What movie remake would you... "un-make"?

[bassman]

I quite enjoyed 21 Jump Street and Dark Shadows. Granted, I've never seen the original DS TV series, but I thought the flick was more of a return to the Tim Burton of the past.

[AcesandEights]

I quite enjoyed 21 Jump Street Yeah, it was quite fun for me.

[shootemindehead]

Ban +1 YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS HERE, YOU CAN'T TE... Oh, wait a minute...you are...

[LouCipherr]

Dark Shadows was weird for me. Had that movie been called anything but Dark Shadows, I would have been able to accept it for what it was. However, being one of the people that got caught up in the original series (long after it aired originally, I'm not THAT old! ), the remake of it was so far off base from the source material it didn't make it that enjoyable for me. Besides, Dark Shadows was never a comedy. The movie sure tried to be though.

[shootemindehead]

'The Crazies', yeh...I really liked that. Much better than the original. Some more rubbish remakes: Planet of the Apes (featuring 'Annoyed and Confused' star Marky Mark) Get Carter The Day the Earth Stood Still (Keanu Reeves hahahahahahahahaha...end of review) The Omen Straw Dogs King Kong (both of them) The Vanishing (alright til the end)

[AcesandEights]

Planet of the Apes (featuring 'Annoyed and Confused' star Marky Mark) The Planet of the Apes remake is one of the worst conceived and horribly executed major film releases of our time...perhaps ever.

[LouCipherr]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Keanu Reeves hahahahahahahahaha...end of review) And I totally agree with King Kong. That was 3 hours of my life I'll never get back, goddammit.

[MinionZombie]

I really liked the crazies for some reason. I wasn't expecting too, and I've never really been an Timothy Olyphantastic fan (shoots look at MZ and laughs) but I kinda dug it. Here's a few more: Friday the 13th Dark Shadows 21 Jump Street Fright Night (what a pitiful job done on this one, too. Only redeeming factor was Serandon's cameo! ) Let Me In Clash of the Titans The Wolfman 1) *high five* *knowing grin* 2) I've heard Olyphantastic is quite sarcastic at times, or used to be ... I think it was on a podcast (for Nerdist, IIRC) and he copped to being more bristly in his responses to people and situations in the past, but that he was mellowing his approach these days ... but on-screen, I've always been a Oly-phan ... yeah, pushing the name puns there a tad ... anyway, he's usually great in what he's in (or at least from what I've seen him in - e.g. Deadwood), and he was great in The Crazies 2010. 3) Friday 13th '09 - a problematic film for many reasons, but there is also fun to be had in there. Many reasons not to like it, but a surprising amount of reason to like it at the same time (one of which, naturally, being Julianna Guill ). Nowhere near a patch on the original franchise, although I do prefer F13th09 to the original Part Five, or that pish known as Jason Goes To Hell (wtf was that?! ), but I do rather enjoy numerous aspects of that flick ... while at the same time groaning (even hating) other aspects of it. 4) Fright Night - I never grew up with the original (which I did enjoy as a bit of 1980s fun when I finally saw it last year), and I did actually rather enjoy the remake generally speaking, even if it wasn't great by any means. Although I can totally understand someone who grew up with the flick hating on the remake, but with me, I never did grow up with it so I have no personal attachment to it (and only just saw both versions last summer). 5) Let Me In - aye - totally ruddy pointless. The original is absolutely fantastic, and barely has any dialogue in it anyway (subtitles), but the remake was just utterly perfunctory and pointless. WATCH THE ORIGINAL - IT'S LOADS BETTER. FACT. 6) Clash of the Titans - oh heck yes, that bullshit with Sam Worthington in it was mind numbingly bad. I can't believe I watched the whole thing on Sky Movies last year, or whenever it was ... utter dreck. 7) The Wolfman - now, I enjoyed this, but the original is lightyears ahead. My main gripe with it though (aside from Sir Anthony Hopkins' "Tour of Britain" accent ) is the CGI. There was all this bluster about practical effects, but then - just like with The Thing 2011 - they slapped CGI over every damn inch of practical work, so it just ended up looking like it had always been CGI (i.e. WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT?!). I've only seen it once though ... I've not had the compunction to revisit it. Planet of the Apes (featuring 'Annoyed and Confused' star Marky Mark) Get Carter The Day the Earth Stood Still (Keanu Reeves hahahahahahahahaha...end of review) The Omen Straw Dogs King Kong (both of them) The Vanishing (alright til the end) The Day the Earth Stood Still - the original - is fantastic. The remake? Oh boy. What a load of pish. They completely messed up Gort too. Straw Dogs - aye. The remake was utterly pointless, and really quite toothless. I read articles about it and they kept going on about how 'raw' the rape scene was, and when I saw the flick I was like "This?! I take it none of you had seen The Last House on the Left (ORIGINAL, of course), I Spit On Your Grave (ORIGINAL, of course), or the original Straw Dogs" - all of which feature really brutal rape scenes. Plus, I can't stand Kate Bosworth (she was dreadful as Lois Lane, she sucked in 21 - which was a terrible movie full stop - and I just can't be doing with her, she just annoys me and I don't like any of her performances ... not sure what it is, but she's a total turn off to me in all film-viewing regards). King Kong - I've not seen the 1970s version, but I have seen the Peter Jackson one a couple of times (including in its extended form) and I really enjoy it. Is it overlong? Sure, even if I cruised through the movie far easier than I initially thought I would. Is it a bit over-the-top? Yeah ... but at the same time, I really enjoy it. ... Another entry - The Last House on the Left ... so much talk about how brutal it was (it wasn't), and even though I'm a big fan of Garrett Dillahunt, the movie was crap. Way too glossy, devoid of subtext (i.e. the original's subtext about the Vietnam war), and unlike the original, the remake didn't have any real importance culturally or socially.

