NOTHING is sacred!!!!

[Midnight Palace]

Next year, a remake of the 1939 classic "The Women" will be released. :eusa_doh: Like they're going to top the original stars......right.....

:rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0430770/

 

[BeBopBaby]

Next year, a remake of the 1939 classic "The Women" will be released. :eusa_doh: Like they're going to top the original stars......right.....

:rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0430770/

I saw this the other day. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but according to what I saw they're remaking Midnight too. Reese Witherspoon will be playing Claudette Colbert's role.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0031647/

 

[Doctor Strange]

But keep in mind that, like most remakes, these will probably open and quickly sink without a trace. The old classics will endure.

The only downside is that when younger folks naively search on these titles, they'll be more likely to encounter the lame remakes (which will be the more heavily pushed products) before the originals!

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Yuck. I could make a better remake with my Barbies.

 

[Spitfire]

Yuck. I could make a better remake with my Barbies.

lol lol lol lol Do it BtB - just do it lol lol lol

 

[Haversack]

Maybe the people behind this remake of _The Women_ are hoping for a Maltese Falcon Trifecta. After all, a musical version of _The Women_ has already been made back in 1956, _The Opposite Sex_...

As for remaking _Midnight_, can't they at least release a recording of the original? Any movie which begins with Claudette Colbert arriving in Paris in a 3rd-class railway carriage broke and in a gold-lame dress deserves to be seen.

Haversack.

 

[Miss Brill]

But a lot of classic films were remakes also. Remakes aren't new, so to speak.

 

[Zig2k143]

But a lot of classic films were remakes also. Remakes aren't new, so to speak.

Yea remakes of old plays.... Like Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet aka West Side Story... there are many many more... but I agree the remakes today aren't usually very good.

 

[Paisley]

I think they've taken recycling a bit too far.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Nah...there are quite a few Golden Era films, which are remakes of earlier films.

Alice Adams with K. Hepburn was a remake of a 1923 film of the same name.

An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute, is a remake of the 1939 film Love Affair.

His Girl Friday (1940) is a remake of the 1931 Front Page.

Maltese Falcon anyone? Who has seen or remembers the 1931 version?


and the list goes on...

And while yes, many of the remakes were first plays, that does not detract from the idea that at least a good handful of revered classic films, were remakes. Its sure a good thing that neither the Academy or the film going public poo-poo'ed them back in the Golden Era.

 

[HadleyH]

N-o-t-h-i-n-g S-a-c-r-e-d ______that's for sure

when it comes to remakes. All remakes should be banned from the face of the earth. Some things should just be left alone IMO. Why not try to think of something new? like a new plot or something? I'm sure it's not that hard. It has been done before

I better stop. I feel strongly about this thing. lol lol

 

[Diamondback]

N-o-t-h-i-n-g S-a-c-r-e-d ______that's for sure

when it comes to remakes. All remakes should be banned from the face of the earth. Some things should just be left alone IMO. Why not try to think of something new? like a new plot or something? I'm sure it's not that hard. It has been done before

I better stop. I feel strongly about this thing. lol lol

Well, I'd lobby for an exception on film adaptations of novels--some of the past ones have been craptacular (anyone else cringe at remembering Raise the Titanic!?), so you'd also prohibit the possibility of a better adaptation later.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Bogie was the third version, best known version. John Huston stuck pretty close to the original novel. The original, the 1931 version of Maltese Falcon wasn't bad, and being pre-code, was the raciest of the three. The second version / first remake, Satan Met a Lady (1936) really veered away from the story, changing a lot of the basic elements of the story, and is probably most notable for having Bette Davis in the female lead. Having seen all three, I think clearly, third time's the charm.

 

[jazzzbaby]

But keep in mind that, like most remakes, these will probably open and quickly sink without a trace. The old classics will endure.

Couldn't agree with you more ~ Nothing can compare to the movies
that were made classics from the get go, and let us hope that when
they are promoting this film that they will indeed talk about the fact
that this IS a remake of a fabulous classic.

 

[jake_fink]

I keep hoping someone will remake Broadway Bill.