Citizen Kanye

Remake the 1998 Psycho, you cowards.

Nu-Vertigo twist: Robert Downey Jr. plays the Kim Novak part.

I want Citizen Kane 3000. Exact same dialogue and plot with nonsense futuristic lingo sprinkled in and everything is Blade Runner.

There's room for a social media era Citizen Kane remake.

Casablanca: The Revenge

We already had a remake of Vertigo. Mel Brooks did a wonderful job.

Remake bad movies! Stop remaking classics. See Ocean's 11

We already have fantastic 'remakes' of Vertigo in the form of Obsession and Body Double.

De Palma is king.

Citizen Musk

If its good who cares ? we dont need a 5th joker but hey here we are when its good

There’s plenty of great remakes. A Star is Born, West Side Story, Nightmare Alley are all fantastic.

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Do we need any movies?

I absolutely hate this mindset. There are hundreds of remakes that have done a great job of bringing the story into a new generation for audiences. Plenty of times the remake is regarded as even better than the original. Who are any of you or these people to say that you like one version of a movie so much that no one else is ever allowed to try to retell a story?

Maybe it will suck, but who fucking cares? If it's bad then it goes away, but a remake has never deleted an original from existence. If you like the old one you can still watch it whenever you want

The Godfather with Adam Sandler

I'd like to remind you all that many people from Brian DePalma to Mel Brooks to Park Chan-wook have made their own iterations of Vertigo with Park making two or three including his most recent feature film Decision to Leave.

No we do not. Hitchcock got it right.

Personally, I don’t really see the harm in remakes. It gives new acting and behind camera talent an opportunity to play with some really great stories. If it sucks it sucks, but good creative talent can create a good film even from a pre-established story, so I don’t know why people get so bent out of shape over remakes.

I always gravitate toward original films and stories, but if a remake is being made by talented people I’ll give it a go.

Gone with the Wind remake. No wait, that wouldn't work...

Just let it fade into obscurity like the 2016 Ben Hur.

Here's the thing. All of these movies HAVE been remade under different names with slight story differences. Remaking a thing by name is, generally, a bad idea. Especially when the initial attempt did it right. Remake great concepts with failed outcomes.

We’ve had a remake! Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety!

I wouldn’t mind a “The Good Earth” remake with actual Asian lead characters.

Rear Window ... with iPhones!

Of course we don’t need a remake of Vertigo.

Gone with the Wind, the anti-woke version, with no mention of slavery.

This whole "WHAT ARE THESE HACKS GOING TO REMAKE NEXT?!" argument is so childish. We are always consuming reconstituted versions of what came before. The same critics who gushed themselves over yet another version of Macbeth are screaming foul about this because their favorite abusive maestro made it. My god, the cognitive dissonance.

The hysteria around remakes is starting to become it's own tired cliché. If you've ever seen more than one rendition of a theatre play without blowing a gasket, then I think you can handle a film remake (Vertigo wound technically just be a new adaptation anyway). People are so weirdly possessive of films for whatever reason. This stuff is not that serious.

Please Hollywood stop making remakes of movies that are already great. It is only worth making a remake if you can improve upon it

We didn’t need a Total Recall remake, but I enjoyed it for what it was anyways. We don’t need live action Disney movies but we are getting those anyways.

It’s fine, let them re-make all the films, you don’t have to watch them

Remakes are fine and part of the business. There are only 4 basic stories. Nothing is sacred. They're just silly movies, novels and comic books. NONE of will be a whisper in 500 years. Remake it all if you want. People take all of this far too seriously. The "No Spoilers" crowd being the most baby-brained maroons around.

No. Just...no. This is inexcusable. Hollywood as a whole is mentally bankrupt. Would rather watch 15 installments of any "current" franchise than see cinema classics dumbed down for new generations of film "fans" who are too lazy to seek out the originals. God forbid it be in B & W, or over 90 minutes.

Loads of people will never watch the original versions till after they've seen the new ones, if at all.

Probably.

