What films should never, ever be remade?

[terrya]

Under any circumstances?

One for me would be "Casablanca". There is no possible way you could ever improve on the original.

[Tyler Durden]

1. 3:10 to Yuma kinda changed my mind on the subject.

FANTASTIC. If every remake was like that, I'd say REMAKE 'EM ALL.

Liked "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds," too.

[evlbstrd]

2. "Citizen Kane."

But someone will probably try.

[mitchum]

40. But wouldn't it be better if he had like super powers and was like...y'know...hot?

I'm sure that has been said by more than one coked-out twit in a Hollywood boardroom.

[evlbstrd]

48. Maybe they could get Adam Sandler.

The kids seem to like him.

[Deep13]

3. Star Wars. nt

[MrCoffee]

4. spot on.

[semillama]

34. I'm looking at YOU , Lucas. n/t

[Deep13]

37. If he wants to remake episode one without that cartoon guy and without...

...that whiney kid, I would be okay with that.

My name's Aaaaaaaaannnnikin!

[Lethe]

39. I would totally love to see all the prequels done over again

just totally done over from scratch

Dont touch the Episode 4,5 and 6 though!

[johnnie]

5. Rebel without a cause

I can't even imagine who they would get to play Dean's part, but I know they would murder it. Tryin' to make it all modern and shit would suck.

[Lochloosa]

6. "In the Heat of the Night"

They call me MISTER Tibbs!

[IndianaJones]

7. Conan the Barbarian. nt.

[KitchenWitch]

8. Gone With the Wind

[edbermac]

9. Showgirls

Sheer perfection.

[Dr. Strange]

14. How about, "Showgirls: The Next Generation"? nt

[HughBeaumont]

21. Showgirls: The College Years.

[LynneSin]

35. I think they should combine Showgirls and Roadhouse

that could be a classic

[HughBeaumont]

38. TAILS AGAIN!

Al Torres: You're a fucking stripper, don't you get it.
Nomi Malone: I'm a dancer.

Wade Garrett: That gal's got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that.

Cristal Connors: Where do you dance at, darlin'?
Nomi Malone: Um... at the Cheetah.
Cristal Connors: I don't know how good you are, darlin', and I don't know what it is you're good at, but if it's at the Cheetah, it's not dancing, I know that much.
Nomi Malone: You don't know shit!

Dalton: All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.

Nomi Malone: You can't touch me, but I can touch you. I'd really love to touch you.

Dalton: People who really want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse. And we've got entirely too many troublemakers here. Too many 40-year-old adolescents, felons, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry.

[Orrex]

10. The Muppet Movie

The Jerk

and many more...

[SoxFan]

11. Joe Dirt

[yellowdogintexas]

43. first time was bad enough nt

[QueenOfCalifornia]

12. Anything with Rob Schneider...

weren't they painful enough the first time around?

edit due to dumb typo

[begin_within]

13. Ladri di biciclette (1948), Psycho (1960), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Chinatown (1974)

Four films which could not be improved by remaking them. Oh, too late for Psycho though. What fools to think that they could improve on it.

[BlueIris]

15. "Jaws."

I've always had this terrible fear someone would try.

[SecularMotion]

16. Blue Velvet

[The2ndWheel]

17. Total Recall

[formerrepuke]

18. Nothing is sacred.. not since the remake of 'Psycho' ....

[philosophie_en_rose]

19. The Princess Bride

So help those fuckers, if they remake that movie. *shakes fist at the sky*

[AlCzervik]

20. "All about Eve" "Sunset Boulevard"

[mooseandsquirrel]

22. Orfanato, El n/t

But it is.

[krispos42]

23. Airplane!

It is perfect as-is. It cannot be improved.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Only really bad or ill-conceived films should be remade

Then some director can see if it's possible to do better with the same material.

Otherwise, leave the good stuff alone!

In addition, Hollywood aids in the dumbing down of America by remaking perfectly good foreign films. Reading subtitles and hearing foreign languages and seeing how people live in foreign countries would be good for the average American.

[MissMillie]

25. Howard the Duck

for obvious reasons

[Burma Jones]

26. Any Marx Brothers Film

[LanternWaste]

27. The Godfather.

The Godfather.

Dog Day Afternoon.

Anything by Hitchcock.

Anything featuring Chaplin or the Marx Brothers.

Singin' in the Rain.

Schindler's List.

The Graduate.


Yeesh. That's just off the top of my head-- if I actually thought about it, it would be a long, long list.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

28. To Kill A Mockingbird

I can't even think of another actor who would equal Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch. Some things are just better left untouched

[barb162]

29. The Wizard of Oz. Perfect as is.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

30. Teen Wolf Too

No one could recapture Bateman's gravitas in that roll. For that short, sweet 90 minutes, he really was a teenage werewolf. Would they were all so comely!

[Carrieyazel]

31. Color of Night (1994) Bruce Willis, Because I Said So (2007) Lindsey Lohan crap

And don't forget "It's Pat" 1994 the horrendous film about the Saturday Night Live character. My, that was awful.

[HERVEPA]

32. Seventh Seal, The Graduate, Local Hero

[Left Is Write]

33. Most of them. I do plan to see the new version of Halloween, though.

[devilgrrl]

36. Lolita, The Omen, Psycho, The Poseidon Adventure, Rollerball.... oh shit!

:yoiks:

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Yeah, but you can bet that some new jackass director with no sense of history and sunglasses

will think that he can "outdo" Casablanca. Probably with a great big ten minute violent shoot out at the air strip at the end, blood everywhere and dead Nazis stacked up by the pallet like empty Oreo boxes in Rosie's bathroom, and then Rick flies off as well while Celine Dion or Beyonce sings some kind of fucking power ballad.

Same with Citizen Kane.

[BikeWriter]

42. Joi Lansing in Bigfoot. It was so bad!

http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater/b/bigfoot.html

[yellowdogintexas]

44. "the Sting", "Victor, Victoria"

and several others already mentioned

[Mendocino]

45. Little Big Man

Vertigo
Mister Roberts
Bonnie and Clyde
Easy Rider
The Apartment

[pokerfan]

46. Psycho

Someone would have to be psycho to remake one of Hitch's classics.

[jmowreader]

47. The Towering Inferno

The greatest thing about that movie is they used Real Fire and Real Explosives for Real Effects.

If they remade that movie they'd use CGI fire, and it would lose all its effectiveness.

[TheMightyFavog]

49. North By Northwest

Manos: The Hands of Fate (there's a good reason it should never be remade.)

Black Sunday (One of Frankenheimer's best)

Grand Prix (Old School Formula One, Baby.)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Sting

Watership Down (I can see it getting all CGI'd to Hell and Back)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World

Ice Station Zebra