Films rebooted - any better than the original?

[Kestevan]

The day the Earth Stood Still..... Keanu Reeves is an acting genius.
Oh and the LadyKillers... Tom Hanks much better than the black and white version with that old guy out of Star Trek.....



















I'll get my own coat on the way out..........

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Don’t get me started on the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Nothing will beat the Michael Rennie version. It’s a proper science fiction film. The remake was a joke.

 

[Drago]

RoboCop.

The advances in CGI and effects made the remake much better. Plus RoboCop got to thrap about the place on a modified ZZR1400.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

That reminds me of the hilariously bad film CHiPs. Maybe we need a thread for terrible films that should never have been made.

 

[MontyVeda]

I think The Fly was perhaps better than the original. It's a close thing though.

The remake doesn't have the classic ending though... when the camera focuses on the rose bush in the garden where we see a fly with a man's head, trapped in a web as a spider approaches.

 

[MontyVeda]

What about TV series?

Daredevil is way better than the film!

As was Buffy the Vampire Slayer

 

[stephec]

There is a new Watership Down due out soon.
Will be interesting to see how that is received.

No way, one of my favourite films.

Ian Collins ran a phone in on Talk Radio many years ago asking for people's most moving cinematic death scenes, I got through on air to nominate the ending where the black rabbits come down, gets me every time.

 

[MontyVeda]

Not a remake, reboot or rip off... but Son of Rambow is loads better than any other Rambo film.

It's also been argued that Guy Ritchie's Snatch is a rip-off of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels ... both are good but Snatch is better

The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart is apparently a lot better than the 1931 version... not seen it though.

and Casino Royale with Daniel Craig runs rings around the 1960s version... although Burt Bacharach's soundtrack is a million times better than David Arnold's.

 

[Threevok]

To be honest, I am not a fan of most remakes of films (or sometimes even songs) if they are classics

There are one or two exceptions though, especially if the plot brings something new to the table

However, there are films that bring nothing new and are merely money spinning pandering to a newer generation

Turd in a Microwave springs to mind

The Omen was one such remake. It was identical to the original and I swear it was even shot in the same house

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Don’t get me started on the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Nothing will beat the Michael Rennie version. It’s a proper science fiction film.

The remake was a joke.

Indeed it was (same answer to both sections of your reply)

War Of The Worlds can be designated the same way
The Tom Cruise film was wrong, just so wrong

 

[Drago]

You've got to try hard to make a War of the World film that's worse than the original.

 

[pplpilot]

Maybe we need a thread for terrible films that should never have been made.

It would have one reply > 'Every sci-fi film. Ever.'

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

It would have one reply > 'Every sci-fi film. Ever.'

Booooooooo!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

You've got to try hard to make a War of the World film that's worse than the original.

A classic, but I do prefer 'When Worlds Collide'

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Have you ever seen a film that was a remake / reboot / rip off that you though was better than the original?

I’ve been racking my brains, but can’t come up with any. What do you think?

The Thing
Scarface
The Departed