Movies that are impossible to remake

claws · April 23, 2011, 11:42:18 AM

My vote goes to

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?

Raffine · April 23, 2011, 11:50:22 AM

THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN.

Thanks to the miracle of modern science true midgets are now extinct.

voltron · April 23, 2011, 05:17:45 PM

Nightmare City. Maniac (1980). The House With Laughing Windows. Cool As Ice. Be Somebody...Or Be Somebody's Fool.

66Crush · April 23, 2011, 05:36:39 PM

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!"

Criswell · April 23, 2011, 05:57:20 PM

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

JaseSF · April 23, 2011, 07:22:42 PM

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...

Criswell · 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.

Leah · April 23, 2011, 08:41:58 PM

Plan 9 from outer Space- "you just don't do that" -Stone Cold Steve Austin

Mr. DS · April 23, 2011, 09:03:17 PM

Just about anything by Mel Brooks.

MrMari · April 24, 2011, 09:45:16 AM

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.

voltron · April 24, 2011, 06:10:32 PM

I Eat Your Skin - a piece of oddly pleasing cinematic trash that would be utterly ruined if it were remade.

bob · April 24, 2011, 07:17:02 PM

Blazing Saddles for obvious reasons.

Nakuyabi · April 24, 2011, 08:53:58 PM

Chatterbox (1971). Such a film could never be made in the first place nowadays. Let us be grateful.

Rev. Powell · April 24, 2011, 10:03:06 PM

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.

BoyScoutKevin · 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.

Movies that are impossible to remake

claws

66Crush

Nakuyabi