently revisited it. Atrocious.

   Love the film though, hope they do it justice.

   Posted 8 months ago #
5. Rorschach - Member

   'Good remake'=Oxymoron.
   Case for the prosecution
   Italian Job.
   Tron.
   Planet of the Apes.
   Taking of Pelham 123.
   The Longest Yard.
   Day of the Jackal.
   Lady Killers.
   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
   Alfie.
   Get Carter.
   Errrr all the others.

   Posted 8 months ago #
6. john_drummer - Member

   case for the defence

   The Wizard Of Oz
   Scarface
   A Fistful Of Dollars
   The Magnificent Seven

   ok I'm not sure about #1...

   Posted 8 months ago #
7. Rorschach - Member

   or 4!!!!!! Kurosawa san would be most displeased.....
   Ohhh another
   Solaris (in its defence it is o.k)

   Posted 8 months ago #
8. CaptJon - Member

   Wasn't The Island essentially a remake of Logan's Run?

   Posted 8 months ago #
9. Drac - Moderator

   Tron.

   There was a remake?

   Posted 8 months ago #
10. Rorschach - Member

    Don't fret...you ain't missed much (apart from Olivia Wilde....mmmmm).

    Posted 8 months ago #
11. samuri - Member

    oooh hello.
    

    Proper woman shape.

    Posted 8 months ago #
12. samuri - Member

    Wasn't The Island essentially a remake of Logan's Run?

    Not unless I missed part of one of them.
    The island was about a colony of clones bred to provide spare body parts for rich people.....

    Posted 8 months ago #
13. Drac - Moderator

    Don't fret...you ain't missed much (apart from Olivia Wilde....mmmmm).

    I seen than one but that wasn't a remake.

    And yes now I see why there's some many people into IT if this is what programmes evolve to.

    

    Posted 8 months ago #
14. Cougar - Member

    'Good remake'=Oxymoron.

    The Fly.
    The Thing.
    Ocean's 11.
    Scarface.
    Dawn of the Dead.

    ... off the top of my head.

    Posted 8 months ago #
15. john_drummer - Member

    yeah The Fly was pretty good

    and wasn't "Forbidden Planet" a remake of "The Tempest"?

    Posted 8 months ago #
16. buzz-lightyear - Member

    I think why not remake logans run? but it must be very sexy with lots of pointless nudity. Sexy sci fi is what we need.

    Posted 8 months ago #
17. CountZero - Member

    There are some films deserve to be remade, as the original was often a crappy version of a good original story.
    Will Smith's I Am Legend is much better than the Chuck Heston Omega Man, for example, and Logan's Run was pretty cheesy; a re-make should be much darker. One film I desperately want to see remade is Damnation Alley. The book, by Roger Zelazney, is one of my all time favourites, in fact most of his books are, but the film sucked. Zelazney had all references to himself removed he was so disgusted with it. The studios couldn't cope with a Hells Angel for a hero, so changed him to a clean-cut American ex-military type. And the effects were also crap. It would look amazing now.

    Posted 8 months ago #
18. samuri - Member

    Gone in 60 seconds was pretty awful as a re-make but you know what? I kinda liked it. But then I am rather a big fan of Angelina.

    Posted 8 months ago #
19. Underhill - Member

    I Am Legend was so much not better than Omega Man

    Posted 8 months ago #
20. racefaceec90 - Member

    oh ffs!!

    Posted 8 months ago #
21. rOcKeTdOg - Member

    Is the guy at the back of samuri's curvy woman pic taking a leak in the potted plants?

    Posted 8 months ago #
22. billybob - Member

    This article suggests remakes aren't always a bad idea.

    However if a movie is already regarded as a classic then there is no point in remaking - abit like music.

    Posted 8 months ago #
23. z1ppy - Member

    Will Smith's I Am Legend & Chuck Heston Omega Man, both suck compared to the original book.
    The Smith one was at least entertaining until they turned it into a god squad movie, both totally lost the point of the book which is embodied in the title IMHO.

    I'd agree with the OP on this, though there are good remakes out there, can they not find a new stories to film instead or regurgitating movies from my childhood? It's bad enough they just keep stealing decent foreign movies and feel the need to remake them a year after they've been release (been going on forever I know, but even so).

    Posted 8 months ago #
24. DezB - Member

    if a movie is already regarded as a classic then there is no point in remaking

    This!
    Although it doesn't even have to be a "classic" - just not in need of a remake (The Hitcher, The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13 etc.. )

    Posted 8 months ago #
25. ohnohesback - Member

    Why don't they remake Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULHCwzIgEs8 or The Day The Earth Caught Fire? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4rHz7ENhtY

    Posted 8 months ago #
26. rOcKeTdOg - Member

    Zippy I am legend book+1

    Posted 8 months ago #
27. Cougar - Member

    TBH, you can say that of most films-of-books.

    Posted 8 months ago #
28. bigyinn - Member

    Anyone who has watched both versions of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" will know that remakes of even the most crappy B movies just don't work.

    Posted 8 months ago #
29. z1ppy - Member

    Cougar yes obviously, but at least some films try to follow the original story, not just completely pervert it... as in the I am legend's case, fricken god squad ending.

    Bigyinn, fair point...

    Posted 8 months ago #
30. Drac - Moderator

    The Thing.

    And now it's getting a prequel.

    Posted 8 months ago #
31. kimbers - Member

    DezB did you just imply the Thing is not a classic!!!!!!! that is heresey

    and i prefer Omega Man to I am legend

    Posted 8 months ago #
32. z1ppy - Member

    Indeedy Kimbers (re. the classic comment), though kind of muddying the water, "The thing" is a remake of "The Thing from Another World".. so not all remakes are bad, proving Cougar's point.

    Posted 8 months ago #
33. Cougar - Member

    "The thing" is a remake of "The Thing from Another World".

    That's what I was referring to, incidentally - I wasn't talking about the forthcoming remake / prequel.

    Posted 8 months ago #
34. PJM1974 - Member

    Crikey, I'd watch the shipping forecast if it had Christina Hendricks in it.

    Logan's Run would be a pointless remake, other than the clunky special effects, the story is sound. It's difficult to think of anything that the 2010s could bring to the script that the 1970s couldn't.

    Oh snd the DVD makes a fantastic 30th birthday gift.

    Posted 8 months ago #
35. mastiles_fanylion - Member

    But will they also re-do that plot-essential strip by Jenny Agutter?

    
    Isaw it over Christmas I think - they can't have realised there was boobage as it was in the middle of the day and they showed that scene.

    As a lifelong (think Bobby from Railway Children when I was an 8 yr old) fan, I was quite pleased.

    

    Posted 8 months ago #

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