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Clarence · #1 03-31-2007, 09:30 PM

I'll start.

Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds.

What a great movie! With todays technology, could be a real screamer....

Danger Boy · #2 03-31-2007, 10:07 PM

Howard the Duck? Why I ask, WHY??

Danger Boy · #3 03-31-2007, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Clarence

I'll start.

Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds.

What a great movie! With todays technology, could be a real screamer....

You can't remake a classic like that and have it be any good. I agree.. with today's advancement's it would look great. but, i doubt it would have that fear factor if you will, of the original.

tentoze · #4 03-31-2007, 10:13 PM

Anyone with enough hubris to muck around with a Hitchcock original should be summarily executed in the most horrible manner imaginable.

Clarence · #5 03-31-2007, 10:17 PM

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Anyone with enough hubris to muck around with a Hitchcock original should be summarily executed in the most horrible manner imaginable.

I agree, to a point. Am I wrong to think it would be a blockbuster success though??

tentoze · #6 03-31-2007, 10:18 PM

No idea- I'm pretty detached from popular culture. And for good reason.

soundmotor · #7 03-31-2007, 11:04 PM

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Anyone with enough hubris to muck around with a Hitchcock original should be summarily executed in the most horrible manner imaginable.

I believe Hitchcock phoned in his direction on "The Birds". A remake might improve it.

speakerlust · #8 03-31-2007, 11:11 PM

Hollywood screws up every movie that they re-make.
Everything they try to re-make turns out to be trash.
They can't even make a good movie now on a first run.

NeedForSpeed · #9 03-31-2007, 11:17 PM

Magnum P.I..

Clarence · #10 03-31-2007, 11:18 PM

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Magnum P.I..

Was that a movie? I thought it was a TV show.

speakerlust · #11 03-31-2007, 11:22 PM

Clarence, your Avatar,.......Make and model........Drooling............

2DualsNotEnough · #12 03-31-2007, 11:23 PM

They remade Psycho word for word a few years back,and it just didnt feel right.
You are better off remaking a bad movie,or one that no one has seen.Thats what they did with Seven Samurai.Made the Magnificent Seven.
Did the same thing with Infernal Affairs.Now its the Departed.
Jimmy

Clarence · #13 03-31-2007, 11:37 PM

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Clarence, your Avatar,.......Make and model........Drooling............

Mcintosh PS 112 Subwoofer. Match LS 360 mains. Drool away.

#14 04-01-2007, 11:17 PM

I can think of nothing that I would want to see Hollywood remake.

WRT The Birds, I can explain it -- imagine someone trying to "pitch" this -- without the Hitchcock slant -- the executives would go, "so let me get this straight, you never figure out why the birds do what they do?" "Yes, that's right. It would just end with the main characters walking very tensely through a crowd of birds that inexplicably don't attack them..." (pause) "Alrighty, then, don't call us, we'll call you. Okaythanksbuhbye."

JimJ[VT] · #15 04-02-2007, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by speakerlust

Hollywood screws up every movie that they re-make.
Everything they try to re-make turns out to be trash.
They can't even make a good movie now on a first run.

Ocean's Eleven was the one exception to this, recently

Clooney's no Sinatra, but I thought he (and the rest of the cast) did a fine job...only person I couldn't stand was Julia Roberts, but then again, I can't think of a movie I actually like her in.