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461324, Remakes Superior to the originals?
Posted by k_orr, Wed Jul-08-09 01:55 PM
This is an oldie but goodie, but a remake of a film that's better than the OG version.
Can include foreign to domestic conversions.
one
k. orr
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461364, Red Dragon
Posted by MisterGrump, Wed Jul-08-09 04:00 PM
original being "Manhunter"
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461456, I vote Manhunter on that one
Posted by Bombastic, Thu Jul-09-09 02:53 AM
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461487, Nope.
Posted by Monkey Genius, Thu Jul-09-09 09:57 AM
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461593, Manhunter better
Posted by bignick, Thu Jul-09-09 05:04 PM
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466518, Nah, Red Dragon is just newer.
Posted by spades, Mon Aug-03-09 02:37 PM
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461368, The Ring
Posted by stylez dainty, Wed Jul-08-09 04:20 PM
Despite little creepy touches here and there with the imagery, such as the more grotesque faces of the victims, for me the real clincher was the scene when the little kid (spoiler) says to his mom towards the end "you helped her?" I just found that a really creepy moment, when you thought that it was just another "see, the ghost just wanted help solving its murder" wimpy horror movies, and it totally screws with that expectation.
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461371, fuck that the original is way better
Posted by Deluge, Wed Jul-08-09 04:38 PM
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466607, ^^^Listen to this man
Posted by BigReg, Mon Aug-03-09 07:38 PM
Ill give it this much and say it wasn't as bad as every other j-horror remake
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466517, Agreed.
Posted by spades, Mon Aug-03-09 02:36 PM
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461381, The Departed >>>> Infernal Affairs
Posted by MANHOODLUM, Wed Jul-08-09 05:45 PM
Mad?
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461473, No. Just no. n/m
Posted by Cornbread, Thu Jul-09-09 09:00 AM
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461508, only>>>>>>>>>>as an unintentional comedy
Posted by jigga, Thu Jul-09-09 11:08 AM
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461510, Hell no
Posted by Jimbo Jones, Thu Jul-09-09 11:17 AM
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466515, If you swapped the word's "originals" and "remakes" in the question
Posted by chief1284, Mon Aug-03-09 02:35 PM
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461396, The Man Who Knew Too Much
Posted by Wordman, Wed Jul-08-09 07:39 PM
the remake with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day is way better.
"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams
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461398, I don't know about superior, but I prefer the new Taking Pelham 123
Posted by Wordman, Wed Jul-08-09 07:40 PM
I suppose that's just more of a preference thing, they're both pretty good.
"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams
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461509, I liked the original better
Posted by jigga, Thu Jul-09-09 11:11 AM
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461542, yeah, I go back and forth
Posted by Wordman, Thu Jul-09-09 01:05 PM
I'm a huge Martin Balsam fan, so that gets my vote.
But I really do like the acting work in the new one.
It's really just a preference thing with this one, I don't think either is better per se.
"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams
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461439, Ocean's 11
Posted by JungleSouljah, Thu Jul-09-09 12:57 AM
Thank you, come again.
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468263, yup
Posted by las raises, Mon Aug-10-09 01:48 PM
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461457, Cape Fear
Posted by Bombastic, Thu Jul-09-09 02:54 AM
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461512, Yeah, it's probably this or Ocean's.
Posted by SoulHonky, Thu Jul-09-09 11:18 AM
It's kind of startling how bad most remakes are.
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461531, Tough one, but I'll say this: the remake is more fun.
Posted by stylez dainty, Thu Jul-09-09 12:22 PM
It's so over the top that you can have a good time watching it. I was surprised how legitimately creepy the original is.
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461461, Imitation of Life
Posted by Nukkapedia, Thu Jul-09-09 07:06 AM
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466161, good choice, no one hardly knows that the
Posted by lovelyone80, Sun Aug-02-09 01:14 PM
version with Mahalia Jackson is the remake.
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467927, They sell both of them together now on DVD.
Posted by Nukkapedia, Sat Aug-08-09 10:22 PM
And the separate releases are out of print.
So more and more people will discover the 1934 version, which is good in its own right, but not on the level of the Lana Turner/Juanita Moore/Susan Kohner version.
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461467, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Posted by KCPlayer21, Thu Jul-09-09 08:29 AM
remake was closer to the book, and didn't have the cheesy ass songs. And Johnny Depp played Wonka better than Gene Wilder.....
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461505, negative
Posted by Wordman, Thu Jul-09-09 10:55 AM
"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams
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461506, :(
Posted by Amritsar, Thu Jul-09-09 11:07 AM
>remake was closer to the book, and didn't have the cheesy ass
>songs. And Johnny Depp played Wonka better than Gene
>Wilder.....
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461516, RE: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Posted by Jimbo Jones, Thu Jul-09-09 11:24 AM
It definitely doesn't deserve the criticism it gets but to say its better than the original? i dunno thats a tough one
The oompa loompas let it down
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461536, I liked it...but disagree
Posted by will_5198, Thu Jul-09-09 12:53 PM
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461538, disagree, but it was good.
