Movies that you don't think could work as a remake?

[Bojangles]

I've thought about this before and there are just some movies I think simply couldn't be remade for the better. Now, I'm willing to give all remakes a shot; no matter how much I love the original. I try to view all remakes with open eyes. However, I have thought of some movies that I just think could not work as a remake.

JAWS

This has one of the most realistic Sharks I have ever seen in a movie. When they remake this (you know they will) I already know that they will be changing the awesome shark we all know and love into a cartoon. I already know they won't go through the trouble of making a shark. Instead, the shark will be nothing more than a computer generated image. I can't stand GGI, so that movie most likely just wouldn't work with me. How can you be afraid of something you're just going to laugh at? Yes, I find myself laughing at most CGI.

There are more, but name yours and then I will name more.

[Dr. Briggs]

I'm with you on CGI, for the most part you can't even pretend to be fooled by it... It doesn't move right and it looks like you could walk right through it...

There is a ton of stuff I think could be remade well by a very caring director, but that a vast majority of directors would screw up if they had their turn (Phantasm, Puppet Master)... But stuff I don't think could be remade/was "perfect"? MAGIC for one, is my favorite film and I think it was done perfectly (Despite how some like the book better).

Before the remake happened I would have said The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. PERFECT horror film IMO.

Re-Animator, with it's deleted scenes intact was done as solidly as possible (Maybe a "re-score" to get rid of the Psycho music...).

Spider Baby I don't think is able to be "improved" enough to warrant a remake despite the fact they're making one.

The remake of The Thing should not be remade again, too creepy an experience the first time around.

Basket Case was done too weirdly the first time to recapture the "magic" I'd imagine (Though I do believe I would be a perfect remake Duane).

The Oblong Box was brilliantly done for it's time and still holds up very well today.

There could maybe be a few new things you could add to Night of the Hunter, but I don't think enough to make a whole new movie.

[Bojangles]

Magic was a good movie. Anthony Hopkins rules. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a fantastic remake, in my opinion. I honestly do not know why people wouldn't like that movie. I could see a remake for The Thing. Now, would it be as good as John Carpenter's? I doubt it, but I don't see how it could be ruined before the get-go.

I think The Exorcist would be a movie which just couldn't be remade. I mean, I wasn't born anywhere around the time it came out, but I do know that this is different times. A remake wouldn't have anywhere near the impact that the original had on the world. Also, where could they take it?

[Friday The 13th]

I agree with you on the whole CGI shit.
And yea JAWS was a classic!
And your right if they remade it, they would just use fuckin' CGI. :reddisgust:

[Dr. Briggs]

I don't exactly know how to put it... I "liked" the remake as something standalone, but not in the same ballpark as the original. I think "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as it was originally done was done perfectly, when they "changed the ingrediants" so to speak they couldn't find better ones, they just weakened the formula, IMO.

I think the same applies to The Thing, hence my idea that a remake couldn't "successfully" be done (Making an updated, perfected version of the original). What we have now is the perfect incarnation of "John Carpenter's The Thing". To make a remake they would either have to "change the ingrediants" to weaker ones or execute the ones already in the film in a less satisfying way. I hope I'm making sense, it's the most deconstructed way I can think of putting it!

[Friday The 13th]

I think the TCM Remake was pretty good IMO.
But as for those other Remakes... nah, to much CGI n shitz.

[Rosemary's Baby]

Jaws would definately not work, especially since most of the movie was a screw up and almost a bust. Poltergeist would be another one that would be difficult. The original started off so bright and light and it goes down hill from there.

[Friday The 13th]

I agree

[demented_are_go]

I have pretty big issues with remakes to begin with. When the original movie was great, why mess with it. One movie I don't think could ever work as a remake is L'Age D'or. It's not exactly a horror movie, but it's so strange it'd probably be appealing to most horror fans. I was lucky enough to see it in a class back in college. It's a surrealist film by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, from 1930.

I also agree that the exorcist would be a very bad choice for a remake. Part of the movie's impact and appeal was the cast, I'm not sure how anyone could ever top that.

I used to think Cannibal Holocaust was one movie that just could never be remade, but it looks like they are doing just that.

[Bojangles]

I have pretty big issues with remakes to begin with. When the original movie was great, why mess with it. One movie I don't think could ever work as a remake is L'Age D'or. It's not exactly a horror movie, but it's so strange it'd probably be appealing to most horror fans. I was lucky enough to see it in a class back in college. It's a surrealist film by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, from 1930.

I also agree that the exorcist would be a very bad choice for a remake. Part of the movie's impact and appeal was the cast, I'm not sure how anyone could ever top that.

I used to think Cannibal Holocaust was one movie that just could never be remade, but it looks like they are doing just that.

I doubt they will be able to come close with the remake of Cannibal Holocaust. Someone I know just recently watched it for the first time. She thought it was real at first and ended up getting sick as fuck

[demented_are_go]

I doubt they will be able to come close with the remake of Cannibal Holocaust. Someone I know just recently watched it for the first time. She thought it was real at first and ended up getting sick as fuck

LOL, I remember the first time I saw it, the only part that bugged me was the spider. We have it on dvd, I got it for my husband as a birthday gift 2 years ago. It's such a great movie for the genre, I've seen some pretty bad cannibal movies. (like diary of a cannibal)

[Friday The 13th]

I think a hard movie to be remade would be "Aftermath"...
That shit was so insane! and funny! :bowow:

[Bojangles]

Man if they try to remake Jack-O I'm going to go apeshit.

[Friday The 13th]

Man if they try to remake Jack-O I'm going to go apeshit.

lol they should exdev:

[Dr. Briggs]

lol they should exdev:

So they could make it better or so we could see Bo go apeshit?

[Friday The 13th]

So they could make it better or so we could see Bo go apeshit?

LOL I just wanna see Bo go Apeshit!

[Bojangles]

Well I'm just saying there is no way they could capture the type of terror that the original film had. It had that certain vibe to it, you know? Honestly, I don't know if I would even watch a remake of that one. I mean, theres a 0.01% chance that they could make a better film. If, by some chance, that they could make one scarier I would not be down to watch it. After watching the first Jack-O I have heart problems and I am simply not capable of watching a horror movie of that capacity anymore. Oh, and there was this one eerie lightning scene in that movie. I'm still afraid to go outside when there's a dark cloud in the sky.

[Friday The 13th]

Well I'm just saying there is no way they could capture the type of terror that the original film had. It had that certain vibe to it, you know? Honestly, I don't know if I would even watch a remake of that one. I mean, theres a 0.01% chance that they could make a better film. If, by some chance, that they could make one scarier I would not be down to watch it. After watching the first Jack-O I have heart problems and I am simply not capable of watching a horror movie of that capacity anymore. Oh, and there was this one eerie lightning scene in that movie. I'm still afraid to go outside when there's a dark cloud in the sky.

Damn son! That's bad! I'm truly feelin' for ya! :reddisgust: loool

[mrblue]

I can't see dead alive get remade its soooooo cheesy its great which makes it hard to remake that without all the cgi

[Friday The 13th]

Believe it or not The Evil Dead might be a hard one...
All that claymation and shit will turn into cartoon lookin cgi shit.
Oh the good old days when it wasn't all computerized.