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Poster for the film Heavy Metal by Chris Achilléos (1981)
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I haven't seen a good re-adaptation in years.
Shōgun wasn't terrible or anything, but IMO was a significant downgrade over the original 1980 series. Some of the scenes were also fantastically ridiculous, such as Mariko trying to fight off a group of samurai preventing her master from leaving Osaka Castle.
The Willy Wonka one was interesting, but also a massive downgrade from the Gene Wilder original. They even managed to turn the original, adorably hilarious Oompa-Loompas into something out of a freak sci-fi novel.
I'm trying to think of others, but I guess my main problem with modern Hollywood remakes is that they generally pander towards whatever might make them the most money, usually leaning over-hard on special fX as a substitute for good writer, director and producer material / decisions.
Oh... LotR was certainly solid, but it too suffered from a certain amount of 'Hollywood BS,' and of course the Hobbit sequels were an outright disaster. As silly as the original Rankin-Bass one was, it had worlds-better characters & songs, and it knew how to tell a story efficiently, dammit.
Lastly, most of the Star Wars sequels skated on some very thin ice in terms of re-adapting original material and somehow making it worse almost every time. And utterly charmless. George (and Disney) sure missed Marcia Lucas with those...