# What movie would you like to see remade, but better? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 12, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072 "2020-07-12T00:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/21 "2020-07-13T02:24:48Z")
A great story? Ayn Rand? đŸ˜± ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/22 "2020-07-13T02:28:07Z")
Talking about cut to pieces ; _Moulin Rouge!_ 2001 motion picture. They only play little bits and pieces. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/23 "2020-07-13T02:29:19Z")
.[quote=“Biggirl, post:20, topic:915072, full:true”] On sort of the same vein, Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow. It had giant robots with lasers for eyes!!! Pew! Pew! Unlike Hancock, Gwyneth Paltrow’s character ruined the movie the movie from the very beginning. [/quote] Yes, that _could_ have been great
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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/24 "2020-07-13T02:44:59Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > On sort of the same vein, Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow. It had giant robots with lasers for eyes!!! Pew! Pew! Unlike Hancock, Gwyneth Paltrow’s character ruined the movie the movie from the very beginning. I’ve often wondered whether that was Paltrow’s fault, or the director. The movie was a 1930s throwback, and should have had a fast-talking, full-steam-ahead female lead as Polly, someone like Katharine Hepburn or Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday. It’s like all the effort went into making the movie look right (and it was stunning), and not enough into the characters. The irony is that a young Blythe Danner would have been perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/25 "2020-07-13T03:16:38Z")
I used to blame her but have come to think it’s a personal bias. She’s perfectly serviceable in the Iron Man movies. Instead of a cooler Marion Ravenwood we got an even more stupid and insipid Willie Scott. Blythe wouldn’t’ve stood for it! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/26 "2020-07-13T06:37:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > A Chorus Line This is the perfect answer to the thread. I saw the original stage show once on Broadway, and twice in Toronto. Note that the original stage show took place totally on a Broadway stage, during auditions; and I eagerly looked forward to the movie. Boy, was I disappointed. **ThelmaLou** has hit most of my complaints, but I’ll add that the whole Cassie-Zach storyline in the middle of the stage show (“The Music and the Mirror”) was a surprise to the audience. In the movie (as I recall; it’s been years since I saw it), it was a thing from the beginning, thus robbing the movie of a powerful plot point. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/27 "2020-07-13T06:48:11Z")
I’d like to see the people who made “Zardoz” do it again with the wisdom they later gained. (But Sean Connery has to be his young, luscious self in the remake.) That was a terrible movie, but it had a heart and could have been wonderful in slightly more adept hands. IIRC, the makers of the film said as much themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/28 "2020-07-13T10:01:24Z")
Sorry for another Ayn Rand recommendation, but “We the Living”. No argument that Ayn Rand wrote inhuman philosophy, but she did write scenes with an eye as to how they would look on the big screen. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/29 "2020-07-13T11:14:37Z")
> [@Powers](#): > > _Zootopia_ . > > Don’t get me wrong, I loved it. But I would _really_ have liked to see what they could have done with it if they hadn’t felt the need to write it for kids. You want Beastars? Because that’s how you get Beastars. Actually, [Beastars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastars) is great! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/30 "2020-07-13T13:10:41Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I used to blame her but have come to think it’s a personal bias. She’s perfectly serviceable in the Iron Man movies. Instead of a cooler Marion Ravenwood we got an even more stupid and insipid Willie Scott. Blythe wouldn’t’ve stood for it! I haven’t seen all of Paltrow’s movies. Does she ever play a character who’s tough and decisive? She has moments in the Iron Man movies when she stands up to Tony, but she still seems reluctant to step up and take charge. Maybe she just can’t play that sort of character. I do have another beef with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; the action scenes are too video-gamey. I miss the days when movies had fights or chases between just two people. You could see the tactics and tell who was winning. In SCatWoT and too many modern movies, the villain just throws thousands of henchmen or robots at the good guys, and the question is whether the hero can shoot them all fast enough. There’s no dramatic tension in swatting at a cloud of gnats. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/31 "2020-07-13T13:16:46Z")
