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Time for remakes of 'Taxi Driver', 'The Godfather', 'Serpico',...


...'The Sting', 'Little Big Man', 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'Network' - and all those other terrible seventies classics. Seriously: whoever thought making a new adaptation of 'Papillon' was what the world needed needs his head examined. Why not do a remake of 'Ben Hur' next? Oh wait...

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...don't stop at the 70s...how about Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind Lawrence of Arabia...Dr Zhivago...since we're spitting on Steve McQueen by ripping off his classics let's do The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, Bullit....Hollywood's already stolen The Getaway and Magnificent Seven...

nothing is sacred

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don't stop at the 70s...how about Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind Lawrence of Arabia...Dr Zhivago...since we're spitting on Steve McQueen by ripping off his classics let's do The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, Bullit...

Oh just you wait: they will remake all of those (well, with the possible exception of Citizen Kane because that film was a flop)

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It's getting ridiculous now with all the remakes. I hate to say this, but someday they'll have the nerve to try and remake The Godfather. I was shocked when they remade Ben-Hur, but it went just where I thought it would. Nowhere.

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It's getting ridiculous now with all the remakes. I hate to say this, but someday they'll have the nerve to try and remake The Godfather. I was shocked when they remade Ben-Hur, but it went just where I thought it would. Nowhere.

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'Don't remake good films, remake bad ones.'

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