Films That Should NEVER Be Remade - The Original Is Timeless

[Mr2Mike]

LoonyTunes said:

I'll kick off.

Forbidden Planet
2001

I watched 2001 last night for the first time in a few years. A remake would utterly ruin it.

[Halb]

I thought the Mad Max remake was boring. Terminator's been remade/booted twice now I think. I'd like to see COmmando remade.

FirstBlood...now this could good, make it the Iraq War, make it contemporary?

[Cotty]

Halb said:

I thought the Mad Max remake was boring.

What is the Mad Max remake. I thought there was just

Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

[irocfan]

Blazing Saddles

Life of Brian

[Otispunkmeyer]

Probably been said, but Back To The Future trilogy. Perfect. Should never even be thought about when thinking of remakes. They should employ someone to pop out and slap the person with the thought with a wet fish.

[Halb]

Theydon't need to, Zemekis has said it won't happen in his lifetime.

irocfan said:

Blazing Saddles

Life of Brian

top quality trolling there, ser!

[wjb]

Remember watching BTTF and 1955 seemed so old fashioned.

They'd have to go back to 1989 now, I'd just feel like an old bd watching it and recognising everything

[Walter E. Kurtz]

Most of Powell-Pressburger, e.g.

Black Narcissus
A Matter of Life & Death

Of all the Ealing Comedies, perhaps Kind Hearts & Coronets

Some remakes can in fact prove better than the originals: the Charles Laughton The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Bogart in The Maltese Falcon are two that spring to mind.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Fightclub. You'd never again capture its essence.

[AAGR]

The Battle of Britain

[anonymous-user]

Dr No

It's such a really great film

[Ayahuasca]

LivingTheDream said:

Thunderball

Never say it can never be made again.