# What movies HAVEN'T they remade yet (and shouldn't)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137 "2005-07-12T06:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/41 "2005-07-12T19:40:12Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > There was a lot of talk about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez remaking Casablanca before they broke up. I wonder if Sean “P. Diddy” Combs would have played Victor Lazlo! The horror! The horror! Here’s to hoping that people stop trying to remake Hitchcock films. I’m hoping that no one ever tries to remake _The Wild Bunch_, _The Treasure of Sierra Madre_, or _The African Queen_. And having throuroughly farked up _Diabolique_, I don’t see any reason any direct need to put his grubby hands on _The Wages of Fear_. Oops, [too late](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/). And please, Og, leave alone the Hepburn and Cary collaborations; Cate Blanchet aptly demonstrated that even a talented actress can’t imitate her particular countenance, and while George Clooney is a fair successor to Grant, any attempt to deliberately ape the latter would come off as a pale imitation. And after _The Ladykillers_ it’s clear that no one should attempt to remake a film staring Alec Guinness. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/42 "2005-07-12T20:38:21Z")
“The Wizard of Oz” should not be remade, but probably will be. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/43 "2005-07-12T20:55:18Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Plan 9 From Outer Space: The Musical I’d pay to see this, but it would have to be in B&W. They could get Michael J. Nelson of MST3K fame to write the score (he did most of the music in the show). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/44 "2005-07-12T20:57:37Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > “The Wizard of Oz” should not be remade, but probably will be. …using mostly CGI. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/45 "2005-07-12T21:01:43Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Oh please. Pauly Shore _is_ Groucho. :eek: I thought I loved you. :mad: Ok, I still love you, but how can you say this travesty? Please say you were whooshing! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/46 "2005-07-12T21:14:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Plan 9 From Outer Space: The Musical Actually, I’d really like to see this. It really does exist. They put it on at the University of Utah a year before I got there. A few years later I heard that it was touring the Midwest. I still haven’t seen it. Reports are that the first half is hilarious, but it bogs down and gets serious at the end. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/47 "2005-07-12T21:22:48Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > A Clockwork Orange > > They’d take out the tits and make it PG-13. I’m sorry to interrupt this thread, but is “A Clockwork Orange”, ah, explicit, bloody/gory, inappropriate? I’d like to watch this, but I’m kind of uneasy by the synopsis of the movie that I read (isn’t the main character a hobbyist rapist (rapist hobbyist?)?) Anyways, I don’t think they should ever remake the original _Star Wars_ trilogy. My friends said that they want Hollywood to do so and I was horrified. Am I the only one of the few younger teenagers of today’s generation who appreciates the original trilogy? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/48 "2005-07-12T22:30:45Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > I’m sorry to interrupt this thread, but is “A Clockwork Orange”, ah, explicit, bloody/gory, inappropriate? I’d like to watch this, but I’m kind of uneasy by the synopsis of the movie that I read (isn’t the main character a hobbyist rapist (rapist hobbyist?)?) It’s real savage horrorshow, with lots of ultra-violence and a bolshy bit of of the old in-out-in-out. If you’ve not got the yarbles to slooshie such pictures, it’ll make yer glassies pop right out of yer gulliver and fag and shag and fash you. Perhaps you’d best not viddie it, least not without sharpening yourself up with a bit of the moloko-plus and some Ludwig Van. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/49 "2005-07-12T22:44:04Z")
They’d better not remake **Rocky Horror**! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/50 "2005-07-12T22:45:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > The Great Escape - there’s just no way they could remake this movie and not make it suck by accidentally inserting some stupid anachronism like something with an LED on it. > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095252/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095252/) > > Interesting in that they dramatized the poprtions of Paul Brickhill’s book that weren’t treated in the original movie. Boring, though. Prison break movies shouldn’t be boring. Doesn’t count. That was not a remake, it was a sequel. It picked up after the events of the movie “The Great Escape”, and followed the efforts of some group of men (don’t remember who, exactly, they were supposed to be) to track down those responsible for murdering “The 50”. It was excruciatingly boring, but we have to be fair; it wasn’t a prison break movie, and it wasn’t a remake. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/51 "2005-07-12T22:47:48Z")
**Valley of the Dolls** : Probably won’t get remade, despite the resurgent popularity of the novel in recent years. The main problem is that the flick promises shocking, lurid, scandalous goings-on, but never delivers more than a typical daytime soap could. Even Sharon Tate’s “nudie movie” scene looks PG-13 at best nowadays. And that musical number about “planting trees” or some such thing. _WTF?_ ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/52 "2005-07-12T23:02:59Z")
> [@Roadfood](#): > > Doesn’t count. That was not a remake, it was a sequel. It picked up after the events of the movie “The Great Escape”, and followed the efforts of some group of men (don’t remember who, exactly, they were supposed to be) to track down those responsible for murdering “The 50”. It was excruciatingly boring, but we have to be fair; it wasn’t a prison break movie, and it wasn’t a remake. Well, actually it was a partial remake. They recreated the prison break and events leading up to it, added different characters (and eliminated others), then tacked on a stupid vengence ending. I remember catching this thing once on the televisor during the scene where (in the original) McQueen sticks his head out of the ground and sees that they’re thirty feet short. “Great,” I say, “I’ll sit down and watch this for a bit.” The shock of me life awaits when I see people who are not McQueen, Garner, Pleasence, Colburn, Attenbourough, et cetera escaping. “What,” I exclaim, “the bloody hell is this, eh?” Terrible. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/53 "2005-07-13T08:33:51Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > [Already in the works](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/combined?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTF8cT1sb2dhbnMgcnVufGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=2;ft=20;fm=1). asdbh asdasd;uio [n9qwn890 ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/54 "2005-07-13T08:35:14Z")
Sorry for the above post. That was me bashing my forehead into the keyboard. I somehow hit “submit” during the self-pummel ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/55 "2005-07-13T12:18:08Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > “The Wizard of Oz” should not be remade, but probably will be. [Too late](http://imdb.com/title/tt0078504/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT10aGUgd2l6fGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=3;ft=21;fm=1), although, if it were to get remade again Michael Jackson could play a different role this time, maybe the Wicked Witch? Or some other role suited to a skinny middle-aged white woman. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/56 "2005-07-13T12:25:19Z")
**To Kill a Mockingbird** is sacrosanct. Anyone who dares to remake it will surely perish. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/57 "2005-07-13T12:45:10Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > Think they’d be foolish enough to remake **The Godfather**? I would hurt someone. So badly. Others: **Mary Poppins** - Fuck off, Mike Eisner. Don’t touch it. Just leave it alone. **The Sound of Music** - No, no, no, and oh – no. **The Thorn Birds** - I know it’s panned a lot, but I loved Dick Chamberlain as Ralph de Bricassart and the always-perfect Barbara Stanwyck as Mary Carson. LEAVE IT ALONE, YOU REMAKING BASTARDS. **My Beautiful Launderette** - I see some indie shithead updating this. I don’t know why, but I see it. NO. It stands the test of time just FINE, THANKS. Maybe you could tell, remakes tend to fill me with grrr. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/58 "2005-07-13T16:54:37Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > “The Wizard of Oz” should not be remade, but probably will be. If they followed the book fairly closely, a new _Wizard of Oz_ movie would be different enough that it could stand on its own merits. The classic movie took some huge liberties with the story. ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/59 "2005-07-13T17:14:00Z")
How about _Rosemary’s Baby_? ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/60 "2005-07-13T17:18:27Z")
Oh, even better… _The Cat from Outer Space_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137.md?page=4)