For me, this question is not about updating good movies - IMHO they always are worse than the original. The key is to find something well written that was poorly exicuted (this, BTW, is why so many people have success with Bob Dylan cover songs). Therefore, my choice is Dark Star which was John Carpenter's directorial debut. So, you combine inexperienced director, low budget, and cheezy period special effects.... and you still get a movie that's pretty fun to watch as is. Edit: just reading some trivia on Dark Star - Co-written by Dan O'Bannon, who later reused the "alien mascot" section of the film as the basis of his script for Alien (1979). Also, the spaceship is known as "mother" just as in Alien. Further Edit: I didn't know that the recent film Assault on Precinct 13 was a remake of a John Carpender film. Has Hollywood come out with an original film that wasn't animated in the last year???
Timeline As much as they farked up JP and Lost World, they still ended up being pretty good movies. Timeline ended up being crap. I liked the book sooo much better. In fact, they should probably just remake every Michael Crichton movie and try to remain faithful to the source material.
Queen of the Damned great book, horrible horrible horrible movie and while your at it, please make The Servant of the Bones into a movie
didn't you like the mini serie? I liked the dunde mini serie, I wasn't to happy about the children of dune episodes. But i liked dune. The movie with sting was terrible. I agree with Blade Runner. I could have been done better.
Completely agree. I had to turn it off half way because it was so terrible - piss poor casting/acting and they didn't even try to stick to the book. I would love Timeline to get redone properly. Prey would make a great movie too if done correctly.
The Lost World wasn't even remotely close to the book - it sucked. I can't believe they are thinking about a Part IV after III was such a joke.
This just a little off topic. But there should be a Ghostbusters 3 made. Same main cast. Think about it...
Wow. I was thinking that last night. With the cpu effects and all? It would be cool. If they did it right it would be great.
It's funny--a few months ago I interviewed Dan Akroyd and asked him about just that. He said that he wanted to do it, he wrote a script, he showed everyone the script, but that it's never going to happen. Partly because of legal/rights reasons, and partly because the rest of the original cast wasn't interested. He did seem open to the idea of a "next generation" type thing, but he doubts that will ever happen, either. link
That's weird. Must've been Murray that balked. Because I can't imagine Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, or Ernie Hudson turning down work at this stage of their careers.
Speaking of remakes: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/bad_news_bears/ http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/herbie_fully_loaded/
