Movie Remakes that shouldn't have been

[TheAuldGrump]

By the way, is the new Mr. and Mrs. Smith a remake of Hitchcock's classic, or merely a movie with the same title?

The Auld Grump

 

[fanboy2000]

By the way, is the new Mr. and Mrs. Smith a remake of Hitchcock's classic, or merely a movie with the same title?

Movie with the same title.

 

[Ranger REG]

Dracula, how many bad movie remakes can one great book spawn?

I think it went beyond the book and have become an icon.

 

[sniffles]

I thought that Fistful of Dollars was a remake of Fistful of (appropriate currency -- Yen?), and Magificent Seven was a remake of Seven Samurai. In fact, I'm quite certain at least about the latter...

LOL!! "A Fistful of Yen" is one of the best segments in "Kentucky Fried Movie"!

 

[Rackhir]

I don't mind the remakes, what i hate is all these horrible television to movie things. I can't believed they did that to the honeymooners.

I've long been in favor of passing a law that nobody from Saturday Night Live gets to make movies except for Michael Myers. When will they learn that movies based on one joke characters who had any humor beaten out of them in over extended skits repeated time after time with at best minor variations, simply do not work. Wasn't "It's Pat" and "Superstar" warning enough?

 

[Desdichado]

Last Man Standing is a remake of Yojimbo. A Fistful of Dollars is a remake of another Kurosawa film; I believe it is Seven Samurai.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Fistful of Dollars is to Yojimbo as The Magnificent Seven is to Seven Samurai.

 

[Desdichado]

The Hidden Fortress obviously is the basis for Star Wars episode 4.

No, it's not. Very little of the Hidden Fortress was borrowed for Star Wars, notably the convention of having the two "comic relief" narrative characters C-3PO and R2-D2 being loosely based on the characters Tahei and Matakishi. Very loosely, I might add.

 

[Storm Raven]

No, it's not. Very little of the Hidden Fortress was borrowed for Star Wars, notably the convention of having the two "comic relief" narrative characters C-3PO and R2-D2 being loosely based on the characters Tahei and Matakishi. Very loosely, I might add.

The "rescue the princess" storyline as presewnted by Star Wars tracks pretty closely too. There's a number of elements that crop up. No Luke Skywalker though, the male lead is much more like Solo in demeanor.

 

[mojo1701]

I've long been in favor of passing a law that nobody from Saturday Night Live gets to make movies except for Michael Myers. When will they learn that movies based on one joke characters who had any humor beaten out of them in over extended skits repeated time after time with at best minor variations, simply do not work. Wasn't "It's Pat" and "Superstar" warning enough?

You mean characters. Will Ferrel's great. Ever seen "Anchorman"? That's just one example, btw.

Adam Sandler's pre-Waterboy movies were good, too (and post-Little Nicky).

 

[Desdichado]

The "rescue the princess" storyline as presewnted by Star Wars tracks pretty closely too.

It has a few similarities, but also some very noticable differences (i.e., the whole routing about the princess being in disguise, getting to know the common people, getting recaptured near the end, etc.) but since rescue the princess plots are so ubiquitous, I don't see any reason to assign the few details that do match to the Hidden Fortress.

For what it's worth, if anything, the only (plot) borrowings that Lucas admits to are C-3PO and R2-D2 like characters. After seeing Hidden Fortress not too long ago, I think he's not pulling our leg in that instance.