# There has never been a movie remake better than the original
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 8, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907 "2007-10-08T04:08:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/1 "2007-10-08T04:08:41Z")
…or so my dad says. I couldn’t think of one, can you?
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/2 "2007-10-08T04:11:22Z")
_Little Shop of Horrors_
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/3 "2007-10-08T04:13:40Z")
Hmm. _Ocean’s Eleven_ wasn’t great, but it was better than _Ocean’s Eleven_.
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### Author:  [@troubledwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troubledwater)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/4 "2007-10-08T04:16:54Z")
_The Maltese Falcon._ (It was made three times in ten years.)
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/5 "2007-10-08T04:18:13Z")
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)?
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/6 "2007-10-08T04:19:44Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/7 "2007-10-08T04:20:17Z")
I thought the newer Thomas Crown Affair film was better then the original
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### Author:  [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/8 "2007-10-08T04:22:18Z")
“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.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/9 "2007-10-08T04:43:14Z")
[QUOTE=Valgard]
“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.
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Exactly what I popped in to say.
Also, live action _The Return of the King_ \> \> \> \> the old cartoon version.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/10 "2007-10-08T04:45:30Z")
Hitchcock’s _The Man Who Knew Too Much_ was remade–by him! And he thought that his second effort was better.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/11 "2007-10-08T04:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy]
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)?
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The first \*BenHur \*is 187.5 times better than the remake.
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### Author:  [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/12 "2007-10-08T04:55:10Z")
Jet Li’s “Fist of Legend” was vastly better than Bruce Lee’s “Chinese Connection”. Sorry Bruce.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/13 "2007-10-08T04:55:23Z")
Herzog’s _Nosferatu_ over Murnau’s.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/14 "2007-10-08T05:04:35Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/15 "2007-10-08T05:06:35Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/16 "2007-10-08T05:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]
I liked _The Magnificent Seven_ better than \* Seven Samurai\*
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Heresy! (grin)
It’s got better music, I grant you that.
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### Author:  [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/17 "2007-10-08T06:24:13Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3]
Herzog’s _Nosferatu_ over Murnau’s.
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Darn you, VCO3! I was just coming in to name that. Far superior.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/18 "2007-10-08T06:40:46Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
Exactly what I popped in to say.
Also, live action _The Return of the King_ \> \> \> \> the old cartoon version.
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Hell, “Live Action” LotR/Fellowship beats the hell out of the 1978 Bakshi version.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/19 "2007-10-08T06:42:46Z")
I thought “The Fly” made in the 80s was better than the one with Vincent Price.
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-has-never-been-a-movie-remake-better-than-the-original/421907/20 "2007-10-08T06:53:56Z")
An Affair to Remember
The Wizard of Oz
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