[bassman]

Totally agreed on Burton's Planet of the Apes. As a big fan of the original five films I still can't understand how that abysmal film was given the green light. Someone at Fox must have been f*cking high.... HOWEVER, the recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes was great. I can't imagine a reboot/remake being any better. Plus, they kinda combined Escape and Conquest, both of which I feel are vastly underrated. Conquest is actually my favorite of the series....

[LouCipherr]

3) Friday 13th '09 - a problematic film for many reasons, but there is also fun to be had in there. Many reasons not to like it, but a surprising amount of reason to like it at the same time (one of which, naturally, being Julianna Guill ). Nowhere near a patch on the original franchise, although I do prefer F13th09 to the original Part Five, or that pish known as Jason Goes To Hell (wtf was that?! ), but I do rather enjoy numerous aspects of that flick ... while at the same time groaning (even hating) other aspects of it. And WTF was Jason X? I mean, they drifted so far from the original idea.. it was pathetic. The only thing I learned about Jason and the franchise from the most recent Fri13th remake is that he wasn't a mindless killer. He was a mercenary marijuana farmer and the idiot kids at Camp Crystal Lake were getting too close to his stash/operation so he had to... "correct" them. (if we wanna use Grady's term for it.. ) Other than that?

[AcesandEights]

And WTF was Jason X? I mean, they drifted so far from the original idea.. it was pathetic. You mean to tell me that Jason X isn't universally regarded as the best FtT since the original? Hell, they were all crap, it's just arguing over different shades of shit, as far as I'm concerned. Learn something new everyday, I suppose.

[bassman]

Every year I watch the F13th film marathon on AMC in an attempt to try and understand the genre love. Yet every year I just can't understand it. I'll give them the first three films, but other than that it's just garbage. That's only the polite way of describing it....

[MinionZombie]

Every year I watch the F13th film marathon on AMC in an attempt to try and understand the genre love. Yet every year I just can't understand it. I'll give them the first three films, but other than that it's just garbage. That's only the polite way of describing it.... Only the first three?! What about four? That was one of the best F13th flicks ... and part six was awesome fun. I'm a big fan of the franchise and would lump in parts 7 and 8 personally in addition. Jason X I enjoyed the hell out of originally, but it's gone further and further down in my estimations - it hasn't aged too well - even though it has interesting elements. I think with the Friday the 13th franchise, ultimately you're either into it or you're not ... might sound like a bit of a redundant statement, but it made sense to me.

[shootemindehead]

Every year Bass? That's the cinematic equvilant of self flagellation. The first and second pictures are grand, but I couldn't sit through the whole shebang. If the entire series had never even existed, we wouldn't have missed a thing.

[AcesandEights]

And I totally agree with King Kong. That was 3 hours of my life I'll never get back, goddammit. I didn't especially mind either of the newer Kong films, and both of them have some things I appreciate...but the recent one was and felt incredibly long.