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Originally Posted by Hitch
And who here would argue that (speaking of Cameron) Avatar isn't a remake of Dances with Wolves? Sheesh.
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I'd just like to say Avatar was an awful movie. Technologically impressive for certain. But man, two hours in and I just wanted it to be over already.
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But some films...I fall back to TPB. Who thinks that The Princess Bride can ever be remade? But you know somewhere, somehow, some idiot is thinking that that's a good idea.
Some films have souls of their own and shouldn't be remade. Yes, I'm sure we each have our own list.
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One of the films on my list would have been Dawn of the Dead. And you know what? I was wrong. As much as possible, remakes should be judged on their own merits.
Spielberg is currently doing a remake of West Side Story. Will it be any good? Who knows? Spielberg is a talented man.
Incidentally, Dredd isn't a remake of Judge Dredd. They are two different movies based on the same source material (Judge Dredd from 2,000 AD comics), but neither relies on the other and the stories are completely unrelated (unlike, say, two films based on The Wizard of Oz). Both are just movies about sort of the same character (though many 2,000 AD fans would say whoever Stallone was, he certainly wasn't Judge Dredd).