The UNREMAKEABLE Movie Thread!!

[Octoberist]

yeah, I doubt that Raimi would go ahead with it. From what I know, he's put that on hold..hopefully forever.

 

[Dr.Dude]

The Evil dead franchise became a sucess because of two things: Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

Sure you can have a movie about the book of the dead, but it won't an Evil Dead movie. Bruce Campbell was Ash, and Ash was the movies. It's one of the rare horror/comedy franchises that really rely on the main actor than anything else.

EXACTLY. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Evil Dead's appeal isnt the same as many of the other classic horror franchises (most of which are being remade today), which are generally popular based on plot, tone, gore etc.... the difference of Evil Dead's appeal is made immediately evident just by how different all three flicks in the trilogy are. All three are about equally popular but completely different in every way, except for one linking theme....

....and that linking theme is Raimi's trademark directing style combined with Bruce Campbell's iconic performance as Ash. Sure, you could make a movie showing a bunch of teens going to a cabin in the woods, finding the Book of the Dead and getting gorily dismembered.... hell, you could even have one of the kids be named Ash.... but the fact of it is, without Raimi/Campbell.... it just ain't Evil Dead, period.

 

[Octoberist]

yup. Evil dead wasn't about the book of the dead. It was about how Ash can get himself out of trouble.

With Jason or Freddy, they can have nameless actors in there, but Evil Dead was Campbell's baby.

Like what you said, Raimi's tradmarks made the movies so campy and wonderful: The ram-crane shots (the evil dead 1st person view), the backwards effects, the shutterspeed effects, doubling the speed, the bad looping for certain shots. Classic stuff.

 

[Erzengel]

Star Wars
Godfather
Indiana Jones

Actually most movies from the 70s and 80s.

 

[thealiasman2000]

The day the Godfather remake gets made is the day the Apocalypse finally comes.

 

[blind_fury]

Predator
Seven
Taxi Driver
Big Trouble in Little China

These movies are perfect as is.

 

[Sabretooth]

I definitely see Wizard of Oz being a remake. Probably with someone like Lohan as Dorothy.

 

[Elisha Cuthbert]

Scarface

Ironic, seeing as how it was a remake in the first place.

 

[Erzengel]

What bothers you people more?

Remakes redone with a twist?
Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven
Pride and Prejudice - Bride and Prejudice

Remakes redone with a "fresh" young cast?
Romeo and Juliet
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

[Kmack]

All About Eve

 

[Mrh7448]

What bothers you people more?

Remakes redone with a twist?
Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven
Pride and Prejudice - Bride and Prejudice

Remakes redone with a "fresh" young cast?
Romeo and Juliet
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Remakes done with a Fresh cast. At least with Magnificent Seven they are trying to do their own take on things. At least this way, even with the same basic story, it can feel like it's a new project, a fresh take.

Where as with a new cast it's like they are just trying to gain the attention of a younger generation, they aren't trying to be inventive and new with the project.

 

[batman7289]

donnie darko is gay..... really gay

 

[maxwell's demon]

The Muppets Take Manhattan

 

[maxwell's demon]

What bothers you people more?

Remakes redone with a twist?
Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven
Pride and Prejudice - Bride and Prejudice

Remakes redone with a "fresh" young cast?
Romeo and Juliet
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

fresh young cast.

does that even need asking?

 

[maxwell's demon]

Birth Of a Nation

 

[Obsidian]

Birth Of a Nation

How can you remake that without inciting nationwide riots?

And "To Kill a Mockingbird" can never be remade. It won't be the same without Gregory Peck. He pwned the role of Atticus Finch

 

[Mee]

Gigli.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Gone With The Wind, Clash Of The Titans

Clash of the Titans is BEGGING to be updated.

 

[The Sage]

On the Waterfront
Munich
Godfather trilogy
Heat
Malcolm X

 

[The Chairman]

The Godfather Trilogy
Anything by Hitchcock (it's bad enough they got Pyscho)
Anything by Kubrick (again, too late for The Shining)
Anything by Scorcese
Anything by Mel Brooks
Bullitt
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Alien
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The original Star Wars trilogy
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind
Terms Of Endearment
The Terminator
True Romance
The Shawshank Redemption
Angels With Dirty Faces
Carnal Knowledge
Steel Magnolias
The Fugitive
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Mr. Roberts
The Odd Couple
The Big Lebowksi

Just off the top of my head.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

The Godfather Trilogy
Anything by Hitchcock (it's bad enough they got Pyscho)
Anything by Kubrick (again, too late for The Shining)
Anything by Scorcese
Anything by Mel Brooks
Bullit
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Alien
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The original Star Wars trilogy
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind
Terms Of Endearment
The Terminator
True Romance
The Shawshank Redemption
Angels With Dirty Faces
Carnal Knowledge
Steel Magnolias
The Fugitive
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Mr. Roberts
The Odd Couple
The Big Lebowksi

Just off the top of my head.

I heard that Michael Bay is remaking the birds.

 

[WorthyStevens]

Kill Bill. Pretty much anything done by Quentin Tarantino is unremakeable.

 

[The Chairman]

I heard that Michael Bay is remaking the birds.

 

[iceberg325]

Well for Brooks, they remade producers

 

[cryptic name]

Birth Of a Nation

i'd see a remake of this. just to view the violence that would erupt in the theatre.
seriously though, this the only film posted on here that can never and will never be remade, more than anything else it was intrinsically of its time.