Movies re-made!

smokey

just wondered if theres any movies out there tht have been remade
and they are better than the original
i have to say gone in 60 seconds is far better than the original IMO
let me know what u all think

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Wesley_Pipes

damn i know fuckin loads of movies that have been re-made, i just can't think of any (i grew up in a video rental store)...

ooo wait, dawn of the dead... awesome movie, but i think they made a mistake in giving the zombies the ability to learn in the re-make, and they could run like hell at some points... zombies aint supposed to run... but the visual effects were alot better and the gore just seemed so realistic at times.

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Cannaya

David Cronenberg's remake of 'The Fly.' As much as I love Vincent Price, I just thought the 1986 version was better.

smokey

yea i forgot about the fly
been a long time since i watched it
abd better than the original yea

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Wesley_Pipes

i dont think i've seen the original one.... seen the one with steve guttenburg or whatever his name is lol... i'm guessing thats the 1986 version.... and let me tell you... that movie is freaky to a ten year old.

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DrWoj420

Haha especially the part where he's arm wrestling that dude in the bar and (from what I remember) he like breaks the guy's arm..in half! lol or somethin like that.

Yeah that movie scares the crap outta ya when ur young.

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RevolutionarySmoker

Dude i think the made-for-tv-movie version of Stephen King's The Shining is crazy style scary ... the scene with the lady in the bathtub is crucial especially when your like 4 i couldnt use the bathroom by myself for like a year

smokey

the nightmare on elm street series was the one tht gave me nightmares when i was a kid
my older sis made me watch them
but when i got to about 12/13 i laughed at them instead
most horrors i find funny the new ones especially
i still jump when i watch tht jaws movie where the guys head comes out the hole in the boat underwater lol

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DonnieDarko

Not many remakes stand out as better than original ...

Cape Fear comes to mind ... and definitely Scarface ..

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Wesley_Pipes

yeah he secrets some sorta acidic stuff from his fingers and it kinda melts the guys arm.... gruesome lol

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naLu

Lets see.....
Horror movie called "the thing"
theres a monochrome one and color version...
about 30 years difference??
they both have there moments..
the newer one had such a paranoid feel to it..
and the graphics..efx was unreal for its time...

mjorln-oso

i would definetly say the newer dawn of the dead is better than the original. but the biker scene in the older version is one of the funnyest things ive seen in a long time. and as for shaun of the dead well... one word .... leauge-of-its-own!
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lovechild

willy wonker is not a good remake/update
what kind of candy maker is that johnny depp
looks like he did the wrong drugs
or his brother edward scissorhand
won all the kids fights

Cannaya

Yeah, I was 6 when that came out, and it was pretty freaky. I think I fared pretty well, though. :P

Good call. I totally forgot about that one.

While I was pleasantly surprised by how good the Dawn of the Dead remake was, I can't say that it's better than the original. For one thing, they broke one of the cardinal rules of zombiedom: zombies don't run. I mean, it defeats the whole purpose: the zombies are scary because it doesn't matter that they're slow -- there's so many of them that they're bound to get you anyway. It's that never-ending sea of zombies that make them great.

But I did definitely like the remake, and I even have it on DVD.

To go a bit older-school, how about Hitchcock's 'Man Who Knew Too Much'? It's one of my favourite Jimmy Stewart movies, and really outdid the original. Not many people have been able to pull off remaking their own movies, but that one stands out as a definite exception.

Wesley_Pipes

i remember the newer one.... that bit where the guys arms get bitten off by the dead dudes stomach came as a bit off a shock.... and they actually used an armless guy for the part too

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