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    Hollywood Recyclables

    Hollywood likes to recycle movies, and it nearly always makes them much worse the second time around.

    For example, The Manchurian Candidate, Ghostbusters, The Longest Yard, Total Recall, etc.

    What movies should NEVER, EVER, NEVER be recycled and anyone who does recycle it should be burned at the stake?

    My number #1 would have to be...


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    Peri, you mentioned The Godfather - which I saw for the first time just a few years ago and think is massively overrated, btw - so I'm assuming from that that you include sequels, as well as re-makes, in your "recyclables"? (Or are they actually re-making The Godfather?")

    I ask because I can think of many sequels that were actually better, in some ways, than the original production. Re-makes probably less so, but I think it happens. True Grit comes to mind; the Coen Brothers version was much, much closer to the original book and also developed the characters to a greater degree and was an overall better film. Then there are all those low-budget movies from the '50s that got turned into Hollywood blockbusters with state of the art special effects, like The Thing (either remake), and American films that are remakes of European ones, like 12 Monkeys.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Peri, you mentioned The Godfather - which I saw for the first time just a few years ago and think is massively overrated....
    Sir, please stop. You are in danger of hell fire for that blasphemy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perianne View Post
    Sir, please stop. You are in danger of hell fire for that blasphemy!
    Yeah, yeah, I know. I mean I can see why it made such a major impact when it came out in '72. The shooting and other violence were, for the time, quite graphic. The representation of criminals as real people with families and inner conflicts, etc., was something almost unprecedented in American films. Fifty (almost) years ago it certainly had an impact; I just don't personally think it has held up as a "great" or classic film. The less said about Brando's performance the better. I've known professional actors who considered it one of the greatest performances ever committed to film, but I just don't see it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Perianne View Post
    Hollywood likes to recycle movies, and it nearly always makes them much worse the second time around.

    For example, The Manchurian Candidate, Ghostbusters, The Longest Yard, Total Recall, etc.

    What movies should NEVER, EVER, NEVER be recycled and anyone who does recycle it should be burned at the stake?

    My number #1 would have to be...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Peri, you mentioned The Godfather - which I saw for the first time just a few years ago and think is massively overrated, btw - so I'm assuming from that that you include sequels, as well as re-makes, in your "recyclables"? (Or are they actually re-making The Godfather?")

    I ask because I can think of many sequels that were actually better, in some ways, than the original production. Re-makes probably less so, but I think it happens. True Grit comes to mind; the Coen Brothers version was much, much closer to the original book and also developed the characters to a greater degree and was an overall better film. Then there are all those low-budget movies from the '50s that got turned into Hollywood blockbusters with state of the art special effects, like The Thing (either remake), and American films that are remakes of European ones, like 12 Monkeys.
    Read the book (Godfather) before i saw the movie. Loved the movie but the book was phenomenal.

    Consider giving it a read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    The remake of The Magnificent Seven was a disgrace.
    I wanted to see that in the theater, but I realized I'd never seen the original, so I bought the DVD of the '60s original and watched it first. Great film. Went to see the re-make. Eh, not so great. The original is head and shoulders the better movie. The only thing I really enjoyed about the new version was Vincent D'Onofrio's performance as the knife-wielding wild man - that was really good.
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