Posted by FortifiedLive, Thu Jul-09-09 12:55 PM
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461595, http://i42.tinypic.com/xf6ybs.jpg
Posted by bignick, Thu Jul-09-09 05:19 PM
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461607, NOPE. Christopher walken should have been willy wonka
Posted by las raises, Thu Jul-09-09 06:11 PM
instead of JD
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466162, HELL AND NO
Posted by lovelyone80, Sun Aug-02-09 01:14 PM
Johnny Depp played crazy good but that shit was fucking horrible
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466163, Can it you twit (c) Violet Beauregarde
Posted by Lardlad95, Sun Aug-02-09 01:17 PM
"Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one"-Anonymous
The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath;the deadliest poison is covetousness;the fiercest fire is hatred; the darkest night is ignorance.-The Buddha
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466516, Wrong
Posted by chief1284, Mon Aug-03-09 02:36 PM
Especially to pick out Depp ahead of Wilder. Wilder was on a higher plain with that performance.
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468036, Closer to the book?
Posted by zuma1986, Sun Aug-09-09 07:27 PM
I don't remember Willy Wonka being a pedo in the book.
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468265, nope
Posted by las raises, Mon Aug-10-09 01:49 PM
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461507, Scarface
Posted by Amritsar, Thu Jul-09-09 11:08 AM
>This is an oldie but goodie, but a remake of a film that's
>better than the OG version.
>
>Can include foreign to domestic conversions.
>
>one
>k. orr
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461532, Disagree with this one. I loved the original.
Posted by stylez dainty, Thu Jul-09-09 12:23 PM
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461513, Little Shop of Horrors
Posted by Jimbo Jones, Thu Jul-09-09 11:18 AM
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461517, The original ending is so much better though
Posted by SoulHonky, Thu Jul-09-09 11:24 AM
That alone might give the original film the nod.
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461520, fair point but imo steve martin gives the remake the nod
Posted by Jimbo Jones, Thu Jul-09-09 11:32 AM
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461534, The one with Jack Nicholson?
Posted by stylez dainty, Thu Jul-09-09 12:28 PM
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461562, RE: The one with Jack Nicholson?
Posted by Jimbo Jones, Thu Jul-09-09 02:01 PM
No im saying liked the Rick Moranis version better than Jack's
wow i just read back that statement & that should'nt ever be right lol
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461565, RE: The one with Jack Nicholson?
Posted by stylez dainty, Thu Jul-09-09 02:09 PM
>No im saying liked the Rick Moranis version better than
>Jack's
I follow. I just wasn't sure if there was a previous musical version, since I remember the original to be more of a weird horror thing. If it was a comedy, I was too young to realize that when i saw it.
>wow i just read back that statement & that should'nt ever be
>right lol
Rick Moranis should savor this post forever.
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461569, RE: The one with Jack Nicholson?
Posted by Jimbo Jones, Thu Jul-09-09 02:30 PM
>I just wasn't sure if there was a previous musical
>version,
Oh ok maybe there was a previous version but im not aware of it
>since I remember the original to be more of a weird
>horror thing. If it was a comedy, I was too young to realize
>that when i saw it.
Yeah its a comedy but a dark comedy at that
>Rick Moranis should savor this post forever.
Im sure he could die a happy man if it was true lol
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461539, The Fly
Posted by will_5198, Thu Jul-09-09 12:56 PM
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461563, Good one
Posted by Jimbo Jones, Thu Jul-09-09 02:05 PM
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461568, Agreed. And probably the craziest remake listed so far.
Posted by stylez dainty, Thu Jul-09-09 02:30 PM
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466166, Cosign. Best one in the post so far.
Posted by Frank Longo, Sun Aug-02-09 01:50 PM
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466519, The Fly OWNS this post.
Posted by spades, Mon Aug-03-09 02:38 PM
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468283, you know i did like it better
Posted by lfresh, Mon Aug-10-09 02:53 PM
i think it was the funny fly voice in the first one
that made it meh
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461541, War of the Worlds
Posted by will_5198, Thu Jul-09-09 01:00 PM
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466340, Night of the Living Dead (1990/Savini)
Posted by kevlar skully, Mon Aug-03-09 02:25 AM
I love the original, but the major change in Barbara just made the story that much better for me
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466520, Halloween
Posted by spades, Mon Aug-03-09 02:39 PM
I keed, I keed!
lol
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466523, This post goes to show how crap remakes are
Posted by chief1284, Mon Aug-03-09 02:42 PM
I literally cannot think of anything.
Bearing that in mind why? why? why?...
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/166239/55_movie_remakes_currently_in_the_works.html
Hollywood has no imagination.
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466628, Wasn't John Carpenter's The Thing a remake?
Posted by Madvillain 626, Mon Aug-03-09 09:05 PM
If so, that one for sure. Shit was ridiculous.
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467930, You stoleded my answer....but you are correct.
Posted by The Wordsmith, Sat Aug-08-09 11:30 PM
Batman gettin' hoeslapped
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8ie37mgxIXA/Sjbtwgo9CgI/AAAAAAAAFqM/xJQjVqPd2As/S1600-R/DRUNKEN+ABUSIVE+SUPERMAN.JPG
http://media.fukung.net/images/932/_DgGr2GfTm2.gif
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466635, The Nutty Professor.....
Posted by KCPlayer21, Mon Aug-03-09 09:37 PM
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468192, yeah i gots nothin
Posted by lfresh, Mon Aug-10-09 10:11 AM
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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.
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468266, Man On Fire
Posted by las raises, Mon Aug-10-09 01:49 PM
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468305, Psycho.
Posted by duD, Mon Aug-10-09 04:16 PM
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