What is one movie that should never be remade?

[Medicine Head]

The Evil Dead

I never heard of that movie F-16.

 

[Medicine Head]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

2nd place: whatever remains from my childhood that they haven't butchered/murdered yet

@Jeeebus @christ Yup, no one should touch the first one as it is an epic classic.

 

[nakedfrog]

Ummm, what happens if I say "no?"

Nothing, it's just surprising. While stupid, it is also a funny movie.

 

[Captante]

The Evil Dead

Too late.

 

[IronWing]

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mom has Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad

 

[BurnItDwn]

Robocop
Total Recall
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Planet of the Apes
Red Dawn
Evil Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Ghostbusters
7 Samurai
Yojimbo

Ohh crap, they have all already been remade!

 

[Pohemi]

Princess Bride

 

[IronWing]

Xanadu

 

[dawp]

plan 9 from outer space,

best known for being Bela Lugosi's last movie and dying midway through filming and being replaced bu someone about a foot taller than he was.

 

[IronWing]

Saving Private Ryan: Muppet Movie 4

 

[bigi]

UHF
Porky's
Trading Places
The Birdcage (Williams/Lane one)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
and 1,000,000s others.

 

[nakedfrog]

Fortunately I doubt we're ever in danger of seeing a UHF remake (not knocking it, I've probably seen it at least 20 times)

 

[Paperdoc]

A personal old fave of mine: Kelly's Heros. NOT because it's a classic an any way. But the silly plot and premise, and some of the really odd characters (Oddball, the Hippy tank commander in WWII?) together create a balance you could not re-do well.

 

[pmv]

The Zapruder film?

 

[Torn Mind]

Star Wars?

 

[pmv]

Robocop
Total Recall
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Planet of the Apes
Red Dawn
Evil Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Ghostbusters
7 Samurai
Yojimbo

Ohh crap, they have all already been remade!

Fair point though - almost none of those remakes were any good (though, surely The Magnificent Seven was pretty good, viewed in isolation? And there's at least one there that wasn't a particularly good movie in the first place.).

 

[nakedfrog]

Fair point though - almost none of those remakes were any good (though, surely The Magnificent Seven was pretty good, viewed in isolation? And there's at least one there that wasn't a particularly good movie in the first place.).

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wasn't actually a remake of the prior movie, either, it was a separate movie based on the same book.

 

[Spacehead]

Threat Level Midnight



Seriously though... Apocalypse Now, one of my all time favs. There's a gazillion more.

 

[BudAshes]

Two Girls One Cup...

 

[IronWing]

Billy Jack

 

[IronWing]

Two Girls One Cup...

A Very Special Two Girls One Cup Christmas

 

[BudAshes]

A Very Special Two Girls One Cup Christmas

Dreaming of a brown Christmas...

 

[IronWing]

Dreaming of a brown Christmas...

I have no idea; I’ve never watched the original.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

The Guns of Navarone.

 

[13Gigatons]

LifeForce (Mathilda May Forever)