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Purple Rain.
It's Prince and his music. How do you remake something like that?
Can you think of other movies that are impossible to remake?
THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN.
Thanks to the miracle of modern science true midgets are now extinct.
Nightmare City. Maniac (1980). The House With Laughing Windows. Cool As Ice. Be Somebody...Or Be Somebody's Fool.
The original "Star Wars". As bad as the prequels were, I hope nobody ever remakes the original. "E.T." is another one, please don't ever try to recapture that magic, it would just ruin it. Hardly any actor's today have a damn personality. This is what "The Empire Strikes Back" would sound like if it were made today. Darth Vader: "I AM your father." Luke: F--k you, mother f---er! Don't make me come over there b***h slap you with my good arm!" Princess Leia: "I love you!" Han Solo: "I know that b***h!"
This isn't really a bad movie thing, but whatever
I don't think you could remake Citizen Kane. Now I'm not a person that would say its one of the best movies ever made, but it seems like no director would ever attempt to do it.
Birth of a Nation, For obvious reasons
What are you all talking about? Michael Bay can remake anything but he'll add unusually attractive young women, explosions, robots and aliens...not saying it would be any good but he probably would try and remake anything...
Has Micheal Bay even directed a remake? I know he's produced a few, but thats not really as important as being a director.
Plan 9 from outer Space- "you just don't do that" -Stone Cold Steve Austin
Just about anything by Mel Brooks.
Taxi Driver
You can replace actors but one of the biggest "stars" of that movie is the old Times Square. The look, feel, and mood of that film could never be reproduced.
I Eat Your Skin - a piece of oddly pleasing cinematic trash that would be utterly ruined if it were remade.
Blazing Saddles for obvious reasons.
Chatterbox (1971) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075830/). Such a film could never be made in the first place nowadays. Let us be grateful.
Quote from: Raffine on April 23, 2011, 11:50:22 AM
THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN.
Thanks to the miracle of modern science true midgets are now extinct.
Eh, you could just cast it using little people and no one would be the wiser.
Quote from: Criswell on April 23, 2011, 07:52:32 PM
Has Micheal Bay even directed a remake? I know he's produced a few, but thats not really as important as being a director.
No. He is credited with directing . . .
Transformers (all three of them)
The Island
Bad Boys (both of them)
Pearl Harbor
Armageddon
The Rock
but, I don't think you can call any of them a remake.
FREAKS (1932)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 24, 2011, 07:22:29 PM
FREAKS (1932)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0
Yeah, I was thinking that myself. A bunch o the things and conditions that the freaks have are avoidable or cureable nowadays. Plus, the world is too senstive to try to remake this film.
Kingdom of the SpidersThis one couldn't be remade today with the same impact since the film used real spiders and killed as well. Animal rights groups would have a field day with it.
My 2 cents...
The Goonies. 1985 :wink:
The Room
Quote from: Criswell on April 23, 2011, 05:57:20 PM
Birth of a Nation, For obvious reasons
That one, and Song Of The South.
Quote from: BoyScoutKevin on May 24, 2011, 06:46:23 PM
Quote from: Criswell on April 23, 2011, 07:52:32 PM
Has Micheal Bay even directed a remake? I know he's produced a few, but thats not really as important as being a director.
No. He is credited with directing . . .
Transformers (all three of them)
The Island
Bad Boys (both of them)
Pearl Harbor
Armageddon
The Rock
but, I don't think you can call any of them a remake.
The island is essentially an unofficial remake (or rip off) of logins run, so I think it should count! ;-)
Actually The Island is closer to Parts: The Clonus Horror IMO. You could argue Transformers is a remake/reworking of sorts of the old cartoon series...and I didn't actually say direct before....
Robert Fiveson would call THE ISLAND a remake; he'd tell you about it in detail.
Anything by Stanley Kubrick, I think, would be kind of imposssible (although I know it's been attempted a couple times, with THE SHINING & LOLITA - but it didn't really work)
GONE WITH THE WIND
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST - and rightly so, thanks to the ASPCA
BEN HUR - wouldn't actually be impossible, but it would be all CGI & therefore lose a lot of its oomph
And yeah, FREAKS, definitely
According to washed-up Hollywood, no movies are impossible to remake.
agreed on Blazing Saddles
I would say that Raiders of the Lost Ark is definitely a movie that can't be remade.
Casablanca because you just can't remake anything that starred Humphrey Bogart, you just can't get that calm, collective acting experience from any other modern actors today, plus the movie would be ruined since then it would be remade in color, and that would ruin the charisma the film had.
I would also say Phantom of the Opera, and before you say it has, i know it has, but the 1925 film created the essence that there is no words to hear, but to watch. If it would be remade, it would have dialogue you could hear, but That will just ruin it. Plus, it would be in color, which will suck.
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Quote from: Raffine on April 23, 2011, 11:50:22 AM
THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN.
Thanks to the miracle of modern science true midgets are now extinct.
Eh, you could just cast it using little people and no one would be the wiser.
Unless it was directed by Terry Gillium.
Documentaries.
I'm probably going out on a limb here, but I'd say any of the "Tough Guy" action movies would be hard to remake, (i.e. anything staring Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin). For example, movies like the Dirty Dozen, Dirty Harry, Deathwish. Anybody who tries to act these parts nowadays just comes off as cheesey.
I don't think they could re-make Billy Jack. It was way too much a product of it's time.
I'd also hate to see anyone try to remake any of Ed Wood's movies.
Quote from: InformationGeek on May 24, 2011, 08:03:07 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 24, 2011, 07:22:29 PM
FREAKS (1932)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0
Yeah, I was thinking that myself. A bunch o the things and conditions that the freaks have are avoidable or cureable nowadays. Plus, the world is too senstive to try to remake this film.
Kingdom of the Spiders
This one couldn't be remade today with the same impact since the film used real spiders and killed as well. Animal rights groups would have a field day with it.
I think Hallows is right....but not because their is a short supply of freaks.
Their are deformed folks still here.
We just dont use them in freak shows too much anymore.
And Im not being insensitive-cripes! Im only 5'2" I feel like a freak sometimes.
the Blues Brothers.
Glen or Glenda?
Forrest Gump
Begotten
Un Chien Andalou
Pink Flamingos
The Doom Generation
Rubin and Ed
I have heard of a remake of "Plan 9." Do people not get why this movie is great and how a remake would F it up?
Fargo
Gleaming the Cube
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Videodrome
Anything from Jan Švankmajer or the Quay Brothers
"Ghandi," unless you make him a zombie fighting ninja.