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Realistically, are there any movies you think you could have made better?


Let's say you had the exact same resources: budget, script, actors. The only exception is that you are the director. Are there any films you genuinely feel you could make better?

Move over "50 Shades", I got this.

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Sure:
Dune 2.

Should be a naked musical next to a pool.

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No one wants to see Timothee Chalamet naked.

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I think a lot of the girls and the gays would disagree with you there.

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The dude is manorexic.

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He's not my type, certainly, but he seems to keep getting work as a lead, so he's doing it for a lot of other people.

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I hate it when adapatations end up in the hands of people with no love for the original work.

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Oh but we need to adapt it to the modern audience.
That's usually what they say isn't it?


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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.

I firmly believe that if you took the best bits from both films and edited them together, you’d end up with one good movie.

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I was thinking more along the lines if you had to direct the movie yourself with the same script, actors etc.

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Don’t forget, decent editing will completely change a film too.

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Yeah , that Rollerball remake would have not been unwatcheable if they used a different editor

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I could have made Cats better by not making it.

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I asked you what movie you can make better, not "what can you do to make the world a better place?"

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Okay. I'd make Cats better by replacing the cats with dogs and calling it Dogs.

I will also remake Cassablanca with dogs. This guy will be my lead:

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

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The video is there, but it doesn't play.

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No, you make it with real cats and have the world’s first trillion dollar movie.

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Agreed. If they were gonna CGI the whole thing, they should have just done it like the cat in Keanu. I would have enjoyed that.

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Anything Disney Star Wars, Anything MCU after After phase 3.

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Since I've never made a professional movie before, I would avoid anything visual effects driven.

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Am I the only one that found Tina very sexy in Beyond Thunderdome? Legs for days man!’

OK, I’ll just let myself out🤓

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A lot of people do, but I never did.

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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

I'd basically make the exact same movie, except:

1) the tone would stay consistent all the way through, instead of the whole thing turning into a family movie after the kids show up;

2) after Max decides to stay with the kids in the Crack in the Earth, there would be a timeskip and a montage showing the kids gradually overcoming their mistrust of Max, and Max reluctantly learning to lower his guard and let them in; and

3) the ending would either consist of

3a) Max crashes his car to clear the way for the plane, and is fatally wounded in the process. His last scene with Aunty plays exactly the same, except right before she appears, he sees the plane flying overhead. Aunty says her "raggedy man" line, Max smiles, closes his eyes and dies, finally at peace. Aunty bids him a respectful last farewell with the same "goodbye, soldier," and the rest of the movie plays out the same; or

3b) the plane scene plays exactly the same, but after it we see a brief montage of a wounded Max wandering aimlessly on foot through the desert. He eventually falls over from exhaustion, and soon afterward, we see someone come into the scene and help him. When we cut to the final scene in the ruins of Sydney, which now take place decades in the future, we see an old, feeble and happy Max being taken care of by the new generation of children, finally over his pain as his lost family has been replaced by a spiritual one.

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You would have to keep in Tina shouting: "Thundeeeerdome!"

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the many saints of newark.... it could have been interesting, but it became a wokefest dedicated to george floyd.

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To be fair, the film glamourizes the gang life so at least dedicating it to George Floyd keeps it consistent.

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I don’t think I could create a good movie from scratch but I feel confident I could edit one with problems and make it better.

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A lot of people can. That's why YouTube allows so many fan edits.

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no one is going to answer this honestly

the truth is, with the same actors, script, crew, etc.

you really couldn't change it at all

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You could always change tone, take out unintentional humour, be more strict with performances and special effects etc.

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i suppose so

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