Remakes/re-envisionings?

[JakeD]

Okay. I watched the Dawn of the Dead (unrated director's cut) re-make last night, and....wow. I was really impressed. Not as high on camp value as the original, but it was still awesome. I rented the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (or "re-envisioning" as someone called it) the other day as well, and it was all right, not as wild as the first but still a decent, relatively disturbing horror movie on its own merits. I'm definitely buying the Dawn of the Dead DVD.

What are some of your favorite movies that you'd like to see remade?

What are some movies that just can't be remade, no matter what?

[Evilpoptart]

Remade:

Bridge over the River Kwai (1957)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Ben Hur (1959)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Never to be Remade

Citizen Cane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
M*A*S*H (1972)
World According to Garp (1982)
Manchurian Canidate (1962) (yes they remade it, pisses me off)

[usantic]

Excellent choices EPT!

Wow remade,,, I'll investigate that one.

Never to be:

Being There (any Peter Sellers flick for that matter)
Giant
Alien
Forbidden Planet

[Cypher]

Never to be remade: the good ol' spaghetti (sp?) westerns with Clint Eastwood, such as Hang Em High, Outlaw Josie Wales, Fistfull of Dollars, etc etc etc. I don't think those could be remade.

[JakeD]

Never to be remade: the good ol' spaghetti (sp?) westerns with Clint Eastwood, such as Hang Em High, Outlaw Josie Wales, Fistfull of Dollars, etc etc etc. I don't think those could be remade.

Nope, they can't! Classics in every sense of the word!

Although, Fistful of Dollars was based on Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo", so I guess you could kind of call that a remake in itself...