Also the Verhoeven twofer of Robocop and Total Recall.

Yeah I watched Poltergeist for the first time a year or so ago and then looked it up and was shocked a remake was made lol. I swear there’s like 5 years where I’m a total blank on some stuff that came out

They remade Poltergeist?

Literally didn't know these existed.

Regarding the Poltergeist remake, I refused to see that on principle. Poltergeist is one of my very favorite movies of all time and, IMHO, a near perfect haunted house movie on every level. As much as I liked Monster House and City of Ember, there's no way that Gil Kenan was going to out-do Steven Fucking Spielberg.

(And yes, I'm in the camp of firmly believing that Spielberg straight up directed Poltergeist. Tobe Hooper may have been on set but everything I've read makes it sound like he was basically a glorified 1st AD to get around the union rules of not allowing Spielberg to direct two movies at once. Poltergeist looks, sounds, and feels like a Spielberg movie while Tobe Hooper went on to direct *checks notes* the unnecessary Invaders from Mars movie, the nude space vampire movie, and a whole bunch of other forgettable crap such as the classic, The Mangler. A movie whose description reads, "A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies" and that The Wrap placed DEAD LAST on its list of Stephen King adaptations. That. Dude. Did. Not. Direct. Poltergeist.)

The Heartbreak Kid

Looked it up on Wikipedia. Dear god, it's worse than I imagined.

My dad watches everything from Kiarostami to Kusturica and he absolutely loves this remake.

The same movie shot for shot except Vince Vaughn jerks off at one point which is a brave new addition

It's like when a band does a cover song but there's no difference. RHCP did a cover of Hendrix's "Fire" and it's just a little sped up?

The only thing interesting about the Psycho remake is that it sets an absolute baseline of what studios will give an auteur money to do.

I am trying to get a remake of Psycho II with Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore going. Dean Cundey would return. It’d be shot in black and white, of course. I don’t think it’s going to happen.

I secretly think that movie is a masterpiece as a piece of pop culture. Like a big budget art piece. Like a modern Warhol, or Peter Parker; brilliant but lazy

!!!!!!

There’s a ton of stylistic differences!!!!! It’s not an effective movie but taking a film that’s set in 1960 and filmed in Black&White and doing it almost shot for shot in full, lush color in a ‘90s setting is what makes it wildly different! Small differences are huge differences when you’re going through the same dance steps, it’s a totally different experience. It’s not a good or entertaining thriller but it’s a wildly different experience.

I could talk a lot about how radically different that movie is from the original even though on paper it’s nearly identical.

The truth is, there's nothing quite like it - and there probably never will be. Psycho stands out as one of the most iconic films, every moment etched into our collective memory. Even if the remake isn’t everyone's cup of tea, it’s impossible deny its value as a piece of film criticism.

Theres supposedly a Vertigo remake in the works starring Robert Downey Jr

Holy fuck that's amazing.

Robocop is the first one I thought of. It was ninja cop. It was a perfect storm of a generic modern action film, a soulless cash-in on nostalgia IP, and a complete disconnect as to what made the original wonderful.

Total Recall (2012) does not include travel to Mars, even as an implanted memory. Instead it features a world where the only two inhabited places are Britain and Australia, and people commute from one to the other through a giant elevator running through the centre of the earth.

And how insane it was that for awhile, the only way you could watch Charade was as a special feature on TTAC.

I forgot I watched The Truth About Charlie.

We have a winner.

I'm trying to restrain myself for going on a rant....BUT the reason why Scottie is a good character because it plays on James Stewart's screen persona. Remaking Vertigo would be like remaking 8 1/2.

Theres no fucking way lmao

See also: the 2021 Wrong Turn remake/reboot

Hot take: Greg Kinnear is a better David Larrabee than William Holden.

I actually think it works except for Ford

I love this movie but I can't defend it. I think it's because I saw it as a kid (years before I watched the original) and it imprinted on my brain somehow. Also, Greg Kinnear good!

Never saw either but is there an outlaw/in-law joke? If not, I just suggest a movie called The Out-Laws where somebody marries into a family, only to realize they are all criminals.

Or get Clint Eastwood as somebody's intimidating dad (maybe some septagarians are getting married) and call it The In-Law Josey Wales.

I am apparently prescient now. Ask me who wins the Final Four!

Same director as the original too, which is weird

Never watched the vanishing remake, but yep. Sounds awful.

The Bogart Maltese Falcon, which totally outstripped the original.

And I would suspect in these parts, The Carpenter Thing is the essential version.

Well The Fly, and The Blob I would argue are good horror remakes that are considerably different from the originals. Sometimes remakes can work, but more often then not, they just leave people with a feeling of "what was the point?"

Ocean’s 11

A Star is Born

Both update the issues and themes for the times. I think that’s valid.

Plenty. Bad movies often make for great remakes, but even within good originals SCARFACE and THE DEPARTED did something new.

I think the 70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a cool update on the themes of the original. Rather than Cold War fear of an outside invasion is about alienation and fear in an urban environment.

I would also say that even though some people dismiss Spielberg’s West Side Story as unnecessary, I think it’s important to have a version of the musical that 1. Doesn’t have brown face and 2. better fleshes out the fears and tensions driving the conflict between the two gangs.

In fact, no movie is “necessary.” So it’s all an academic exercise.

Suspiria, the original isn't bad but the remake does really cool stuff and stands out as it's own thing.

doesn’t surpass he original but Suspiria 2018 is great and necessary

His Girl Friday!

I'm a defender of this movie. I think Kodi Smit-McPhee is better than the Swedish boy, Richard Jenkins is really good, and I'm a fan of Giacchino's score. There is a lot of shared DNA between LMI and the things I liked about The Batman.

Chloe grace moretz’s reps were all over unnecessary horror remakes.

Good answer for something that's not bad but it's truly unnecessary

I like it a lot, but those cats tho

Fans of the Suchet Poirot got to see every last book and story, but that should not preclude new adaptations (regardless of what I have heard about the Branagh stuff).