A great story? Ayn Rand? 
Talking about cut to pieces ; Moulin Rouge! 2001 motion picture. They only play little bits and pieces.
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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.
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Yes, that could have been great… 
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
You want Beastars? Because that’s how you get Beastars.
Actually, Beastars is great!
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.
They should re-make Valerian but use actual professional actors this time.
This, because the '97 version really departed from the book; and on the topics of books . . .
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.
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.
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
How about remaking Les Miserables with male leads who can sing? Also without editing a bunch of connecting songs to pieces?
Some years from now, a black comedy about NASCAR in the world of COVID and the wake of George Floyd could be amusing.
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.
Yeah, that seems like the sensitive, responsible stance to take three months ago. Not sure anyone would be bothered by it today.
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
They should remake The Last Airbender but find actors who would do a reasonably good job of acting like the characters from the show.