Roxanne
Cyrano De Bergerac
A Fistful Of Dollars
Last Man Standing
Bladerunner
Bladerunner: The Directors Cut
Bladerunner: The Definitive Edition
Time to die.
The fast and the furious
Point break
All porn
All of the Taken films
White House Down > Olympus Has Fallen
By a country mile. OHF was dull as hell and seemed to take itself far too seriously. WHD was thoroughly enjoyable nonsense.
I thought Avatar was actually Dances with Wolves?
Anyway Braveheart and The Patriot
Roxanne
Cyrano De Bergerac
chapeau sir, not the most obvious retelling of a literary classic
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Wizard Of Oz.
Apocalypse Now.
[s]The Wizard Of Oz.[/s] heart of darkness
Apocalypse Now.
FTFY
EDIT - although now i think about it more, good call. never saw the similarities before!
The Hobbit 1,2,3
Lord of the rings 1,2,3
Willow
There are films that are basically a retelling of the same story, or source material, but with a diffent name like:
Heat & LA takedown (as previously mentioned)
The departed & Infernal affairs
Zodiac & Dirty Harry
Disturbia & rear window
A Fistful Of DollarsLast Man Standing
Both based on one of Kurisawa's i think...
Heat & LA takedown (as previously mentioned)
The departed & Infernal affairs
Seeing as they are remakes of the original 😉 (and yes my Thomas Crown one was a joke)
The aviator
Catch me if you can
Wolf of wall street
or at least Leonardo is basically the same character in them.
Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
While I'm back the second and third Matrix films
It's one film in 2 parts.
Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
in which case you can add Blow and Scarface to that list. all based (albeit loosely) on real people and follow a similar progression - underdog nobody rises through a life of crime, makes his fortune, gets farked up on too much chisel and all goes horribly wrong
Clueless
Emma
Taken
The Bourne Identity
Toy Story 3
Superbad
Kung Fu Panda
The Matrix
Slow West
Shop Girl
The Wedding Crashers
Face/Off
🙂
Point Break
Fast & furious
F&f is just a complete rip off
My kids have tormented me with these.
Antz - Bugs Life
Gordy - Babe
Bolt - 101 Dalmatians 2
Most sports films. Underdog becomes champion.
A Fistful Of DollarsLast Man Standing
Both based on one of Kurisawa's i think...
Yojimbo. Fistful of Dollars isn't so much a remake as a carbon copy - even down to the standoffs and the escape scene where the lead character crawls under boardwalks.
Heat & LA takedown (as previously mentioned)
LA Takedown was a sort of trial run for Heat. Seems a weird thing to do, but what do I know?!
the good dinosaur
the lion king
I absolutely [i]love[/i] Heat, but have never seen LA Takedown. Need to remedy that I think. 🙂
Escape from NY
Escape from LA
All of the Twighlight saga
Most JC-Van-D films
All Steven Segal Films
Wizard of Oz
Star Wars a new hope
Taken = Stolen
The 39 Steps / North by Northwest
Romeo and Juliet
Gnomeo and Juliet
Can't remember which was the original, as they're so similar, but suspect it's the one with lawnmowers.
Bad News (first)
Spinal Tap (Second)
The longest yard
Mean Machine
It's a remake of, so shouldn't be much of a surprise.
The original Mean Machine was always called The Longest Yard in the USA.
The Americans remade it as The Longest Yard, and then there was the British version with Vinnie Jones which they called Mean Machine, so there are 3 versions.
The Burt Reynolds one was the only good one.
Pale Rider
Shane
All of the spiderman movies.
The Iron Lady
Godzilla
Or seriously...
Battle Royale
Hunger Games
Rollerball (the original)/Whip It
EDIT: oh and good call re Wizard of Oz/Apocalypse Now, that's probably the best, most left-field call so far.
