# Episodes or movies you want to see redone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 23, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383 "2025-04-23T02:45:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/1 "2025-04-23T02:45:56Z")
I’ve been watching The Twilight Zone and got to Nightmare at 2000 Feet. This is one of my favorite episodes even though the creature is a giant teddy bear. When the movie came out in the 80s I enjoyed that version which led to the greatest scene in Third Rock from the Sun. However, I recall originally, the makers wanted to cast Robert Mitchum as a WWII vet who knew about gremlins from his war experience. I would love to see that version of the story. I feel that that could make for a very compelling movie and not just a TV episode. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/2 "2025-04-23T14:08:00Z")
I’ve always thought Bad Taste the super low budget early Peter Jackson movie needs a remake. It’s a really funny in a B-movie type way but (Unlike Braindead, his other early movie, where the horror is made by the low budget effects, and would be ruined by a big budge remake) it’s a scifi action movie which is a hard genre to pull off on a budget of $2.50 and a pizza. I’d really like to see what Peter Jackson could do with Bad Taste and a few hundred million bucks. Hollywood is throwing cash at unnecessary remakes left and right why not this one? Also Starship Troopers. Yes, I get its meant to be a parody of fascism, we all do. But doesn’t mean it needs to be a bad movie, it would be too cheesy for an episode of 90201. You could remake it in a way that doesn’t suck, incorporate more cool sci fi elements of the book (yes i also know it was only turned into an dramatisation of the book late in production) and _still_ be a on the nose parody of fascism. Hell we need more parodies of fascism right now, lots of them. I don’t think we’ll be getting them unfortunately ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/3 "2025-04-23T14:26:56Z")
**[Idiocracy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/)** (2006) should be remade. At a minimum, the grating voiceover narration should be taken out. This movie captured our present plight! Done properly, it could have been a cultural touchstone. @griffin1977 **Braindead**! I’ve never laughed so hard in a cinema as when watching that film. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/4 "2025-04-23T15:44:40Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > **Braindead**! I’ve never laughed so hard in a cinema as when watching that film. Yeah totally it shouldn’t be touched. Being remade with expensive special effects would ruin it. Bad Taste on the other hand is an action sci-fi movie, the cheesy ultra low budget effects and fight scenes are funny but they could actually be improved by being made for more than the cost of a meat pie. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/5 "2025-04-23T15:48:49Z")
_ **I am Legend** _ I’ve read the story. And the ending is great (it’s the main thing) but no one has the guts to put that ending in the movie (and it has been done at least three times already). It needs to be done properly with the story’s ending. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/6 "2025-04-23T15:55:48Z")
> [@Cumberdale](#): > > I’ve been watching The Twilight Zone and got to Nightmare at 2000 Feet. This is one of my favorite episodes even though the creature is a giant teddy bear. When the movie came out in the 80s I enjoyed that version which led to the greatest scene in Third Rock from the Sun. > > However, I recall originally, the makers wanted to cast Robert Mitchum as a WWII vet who knew about gremlins from his war experience. I would love to see that version of the story. I feel that that could make for a very compelling movie and not just a TV episode. And ditch the Marshmallow Man gremlin while you’re at it, and go with something more akin to the John Lithgow gremlin, which actually you know looked like one. > [@griffin1977](#): > > Also Starship Troopers. Yes, I get its meant to be a parody of fascism, we all do. But doesn’t mean it needs to be a bad movie, it would be too cheesy for an episode of 90201. You could remake it in a way that doesn’t suck, incorporate more cool sci fi elements of the book (yes i also know it was only turned into an dramatisation of the book late in production) and _still_ be a on the nose parody of fascism. Hell we need more parodies of fascism right now, lots of them. I don’t think we’ll be getting them unfortunately ☹ I would have a TINY bit more respect for the f. (Verhoeven) thing if it had an Only Sane Man (Woman) character, akin to G.C. Mandrake in Dr. Strangelove, who would be able to cast a broader perspective on the madness going on all around him. The entire time I was watching it, I kept wondering why _nobody_ was noticing or commenting on said insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/7 "2025-04-23T16:06:05Z")
> [@Cumberdale](#): > > I’ve been watching The Twilight Zone and got to Nightmare at 2000 Feet. This is one of my favorite episodes even though the creature is a giant teddy bear. The Shat has always gotten flack for overacting in his first break out roll, but he was supposed to be unhinged, “There’s…something on the wing. Some. Thing.” He had just come out of an insane asylum and was being shepherded back home by his wife which is why no one believed him. It would almost have been better if he HAD been a teddy bear, it is the Twilight Zone, a mysterious fuzzy high-altitude gremlin makes more rational sense. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/8 "2025-04-23T16:12:19Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > _ **I am Legend** _ > > I’ve read the story. And the ending is great (it’s the main thing) but no one has the guts to put that ending in the movie (and it has been done at least three times already). It needs to be done properly with the story’s ending. Yes, completely. What you said. In a similar vein **A Clockwork Orange** should end properly as a film so Anthony Burgess’ meaning of A Clockwork Orange is realized. Otherwise the story makes very little sense. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/9 "2025-04-23T16:12:36Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I’ve read the story. And the ending is great (it’s the main thing) but no one has the guts to put that ending in the movie (and it has been done at least three times already). Yeah of the many terrible examples of studio interference the way they ruined the last act of the Will Smith version is the worst IMO. From the moment they introduced **another uninfected human** in a story where the whole deal was there is only one human left alive, it went down hill so fast. Before that it was great. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/10 "2025-04-23T16:24:07Z")
