Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
But that one on TV was 20 minutes and all set in the casino.
It's incredibly different from the new movie.
Remakes that are better than the originals?
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It's incredibly different from the new movie.
It was an hour, and not *that* different from the third quarter of the movie, insofar as they're both relatively faithful to that section of the book.
Of course on the Bond front I could also always nominate The Spy Who Loved Me, being a far superior remake of You Only Live Twice...
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- A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sims tops everyone before and since)
- Ben Hur
- The Thomas Crown Affair (Brosnan and Russo makes this work)
- The Fly
- Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
- King Kong (I love the '33 original, but Peter Jackson's version edges ahead in my view)
- Casino Royale
- War Of The Worlds (not really better, but effective in a different way)
- The Maltese Falcon (Bogey rules)
- The Thing (better atmosphere and tension than the original)
- Ben Hur
- The Thomas Crown Affair (Brosnan and Russo makes this work)
- The Fly
- Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
- King Kong (I love the '33 original, but Peter Jackson's version edges ahead in my view)
- Casino Royale
- War Of The Worlds (not really better, but effective in a different way)
- The Maltese Falcon (Bogey rules)
- The Thing (better atmosphere and tension than the original)
BLASPHEMY!!! That thing needed a good editor to cut about 45 minutes to an hour out of it.
Timothy Hutton's Archie Goodwin is better than Lee Horsley's.
Jude Law's Dr. Watson is better than Nigel Bruce's.
The Zero Effect is the best version of Scandal in Bohemia ever made.
The Ingrid Bergman version of Gaslight was better.
Pretty much every remake of any Agatha Christie adaptation is better than the first. This is a curious phenomenon.
The Claude Rains Phantom of the Opera is better than Lon Chaney's, even though Lon Chaney's Erik was better than Rains'. A movie about opera singers just has to have sound.
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still is indeed better than the original, which only wins comparison because of nostalgia for a movie in which a Jesus figure compliments us on our goodness. Compare the original Klaatu's visit to the Lincoln memorial to the new Klaatu's visit to a train station. (Those who dislike Keanu Reeves can console themselves that his Dracula movie is not a superior remake.)
Jude Law's Dr. Watson is better than Nigel Bruce's.
The Zero Effect is the best version of Scandal in Bohemia ever made.
The Ingrid Bergman version of Gaslight was better.
Pretty much every remake of any Agatha Christie adaptation is better than the first. This is a curious phenomenon.
The Claude Rains Phantom of the Opera is better than Lon Chaney's, even though Lon Chaney's Erik was better than Rains'. A movie about opera singers just has to have sound.
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still is indeed better than the original, which only wins comparison because of nostalgia for a movie in which a Jesus figure compliments us on our goodness. Compare the original Klaatu's visit to the Lincoln memorial to the new Klaatu's visit to a train station. (Those who dislike Keanu Reeves can console themselves that his Dracula movie is not a superior remake.)
Gotta disagree there. If anything the Clain Rains version has too much music, which detracts from the horror. Let's be honest here: nobody tunes into THE PHANTOM OF OPERA because they really want to hear Nelson Eddy sing. It's supposed to be a monster movie, not an operetta.
Plus, the sound version loses points for deleting the whole Masque of the Red Death sequence--and for substituting some generic acid burns for Chaney's horrific death's-head visage.
Meanwhile, on the Bond front, I always prefered NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN to THUNDERBALL.
Is this uncommon? I've never seen "Never Say Never Again", but I can't imagine many Bond movies being worse then "Thunderball", one of the worst I've seen, which has put me off watching any Bond movies for awhile.
I was really bored throughout, especially during the underwater sequence. A very clumsy and dull way to shoot a climactic action scene. I think this is the one where he wears a rocket pack, right? That was the only part I liked and it lasted about 2 minutes.
Lon Chaney never did anything but unrequited love stories. He didn't do monster movies. Erik loved her voice. Not hearing Erik's idol sing was like putting a mask on her.
Was Nelson Eddy in Phantom of the Opera?
But this is true.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
It's nice to hear this as I thought I was the only one bored to death by Thunderball. I've only watched it twice, once when I was 10 or so and then when I was in my 20s and all I remember from that mind-numbing movie is lots and lots of SCUBA diving.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
Same here, and I never even saw the original.
Remakes I like compared to the original:
The Haunting (1999)-mostly because it washed the taste of the shitty Blair Witch Project out of my mouth.
Sabrina-Harrison Ford & the actress in question work better than the originals.
Lost In Space (1998)-The family in this version are more realistic than the originals from the 1960's TV show, and Dr. Smith has more backbone.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)-Goes beyond the original like nothing else since then.
The Fugitive-Same as above.
King Kong-Ups the ante in more ways than one.
Little Women-Let's face it, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon, Trini Alvarado, and Kirsten Dunst are absolute babes, and they made this movie come alive for me.
The new Clash Of The Titans kicks more butt for me and is better, especially when there's no stupid robot owl version of R2-D2 to be messing things up.
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein banishes the 1931 original completely away with it's sticking to the original story.
Remakes I'd love to see:
*A new version of The Swimmer with Pierce Brosnan as Neddy Merrill
*A new version of The Group with actual period clothing (the original from 1966 had the actresses wearing '60's hairstyles and clothes in some scenes)
*A new version of Citizen Kane, updated to today's media universe.
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It's nice to hear this as I thought I was the only one bored to death by Thunderball. I've only watched it twice, once when I was 10 or so and then when I was in my 20s and all I remember from that mind-numbing movie is lots and lots of SCUBA diving.
Oh yeah, the underwater scenes go on FOREVER. Plus, Largo has got to be one of the most boring Bond villains ever. (He had much more personality in the remake. Ditto for the Fatima Blush.)
It's nice to hear this as I thought I was the only one bored to death by Thunderball. I've only watched it twice, once when I was 10 or so and then when I was in my 20s and all I remember from that mind-numbing movie is lots and lots of SCUBA diving.
Oh yeah, the underwater scenes go on FOREVER. Plus, Largo has got to be one of the most boring Bond villains ever. (He had much more personality in the remake. Ditto for the Fatima Blush.)
Yeah Thunderball is just dull, and it ends really abrubtly, the finale on the boats terribly shot.
Dear lord, I never thought I'd hear anyone prefer the '99 version
It's ten years later and I've only just started to forgive everyone involved in that bastardisation, personal opinion I know but Blair Witch is light years ahead, strange noises and the imagination beats cgi and Cath Zeta Jones being a LESBIAN! any day for me 
Many that I would have picked have already been mentioned and I can only think of two more off the top of my head.
The remake of Sahara and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The remake of Sahara and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Whatever you're smoking must be pretty strong stuff.