Name a Movie or Movies you WOULD like to see remade.

[Mike 03]

Generally, I despise remakes, but two or three months ago I had the strangest thought. I was watching a movie that I'd seen when I was a Freshman in high school called AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, about a virtuous lawyer caught up fighting for what is right in a corrupt legal system where there are rapists presiding over trials and suicidal judges. It is a satire directed by Norman Jewison and starring Al Pacino as the activist lawyer. It was not well reviewed because it was so over the top. (As a trivial note, it was written by the husband-wife screenwriting team that was later fictionalized in the Burt Reynolds film BEST FRIENDS).

It is so dated and so naive by modern standards, and audiences are so much better informed about what happens in courtrooms that, although it was influential on me when I was a fifteen year old, now it is almost laughable.

I thought: This is a film, odd as it seems, that could be remade into a much more timely, stinging, accurate satire.

For it's time, I thought it was great. But it has not weathered the past decades well at all, which is true of many films.

Are there any films you would like to see remade with modern sensibilities?

[taterguy]

1. I'd like to see the Midway war movie remade

Cut out all that Father / Son / Fiancee soap opera crap.

Make it with good special effects instead of splicing in scenes from Tora Tora Tora.

[Mike 03]

5. That's a great idea. I agree! NT

[FloridaJudy]

2. Last Temptation of Christ

What was Martin Scorsese thinking? A blond Jesus, Harvey Keitel as Judas, and a blowzy Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalen? I suppose he was trying for fresh and irreverent, but it came off as just peculiar.

I think Daniel Day Lewis could pull it off. He has the gravitas needed for the title role, and after his performance in The Name of the Father I'd love to see him try.

[FloridaJudy]

3. Snort! I just looked it up on imdb.

"This plot summary may contain spoilers".

:spray: :rofl:

...just in case you've been living on another planet for the past two millennia.

[Mike 03]

6. Sheesh, call me weird, I love that film. NT

[Enrique]

4. The Great Gatsby

could be a really great movie if they got good actors.

[Mike 03]

7. Never saw that one. I'm going to look it up because I don't even know who was in it.

But you made me think of another good remake by a peer of Fitzgerald's: "To Have or Have Not", by Hemingway. The film had nothing to do with novel. I would love to see a faithful adaptation of Hemingway's novel (which, in truth, is a series of short stories).

Thanks for participating.

[HopeHoops]

8. Reefer Madness

well, with a Monty Python sort of spin to it.

[Ohio Joe]

9. Lifeforce

I really liked the story but pretty much everything else about it sucked.

[keroro gunsou]

10. some of the old

john wayne westerns.

i'd like to see russell crowe, viggo mortenson, or somebody take a crack at some of those icon old westerns

[Aristus]

11. "Fahrenheit 451." Truffaut's film was very esoteric. Very European. I enjoyed it for what it was.

But I really want to see a re-make done, emphasizing that the burn-burning nation is America, and pointing up not the government's opposition to reading, but the public's indifference to it.

[bikebloke]

12. The Hulk

That hasn't been remade in almost a week.