Thomas Harris’ first novel, before introducing Hannibal Lecter, was a thriller called **Black Sunday**. It’s about a blimp pilot who uses his skills to fly a bomb into the Super Bowl. It was made into a very forgettable movie with Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern and it really needs to be re-done. I would offer if I had any movie making skills, because the film I see in my head is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/11 "2025-04-23T23:41:47Z")
I would redo 2010, but only by removing the, IMHO, very cheesy soundtrack. And I would love to see SyFy’s version of Childhood’s End completely redone so that it is true to the novel. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/12 "2025-04-24T11:00:54Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > I would redo 2010, but only by removing the, IMHO, very cheesy soundtrack. You mean, I hope, the voice-over by Roy Scheider. I have long said that the film would be immeasurably improved by taking that out. I’ve also long said that I’d love to see them film Harlan Ellison’s script for **I, Robot** , especially now that CGI has matured. The script is faithful to the book, and had Asimov’s blessing. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/13 "2025-04-24T11:27:48Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > I’ve always thought Bad Taste the super low budget early Peter Jackson movie needs a remake. It’s a really funny in a B-movie type way but (Unlike Braindead, his other early movie, where the horror is made by the low budget effects, and would be ruined by a big budge remake)… There’s also _Meet the Feebles_. If that ever gets remade, I can’t imagine it would be as debauched as the original. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/14 "2025-04-24T11:45:49Z")
There are a few movies that I’d like to see certain scenes redone with new CGI technology. I don’t want the whole movie remade, but certain scenes just bother me. Sort of the way George Lucas has been tweaking his “Star Wars” series through the years. Or, even earlier, the way Wade Williams re-shot scenes from the 1950s film **Rocketship XM** : > [@](#): > > _Rocketship X-M_ was rushed to market to be in theaters before the more lavishly produced but delayed _Destination Moon_ that was finally released 25 days later. A lack of both time and budget forced _RX-M_ 's producers to omit special effects scenes and substitute [stock footage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_footage) of American [V-2 rocket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket) launches and flight to complete some sequences that otherwise would have been made using the _Rocketship X-M_ special effects miniature. These V-2 inserts created very noticeable continuity issues.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M#cite_note-Williams-4) > > In the 1970s the rights to _Rocketship X-M_ were acquired by [Kansas City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri) film exhibitor, movie theater owner (and later video distributor) Wade Williams, who set about having some of _RX-M_ 's [special effects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects) scenes reshot in order to improve the film’s overall continuity.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M#cite_note-Williams-4) The [VHS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS) tape, [LaserDisc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc), and [DVD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD) releases incorporate this re-shot footage. Williams funded the production of new footage to replace the stock V-2 shots and a few missing scenes. All new footage was produced for Wade Williams Productions by [Bob Burns III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Burns_III), his wife Kathy Burns, former Disney designer/artist Tom Scherman, [Academy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award) winner [Dennis Muren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muren), [Emmy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award) nominee [Michael Minor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Minor), and [Academy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award) winner Robert Skotak. Costumes were re-made that closely replicated those worn by the film’s explorers, and a new, screen accurate Rocketship X-M effects miniature was built.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M#cite_note-Williams-4) > **[Rocketship X-M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M)** > > Rocketship X-M (a.k.a. Expedition Moon and originally Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white science fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer space adventure of the post-World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian, and Morris Ankrum. > Rocketship X-M tells the story of a Moon expedition gone awry. Through a series of unforeseen events, the expedition's crew fi... Here are the scenes I’d redo: **The Hunt for Red October** – redo all the CGI scenes. Even at the time the CGI looked cartoony and abysmal, and it only looks worse, now that we know what CGI can do. **Forbidden Planet** – don’t touch most of the movie. The special effects scenes mostly still stand up really well, even after all this time. But I’d definitely like them to redo the “Krell Power Plant” scene, which has always looked like a cartoon: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50095672357_7d0050a1f1_b.jpg "Krell Power Plant, Forbidden Planet (1956) Matte by Howard Fisher.") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/145500686@N07/50095672357) **The Last Starfighter** – I love this film, which is a light-hearted send-up of Star Wars and similar films, but I’ve always been disappointed in its CGI effects. I’ve seen individual screen renders of the images, and they looked gorgeous, even back in 1984. But when they actually made the film, it looked like a cartoon. Maybe they were running out of render time, or money, or something, but the reality fell far short of what they had pitched. Don’t touch the live action scenes, but give us the space movie we were promised. **The Thing** – the John Carpenter version. Only the (non CGI) animated scenes where the Thing meets its dynamited doom. Carpenter thought that the stop-motion animation didn’t match the rest of the film, so they booted, and cobbled together something to fill the gap. The scene was supposed to show that dog-headed creation leaping out of the body of the “Blairmonster” toward MacReady (Kurt Russell), but still attached by a sort of umbilical. I’ve seen still shots of it. Put that back in, using CGI only to create any needed blur or alteration to make it look more realistic and like the rest of the film. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/15 "2025-04-24T12:14:02Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **The Hunt for Red October** – redo all the CGI scenes. Even at the time the CGI looked cartoony and abysmal, and it only looks worse, now that we know what CGI can do. According to the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October_(film)#Filming) it was filmed with models and early CGI just for things like bubbles in the water. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/16 "2025-04-24T12:18:31Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > According to the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October_(film)#Filming) it was filmed with models and early CGI just for things like bubbles in the water. Nope – the depth charges (or whatever they were – they were bright yellow-green cylinders) being dropped out of the sub were clearly early CGI, and embarrassing. There were lots of other scenes with bad CGI – so many that the parody in Mad magazine had a panel with MGM cartoon icons Tom and Jerry commenting on it. It wasn’t just “bubbles in the water” ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/17 "2025-04-24T12:26:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You mean, I hope, the voice-over by Roy Scheider Alas, @CalMeacham, I’m sorry to disappoint 😃. I was referring to the cheesy synthesizer music plopped in to tell me when something important is happening. The Roy Scheider narrative is unnecessary but it didn’t annoy me. Otherwise I really enjoyed the movie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/18 "2025-04-24T12:31:33Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > Alas, @CalMeacham, I’m sorry to disappoint 😃. I was referring to the cheesy synthesizer music plopped in to tell me when something important is happening. The Roy Scheider narrative is unnecessary but it didn’t annoy me. Otherwise I really enjoyed the movie. The music didn’t bother me, but the voice-over was uneccessary, was completely unlike the original **2001** , and didn’t really tell you anything you couldn’t dope out on your own. It felt like a constant insult to the audience’s intelligence. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/19 "2025-04-24T14:06:41Z")
Something else I’d fix – Ray Harryhausen’s movie **The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad** is a marvel of special effects, and I wouldn’t touch those. But for some reason a lot of the scenes show Sinbad sailing in a completely inappropriate ship. Although one of the very first scenes in the film shows him sailing in an appropriate Middle Eastern ship – a dhow, or something, with a single lateen sail – later scenes show him sailing in an Enlightenment-era European three-masted frigate or something. It shows this even when he’s on the same voyage that showed him in that first, accurate ship. A lot of the action scenes were clearly shot on a deck that looks like a later European ship, with a waist , forecastle, and quarterdeck, so maybe they subtly shifted from one ship type to the other, hoping we wouldn’t notice. But now that I’ve seen it, it’s jarring. I can ignore the inconsistency for the close-up shots. But give me the original dhow for the long shots. > **[7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958](https://www.modelshipsinthecinema.com/2018/01/7th-voyage-of-sinbad-1958.html)** > > To complete the series on Ray Harryhausen films here is a movie which as far as model ships go, features shots entirely lifted from previous... [![](http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/00/7thVoyageOfSinbad/7vos022.jpg) ](http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/00/7thVoyageOfSinbad/7vos022.jpg) [![](http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/00/7thVoyageOfSinbad/7vos015.jpg) ](http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/00/7thVoyageOfSinbad/7vos015.jpg) > **[The 7th Voyage of Sinbad](https://swordsandals.blogspot.com/2010/10/7th-voyage-of-sinbad.html)** > > "From the land beyond, beyond; From the world past hope and fear, I bid you, Genie, now appear!" Billed as the 8th wonder of the screen, The... ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/20 "2025-04-24T15:26:59Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > It was made into a very forgettable movie with Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern No movie with Robert Shaw is forgettable! Even _Battle of the Bulge_, which I _wish_ I could forget. I actually like _Black Sunday_, though it really could be remade without a lot of changes. But alas, they would change it, and make it “relevant”, and “edgy”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383.md?page=2)