TV & Film If You Could Remake Any Movies

[Amy SF]

I know there are plenty of people (like me) who hate it when Hollywood remakes perfectly good movies. But let's say you see a movie that isn't really that great - a mediocre or even a really crappy movie. Let's say the special effects for the movie are lousy or just outdated. The acting is wooden, the dialogue is laughable, the direction is poor. Let's say the original movie was based on other material that was decent to begin with, and therefore deserved a decent filming. And you have the power to get the movie remade. What movie would it be?

For me, I think I'd like to see Fantastic Voyage remade. My parents took me to see it when it came out; I was about seven years old. Even then I thought it was kind of a lousy movie, but for some reason I think about it from time to time and think it could be remade. It might need some work, but I think it could be done, if, perhaps, the setting was moved back to the 19th century setting of the original story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage

Am I out of my mind, or does anyone agree (without having seen the movie, I understand, but reading about it on Wikipedia) with me?

 

[Blobbenstein]

I might have seen it back in the 80s...sounds a bit like Innerspace.

I didn't see the Hitchhiker's Guide Movie all the way through, but the bits I saw I didn't like, and I gather it wasn't that good....The Hitchhiker books deserve a series of movies, not just one.......The Catch 22 movie wasn't that good, and again maybe a series would be better for that...The actor that played Yossarian was good though.

 

[Amy SF]

I might have seen it back in the 80s...sounds a bit like Innerspace.

I didn't see the Hitchhiker's Guide Movie all the way through, but the bits I saw I didn't like, and I gather it wasn't that good....The Hitchhiker books deserve a series of movies, not just one.......The Catch 22 movie wasn't that good, and again maybe a series would be better for that...The actor that played Yossarian was good though.

Alan Arkin. You have good taste in actors.

Catch-22 was one of those movies my parents took me to see that were probably a little too adult for me at the time. I don't remember much of it, maybe some violence and gore. Considering it's an anti-war movie, I wouldn't mind a remake of that, either.

 

[Blobbenstein]

Yes, the depiction of Yossarian was well done...pretty close to how he came across in the book.....three or whatever hours, isn't really long enough for Catch 22.........Catch22 should have been made into a series, like MASH.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

For me, I think I'd like to see Fantastic Voyage remade. My parents took me to see it when it came out; I was about seven years old. Even then I thought it was kind of a lousy movie, but for some reason I think about it from time to time and think it could be remade. It might need some work, but I think it could be done, if, perhaps, the setting was moved back to the 19th century setting of the original story.

Raquel Welch. Highly underrated actress. That's about all I remember about that movie.

I'd like to see the Chronicles of Narnia series redone. I don't think the recent versions were all that great, the acting was mediocre and it strayed from the original story line at times. The visual effects were stunning, however.

 

[yakherder]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crappy Skull, all of the Resident Evil movies, Battlefield Earth (what a waste of an idea that actually had potential), and I want to see Thundercats made into a movie.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

Many, many sequels to Firefly.

 

[Second Summer]

Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crappy Skull

That's the one I was trying to remember. That movie had so much potential, and they completely and utterly ruined it. Not to mention, the title should have been Fate of Atlantis, and be based on the computer game of the same name. Though they could have made a decent movie around the idea of the post-war Soviet foes as well, like they tried, but it was a complete disaster. If this had happened in Roman times, the Emperor would have given a big thumps down, and the people responsible would have ended up as gladiator fodder in the Colosseum.

OK, rant over.