ChainsawAsh said:LordVader said:Oh for fuck sake why cant we just leave some movies alone...... To me, sequels will always be more acceptable than just "rebooting" a franchise, it completely devalues movies these days, there could always be that idea lingering that "we can just remake it" and it's turning hollywood into a giant clusterfuck, excuse me, a bigger clusterfuck than it has to be.
While I agree with you on general principle, there have been cases of remakes actually being (arguably, of course) superior to the original.
The few remakes I feel actually do improve upon the source material:
- The Thing (1982)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - I should note here that I do enjoy the original quite a bit, I just think the Sutherland-starring version is far superior
- Ocean's 11 (2001) - not so much "superior to" as "just as good as"
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)That's all I can think of at the moment. Then there are the remakes that change enough that they're still good, but not really comparable to the original (such as Seven Samurai vs The Magnificent Seven, or Yojimbo vs Fistful of Dollars).
My point is, while most remakes are unnecessary and utter shit, sometimes they work.
Star Wars is sort of a remake of Hidden Fortress though not really. The 1974 script though was a blatant ripoff in my opinion. Then you have shot for shot remakes like the prisoner of zenda.
Or absolute shit like the remake of psycho.
Or blatant remakes without having the right to the original like disturbia being supposedly an unauthorized remake of rear window.
Seven Samurai and Yojimbo are so superior to magificent seven and fistful of dollars it is not even funny.
Akira Kurosawa was not compensated For hollywoods theft, or Leones unauthorized remakes.
I mean if they were inspired by and not just blatant ripoffs it would be better in my opinion. Like Kurosawa always claimed John Ford as an inspiration. You can see the influence in some of the films but none are blatant ripoffs o John Ford pictures.
Does not matter how much i love the man with no name trilogy and like eastwood in that role or think Leone was a brilliant filmaker. The eastwood character is clearly an Americanization of the Mifune character.
The only reason to transpose a samurai piece to a western and have it work so well is the mark of the western on kurosawas films, though has been overstated.