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Originally Posted by a.e.B.O.T.
Bite your tongue... Scarface (the Al Pacino version) was a remake, The Fly (Jeff Goldblum version), The Ring (Naomi Watts version), Ocean's Eleven (George Clooney version), You Got Mail (Meg Ryan Version), Freaky Friday (lohan version), Father of the Bride (Steve Martin Version), The Departed (DiCaprio version), Three Men and a Baby (Ted Danson Version), Cape Fear (De Niro version)... ALL remakes... All decent if not great.
sure it is harder to make a remake, but there are some excellent ones out there. I will say that there are some awful ones (Stepford Wives, Psycho, Poseiden Adventure, Alfie)... but really, you never know.
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Wow, with the exception of Freaky Friday, The Ring, and Ocean's Eleven, I didn't know all those other ones were remakes. I kinda wonder if maybe it's easier for a remake to do well if the original is not hugely well-known...like people aren't going in to the theater with the original burned into their minds...like they aren't mentally comparing the new lead actor's performance with the iconic original actor's performance.