DB7

The trouble is that the original version of Bwedazzled was pretty dire (apart from the trampolining nuns and Raquel Welch eek! ). Peter Cook was sadly as wooden as they come in the acting stakes.

(Cook also starred in a terrible, awful, unfunny remake of The Hound of the Baskervilles)

The Mummy is played fairly tonhue-in-cheek and has no artistic pretensions. It's aim is simply to entertain with the viewers brain in neutral.

Marky B

I agree with DB7 about The Mummy. Boris Karloff's The Mummy was not up there with the great man's Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein;in fact it was merely going on the horror bandwagon that was profitable in the 1930's(also it was not directed by James Whale) . I thought The Mummy and The Mummy Returns starring the excellent Brendan Fraser (who co starred with Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters) were highly entertaining,delivering a good blend of laughs and horror. Both DVD's are favourite viewing in my household.
Ocean's 11 starring George Clooney was far superior to the original,which for me was a jolly boy's outing for Frankie and his gang. George's version was slick,funny (with plenty of wisecracks) and cool.
Starsky and Hutch:well,it was not a remake as such,but a cinema version of a programme that was asking for a spoof to lampoon it.
Thunderbirds:I am sorry this film sunk,as indeed it was a brave effort to make a film version of a well loved children's series.
The Italian Job:As I wrote under the topic of The Italian Job,as much as the original is hard to forget,I watched the new version whilst trying not to compare it with Caine's version. And you know,I enjoyed it clap
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

johnnny nova

It's a tough call. Good material is good material and I can understand the lure of the remake, for God's sake I STILL THINK GET CARTER DESERVES A PROPER REMAKE! But it seems that production values suffer when the "sure thing" syndrome rears it's ugly head. Have there ever been British remakes of British movies?? Here in the states we are currently lifting remakes of Japanese horror films-The Ring,etc. It seems our far-eastern friends-in-economy have a knack for "a bit of the ultra-violent". Thanks for the informative posts, Mates.

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daisymum

I liked Bedazzled. Peter Cook cracks me up. My favorite scene was the random/annoying acts of evil bit where he purposefully scratches a stack of records and then puts them back in their sleeves. I always wondered what caused that. And then there were all those trampolining nuns. The laserdisc goes for a ton of money on eBay (which doesn't make a movie any good, but at least it's good for the seller).


That's a very elegant way of phrasing that. The CGI got on my nerves, but the brother-in-law was funny. Hmmm...so how about I take that off the list and substitute Great Expectations instead? eek!

daisymum

I really liked The (Original) Mummy. I haven't seen it in a while, but the "he went for a little walk" scene really made an impression. I'll have to find a copy & watch it again sometime. ghostly (And yes, I've been looking for an excuse to use that particular smiley. I figured this was probably as good of a reason as any.)

Steve Crook

One of the recurring mysteries/cliches of the movies is:
If The Mummy walks slowly with a stumbling, shuffling gait, how come he always manages to catch up with the usually fairly fit, young people who are running away from him?
Can it always be because the girl breaks the heel of her shoe? :)

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

Marky B

I read in one of today's papers or colour supplements,the Americans are remaking Fever Pitch,but changing the game from soccer to baseball.
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Jim Morris

The remake of Brief Encounter had Richard Burton Cast with Sophia Loren and they were both so flat and blank I thought it was The Zombies ....

The film of Thunderbirds was a very well made piece with the launch sequence of Thunderbird Three the best use of an 'ordinary special effect' to give the illusion of speed and lift. The opening rescue sequence was genuinely quite thrilling. The mistake was not to make a film from some of the original plots: like the landing of Fireflash is among the most thrilling pieces of Kids TV ever. Nobody will ever be able to say 'Thunderbirds Are Go' with the proper enthusiasm and I dunno where Fermit came from; but Tin-Tin ..... Ben Kingsley deserved an Oscar for a category not yet defined - extracting the ....

Oceans Eleven appealed and rates as one of those films that needs renewing from time to time.

Why was the remake of The Getaway not given at least 1999 votes if 2000 people took part.

Comparing Stallone with Caine - and why not!

Clinton Morgan

John Waters said the right thing when commenting on the proposed Hollywood remake of 'Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown'. " Why are they remaking the good films? It's the bad films they should be remaking."

A remake of 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' anyone? Now, that was dire.