They should re-make Valerian but use actual professional actors this time. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/32 "2020-07-13T13:17:56Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Obviously: Starship Troopers (1997) This, because the '97 version _really_ departed from the book; and on the topics of books . . . > **[Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_and_Commander:_The_Far_Side_of_the_World)** > > Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set during the Napoleonic Wars. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, which includes 20 completed novels of Jack Aubrey's naval career. The film stars Russell Crowe as Aubrey, captain in the Royal Navy, and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon. This is the second... It was a good movie, but I think they could have developed the world geopolitical stage a lot better, to develop this into a **full series** like the books evolve into. Tripler Don’t get me started on the _Star Trek_ reboots. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/33 "2020-07-13T13:36:04Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > This is the perfect answer to the thread. I saw the original stage show once on Broadway, and twice in Toronto. Note that the original stage show took place totally on a Broadway stage, during auditions; and I eagerly looked forward to the movie. > > Boy, was I disappointed. **ThelmaLou** has hit most of my complaints, but I’ll add that the whole Cassie-Zach storyline in the middle of the stage show (“The Music and the Mirror”) was a surprise to the audience. In the movie (as I recall; it’s been years since I saw it), it was a thing from the beginning, thus robbing the movie of a powerful plot point. Thank you for that validation. Since I’ve found a kindred spirit, I’ll go ahead with my gripe about “What I Did for Love.” The movie made it about Zach-Cassie, but it’s supposed to be about what the dancers do/did for the love of dancing! AAGGHH! Spoons, you MUST watch the documentary “Every Little Step”! You will eat it up with a 
 well, a _spoon_. Or maybe more than one. 😁 Marvin Hamlisch was a fucking genius. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/34 "2020-07-13T15:25:23Z")
The final remake of “7 Dec 1941” IN 1932 Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell simulated a carrier based attack on Pearl Harbor using Lexington and Sarratoga cruising North East of Hawaii. The attackers dropped flour sack bombs and achieved complete success. That would make a good first half of the movie, then it could work up to the fact that defense of Pearl Harbor was an Army mission in 1941. The Army made elaborate preparations to repel an amphibious attack. That activity and Army confusion during the attack would make up the second half. A great scene would be Japanese aircraft overflying soldiers in trenches. Of course it ends with the navy getting the blame. At least it wouldn’t be same ole same ole ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/35 "2020-07-13T17:06:56Z")
How about remaking _Les Miserables_ with male leads who can sing? Also without editing a bunch of connecting songs to pieces? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/36 "2020-07-13T18:32:45Z")
Some years from now, a black comedy about NASCAR in the world of COVID and the wake of George Floyd could be amusing. > **[Stroker Ace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroker_Ace)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Stroker Ace is a 1983 American action comedy sport film directed by Hal Needham and starring Burt Reynolds as the eponymous Stroker Ace, a NASCAR driver. > Burt Reynolds turned down the role of astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment to do this film. The role went to Jack Nicholson, who went on to win an Oscar. Reynolds said he made this decision because "I felt I owed Hal more than I owed Jim" but that it was a turning point in his care... ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/37 "2020-07-13T18:39:15Z")
I’ve been wanting to see “The Stand” updated for a while but CBS has delayed it’s showing due to thinking people do not want to watch such things during a pandemic. Bullshit, it’s exactly what I would like to see. > **[Why Stephen King's The Stand Remake Probably Won't Release Until 2021](https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-stand-tv-show-remake-2021-release-delay-why/)** > > Thanks a lot, Coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/38 "2020-07-13T18:41:18Z")
Yeah, that seems like the sensitive, responsible stance to take three months ago. Not sure anyone would be bothered by it today. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/39 "2020-07-13T18:42:33Z")
I would love to see even a PG13 rated furry movie but they’ll never produce one. Even Japan only has a few furry hentai movies ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/40 "2020-07-13T18:48:31Z")
They should remake _The Last Airbender_ but find actors who would do a reasonably good job of acting like the characters from the show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072.md?page=3)