Ironman1188 said:
Tell that to King Kong, Godzilla, Mighty Joe Young, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Planet of the Apes.
A movie being done over doesn't necessarily mean it will be "better". To me the perfect case will be seen this year with the "reimagined" Halloween.
Well, I can only comment on the few I've seen, but...
I grew up as and still am a big Japanese Godzilla fan, and the American version plain and simply should never have beared the title of Godzilla. I liked the film, and it's fun to watch, but the only ways it comes close to being Godzilla is large lizard and piss-poorly, fire breath. It should have been called something else and then it would have just been a cool monster movie, but the entire concept of what Godzilla is was lost in that film.
Planet of the Apes was also a case where the film took the most simplistic elements of what the original films were about and what we got was very detached from the original and should also have just been titled differently.
King Kong on the other hand, was quite true to the original, even to go as far as incorporating the deleted bug pit scene, but it took the original and pumped it up on steroids so to speak, and it does stand as the original reimagined, I don't think anyone watching the original '33 Kong and Peter Jackson's would feel that it was anything more than a more elaborate version of the classic, and in that case, there were 70 years of growth in Hollywood and I think at that point, it is interesting to see what would happen if the story were told with newer technologies.
Halloween, I expect to be a similar case as King Kong, can't say until I see it, but from the interviews with Zombie, the impression I get is he felt the original didn't delve into Michael's character enough and felt there was something there to explore. Now while the classic in ways was great cuz there was no justification to his murders, the new version may not even justify them and only give a long chain of events so instead of being some kid that snapped once, waited 17 years and snapped again (ignoring the sequel plot lines) he'd be this ****ed up kid that all his life was pure evil, which would be a very scary thing and wouldn't take away from it. I think Myers will still be Myers in this film.
As for remaking Predator, Arnold is by no means a great actor, but his performance is not about being a Tom Hanks, it's about being Arnold. Yes we have people like The Rock and this other guy they're talking about who can be that big muscle guy who can't really act just do kickass action, but I don't think anyone will ever be as entertaining in the roles Arnold was cast in as he was. Casting for the film was actually perfect, you felt like they were a tight unit, Carl Weathers played a ferfect *******, there's no room for a ""better"" cast, so that's one element not to remake. There's the story line, an Alien from outter space comes to earth for a ritualistic hunt. While Halloween may alter the character's core plot, many people hated where the sequels took his background, but with Predator, it's been accepted and loved by the core fans, the Predators perform hunts every so many years and use earth as a hunting ground, no reason to change it. You could argue that the special effects between Predater 1 & 2 and AVP were much improved on the cloaking, but frankly, I don't think they look "cheesy" or "old school" in Predator, it was something not done before so it set the bar of what a transparent, light-bending being would look like and it works, in some scenes you can't even tell where it is if you haven't seen the film 30 times, they did a good job and I even felt AVP moderned the effect up a bit too much. The cast was good, the plot works, the effects were there and creature design was perfect, there is nothing to be reimagined there, nothing that could have been better. A Predator remake wouldn't be about any grand reinvisioning, it's a cult classic film, it's not like a King Kong or Planet of the Apes that stand as Hallmarks of classic films, and remaking it would just be a show by Hollywood that it doesn't care to put any effort into developing original concepts and stories and just thinks everything old should be made new. The only good that could come from a Predator remake is that hopefully it would turn off people and steer them to the original and grow it's following.
