Discuss: Which Remake Do You Want Axed?

Can we just kill all remakes and bring originality back to Hollywood?

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The first one that springs to mind is the Karate Kid remake, but I'm sure if I thought hard about it I could name a few more :)

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I vote The Birds as the most pointless and misguided remake I've heard of recently.

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Oldboy. Definitely Oldboy.

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I don't get trying to remake The Crow already.

Plus, that movie was great, the sequels were awful.

I just don't think that movie needed sequals at all, as the original was a complete story, and didn't need anything added to it.

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I second Oldboy.

Also, Let The Right One In.

Pretty much any of the amazing foreign films that are remade a day after they're released. It's just too bad we were too late to stop Quarantine. =(

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I think that horror movies are being way too overdone. To see "A Nightmare On Elm Street" being re-made angers me. Same with "The Birds" seeing as they already did so a few years back for TV. It just scares me that they may try to touch "Evil Dead"...

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I´d like to see the Star Wars prequels remade by younger and more sophisticated directors. Though we all know that will never happen.

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most definitely the remake of the crow... it was such a great movie that was filmed exactly the way it should have been with a great lead in brandon lee.

also the remake of the karate kid... i don't see how they're going to top the whole wax on wax off and the crane kick. those are pop cultural moments that they can't win if they re-do it or if they try to come up with some other thing to equal that. plus i'm still not sold on will smith's kid as the karate kid...

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In addition to those previously mentioned: The Thing, Hellraiser, Highlander, Suspiria, Fahrenheit 451, The Warriors, Paranormal Activity (I haven't seen this, but from everything I've read it doesn't sound like it needs a Hollywood makeover), etc.

This whole trend in remaking/reimagaining is out of hand. Is Hollywood really out of original ideas?

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Karate Kid
Planet of the Apes
Wizard of Oz

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Last House on the Left, mostly. The original is so of it's time, so completely early 70's grimy/nasty/hopeless, and I just don't feel like a 2009 remake is anything other than pointless. I'm also not terribly enthused about the prospect of anyone attempting a Suspiria redo, either, really.

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Old Boy.

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The two that have a sentimental hold on me are The Birds and Suspiria. I don't want to see those remade.

The other movies I don't care much about.

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The horror genre is definitely taking a pounding with lame ass remakes (Prom Night, When A Stranger Calls, Amityville Horror, etc.). The Hills Have Eyes was probably the last remake I was impressed with, but remakes/reimaginings have gotten out of hand. Right now I'm dreading Robocop, Oldboy & The Crow. I don't care what directors &/or stars are attached--you just don't mess with those movies.

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The Crow and Tron (although the latter may not be a re-make, so much).

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SUSPIRIA. Please no.

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I'm late in this, but I have to agree, Oldboy.

Also, the Cowboy Bebop movie... why?!

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