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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Poll: What movie would you like to see remade? 52

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I'm sure there are plenty of movies out there you'd like to see remade, simply because the premise of the movie is really cool but you felt it could have been better.

In other words, what movies didn't live up to their potential?

I'm gonna go with Butterfly Effect.

Could have been a much much better movie. As it was, it was a pretty decent waste of 2 hours.

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Poll: What movie would you like to see remade?

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  • I'd recast and get that dopey Ralph Macchio out and Jamie Gertz too. I'd leave Satan and Jack Butler but I'd replace Satan's assitant with Chris Rock for sure.

    Legba? Legba? He done chang'd hizz name tah Scratch!
  • I just want the promised sequal to Sword and the Sorcerer.

    Been waiting almost 25 years for that
  • Interesting initial concept, totally trashed by what followed. Few movies made me whimper like those. The Trek and Star Wars films made you wish they were tivo'ed or rented, but I can't think of another series that made me wish I'd never seen the follow-ups, with others warning to never watch the movies and being spot on.

  • Wow! (Score:2)

    by btlzu2 ( 99039 ) *
    We're making similar JEs today. :)

    I would have to say Lord of the Rings. There wasn't enough work done on that movie and enough exposure.

    Alright, enough insanity.

    I would think, actually, that a remake of "The Dirty Dozen" might be fun. Although it had all the classic guys in it who are now dead: Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas, etc. the last hour or so of that movie was horribly edited. They dragged out the bombing scene SO FUCKING LONG! It was a great movie up until the "climax".

    Hmmmm... Who could be in
    • Or how about a remake of it for the kids?

      The Muppet Dirty Dozen!!

      Hmm....no, that probably wouldn't work. But, I think you are on the right track though. Something with a good chance for a great ensemble cast, kind of like Ocean's Eleven was, would be fun.
  • Really, Butterfly Effect had massive potential completely ruined by a love story.

    Anywho, my remakes:

    Dune. The book has never really been brought to the screen appropriately through two attempts.

    Starship Troopers. Its not a war book... its a thinker flick disguised as a war book. Hollywood missed that last part.

    Lord of the Rings. Heh, j/k ;-)
    • Lord of the Rings. Heh, j/k ;-)

      You may be, but I'm not. "The two towers" in particular is probably the most disappointing film I've ever seen, even surpassing "Star wars episode 1". It could have been so great, yet it ended up an awful mess that made me cringe when I was watching it. "The fellowship of the ring" may have been flawed in a few places, but it was still a great film. "The two towers" threw away all that was good about the first one and just left the cringe inducing parts.

      Obvious other notab

      • You missed the second worst sequel of all time (the first being Highlander 2): Godfather III, the sequel that never, never, never, NEVER happened.

        FWIW, I don't mind if Sofia directs, but make sure she stays on the correct side of the lens.
    • Starship Troopers was a Paul Verhoeven film. He didn't miss the point, he just ignored it. In large part, it was his response to the studios butchering Robocop.

    • Dune. The book has never really been brought to the screen appropriately through two attempts.

      I've often thought that the ideal would be the cast of the Lynch movie (er, sans Sting -- great singer, lousy actor) with the production team of the miniseries, directed by Spielberg. I loved Jürgen Prochnow as the Duke Leto, and thought Kyle MacLachlan made a good Paul Atreides. William Hurt as Leto was just wrong.

      As for movie remakes, my choice would be Song of the South, but with graphic depictions of

  • The ending didn't have that "punch". Would have been better if cruise had finished off the last one too. Would have been a much satisfying ending then. Many on imdb have expressed the same views.
    • The whole time I just felt like I was getting the wool pulled over my eyes. Soo many things about that made it feel like they wanted to do the movie in new york but ended up doing it in LA. The subway joke, that was new york. The're are lots of taxi drivers in the airports but you dont drive around in LA waiting for someone to flag you down. And you CERTANLY dont get into a wager on shortcuts. If someone knows the roads they get a rental.
  • I cautiously say, knowing that it is the destiny of all remakes to be complete botch-jobs.
    • All the original scenes should be kept but to keep it "fresh" all the human characters should be replaced with full sized wookies.
    • That is such a good film, I'll agree that is is certainly in the top 10.
    • Just buy a PS2 and play God of War. :-)

    • ...it is the destiny of all remakes to be complete botch-jobs.

      Not true. Some counterexamples:

      Maltese Falcon [imdb.com] 1931, 1936 are completely eclipsed by the 1941 Bogart/Huston version, even though the 1936 version featured Bette Davis in the Mary Astor role.

      Dirty Rotten Scoundrels [imdb.com] remake of the inferior "Bedtime Story", even though it features Marlon Brando in the Steve Martin role.

      • Sorry. Sometimes I succumb to the urge to hyperbolize and generalize. I accept your observations as valid examples where my sweeping statement is false.

        I didn't realize Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake either.

        Thank you for your insight, and have a splendid whatever time of day you are currently entering. Here it's the mid-afternoon. But in an effort to not be timezone-centric, I will start using a more generic well-wishing concluding remarks.
  • What movie would you wish didn't exist?

