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ongoiing topic since booyeah posted last starfighter being remade, post if you have some examples, feel free to post what in your opinion is best genre defining or started the genre.

pink panther=bad remake

3:10 to yuma=good remake

the matrix=slow mo fight scenes
 
The Good Movie Remakes:
The Thing
The Fly
Scarface
The Thomas Crown Affair
Cape Fear
Night of the Living Dead (1990 version)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005 version)


The Bad
Flight of the Phoenix
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Any horror movie remake
Planet of the Apes
Bad News Bears
 
Alright:

Yojimbo is one of my favorite films of all time and has been remade on countless occasions. It is essentially based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest, where a name-less protagonists pit rival gangs against each other to wipe them out. Anyway here are a brief list of the remakes.

1. A Fist Full of Dollars: More of a complete rip off than remake it is the film that cemented Sergio Leone as a great director and at the same time created the spaghetti western sub genre. Akira Kurosawa, the director of Yojimbo, actually sued Leone over the film and one...it was that close. While not as good as the original, it's still a good movie.

2. Youth of the Beast: Seijun Suzuki's take on the Yojimbo plot. It's not exactly cohesive, which was the point, but still makes for a interesting film.

3. Last Man Standing: This on stars Bruce Willis and it's not a good movie.

4. Lucky Number Slevin: This one is just alright...not exactly remembered, but better than Last Man Standing.

5. Sukiyaki Western Django: More of an over-the-top satire than a straight up remake. Campy and pretty fun, that and it has Quentin Tarantino acting in it.
 
The Magnificent Seven is a pretty kick-___ remake of The Seven Samurai.

Mr. Deeds wasn't really a bad movie, but it definitely didn't live up to the original.

The Fly is a fantastic movie (I first saw it when I was 6 years old, so it also has a lot of nostalgia for me)

The Thing was actually meant as a half-remake, half-sequal--the original had them freeze the alien in the block of ice that they bring back to the base. If I had to pick one, this encapsulates all that a great horror movie should be.

The Italian Job was a pretty good remake. It definitely maintained the classic feel of a heist movie, and Edward Norton never fails.
Mark Wahlberg does, though.

There's a new Nightmare on Elm Street coming up; I have really good feelings about it. They went against using Robert Englund, the classic Freddy, and are bringing in Jackie Earle Haley (better known as The Watchmen's Rorschach). I don't think he'll let the franchise or fans of the original down. The writers (one of them wrote the Cape Fear remake, the other is/has writing/written a prequel for The Thing) seem like solid picks. The director directed the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit, and has probably 50 other music videos to his name. He hasn't ever directed a feature film though.

(ooh, that was...wordy.)
 
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Surprised no one mentioned The Latest King Kong Remake,

I think it is as good as the original, maybe a little better.
 
General Sanders said:
It's certainly not a GOOD movie, but watching it doesn't inspire people to destroy every copy of it. It's kind of just there.
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I would. Whose with me? We find and destroy every copy of that film before it can do more harm. It would be like that book Lullaby, but we are destroying something more dangerous.
 
Noise964 said:
Surprised no one mentioned The Latest King Kong Remake,

I think it is as good as the original, maybe a little better.
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remake of an original but there was a remake before it so actually the 3rd incarnation. Saw the one with jeff bridges on the big screen as a kid and man did it scare the bejesus outta me but as far as ground breaking goes, the original wins hands down.

Jarrod_38 said:
The Good Movie Remakes:
The Thing
The Fly
Scarface
The Thomas Crown Affair
Cape Fear
Night of the Living Dead (1990 version)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005 version)


The Bad
Flight of the Phoenix
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Any horror movie remake
Planet of the Apes
Bad News Bears
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contradictory right there but agree with that list for the most part, imo as has been touched upon numerous times by many people, dawn of the dead is great movie but actually more of a re-imagining
 
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