# Movies BEGGING to be remade **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762 "2012-01-17T02:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/101 "2012-01-27T05:15:51Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > My mom (who is in her 70s) thought a remake of _Ten North Frederick_ would go over with Kevin Costner in Gary Cooper’s role. I told her people who read books don’t go to the movies anymore, and besides, even people who read books don’t read John O’Hara anymore. And people who read books may not go to a Kevin Costner movie. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/102 "2012-01-27T05:50:42Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And people who read books may not go to a Kevin Costner movie. Jeez, KC was good in … Somebody help me out here? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/103 "2012-01-27T05:52:57Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Jeez, KC was good in … > > Somebody help me out here? A Perfect World I mean he would be good, in a perfect world 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/104 "2012-01-27T05:53:40Z")
_Bull Durham_? ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/105 "2012-01-27T06:03:10Z")
“Star Trek: Generations” and this time have it a buddy-buddy Kirk and Picard as many people hoped it would be. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/106 "2012-01-27T06:14:37Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > “Star Trek: Generations” and this time have it a buddy-buddy Kirk and Picard as many people hoped it would be. And have Avery Brooks play Kirk. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/107 "2012-01-27T06:44:36Z")
**A Boy and His Dog** ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/108 "2012-01-27T06:58:49Z")
I just watched it. I love it. Could be remade with some better FX. ROBOCOP Oh I would be down for A Clockwork Orange if they use the last chapter of the book. Oh and Costner was good in A Perfect World, Field of Dreams, Silverado, and No Way Out. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/109 "2012-01-27T16:50:11Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Not a movie, but rather a TV series: _Sliders_. The idea of a small group of people randomly sliding between alternate realities could’ve been so damn good… It was damn good … _for about 2 seasons_. As a film? \*Not so much. \* ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/110 "2012-01-27T16:54:33Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Jeez, KC was good in … > > Somebody help me out here? Silverado, The Untouchables. Open Range wasn’t bad. ---
**Author:** ![TheseGoToEleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@TheseGoToEleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheseGoToEleven)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/111 "2012-01-27T18:23:35Z")
> [@IntelliQ](#): > > [The Quiet Earth (1985)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/combined) - Lousy effects, great story I second this - Even with the dated effects, it was a very thought-provoking movie. And the ending , once I had managed to parse it, blew me away the first time I saw it… 😕 😕 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/112 "2012-01-27T18:45:58Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Or a prequel, _The Next-to-Last Starfighter_. The Penultimate Starfighter! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/113 "2012-01-28T00:06:15Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > The Penultimate Starfighter! 😃 Oh come on! The prequel to “The Last Starfighter” is “The FIRST Starfighter.” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/114 "2012-01-28T02:28:33Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > The Penultimate Starfighter! 😃 An example of the problems inherent in remaking fun movies: how can you _not_ have Robert Preston, in his best Harold Hill voice, booming out \*\*\*“WELLLLLLCOME to Rylos, my boy!” \*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/115 "2012-01-28T14:13:55Z")
I thought that you could do something better with a retro pulp 1930s sci fi film like “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”. After all, one of the best Star Trek: Voyager episodes was the take off of 1930s Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers “The Bride of Chaotica”. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/116 "2012-01-28T16:57:48Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > I thought that you could do something better with a retro pulp 1930s sci fi film like “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”. Totally agree! I thought _Sky Captain_ was a real wasted opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/117 "2012-01-28T18:17:10Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I told her people who read books don’t go to the movies anymore This is probably one of the dumbest things I have ever read. ---
**Author:** ![sbunny8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@sbunny8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sbunny8)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/118 "2012-01-28T20:09:08Z")
Starship Troopers – They made a huge mistake by not including the powered armor. Also, they shouldn’t have cast Denise Richards and Neal Patrick Harris. The Puppet Masters – The plot revolves around the fact that these aliens hide underneath your clothes. In the book, they gradually realize that the only absolute defense is nudity, so everyone on Earth is forced to give up their nudity taboos as a matter of survival. But the movie had no nudity at all. WTF? And the movie has a Hollywood happy ending where everything is back to normal but the book points out that we’ve been trying for centuries to get rid of rats and cockroaches without success so we just have to learn to live with the threat of brain slugs. Total Recall – GREAT storyline, but why did they have to go and make it so damned violent? Sheesh, do you really need hundreds of gunshot victims in what’s essentially a cloak-and-dagger movie? Too much dagger, not enough cloak, I say. Also, it’s a total mistake to cast a 300lb weightlifter with an Austrian accent as a secret agent. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/119 "2012-01-28T20:19:09Z")
> [@sbunny8](#): > > Total Recall Coming this summer, [Total Recall](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386703/) starring Colin Farrell. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762/120 "2012-01-29T19:06:06Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Sometimes a premise or plot is actually damn good but the execution is shot for whatever reason, in that case a remake can try to do it again. > > See Battlestar Galactica, in the original the 0.001% survivors of a total apocalypse still on the run for their lives stop in the second episode to unwind on a casino planet…:smack: To be fair, they didn’t know it was a casino planet. They were stopping there to refuel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-begging-to-be-remade/609762.md?page=7)