    Star Trek: Nemesis
    Starship Troopers 2
    Every recent Disney sequel, especially the ones to the Disney Classics.
    Star Trek: Nemesis

    As for re-made, no clue.
    • I have had a hankering to watch Starship Troopers 2, but deep down I know it will be horrible.
      • I saw it. I'm not proud.

        It took me two tries to watch it. I made my friend turn it off and watch something else. After that, we finished the movie.

        Another movie I didn't mention, because it was so horrible I should like to deny its existance, was Faust [imdb.com]: Love of the Damned. That's quality.
    • I'd rather watch Nemesis 1000 times than be forced to sit through ST5: the search for Gord one more time.

      And the answer to your question is, of course, Godfather III.

      BTW, the Pixar/Disney flicks (okay, Toy Story 2) gets an exemption from the Disney rule. I suspect TS3 won't.

  • Matrix 2 and 3. Whatever they were called.

    Lotr:Rotk. Lighting sucked ass in the 3rd movie. Really.

    Any Stephen King movie. Well, you'd have to rewrite the books first. But then reshoot the movies and make them less stupid.

    • What about Shawshank Redemption? I thought both the movie and the book were good, in fact it is one of my favorite movies. But the rest were pretty horrible (tommyknockers? BBleech.) Ok actually I liked both of The Stand movie/book too. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen many King movies.
      • I remember seeing Sleepwalkers in the theaters because my friend was a big Stephen King fan. I just about lost it (laughing, not vomiting) when a person in the movie was killed by a cob of corn through the chest bone. Kind of lost any hope of keeping me interested after that.
      • Both Shawshank and Stand by Me (The Body) were, of course, written as 'Richard Bachman' and are thematically quite different from typical King fare. Thinner wasn't too horrible a movie, but 'Running Man' was similar to the source in name only. FWIW, that would deserve a remake, particularly in light of the current love affair with 'reality' TV. I would also nominate 'The Long Walk' to be made.

        The ABC miniseries were not too bad, especially when compared with the theatrical movies based on King's work. Sure
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  • I'd love to see a new TRON movie. I hear they are making a sequel, but I've heard that for years.

  • I think the Wachowski brothers picked the wrong medium for their ambitions. They couldn't get as "deep" philosophically as I think they wanted to, while maintaining the pace necessary for a 2-3 hour action movie at the same time. The story would be better served by a limited-run or single-season series format like Band of Brothers or From The Earth To The Moon. That way, the extra material from The Animatrix and that gawdawful game (which runs like crap even on a GeForce 6800GT!) can be worked in, and the e


    • 2 could've been condensed into a single hour, with 3 being another single hour. They had a great beginning, but I think that they just screwed up. They should've gotten the same budget for the other 2 movies, and the same restraints put on them by the movie studio.

      Oh yeah, and they should've hired better editors to say "this sucks" or "whisky tango foxtrot?".

  • saw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers over the weekend and would love to see it remade in a Goth genre.
  • Less than Zero Originally a decisive statement of excess. Then became generic 80's Say No To Drugs.

    The graphic novel movies that failed... League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Tom Sawyer? Dorian Gray? A dozen complicating choices that all denutered mature lit).

    Aliens v. Predator, Troy, Alexander three movies that I was excited about upon conception... and then produced some of the biggest turds in history. Almost would've been preferrable to keep them as that unmade masterpiece in your mind.

    Die Hard
    • LOEG *could* have been an amazing film. As it was, it was an agreeable waste of 2 hours for me.

      ~$7.50 for two hours = not too bad.

      Could have been so much better though. These companies get so caught up in the effects they forget to make the fucking movie.

      *sigh*

      Good calls all around, as usual. Does it suck when you're always right?

      *Cough*ASSHOLE*Cough* ;)
  • Maybe if they remade Troy, they could pay attention to they way that Homer's Odyssey told the story, instead of keeping the cast of characters, but arbitrarily changing their fates willy nilly.

    Oh yeah, and hopefully they would find someone other than Brad Pitt to be Achilles. He was terrible. And maybe they could get some chicks who could act. And then actually give them lines so they can prove it, instead of just making faces at the camera...

  • If I must explain, how cool is the idea of a post-apocalyptic dragon movie? Mad Max meets arcane powers...

    It just wasn't there, though. Weak sauce, dude, weeeeak sauce.
  • Rad. [imdb.com] "A hometown kid on his BMX against the best in the world. At Helltrack... the heat is on." Featuring a young Lori Loughlin "ass-sliding".
  • Make the damn sequel without the Wacko Brothers, without making it into two movies, without the philisophical BS, without an unbelievably huge Zion. Just make it two hours of action, kung-fu, and destruction. Follow through on the fucking end of the original! Neo starts kicking ass in plain view of the media. He starts unplugging people. The rebellion ensues.
  • hellboy - it's like they quit trying before they finished writing the story, but still made it pretty.

    van hellsing - even with kate beckinsale in it, they managed to make this movie a sad string of uninteresting cliches. hugh jackman was wasted on this abomination. i actually think this one would have been better if they hadn't tried so hard. they could have had a series of films, but they used up all the monsters in one film. they also seemed to try too hard with making it appeal to everyone.

    star w
  • Without a doubt I want to see the '36th Chamber' redone with todays special effects and bullet time cinematography in all its martial arts glory. Yes 36th chamber must be redone!
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