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Remaking Classic Movies

Discussion in 'TC Media' started by Sean Daleer, Apr 4, 2016.

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  1. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    Has anyone ever successfully remade a classic movie better than the original?

    I think if you love a movie then a remake is always going to seem inferior because you are comparing them off the bat. Any time I have watched a remake I've watched it in a certain frame of mind and it's never delivered.
     
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    I prefer the 1983 Scarface to the 1932 one, though I did watch the '83 version first.
     
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  4. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    Two movies I have never seen the original.

    Deffo be watching them soon, cheers lads.
     
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  6. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    Be nice to watch a movie you didn't know wasn't an original and then compare the remake to it, which you thought was an original.

    I might need to lie down after that.
     
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    Ive not seen that many remakes and originals usually only watch 1 but the remake of the Last house on the left I would say is better than the original.
     
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  8. ILoveTheCeltic

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    I downloaded Oldboy, meaning for it to be the original and was already watching it for maybe 20 minutes before I clocked that it wasn't but I watched it anyway and thought it was a good 7/10 film.

    On IMDB its rated 5.8 and the Original is 8.4, so if the Original is that much better it must be great.
     
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    Admit it, you went to google :icon_mrgreen:
     
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    :smiley-laughing002: One of my favourite, if not my favourite horror movie so it came straight from memory. The thing, there's one from google.
     
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  13. Vinnie BBQ Justice is lost Justice is raped Justice is gone.

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    John Carpenter's The Thing ain't really a remake. Both movies are based on the same book though.
     
    Vinnie BBQ, Apr 6, 2016
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