Comments on: The 11 Best Remakes of All-Time

By: dellamorte_dellamore

dellamorte_dellamore — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:53:34 +0000

The Wizard of Gore.

The original, was kinda fun in a this-is-really-fucking-ridiculously-campy-way, but the new one’s actually pretty decent, plus it has Crispen Glover, Jeffrey Combs, and Suicide Girls.

By: mumblyjoe

mumblyjoe — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:28:40 +0000

I just read this article to reassure my faith in other human beings – that naturally Dawn of the Dead should win.

Holy shit I had no idea you wrote the screenplay – fucking superb work. I’m one step shy of zombiesexual and that IMHO is one of the best zombie flicks ever created.

Oh, and was hoping to see Willard make a mention of the list.

By: thomwade

thomwade — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:19:35 +0000

What got me about the DotD remake was that the people who got bit would morph into zombies that looked like they had been decaying for weeks. People went from looking healthy to looking like the 2004 zombies did towards the end of the film-but in DotD? It’s a sudden change. For some reason that really bugged me.

By: Arkansylvania

Arkansylvania — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:46:41 +0000

Johnrezas: I simply hated the DTV Day of the Dead remake because it was a cheap piece of crap that looked like it was made for the Sci-Fi Channel.

By: Arkansylvania

Arkansylvania — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:44:08 +0000

Wolvesinthewoods: Thank you for your kind words re Del. I knew him for 10 years, and I’ve missed him 10 years more. The first time we met, he put a cigarette out on his tongue. We became fast friends from there on in.

By: johnrezas

johnrezas — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:41:16 +0000

I wanted to apologize for getting off track here. This is about the best remakes, and here I am going off on the bad remakes. I promise to say on target from here on out.

By: johnrezas

johnrezas — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:37:25 +0000

James – You definitely have a more educated insight into how to write remakes. I’m a screenwriter, but I’m not professional. You are a universe ahead of me. I cannot even imagine the pressure you had writing the Dawn remake. But, what you did just made more sense to me. You used the same premise and a similar plot concept, but made the story your own with your own characters.

With the Day of the Dead remake, the spider-zombies or the idea of super-zombies (having super-hero like powers, being undead is a super-power already, right) was not really what turned me off. It was just one of many nails in that coffin. I don’t mean to attack Jeffrey Reddick either, but he took the original title and characters from Day of the Dead and reused them in ways that did not make sense to me.

I would have preferred that Steve Miner and Jeffrey Reddick handled the Day remake the way that you and Zack Snyder handled the Dawn remake. Use the same premise and plot concept with totally new characters. Instead, I ended up hating Captain Rhodes, but not in a good way like in the original where Joe Pilato played Rhodes and made you love to hate the guy. Also, Bub in the remake really came off as disappointing. Compared to Doctor Logan and Bub in the original, the newer Logan and Bub were extremely weak and uninteresting. The film does have some redeeming value.

By: thomwade

thomwade — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:43:04 +0000

BTW, might I suggest for the future an Alice Cooper related poll, James? Not sure of a specific idea…just something related to Alice.

By: benn

benn — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:34:39 +0000

I didn’t think of it for the other poll but you’re right about The Big Sleep remake with Robert Mitchum. It’s fucking putrid compared to the Bogart version.

By: thomwade

thomwade — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:05:34 +0000

James-I totally understand making Dawn ineligible. I just think it is a strong example of doing it right.