What old movie would you like to see remade?

I have found most old movies that get remade often turn out in the pooper. JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!! :)

Better technology always ruins the old look and feel of a movie.

@pjanaway well, this is true. I wonder what they’d do with Gaslight? It’s a good old thriller.

I actually can not think of any old movie that I liked. Not that I have watched more than a handfull of them anyway.

I’d have said ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘An American Werewolf In London’, but to be honest, the origionals have stood the test of time, so I’m gonna have to go old an say ‘Clash Of The Titans’

I’ll tell you what should not be remade
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I would rather them remake the newer movies(that are garbage)

As long as they never again try to remake Gone With The Wind, I’ll be happy. Leave well enough alone!

I agree with leave them alone. eg.Cape Fear old was suspnseful and dramatic, Cape Fear new is a sex and slasher flick

“The Thing” remake by John Carpenter is one of a few examples where the remake was better than the original

None.

I prefer original stories.

@jaytkay I guess you wouldn’t like “Reservoir Dogs”, then…

@Pazza Clash of the Titans remake currently in the works.
I would say they should remake “Day of the Triffids”, but I understand they are already doing that.
I also understand the Coen brothers are remaking “True Grit”. I love the original, but have enough respect for the Coen’s to trust them here.
So, how about a remake of the story of Ulysses?

Conan the Barbarian.

Virtually none – the original is always better than the remake.

I’d like to see Tim Burton’s take on Mary Poppins.

With Ms. Poppins a bit more obvious as the dominatrix she truly is.

true lies I thought it was an awesome movie just put together wrong with the wrong actor

Well, I know I will catch hell for this, but the StarWars movies.

I feel that the first ones had the right ‘attitude’, but budget and other things held it back.
The ‘new ones’ have the ‘technology’ and ‘flair’, etc. but lack the charm and sincerity of the orignal three. Not to metion the expectations and retail empire they had to manage as well.

I think that the StarWars story, if retold right, and with a true dedication to the story being told, could be an epic.
Not like BSG, or StarTrek, because they are ‘set up’ to be ‘miniseries’ or TV shows, etc.
More like…
Well, honestly I can’t think of any movie like that… Think a long, but finite series of books… Maybe Harry Potter…
Get my point?

Anyway…
Yeah. I would pick StarWars.

I’d love to see Daniel Craig as either a new age Humphry Bogart. Like, Sabrina with punching and shit.

I’m only half joking :)

I guess you wouldn’t like “Reservoir Dogs”, then…

I hated Reservori Dogs. Torture and violence are not entertaining to me.

Old movies should be left alone, but many not so old movies could use a do-over.

Super Mario Bros, Captain America, Judge Dredd, Masters of the Universe

Old movies are classics because of the way they were in the first place! A lot of current movies aren’t too bad once they are remade, but I still think they should leave most alone.

I just thought of Gone With the Wind coming out again. How weird would that be.

Part of me would like to see an updated Breakfast Club. It could be really good, but it could go horribly wrong. John Hughes is dead. Maybe Diablo Cody (Juno) could do it justice.

@jaytkay I hated Reservori Dogs. Torture and violence are not entertaining to me.

I couldn’t agree more

@PretentiousArtist “The Thing” remake by John Carpenter is one of a few examples where the remake was better than the original

I couldn’t agree more.

@RAMesesII Are you crazy or what???!?

@tinyfaery I think it would be too difficult to recreate the chemistry between the original cast. Plus they’d probably be pretty quick to cast someone like Zack Efron. Speaking of Z.E. rumor has it he’s going to star in the upcoming remake of Footloose…

Does anyone else feel strange about movies from the 80s and even early 90’s being thought of as old?

I’d love to see Metropolis made with a higher budget and today’s special effects.

Yea, that’s all I got.

Breakfast Club is over 20 years old. Face it. The 80’s was a long time ago. So was the 70’s; the decade I was born in.

the great gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, casablanca, it’s a wonderful life

No no no, Casablanca and It’s A Wonderful Life are Puuuurfect.

Reservoir Dogs is about kinky dialogue, scumbag dynamic characters, and disjointed plot progression, whereas Saw is about violence and torture. Tarantino uses violence as a means to an end, it’s the not the focus of the film. I feel like there is a difference…

Btw all, they tried to remake Ferris Bueller with some Breakfast Club stereotypes and called it Charlie Bartlett. Sucked. A reason to remake Breakfast Club would be because kids today are so different than kids in the eighties. Charlie Bartlett’s creators apparently didn’t know that.

@filmfann
What the cartoon!.....COOOOOOLLLLL

@filmfann
Just looked on wiki, so its just a novel as it stands?
Not a reader really, I suppose I’m quite shallow, tho I have to say I love all the origional sci-fi’s, I haven’t seen the latest version of ‘the day the earth stood still’ have you seen it? is it worth watchin?

Speakin of sci-fi’s, Alien and Aliens, anyone who ever touched those two would have to die!.....

The Ulysses story has been done several times, once with Kirk Douglas, another by Armand Assante.

The odyssey

Possibly “Dolls”, however that filn had some very interesting special effects which are long dead today, plus its concept and story was actually some deep shit, so they’d probbaly mess it up.

Ghostbusters, that would be cool if they remade that movie.

I would love to see the film “when Two Worlds Collide” remade i bet with todays cinematic effects it would be out of this world…... literally.

None.Hollywood screws them up anyways. quit remaking classics and bastardizing them!