You nailed it in one. I remembered Martin Short doing some great french impressions, but Sasha Baron Cohen even looks like Peter Sellers.
totally. 
*True Grit. *
The Coen Brothers can suck it.
what, a prequel?
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The thirteenth and final episode: They get into the car and set off for a trip…“Brad, it looks like it’s going to rain really hard!”
He’s always said- I don’t know how tongue-in-cheek- that his goal is to ultimately shoot movies without actors, just synthetic images and synthetic voices. He also said that STAR WARS was only a percent of what he wanted it to be. If technology ever progresses to where he can accomplish the 100% digital movie that’s at all watchable then I’m sure he will.
Be glad, it was D-R-E-A-D-F-U-L. Anderson substitutes wacky and “getta load of me playing a crazy guy who sees invisible giant rabbits” mugging for Stewart’s innocent charm, plus IIRC they made him far less of a drinker due to changed sensibilities.
There were several musicals remade for television that didn’t need to be: Gypsy with Bette Midler was the best of the lot but was basically just a scene for scene remake of the Rosalind Russell- the sets when they were in the desert for example were just as hokey and obviously soundstage as the ones in the original. They remade Bye Bye Birdie into something unwatchable and Annie into a boring version in which Daddy Warbucks comes across as a scary perv- one scene he wants Annie gone and the next he loves her with no explanation other than they sang a showtune togeter and it’s kind of creepy.
So, given George’s girth, genetics, and lifestyle (lounging in a hot tub all day while he shouts editing instructions to underlings … and plays “Naboo Submarine War” with his over two hundred JarJar action figures)) …
… how soon are we safe from him remaking evrything he’s done? Do you think he has heirs who’ll inherit a sealed envelope marked “Mandate to Remake Eps. I-6, and American Graffiti”?
I respectfully disagree. I think The Sarah Connor Chronicles showed us that many actors can play a decent T-888. Garrett Dillahunt in particular but there were several good Terminators of the week.
Obligatory XKCD:
Marky Mark and the Monkey Bunch
“Philistines. I mean how can you re-make Cassablanca? The one starring Myra Dinglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive.”
- ListerBetter idea: I saw on PBS or something that they shot Casablance with 3 or 4 different endings before deciding on the one we’re all familiar with. Maybe you could go with one of the others: Ilsa goes with Rick; or, Ilsa goes with Laszlo but it’s her decision.
Or Doctor Jones shows up, says “Nazis… I hate those guys,” and blows up the gin joint with a supernatural weapon.
Cut to rubble-strewn ex-gin joint. Ingrid Bergman crying “Reeck, Oh, Reeck…” “Dass okay, Miz Ilsa…” intones Dooley Wilson. But then…
Humphrey Bogart steps out of the refrigerator.
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It would only work for something like 2001 if you could show it in Cinerama again. I saw it several times that way and it is far superior to any other format. Anyhow, 2001 would be an awful reboot, since no one else would have the guts to pace it the way Kubrick did, and to not show the aliens.
2010, on the other hand, could have been done better.