They knew how to do this in the 80s. Little Shop of Horrors, The Fly, and The Thing for example. All remakes that far surpassed the cheesy originals.
The 80s version of The Blob is terrifying.
I was scared of the colour pink for like 3 years in primary school.
The best example is The Thing. The original film in the 1950s was awkward af. But the 1980s remake by John Carpenter was chef's kiss. Then they made a remake of a remake and it was meh.
The 2011 The Thing wasn't so much a remake as it was a prequel to the remake, telling the story from the Norwegian scientists' camp.
The 1982 John Carpenter remake opened with the last two remaining Norwegian scientists chasing "The Thing" until it reaches the Americans' camp. But they're misunderstood by the Americans. When trying to shoot at The Thing, which has taken the shape of a sled dog, the Americans instead return fire and kill them. Then the Americans explore the Norwegian camp and try to figure out what horrors killed everyone there, while slowly discovering why they were shooting at a dog in the first place.
The 2011 film shows what happened to the Norwegians before the 1982 remake. You're correct, it wasn't as great of a film (hard to compete with John Carpenter), but it wasn't exactly a remake.
The worst thing about the 2011 prequel is they had filmed the whole movie with practical effects, like the Carpenter movie, which is one of my favorites of all time. If you've seen it, you may remember very little of these and a lot of cgi.
The studio or production company or whatever didn't like the practical effects and we got cgi Thing instead. I'd love to see the original effects, and I feel so bad for the people who worked so hard on it just to get scrubbed from the final cut.
You scared me for a second, being only aware of the 80s one I thought you wanted a remake of that lol
On a vaguely related note, why aren't we making more movies that take a Shakespeare plot and just stuff it in a different setting without trying to hide it? Like 10 Things I Hate about you was Taming of the Shrew.
Tell me you wouldn't watch Mechbeth.
Macbeth... IN SPAAAAAAACE!!!!!
There have been a bunch: Throne of Blood is Samurai Macbeth. Warm Bodies is Zombie Romeo & Juliette
The Lion King (1994) is Hamlet.
"O" (2001) is Othello.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is based on two minor characters of Hamlet.
She's the Man (2006) is Twelfth Night.
Romeo + Juliet (1996) is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) is Homer's Odyssey. Not Shakespeare, but a brilliant modern retelling of one of humanity's oldest surviving stories. In the same vein as the above mentioned films.
These are all I can think of off the top of my head. Not to mention dozens of modern Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth retellings over the years. Those three alone are the more popular Shakespeare stories for reinvention on the big screen.
How many more versions of Tron do we need?
One more.
Tron Reboot, fuck yeah make it happen!
I would love to see ReBoot (1994) with modern CG. And also a modernized plot, considering we know so much more about computers and the Internet now.
1994 was when the Internet started to spread publicly around the world and became a thing you could access from your very own home. It was this cool new technology that connected humanity across the globe, but most people didn't really understand it yet.
So shows like ReBoot captured our fascination with the "Information Superhighway" and built a fantasy/sci-fi story around it. Even if it was horribly inaccurate to how computers and the Internet actually worked.
yes
Keep em coming. Tron: Legacy is my all time favourite.
This only works on like mid movies, maybe. You can't do it with a film like Plan 9 from Outer Space or The Room because the jank is part of the appeal. But maybe an actually good version of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? Sucker Punch, but with a better director?
Mid movies with an interesting premise. That's the point of OP's post.
Scarface, Omega Man, The Bird Cage, Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean's 11, Fist Full of Dollars, Vanilla Sky, Wizard of Oz, The Bourne Identity: all remakes. Arguably, the new Dune movies might be considered remakes of a relatively mid original movie, though the new ones are far more tied to the book.
So taking the 1993 mid kids' movie Rookie of the Year and adapting it to a modem take where the lead is 19 and plays soccer for Arsenal or whatever, would be what OP means. Or redo the 1993 racist POS movie Falling Down. Or Dave, JFC.
There is no saving Sucker Punch. The fundamental premise of the movie is each rape is a fight scene showing a literal interpretation of a metaphorical struggle. It's not recoverable.
It’s Dune. Great book but original movie needed improvement
Instead of the corporatization of storytelling, we should be letting artists tell the stories they want to tell. We should engage with our media more critically and stop chasing nostalgia.
Nice idea, but you'd never get funding. So lean into it. Instead of remaking flops, demake them. Redo Battlefield Earth or Waterworld on a half million dollar budget. As the world watches your film with effects that would make Sharknado blush they will finally ask "what is art?"
Or maybe, just maybe do a new franchise or movie. I'm so tired of going to the cinema and watching the trailers for 9 ouf of the 10 comming up movies being sequals or reboots of old franchises.
Fuck that, just make more theaters and let drama kids re-enact them with their own creative vision
Better yet, why not create something original?
Let's have multiple reboots going at the same time. I think it would be great to have like three reboots of Jurassic Park going at the same time with different directors. I want to see a full length Wes Anderson take on the film, but also a Zach Snyder take and maybe a Danny Boyle take competing on the same weekend.
Two words: Easy Money
I kinda think Event Horizon had a phenomenal concept, but had a C+ execution. If there's a movie I think needs a remake, it's that.
Movie mash-ups.
Back to the Future and Tron.
Blade Runner and Hawaii 5-0
Truman and Silo.
Mrs. Doubtfire and John Wick.
WALL-E and alien.
What I wouldn't give to see a swarm of Xenomorphs tear ass through that ship full of obese humans
Sigourney Weaver was in both movies.
Oceans 11 did that
The upscale did Lisa a little dirty
I think I've made this comment elsewhere but Krull, Enemy Mine, and Last Starfighter are the top of my list for an effects refresh.
There's also no reason why a decent Eragon movie couldn't be made.
Because nobody will fund a huge production that's based on something that didn't do well. Are you nuts? Are you going to go up to people and ask for 50 million dollars or whatever and say we're going to take this thing sucked that nobody liked and we're going to redo it.
I mean, they've made how many Percy Jackson movies? Pretty sure no one likes any of them.
Do you want Fantastic Four? That's how you get Fantastic Four
I want them to make good discworld movies.
Disney's been trying. 'Once More With Feeling' is a whole podcast about the reboots. Did you know Disney remade Pete's Dragon and The Shaggy Dog? I didn't.
Practice what you preach, OP
Do waterworld again!
I kinda thought we were going to get a new Howard the Duck for a second. That would’ve been hilarious either way it panned out.
I think we should take something really underrated but improve it. Off the top of my head, The Rollerblade Seven.
Or maybe they could come up with an original idea
Crazy talk I know
I'm still waiting for John Carter 2...
Exactly!!
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