Originally Posted By Dlmusic Why is 20th Century Fox remaking The Day the Earth Stood Still? That movie is a classic. It's a very restrained dramatic film that is way more thought provoking than most Hollywood productions today. Just seems like a bad idea all around.
Originally Posted By Daannzzz I wonder if the special CGI effects budget is One Hundred Million Dollars?
Originally Posted By DAR When is Hollywood going to learn you don't remake classic films, you remake the bad ones ala Ocean's 11
Originally Posted By hightp Ocean 11, Planet of the Apes, Dukes of Hazard, Posidon, The Time Machine...etc. none of them were any good. They should just leave well enough, alone. Now, if they were to remake "The Adventures of Pluto Nash", the only place to go is up.
Originally Posted By beamerdog I actually liked the 2nd Planet of the Apes. And, although the first Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was good, the 2nd was a winner. but The Day the Earth Stood Still? Argh, I love the first one.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Ocean 11>> The Sinatra version was terrible, the Clooney version was great, Ocean's 12 was very mediocore.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Dukes of Hazard> TV show, technically not a "remake". ;-) But now that we've touched on that, I'm not big on the whole "make a movie out of a TV show" genre either.
Originally Posted By brotherdave The Fugitive is the only TV show to movie that I can think of that truly excelled and exceded the original.
