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Here's my 2 cent's worth, whatever it worth?

some movies that were made in a certain time frame,and or,style. cannot be re-made today. All I can name is one of my favorites,

The Blues Brothers(1980).
I know they made a sequel, but to capture the raw feeling and the pace of the original, could the studio do it?
I just can't see Seth Rogan and,or,any other comedy actor doing the movie.
Besides, where are you going to find a 1974 dodge monaco?

Probably not, but since when has that stopped them?

The can never remake anything related to The X-Files :teddyr:

The studios should never EVER remake The Thing (1982).

  With The Thing, they would use cgi instead of good old animatronics and puppets, thus taking away the creepiness of the film. Also, since today's movie goers are so impatient, we would see the monster withing the first ten minutes without any build up whatsoever.  Plus, seeing how films are done these days, the film makers would put in a woman (not that there's anything wrong with that) in order to make a love interest subplot (something that's very unnecessary in a lot of films).

GIGLI

They couldn't even touch Truth Or Dare: A Critical Madness. At least I hope not - the low budget is what gives the film its charm. I'd like to see them try and remake Just Before Dawn. I'd be up for murder if they tried that one. Also, pretty much any SOV horror flicks (ie: Boardinghouse, Blood Cult, Blood Lake, etc). Those films were meant to be low budget trash - someting today's remakers just don't understand.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/

Supposedly it's a prequel of sorts, taking place at the Norwegian base... :lookingup:

That brings up something that I've thought about before.  Wouldn't it make more sense to remake crappy movies rather than movies that were already done right the first time?  If Peter Jackson were really a great director, he would have remade some disastrous film like "Gigli" into a masterpiece, and left well enough alone with regards to King Kong.

My thoughts exactly.  By remaking great movies, they set themselves up for failure.  But, of course the movie-going public won't go to see another GIGLI, so you'd have to change the title to something like FUGLY. 

They won't remake London After Midnight because the bad guy wasn't really a vampire and (If I recall correctly) was trying to get a family fortune by scaring people, not killing them :) ...also, no one would take the hypnosis element seriously :P

The fact they remade THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL tells me if they think they can make money on it (it has a familiar and recognized name), they'll remake anything...not necessarily competently though. Actually most likely incompetently as all they seem to care about is making a quick buck nowadays.

Any Hitchcock films, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Ozzymandias speaks: The Trip. You could do a lot of CGI effects. The problem would be protest about the content even though LSD has been out of style for years.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

Supposedly they're doing a remake of Arthur, but with Russell Brand in the lead role. Now, I think Russell Brand is somewhat funny, but WTF!!!! The original is in my top 5 comedies of the 80's, but it's not on most other people's top 5. In fact, almost nobody from current generations has even heard of it. How does Hollywood expect to make any money from it?

Blade Runner

Oh my god, the Americans are making a remake of Death at a Funeral, which was produced in 2007 :buggedout:

Mad Max 1&2

A lot of the movies mentioned here were really products of their time, and can't be taken out of their original context without losing something. But that never stopped anybody from doing it. I'd have said Vanishing Point couldn't be remade, not just because it was a good movie, but that setting just doesn't exist anymore. Not just the clash of generations, of establishment vs. counterculture, but also the tools and methods of the police. The highway system itself isn't the same as it was then. But that didn't stop somebody from remaking it, albeit just for TV. And in trying to make it work, they turned Kowalski from a loner to a family man, implied that he survived the crash (making it more of a brilliant plan than a tragic and senseless act). Worst of all, they gave him a reason for what he was doing. The whole point of the first movie was trying to understand the seemingly random acts of this man. And the cops didn't think he was a terrorist, they were just doing what cops do - trying to stop a speeder. It all just got out of hand, leading up to an ending that leaves everyone asking "why?" All that got thrown out the window to make a superficially similar car chase movie.

So, there really are no movies that can't be remade, only those that shouldn't.

They shouldn't remake the following. Doesn't mean they won't try though:

BRAZIL
ON THE WATERFRONT
VERTIGO
CITIZEN KANE

The fact they remade THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, PSYCHO and even CASABLANCA (ripped off in numerous other films most abominably BARB WIRE shows they'll remake anything).

976-Evil.  Considering that nobody actually uses 976 numbers anymore, it just wouldn't work.

Also Star Wars. 

Star Wars doesn't need to be remade, just refurbished every few years.

Going back to the idea that many movies are products of their time..

The FX movies and The Wizard of Speed and Time.

Movies that celebrated practical effects over CGI.

Yeah, nobody would have a clue how to make those types of films without CGI!

The Karate Kid was a movie of it's time in every way, but the dumbasses are producing a remake of it, and karate isn't even popular between youth anymore.

And Pat Morita was one of a kind.

Actually, Tod Browning DID remake this, as MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935) with Lugosi as the fake bloodsucker.

For sure. Mad Max 2 (AKA The Road Warrior) has to be the one of the most perfect action movies ever made. If remade it would probably look something like the recent Death Race.

In general, most remakes are not as good as the original.

What about Micheal Bay directing a remake of Eraserhead starring Will Smith  :bouncegiggle: