# "Hey! Oh, it's the remake....." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073 "2015-03-15T22:54:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073/41 "2015-03-16T16:33:16Z")
**The Fog Prom Night** The latter is not a great movie but it is at least more entertaining with Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. The Fog, however, is cinematic horror gold and whatever they released in the horror crap remake trend was just a mess. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073/42 "2015-03-16T16:43:53Z")
I do sometimes have the opposite reaction: “Ooh, _Thomas Crown Affair_…oh, it’s 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:** [March 16, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073/43 "2015-03-16T16:51:45Z")
There were a lot of classic movies remade for television. I haven’t seen them, but by all accounts they’re not great _Miracle on 34th street_, _It Happened One Christmas_ (It’s a Wonderful Life), _The Absent-Minded Professor_ Disney has remade several of its films for theatrical release, although these remakes are better regarded – _The Absent-Minded Professor_ (with Robin Williams, as _Flubber_), _The Shjaggy Dof_, _The Parent Trap_, _Freaky Friday_. The ones that really belong in this column are the remakes of low-budget grade-Z films. What do you call those? Grade ZZZ films? Here are some, with the remakes _The She Creature_ — remade as _Creature of Destruction_ _It Conquered the World_ – remade as _Zontar, The Thing from Venus_ _Invasion of the Saucermen_ – remade as _Attack of the Eye Creatures_ (or _Attack of the the Eye Creatures_, as was pointed out when they riffed this one on MST3K) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073/44 "2015-03-16T16:57:35Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Oh, that is a GOOD one. The original gave me a crush on Hayley Mills which endures to this day. The remake - and sequels to the original - I choose to ignore. Actually, the Lindsay Lohan version is pretty good. Probably the best thing she ever did, not that that is a very high bar. > [@Wile\_E](#): > > Well, I have never actually run across it but the 1996 TV movie of Harvey would probably elicit that reaction from me. Actually, some screaming and foul words could be involved as well. Fortunately, I am pretty sure it doesn’t really exist because … why? This one, also, was fairly decent. Stewart was of course fine, Helen Hayes did a good job with the sister Veta, John McGiver was (as always) excellent as Dr. Chumley, and they got Jesse White to come back as Mr. Wilson. True, there was no particular reason to do the remake, but it did no violence to the original. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073/45 "2015-03-16T17:05:32Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The Mel Gibson movie _Payback_ is a pale imitation of the Lee Marvin movie _Point Blank_. The Gibson version is a better in my opinion. It has style. Point Blank is a wonderful piece of history with all our old time favorite actors and wonderfully filmed, but the direction seems to be 70s TV style. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073/46 "2015-03-16T17:19:31Z")
> [@campp](#): > > _Flight of the Phoenix_ > > _Father of the Bride_ I mentioned the original _Father of the Bride_ to a group of younger co-workers, and I don’t think any of them even knew that the Steve Martin version was a remake. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073/47 "2015-03-16T20:46:54Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > I do sometimes have the opposite reaction: > > “Ooh, _Thomas Crown Affair_…oh, it’s the original.” I have that same reaction with _Ocean’s Eleven_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-oh-its-the-remake/715073.md?page=2)