Another pointless remake on the cards?

[steve56]

Agreed about invasion remake it was better i used to have the Kevin Macarthy VHS but prefered the 70s film.Robches wrote:

> Any remake of The Long Good Friday will be a bag of shite.
>
> London's docklands were a key component of the film, lose them
> and you lose the whole point. Plus, the idea was that Britain
> was in deep shit (true, it was made in 1979), and that only a
> gangster like Harold Shand, with the help of the Mob, had the
> balls to try and turn it round. If you get rid of all that
> context what do you have? A few explosions and a bit of
> shooting.
>
> Not all remakes are rubbish though. The version of Invasion of
> the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland was excellent, better
> than the original in my view, and a genuinely frightening film.
> But as a rule of thumb, if the original film was brilliant, any
> remake will be shite. Who would want to see a remake of
> Bullitt, or Goodfellas?
>
>

[Arnold Layne]

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"This used to be a nice place!"

[HellyeahHammer]

You can't remake an absolute classic! Look at the recent Horror classic remakes, House Of Wax, The Fog, The Hitcher! Great films the originals, but totally wank out of their depth remakes! I find it hard to think of a remake that could hold its own to the original!

[mrchapel]

Steve R wrote:

> "Filming is due to start in Miami in 2008 under the direction
> of Paul W S Anderson, who made Resident Evil."
>

So it`ll star his no tits girlfriend Milla Jovovich then?

[KennySue]

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Scarface - 1932 - directed by Howard Hawks - starring Paul Muni.


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Scarface - 1983 - directed by Brian De Palma - starring Al Pacino.


And De Palma's remake of Scarface was set in Miami where the remake of The Long Good Friday will be filmed. So what movie is director Anderson really remaking?

But that's show BUSINESS! Just because they make it doesn't mean we have to watch it or even care. Just watch the original again or De Palma's Scarface or Hawks' Scarface or even Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone (1976).