Can you name movies which are remake that you liked more than original work?

Dredd.
Battlestar Galactica.
Stargate SG1
Hunter x Hunter.

IT was pretty good, I liked it better than the John Boy version. But the latter scared me more.

Lord of the rings.

The Brando Mutiny on the Bounty was better than the Charles Laughton one, IMHO.

I hear the Lady Gaga “A Star is Born”, due out late this year, is better than any of the previous versions.

I’ll also include sequels:

Blade Runner 2049
It (2017)
The Jungle Book (2016)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Tarzan (1999)
Toy Story 2
King Kong (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
True Grit (2010)
Dracula (1931 Spanish language version)

I’ll also add:

Cape Fear (1991)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
The Departed (2006)
I Am Legend (2007)
Paddington (2015)
The Parent Trap (1998)
Freaky Friday (2003)

Here’s a list of my most disliked:

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Psycho (1998)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Halloween (2007)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
Poltergeist (2015)

Unsurprisingly, they’re all horror films.

^can you state the reasoning also for some of them?

2005’s King Kong improved upon the relationship between Kong and Darrow in my opinion. It’s way less creepy.

While Legosi’s Dracula is good, the Spanish version is executed with more technical flair and inventiveness.

Disney’s incarnation of Tarzan made the relationship between Tarzan and Jane completely endearing. Great voice cast as well.

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol tossed out all of the plot contrivances of the original film and gave us a more streamlined story.

I think Rocky Balboa is superior than the original because the sentimentality is earned more

No.

Also the titanic. Rose was cute.

Assault on Precinct 13 has two versions: the 1976 original and the 2005 remake. I don’t care what people say, I like the 2005 better. The premise is the same: a group of policemen gets trapped in a police station surrounded by an infinite number of criminal and their only hope is a murderer who happens to be at the same place. But the 1976 version is just boring. It wastes all the potential to become a suspenseful movie. Nothing happens and when something happens everyone is like “err… Yeah…” and carry on with their life. Also the criminals just come out of nowhere. Basically 3 thugs try to kill a father because he tell the police about them, then the criminals just pop out just to try to get the father. What? It’s like saying “uh oh! He find us. Let’s call our friends who are also in hiding to kill him.”

The characters in the 2005 version genuinely fear for their life. Both versions are the same but they manage to make the situations in the 2005 version more life-threatening. The characters react the way they should and really get the viewers involved. Also the “criminal” has a believable reason why they are there and so strong. They are corrupted cops and they try to get the murderer because the murderer knows about their corruption. It’s a solid reason why they are so desperate to destroy the police station, unlike the 1976 version.

I don’t know why the 1976 version is considered a classic while the 2005 version considered trash. In the end they are both some action movies, but the 2005 version does it better.

I always watched every Godzilla movie, as a child. Even the really bad ones with Mothra, or some other monster. My favorite was the one that I think was made around 1984. I really liked the one with Mathew Broderick. I thought they did a great job. I hated his prostitute reporter girlfriend. But I think that’s good writing.

I feel like I should bring up the newer Tron too. It was cool.

The Netflix Punisher is very well done.

Worst ever was the Total Recall remake. I loved the original, and I honestly don’t know what could have happened to make the new one SO bad…

Some of these cited don’t seem to be remakes to me. Did you mean remakes of the original films or, as some seem to be taking it, films made from novels?

^From movies not from novels. With novels it can also be called a remake (or something else?)but to a totally different medium which I wasn’t thinking of while asking this question.

@imrainmaker I would interpret the word remake the way you did, but some of these answers weren’t.

^Yeah..I didn’t realize till you mentioned it.. wasn’t going through the list completely I guess..)

Amazon just remade “The Tick” and it’s as brilliant as I heard the past ones were lame.
Strongly recommend it.

I enjoyed the last Mad Max. The plot is still silly but the CGI/StuntWork is at least credible.

I also think highly of the first new Star Trek movie. They managed to recapture the interesting interaction between Spock Kirk and McCoy while refreshing the visuals. Well done!

^I really liked the casting too, on the new Star Trek movies. Sucks that the one actor died tragically.

I cannot think of any remakes that I like better than the originals. I suppose I have grown accustomed to the originals and find remakes inferior. One example is the 1967 “Point Blank” that was remade in 1999 as “Payback”. Lee Marvin is much more convincing as such an ultimate tough guy than Mel Gibson. To me, the story seems to be written just for Lee Marvin. Mel was not convincing in this role.