Classic Movies That Should Never Be Remade Or Get A Sequel

[Detective Conan]

What are classic movies that you feel should never get a remake or sequel?

Here’s a few from the top of my head.

Goodfellas

Apocalypse Now.

Big.

Taxi Driver.

E.T.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Thread title says 'should be remade', OP says 'should never'?

 

[Detective Conan]

Thread title says 'should be remade', OP says 'should never'?

Fixed.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Okay,

Jaws
Sunset Boulevard
Blade Runner
Casablanca (I know some movies have 'borrowed' from it)

 

[Mandon Knight]

The BTTF trilogy or the first one really, as you can't do Parts 2 or 3 without the first.

 

[Dark Raven]

Okay,

Jaws
Sunset Boulevard
Blade Runner
Casablanca (I know some movies have 'borrowed' from it)

Already too late with those ones as they have sequels.

Sunset Boulevard has a musical adaptation.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Already too late with those ones as they have sequels.

Sunset Boulevard has a musical adaptation.

Dammit, I was just thinking about remakes. I forgot about the sequels part.

I don't count a musical adaptation though

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I can only think of Back to the Future, the rest can have all the remakes and sequels studios want.

 

[Mandon Knight]

To be fair, the BR sequel was quality of the finest and not just some cheap ass namesake BS. It was genuine, faithful and contained the heart of the original, which in itself is a classic.

 

[Breogan]

Thought I wanted them, till I got them and wish I hadn't - Sequels to the original SW Trilogy

Yeah I know to late; . TFA (was actually pretty great!), TLJ (killed it), RoSW (...?
And these Forces of Destiny and Galaxy of Adventure are pretty much Disney doing their remakes.







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(barring Barb Wire) Casa Blanca is inevitable.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Star Wars IV : A New Hope....

Oi.....what about me....

 

[Web-Head]

Back to the Future should never be remade

 

[Travesty]

Back to the Future, Robocop and Ghostbusters.

And we already saw what happened with Robocop and Ghostbusters.

 

[Mandon Knight]

We've had a re-make of BTTF Part II, it was called Avengers : End Game.

 

[_Superman_]

Robocop the remake was a good movie.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Robocop the remake was a good movie.

Ditto. I enjoyed it.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

My question is... Why the animosity to re-makes or re-boots and sequels in the first place?

Can no play ever be staged again after it's first run with the original cast? What's the difference?

Why is it always forgotten that some of the greatest films of all time are either point of fact re-makes or "re-imaginings" of older films/stories?

Other than nostalgic emotions what's the real skin off anyone's nose if a film is re-made? If it's good... It's good and I'll like it. If it's not good... Oh well, I'll never see it again and the original work still exists to be enjoyed whenever I want to see it. Why the irrational response to the creation of film product?

 

[DarkKnight88]

We've had a re-make of BTTF: Part II, it was called Avengers : End Game.

Fixed.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Fixed.

and fixed my own too, thanks

 

[sueb1863]

My question is... Why the animosity to re-makes or re-boots and sequels in the first place?

Can no play ever be staged again after it's first run with the original cast? What's the difference?

Why is it always forgotten that some of the greatest films of all time are either point of fact re-makes or "re-imaginings" of older films/stories?

Other than nostalgic emotions what's the real skin off anyone's nose if a film is re-made? If it's good... It's good and I'll like it. If it's not good... Oh well, I'll never see it again and the original work still exists to be enjoyed whenever I want to see it. Why the irrational response to the creation of film product?

I can only speak to my personal opinion. Remakes by themselves aren't bad - heck, they're as old as cinema itself! Cecil B. DeMille remade his own movies all the time. Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments, for example. And how many versions of A Christmas Carol are there?? Not to mention all the different Shakespeare adaptations.

I just think that remakes are a waste of time unless you're either taking advantage of new technology that will provide a brand new experience (like remaking silent movies into sound movies) or improving in some way on the first version.

 

[Travesty]

This thread isn't about never remaking movies ever again, it's just talking about certain ones in particular.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I can only speak to my personal opinion. Remakes by themselves aren't bad - heck, they're as old as cinema itself! Cecil B. DeMille remade his own movies all the time. Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments, for example. And how many versions of A Christmas Carol are there?? Not to mention all the different Shakespeare adaptations.

I just think that remakes are a waste of time unless you're either taking advantage of new technology that will provide a brand new experience (like remaking silent movies into sound movies) or improving in some way on the first version.

