Movie remakes

[kensei]

Hello you all!

How about a remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space?

All the best
Jukka

Would it be a good version, or an even worse one?

[Magpie]

Some of the best spaghetti westerns were remakes of Japanese films.

Fistful of Dollars is almost a scene by scene remake of Yojimbo (plus "Warriors of the Wasteland" updated the story to sci-fi and "Last Man Standing" as a depression era gangster flick).

The Magnificent Seven is a remake of Seven Samurai.

In both instances both the Japanese originals and the Italian knock-offs are great.

[Magpie]

And "Casablanca" WAS remade.....as "Barb Wire"......

I also read a few weeks back that there is actually a sequel to Casablanca in the pipeline....

[Scorpio]

Talking of the excellent Yul Brynner, i would like to see a remake of Westworld.
I think modern effects would serve the novel better. I think the guy who played Jesus in the Passion of the Christ would make a good gunslinger, and Jake Gyllenhal the tourist.

[Sally]

The recent remake of True Grit was pretty good. Remakes of famous movies don't have to be bad, they just often are.

Gladiator was quite good, and as everyone knows, was really a remake of The Fall of the Roman Empire - even if it pretended it wasn't.

[Errata]

The Alamo remake with Billy Bob Thornton as John Wayne was actually pretty good. Never having been a fan of the first one, it made it easier to like the second one.

Although the one John Wayne movie that can never be remade is The Conqueror. Something that bad can't possibly be improved.

[sleekviper]

Wasn't The Conqueror that John Wayne movie where the cast and crew, and visiting family members, would get cancer in high numbers supposedly from filming near a bomb test site? Yeah, skip that remake. I suppose a remake of "The Keep" would be good.

[Errata]

That's the one. Although the gruesome awesomeness of such a colossally bad idea should never be replicated, John Wayne as Ghengis Khan is a priceless performance. Any remake could only render it terrible. Let is stand as so awful it's hilarious.

There's also a seven hour musical movie called Che! out there about Che Guevara, if you are into the worst that movies that can be.

[sleekviper]

Well, "Greatest Story Ever Told"; Christ is on the cross, camera pans to John Wayne as a Roman centurion, and he speaks. There is just something very wrong with Rooster Cogburn delivering lines as a Roman soldier. Which brings up that a remake of "The Bible", or "The Ten Commandments" could be rather interesting now.

[Cogidubnus]

"Troo-lee this was the son of God"

"Cut...now say it with more awe Mr Wayne"

"Aw troo-lee this was the son of God"



All the best

Dave

[sleekviper]

You saw that also huh? That was one of those "sit around with relatives" movies, as Biblical ones usually were, and in the midst of elders crying, he speaks. Someone says, "That was John Wayne!!", another replies, "Did he just call Christ Pilgrim??? Can't hear with all this crying!" There went that, stuck with Ten Commandments.

[Robert]

Alan Bennett told a similar story about a northerner who composed the inscrption for his wife's gravestone. After a few pious remarks about her devotion to god etc, the inscription concluded "She were thin." The vicar, reading it as "She were thine" suggested that the husband put an extra 'e'. A few days later the inscription read, "E, she were thin."