# What Movie Would You Like to Be Entirely Re-Made? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640 "2000-10-27T18:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/21 "2000-10-27T23:11:44Z")
than that horrendous Chris O’Donnell (gag) version. If you haven’t seen the Richard Lester-directed one with this cast: Michael York as D’Artagnan Oliver Reed as Athos Frank Finley as Porthos Richard Chamberlain as Aramis Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter Raquel Welch as Constance and a great performance by Charlton Heston as Richelieu then you must go right out and rent it. It is an excellent adaptation of the _spirit_ of the book - not just the overall idea. There were actually two movies released - The Three Musketeers covers the first half of the book and The Four Musketeers covers (surprise) the second half. That Chris O. (gag) version has Dumas rolling over in his grave. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/22 "2000-10-27T23:31:41Z")
Sphere should _not_ have strayed from the book so much. It was an embarrassment. I had no problem with the actors in the various roles… I just hated the changes that cheapened the story. And I had SOOOOOOOO looked forward to it!! \ ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/23 "2000-10-27T23:33:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mauve Dog \* > **I would like to see Jurassic park re-made closer to the book.** Yeah, they did “dumb” the movie down quite a bit from what was a pretty intelligent book. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/24 "2000-10-27T23:34:32Z")
Does anyone remember the book **The Hotel New Hampshire** by John Irving? Does anyone remember the movie? ugh. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/25 "2000-10-27T23:38:59Z")
**Journey to the Center of the Earth**. I’d love to see a version that would hold completely true to the book. No evil Count Saknussem. No blowsy women along on the expedition. No cute ducks. No tribes of lizardmen chasing leather-bikini-babes. (I think that was in one of the made-for-TV versions.) And _NO GODDAMNED LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS!!!_ I like to think Max von Sydow, Daniel Day-Lewis and Dolph Lundgren would do the original characters justice. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/26 "2000-10-28T00:51:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tshirts \* > The Mummy movie with Brendon Fraser. > > It should have been pure slapstick or pure special effects adventure. The Mummy was itself a remake of the 1932 movie. It looked like they wanted to make basically the same movie with modern special effects. Didn’t go over well with a modern audience. IMHO, they should have simply come up with a new story about mummies. Couldn’t have been that hard. But then if you’ve blown your budget on special effects … It’s hard to think of movies that have disappointed me, but I know they’re out there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/27 "2000-10-28T01:49:04Z")
Why not remake Cassablanca? It would provide an excellent opportunity for a serious actress like Pamela Anderson to show us her full range. No, wait… aaaaarghhhhhh ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/28 "2000-10-28T02:05:08Z")
_Grosse Point Blank_. I like Cusack and I thought the idea was clever, but the movie just seemed long and pointless. Dump the lame romantic subplot and concentrate on what could have been a pretty funny idea. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/29 "2000-10-28T02:07:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by broccoli! \* > \*\*the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (not Yojimbo, not that Sheite Bruce Willis gangster remake) > \*\* But the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was a remake of Yojimbo. You’d be making a remake of a remake. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/30 "2000-10-28T02:09:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by broccoli! \* > \*\*the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (not Yojimbo, not that Sheite Bruce Willis gangster remake) > \*\* My mistake. I believe A Fistfull of Dollars is what was based on Yojimbo as well as being the basis for that sheite Bruce Willis remake. But I should have read the thread first and realized that was already addressed. \ Marc ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/31 "2000-10-28T02:09:27Z")
There’s a remake of [Logan’s Run](http://www.stellar-database.com/non-ISDB/LogansRun.html) in “official” pre-production right now. ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/32 "2000-10-28T02:10:02Z")
I want to see someone do a decent version of Burnette’s A Little Princess. The Shirley Temple version wasn’t true to the book, but that’s only to be expected. But then they do a big, hyped up “new” version…and copy the plot of the Shirley Temple version. The thing is, in the book, the little girl’s father dies. And he stays dead. No, he can’t show up alive at the end of the movie, that doesn’t work! Imagine if at the end of Party Of Five the parents showed up, surprise, we weren’t dead after all! Actually, that would have been worth seeing… ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/33 "2000-10-28T02:11:21Z")
Thanks **missbunny**! I’ll keep an eye out for those two. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Mr.Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blonde)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/34 "2000-10-28T02:26:18Z")
Smokey and the Bandit II Wouldn’t it have been cool if the Bandit went to Boston to get that clam chowder, and Buford T. Justice chased him? “I’m the brother of a truck-drivin’ mother… boogily boogily boogily…” ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/35 "2000-10-28T02:32:15Z")
I’d love to see The Wizard of Oz remade. With all the special effects advancements, it could be WAY cooler! ---
**Author:** ![UnEasyRider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e56c9b/32.png) [@UnEasyRider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnEasyRider)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/36 "2000-10-28T02:36:08Z")
A remake of the **SEIGE** is definitely in order. After the general played by Willis tells them exactly what is going to happen if they send him in they get all soft and fuzzy. Then hang him for doing exactly what he said he would do. ---
**Author:** ![Azargoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Azargoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azargoth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/37 "2000-10-28T05:27:42Z")
Make a Lovecraft Story into a movie that doesn’t suck. Necronomicon Book of the Dead was alright but they changed Cool Air around too much. I would love to see a good version of Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath, The Dunwich Horror, or Call of Cthulhu. Redo…It, The Stand, and Needful Things…i’m sorry but those movies were no where near as good as the book, and while your at it how about a Dark Tower Trilogy. Update A Clockwork Orange ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/38 "2000-10-28T08:07:39Z")
I’m all for redoing Highlander, casting a Scotsman as the Scotsman, a Spaniard as the Spaniard (Connery was great, no mistake, but he’s about as Spanish as Jackie Chan), and keeping Clancy Brown as a more bad-ass Kurgan. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/39 "2000-10-28T13:37:34Z")
**spoke** ; > [@](#): > > I don’t know what came over Anthony Hopkins, but he took what should have been a professorial character (Dr. Van Helsing) and turned him into a raving, screaming lunatic. (Was that his idea or Coppola’s? I don’t know.) My instincts tell me that it was Hopkins. Coppola has been nothing but a hired hand in Hollywood since _Apocalypse Now_, so anything an actor says will work is probably OK by him. Ironically, one of the most groan-inducing exchanges in the movie, which people assume was added by the screenwriter (“Do you want to perform an autopsy?” “No, I just want to drive a stake through her heart and cut her head off.”) was lifted verbatim from Stoker. More people should read that damned book. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640/40 "2000-10-28T17:37:19Z")
- - - The Road To Wellville: after this movie came out, I ran across a magazine article protesting how nearly completely fictional the movie was. The magazine hd a several-page acount of the early history of the cereal industry in Battle Creek, as well as the Kellog brothers. The truth would have _definitely_ been more interesting, as well as, , just for once, , , -the truth.(sigh) TLC, anyone? - MC [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-be-entirely-re-made/38640.md?page=3)