Movies that are impossible to remake

Allhallowsday · May 24, 2011, 07:22:29 PM

FREAKS (1932)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

InformationGeek · 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.

venomx · May 24, 2011, 08:48:38 PM

My 2 cents...

The Goonies. 1985

bob · May 24, 2011, 08:51:18 PM

The Room

retrorussell · May 24, 2011, 09:26:50 PM

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.

dean · May 25, 2011, 09:47:49 AM

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! ;-)

JaseSF · May 25, 2011, 01:08:23 PM

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....

ChaosTheory · May 25, 2011, 08:14:23 PM

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

Mike From BBandBCs · May 30, 2011, 01:22:07 PM

According to washed-up Hollywood, no movies are impossible to remake.

CactusZac · June 02, 2011, 12:59:32 PM

agreed on Blazing Saddles

BaDgErFaN92 · June 02, 2011, 02:04:56 PM

I would say that Raiders of the Lost Ark is definitely a movie that can't be remade.

Leah · June 02, 2011, 02:40:34 PM

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.

Flangepart · June 02, 2011, 05:23:33 PM

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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.

Rev. Powell · June 03, 2011, 10:20:44 AM

Documentaries.

flackbait · June 04, 2011, 08:11:51 PM

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.

Movies that are impossible to remake

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