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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I Am Legend

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I Am Legend
Day The Earth Stood Still
Planet Of The Apes

But... I really can't think of any bad remakes...

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Originally posted by zerokiryu:

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I Am Legend

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Can this really be called a remake, since it was based off a book and all?

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Originally posted by ImNotHere:


You forgot "The Time Machine"...

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Originally posted by RIPWash:

Good remakes:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Bad remakes:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I had such high hopes for that one and it failed me . . . BIG TIME!!!)

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Originally posted by RIPWash:

Good remakes:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Yer daft man, Willy Wonka was twice as good!

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I beg to differ, so differ I shall. I didn't say BETTER than the original, I said a good remake. I am a big fan of both actually. But in terms of story in general, in fact, the Depp/Burton version is much closer to the source material with the exception of Willy's childhood backstory. In the original, there was a TON of stuff added that wasn't even in the book and some things omitted. I mean Danny Elfman (one of my favorites) even used the actual Oompa Loompa lyrics from the book in his songs! And the Oopma Loompas appeared as they were described in book (not freakish orange skinned clown midgets). When I heard they were making the newer version I read the book to my kids, we watched the Wilder version and then the new version. I was just blown away. It was fantastic.

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Bad remakes:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I had such high hopes for that one and it failed me . . . BIG TIME!!!)

It was inferior because they were trying to fit in a two hour movie. What they gave us wasn't bad, just horribly attenuated.

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I beg to differ again. I don't think that the time frame was all that important and, as I understand it, the "source material" has gone through many changes. Each and every one had changes made to it. The book, LP, radio show, British TV version . . . all different. But my main gripe was that the funniest part of the book, to me, was Zaphod. Sam Rockwell was a great choice to portray him, but in taking away Zaphod's 2nd head shortly after his introduction (and having it hidden half the time before that) really detracted from his overall character. Not to mention that I don't think they even mentioned Slartibartfasts's award for outstanding fjord design.

I dunno. I may have to watch it again.

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Originally posted by RIPWash:

I beg to differ, so differ I shall. I didn't say BETTER than the original, I said a good remake.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
It was inferior because they were trying to fit in a two hour movie.

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Even the TV show wasn't as good as the radio version, although it was saved by the utterly, utterly brilliant animated narrator sequences.

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