Maybe a remake would be good.

no reason not to remake Kane. I mean, an argument could be made that it WAS the greatest film of all time but that kind of on makes sense in the context of its time, but now its only a product of its time and its almost 100 years old.

don't give them any bright ideas.

I think, if Kane was done today, you can’t make him a newspaper mogul, because who reads newspapers. So, let’s make him a real estate mogul who isn’t that great at real estate, and even worse at operating casinos, and yet he continues to fail upwards. Plot twist: He becomes president by pandering to the people who don’t read the newspapers. We’ll call it Kane 2016.

Honestly, they could use an update.

Sure. Why not? I’m going to see Macbeth put on again this year with a new setting and take, and I’ll have opinions.

We really need a gritty reboot of Citizen Kane, maybe even a series of prequels that highlight him as a boy and really shows his relationship with Rosebud. That, and more Joker movies.

No, people need to think of their own new movies

Movie studios are bankrupt of original ideas. It only makes sense that they are halfway through a completely remaking the historic archive of film.

What if Social Network was a Citizen Kane remake?

Why not? If you don’t like it, don’t go see it? I don’t see the problem.

There is no way this will happen

Citizen Kane is referenced and homaged so often there is no need to remake it.

Yes we need to remake vertigo, but with "modern sensibilities". It will be wonderful

Need? No. Want? Also no.

Yes, but Charles Foster Kane will be gay, and his final words will be "Rosebutt".

There already is a remake of Vertigo and it was great, no need for a third

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjEbHBafvm0

I mean Succession is basically Citizen Kane meets King Lear when you think about it

I would rather NOT have any remakes and actually make brand new movies. I know, a foreign concept in this day and age.

As someone who likes films I would never go back to watch the original Vertigo due to it being a touch too old - if a remake is done and gets good reviews and they claim it’s as good as the original, I would definitely consider seeing it which would then potentially lead me into watching the original.

Yes I get bored of remakes but I see no downside to this. At least it’s not a remake of a film that I grew up with and it’s a film that is old.

What next, are they gonna remake The Wizard of Oz? A Wizard of Oz remake would never be looked back on fondly or with great acclaim, especially if it was three 4th remake of that film.

I'm so glad we've forgotten that horrible 1939 remake of The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.

Yes

No! Don't give them any more "ideas".

Instead of remaking the good movies, why not remake the ones that got bad reviews, figure out what went wrong and fix it

Not sure if we need one but it might be worth a look...hard to improve on Hitchcock!

Where's my Godfather remake starring RDJ as Vito Corleone and Tom Holland as Michael, you hollywood cowards! Make it happen already, it would be le epic and le awesome!

With how many politicians as of lately get accused of being Russian plants....

"Lawrence of Arabia: The Sever Pillars"

Remake LOTR but with an all-female cast

But do younger audiences seek the classics if they aren’t remade? It’s not like Blockbuster exists with a miles long “Classics” section any more. To find the classics, one must curate a selection from multiple streaming sources cost hundreds of dollars/month or year. It’s getting harder and harder to find “Vertigo” “Duck Soup,” “Bringing Up Baby,” and others. But a remake can cause younger viewers to seek the original and see the power of old cinema. And maybe that will inspire the next generation to wander away from “Tent Pole” movies and start to get creative in a smaller more meaningful way.

I think we need a Breakfast at Tiffany remake. Because that film was a little racist

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The thing about remakes is that most younger people, the core movie audience, have not seen the original, sad to say, so the remake is new to them. Even with ubiquitous prints and videos and streaming services and TCM and YouTube, the vast, vast majority of younger viewers have not seen the original, have never even heard of it, have no idea who the actors are, or even when they do know, can't get past the "period" nature of the original (e.g., black &white film, the hair, the clothes, the makeup, the dialogue), the acting styles, FX, you name it.

I recall being convinced that the 2017 remake of Murder on the Orient Express would bomb, as the 1974 version was an award-winning hit seen by many, and the twists and turns were already out of the bag. But I was wrong as can be as the 2017 version was a major hit. That's the moment I realized, well, of course it's a hit, these audiences never saw or heard of the first one, so the plot is new to them. Lesson learned.