…or so my dad says. I couldn’t think of one, can you?
Little Shop of Horrors
Hmm. Ocean’s Eleven wasn’t great, but it was better than Ocean’s Eleven.
The Maltese Falcon. (It was made three times in ten years.)
How do the color remakes of The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur compare to the original black and white versions (which I’ve never seen)?
The Judy Garland/James Mason (1954) “A Star Is Born” was better than both the Janet Gaynor/Frederick March (1937) AND Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson (1976) versions
I thought the newer Thomas Crown Affair film was better then the original
“The Thing” is far better than “The Thing From Another World”. Closer to the original story and not corny (carroty, for those who saw the old one) as hell.
While it’s not quite the same comparison, the recent “Casino Royale” is better than the Woody Allen spoof.
Exactly what I popped in to say.
Also, live action The Return of the King > > > > the old cartoon version.
Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much was remade–by him! And he thought that his second effort was better.
The first *BenHur *is 187.5 times better than the remake.
Jet Li’s “Fist of Legend” was vastly better than Bruce Lee’s “Chinese Connection”. Sorry Bruce.
Herzog’s Nosferatu over Murnau’s.
I liked Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula much better than I like any of the other versions, Gary Oldman’s occasional scenery-chewing notwithstanding.
I liked The Magnificent Seven better than * Seven Samurai*.
I liked Spielberg’s War of the Worlds better.
Dunno how I forgot these but Richard Lester’s “The Three Musketeers” and “The Four Musketeers” are far superior to anything that came before (or after). The 1948 version with Gene Kelly as D’Artagnan, for example, isn’t in the same ballpark.
Heresy! (grin)
It’s got better music, I grant you that.
Darn you, VCO3! I was just coming in to name that. Far superior.
Hell, “Live Action” LotR/Fellowship beats the hell out of the 1978 Bakshi version.
I thought “The Fly” made in the 80s was better than the one with Vincent Price.
An Affair to Remember
The Wizard of Oz