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Yup http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?295670-True-Grit

The original plan was to take the halloween franchise away from the Michael Myers/slasher story and make it a yearly thing with completely different stories (kinda like what they are doing with the TV show American Horror Story), but 3 bombed so badly they resurrected Michael Myers and continued...

It is based on the pulp crime novel 'the hunter' by Donald Westlake, if that helps explain it? There's talk of it being remade by Mark Wahlberg, maybe that's why?

Last Man Standing was another remake of Yojimbo. Can't see any reference to Point Blank being a remake, but only done a cursory search.

I think Kermode is wrong.

Nope. Michael Mann's 1995 Heat is a remake of Michael Mann's 1989 LA Takedown.

I don't know if you've finished reading the thread, but no. I was listing films that are well thought of, held in high esteem, or loved greatly that are remakes, assuming that due to individual tastes, some will be seen as better. As mentioned, I too prefer seven samurai to magnificent seven...

Not true. The remake doesn't have to be better than the original, but it mustn't be shameful. Credit has been given for both quality of the film and improvement on / comparison to the original, but in the end we've done this impressionistically rather than mathematically. By including it they...

I suppose whether they are better or not is a matter of personal preference, I was listing films that seem to be highly respected/loved, assuming that some people will view them some of them as better. Personally, I preferred Yojimbo and Seven Samurai, but then I'm not a huge fan of westerns.

Yeah, I understand that. I prefer remakes that take the original in a different direction, that use the original as a starting point and try something different. Remaking a film and not doing that just seems lazy, though I'm sure there are exceptions (such as foreign language to english language...

http://www.empireonline.com/features/remakes/default.asp?film=50

Universal paid for the rights to it so that they could re-make it, legally speaking it is, therefore, a remake. But I listed it as it appeared on several lists of good remakes, including an Empire magazine list, and I think they know a bit about films, so if they include it I'm gonna include it...

Why not?

Wizard of Oz The Maltese Falcon Scarface A Fistful of Dollars The Last House on the Left (The seventies version was a remake of a swedish film) The Man Who Knew Too Much The Bourne Identity Anna Karenina (there have been, I think, 23 versions of this, the David Lean one that most hold up as best...