Your first point gets about halfway to my thinking. So many classics were in fact remakes. The Maltese Falcon is a remake, as you stated the Heston Ben-Hur also a remake. And as you also pointed out there are then simply those perennial tales that get retold again and again whether over a generation or even sooner. And yeah, new story tellers simply love certain stories and want to tell them their own way using the methods available to them today. I just find that is carving out an exception, as many do, simply because one grew up with multiple versions of said stories already. But if we applied the attitude you and others had to when those now "classic" remakes were done they wouldn't get made. I know my sense of the history of cinema would be poorer without the likes of The Magnificent Seven, or The Dollars trilogy, and more recently there have been great remakes of 3:10 To Yuma and despite the way the Burton filmed botched it so badly the new Planet Of The Apes trilogy is probably one of the best and most underrated reboots of the last twenty years. The existence of Burton's bad,y done version didn't mean a better one couldn't be made. I know... You'll say they fall into your exceptions rule or that they are justified simply by their quality and that so many remakes aren't good proves your point. To my mind though that's starting from a false premise though. Wanna say 90% of remakes are mediocre to crap? You're probably right. But... 90% of most films are mediocre to crap. You won't know if you don't see them just like any other film.

What's more of an interest to me is the attitude of people seeming to be personally offended by remakes or reboots. It's rather apparent that this raises hackles to the point some get actual angry about it. Something sacred almost has been violated to some it seems, and I doubt anyone being honest would say I'm being hyperbolic, especially if you come to places like the Hype regularly and see what people choose to get up in arms over or how they choose to express themselves. I am an 80's kid through and through and came to my teens and young adulthood in the 90's. As a case in point I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I saw say Terminator 1&2 or the Back To The Future films. Those things are foundational in my pop culture inheritance as it were. Now, I have pretty much disliked every single post T2 film in that franchise. But that the post Cameron films suck for me doesn't take away from the greatness of T1&2. And I'm not gonna be emotionally impacted if they continue to make more and I don't like them. I would be happy if I found the new one to be good or even great but it's no skin off my nose if it isn't. Just as if they rebooted BTTF and it was no good. Each time you go see a movie it's a crap shoot as to what it will be, original work, remake or adapting something from another medium.

 

[kaypain]

My question is... Why the animosity to re-makes or re-boots and sequels in the first place?

Can no play ever be staged again after it's first run with the original cast? What's the difference?

Why is it always forgotten that some of the greatest films of all time are either point of fact re-makes or "re-imaginings" of older films/stories?

Other than nostalgic emotions what's the real skin off anyone's nose if a film is re-made? If it's good... It's good and I'll like it. If it's not good... Oh well, I'll never see it again and the original work still exists to be enjoyed whenever I want to see it. Why the irrational response to the creation of film product?

This is how I feel with the Disney remakes and all the bickering from the fans

 

[Mandon Knight]

It's the fact behind what it pinpoints, imagination & creative flow is narrowing, it's becoming riskier to allow new ideas big budgets and so 'safe' is becoming more & more common and then if something 'new' on a smaller budget is successful, that's then snapped on and re-jigged or re-made or re-imagined, thus losing the 'original' originality.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

It's the fact behind what it pinpoints, imagination & creative flow is narrowing, it's becoming riskier to allow new ideas big budgets and so 'safe' is becoming more & more common and then if something 'new' on a smaller budget is successful, that's then snapped on and re-jigged or re-made or re-imagined, thus losing the 'original' originality.

Or maybe the perspective of the fans is what is actually narrowing? Evidenced by the daily talk of having to protect "canon"? Evidenced by claiming "there's nothing but reboots" but then finding out either that the audience itself isn't turning original works into the successes of franchise films or they find original content to be as ststed... About 90% of original stuff is mediocre to crap. Or perhaps it's evidenced in the hyperbole of claiming there is nothing good being made while simply not understanding how the media landscape has drastically changed so that they don't notice that there are more platforms to see films of all stripes and actually more money going to all kinds of productions because of the hunger for content thus there is a lot of risk taking, just in a relatively new paradigm that hasn't registered yet in the pop culture consciousness of the same people of the generation that feels so protective of certain eras' films? Because the streaming era and online disruption of the last twenty years has been a key factor in making it possible for more creative people to get things made and giving them a variety of platforms to show them on, INCLUDING theatrical release. The kicker is, like with music, this just means that you have to search and find what is good or appeals to you.

It might be a perspective change is what's really what is required and not a hard and fast rule about remakes or sequels and an assumption about what that supposedly means?