I am far too lazy to look them up but also the sex change/swap movies and the race change/swap movies.
Small town lawyer (with an elderly alcoholic mentor) takes a case defending a man who blew away the scum that attacked his family. Even though the case is open-and-shut, the crusader for justice squares off against a hard-ass prosecutor in an emotional, no-holds-barred courtroom drama.
A Time to Kill, and the vastly superior Anatomy of a Murder.
With one big difference between the two. In A Time to Kill, the facts of who did what are not in dispute, it’s a question of justification. In Anatomy of a Murder, the whole trial revolves around the question of whether the defendant’s wife really was raped or whether she was cheating on her husband.
The owner of a bar in a quasi-neutral city is reluctantly involved with the resistance to a powerful fascist government when an ex-lover shows up.
Casablanca & Barb Wire (although technically the second was a comic book character first).
Entertainers are mistaken for heroes who are supposed to rescue the populace from the villians. The Three Amigos and A Bug’s Life
Urban hipster learns to love the hick town he originally loathed. Doc Hollywood and Cars
And Galaxy Quest.
While the nuclear part only crops up at the end, the “safety measures become the trap” aspect is used in
Salt
What were the names of the ones where the escaping woman managed to fall in with a bunch of librarians (in the first version) and a bunch of musicians (in the musical remake)? A lot of the actors repeated roles, even. No imdb access at work.
To respond to Enright 3 point by point:
“Moon River” ring any bells? It was composed by Mancini with Audrey’s limited vocal range in mind, although Andy Williams sang the hit single.
I’ll give you this one, only because I haven’t seen either of these movies since their respective first runs.
Kid can’t get along with his parents, gets kicked out of the house, winds up living with a surrogate family of eccentrics, where he discovers his true self. More thematic than plot similarities, but the plot similarities are there.
It’s a scene-for-scene remake of Ghostbusters, with rapidly evolving aliens instead of ghosts and Julianne Moore instead of Dan Aykroyd. Both, incidentally, were directed by Ivan Reitman.
Think of Jack Black as Robert Preston and Joan Cusack as Shirley Jones.
Okay, substitute “sleazy male celebrity” for “sleazy rock star.”
I think for legal purposes, NSNA is based on the original treatment written by Fleming, McClory and Whittingham, rather than a remake of Thunderball. Hence, the movies come from the same source material, rather than one being a remake of the other.
Millions of dollars ride on hair-splits like these.
Anyway, I remember thinking while watching Secretary that though the movie’s action was unconventional (what with the bondage and spanking and all), the plot was fairly standard romcom fare.
Twice in one thread someone feels compelled to explain this. I think most Dopers know about this. There’s no need to bring it up. God knows I didn;'t feel I had to explain it when I wrote the original post, even though I knew all about it.
And, even though Never Say Never Again was, I agree, based on the same basic material, it can’t help being a remake – everyone involved was aware of the original film (and thw writers even got writing credit on both films), and couldn’t help being influenced by it.
How about eXistenz and Inception?
Well, we only have no life twice.
You’re using “remake” differently than I would, but no matter.
¡LOL!
Team America World Police and G.I. Joe. Same plot (Team of crack fighters defending America and freedom, who have to blow up half of the known world to get those terrorists and save the day!) Except G.I. Joe was supposed to be serious. :rolleyes:
The title of the movie was G.I. Joe. How serious could it have been?
More than one reviewer mentioned that G.I. Joe was practically a live-action version of Team America World Police.
Did G. I. Joe have the lead marionettes knock boots?
Found them: Ball of Fire and its musical remake A Song is Born
Yeah, that bastard Shakespeare totally ripped off The Seven Samurai and Throne Of Blood to write King Lear and Macbeth. Lazy fuck.