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These are the types of movies that should be remade

posted 19 years ago by legolas05
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I hate reamakes with a passion. Every now and then a good one comes up but most of them feel unecessary. After watching Suspicion and watching the dissapointing ending and reading about Hitch's problems with filming his intended ending, I thought that this is a movie that would do great with a remake. In a way the movie is incomplete, there would be a reason for remaking it. I have always pictured in my mind the way this movie would have ended and it would have made a great twist and a stupendous finale. I would kill to see it on screen as Hitch intended it to be originally.

[–] kag-4 19 years ago

I also hate remakes with a passion. But, I'd badly want the original ending to be done. The ending of this movie, as much as I love this movie, falls apart.

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[–] JJC-3 18 years ago

NO REMAKES!

No one great enough today to do it, so leave it alone!

[–] rexshard93 18 years ago

The ending of this movie doesn't fall apart. You should know that every scene is in Lina's point of view.

Second, Alfred Hitchcock's ending is far weaker than the current ending we have.

It is one of the underrated masterpieces to come from Hitchcock. Third, No Remakes.

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[–] wtl471629 16 years ago

I can't think of the name of the movie but there was a made for tv remake of this movie. Unfortunately it had the same ending as Hitchcock's and ended the same ridiculous way. A missed opportunity indeed and maybe it is best this remake be forgotten.

[–] PillowRock 16 years ago

> In fact, I don't think I've ever seen any remake that was any good,
> except perhaps Ocean's Eleven

There have been plenty of *excellent* remakes over the years.

Pick virtually any filmed version that you've ever seen of any of Shakespeare's plays ..... It's a remake. People have been making movies of Shakespeare since *early* in the silent era.

His Girl Friday (with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell) was a remake of The Front Page with the gender of the Hildy character switched.

The Maltese Falcon (the Bogart version that we all know) was a remake.

When you start counting cross-language remakes there are more good films. The Magnificent Seven and For a Fistful of Dollars are both widely considered among the classics of the Western genre. Both are remakes of samurai movies made by Kurosawa in Japanese.

Now, I whole heartedly agree that over the last few decades the studios almost exclusively made poor choices about what movies should be remade. However, claiming that all remakes are universally horrible movies is an oversatement.

[–] Euphrosyne 16 years ago

"An Affair to Remember" was a remake of the earlier "Love Affair" from '39.
It however, should never have been remade in '94 w/ Warren Beatty.

Unfortunately, while there was an era where some remakes where done well, now does not seem to be that time. Most of the more recent remake seem to be garbage.
"Psycho", "Heaven Can Wait", "Fun With Dick & Jane", "Sabrina", "Anna & The King", "The Haunting", "The Last House on the Left ", "Four Brothers","The Women" - egads!, etc. all come to mind.

And that isn't even getting into the remakes of tv shows!

I don't really have a problem with redoing old movies that should have been done right the first time, but for whatever reason missed the mark - but contemporary Hollywood seems to be woefully inadequate to that task.

[–] prenzie-1 15 years ago

If anyone "remade" this movie according to the excellent book [which I read],that is its source, a lot more would be different than the ending so it would be a quite different story in some important ways. I also still like Hitch's film very much except for the conclusion.

[–] EMME30 15 years ago

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok...now you said you wanted a remake of a Hitchcock movie?! We see how well that went with Psycho don't we? I love Vince Vaughn, but I didn't like the movie. You don't mess with movies like this you just need to re-release them! NO REMAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[–] NewID 14 years ago

I was not disappointed with the remake of Lolita,
I guess Suspicion remake would be OK too.

Also I already remember I have seen something similar,
there is a TV version of this but I do not think I have seen that.
But especially the car scene at the end was somewhere.

[–] Lilibetp 14 years ago

No, it does need to be remade, but with the ending as the book had it. Hitchcock wasn't allowed to have Cary Grant really be a bad guy.

[–] Steamboy 14 years ago

There's more than the shot-by-shot version of Psycho, there's also the pathetic A Perfect Murder by Andrew Davis. You can't remake Hitchcock, period. Modern filmmakers don't have the skills and the class; too much focus on delivering the story, too little on the art of telling it. We can't be this refined nowadays.

As for the story, I believe you're wrong to say a different ending would be better. What makes this one deeply enjoyable is precisely the suspicion and the audience manipulation. If it was a straightforward murder story, where would be the fun and originality of it? What would make this husband-kills-wife scenario more interesting than any other if it lead us exactly where we'd expect?

Besides, he didn't kill her on the road, alright. But can you be absolutely sure of his intent? After all, she didn't drink the milk...

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