I liked Helena in Fight Club.
Quote: chipolata @ May 30 2008, 9:41 AM BSTI hear they are also going to remake The Fly again. Why, I don't know.
I keep thinking I'll get tired of being shocked and pissed off at new remakes, but it hasn't happened yet.
Even though I don't think it's a direct remake, isn't Jurassic Park in some way inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World?
If that's true then I'd like to add Jurassic Park to the list, as when I was 8 or 9 when that came out, it was one of the greatest things ever to me. I'm guessing the same experience Star Wars fans had when they first saw that way back when.
EDIT: Ah wait, apparently it was based on a book of the same name. Doh. Still love the film though.
Jurassic Park is based on a novel. Possibly the novel was inspired by The Lost World though!
Lol. I like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World too. All those plasticine monster films are great, Jason and the Argonauts probably being the best though.
Ah, I see you edited your post as I posted mine!
I wonder if the sequel novels were as poor as the sequel films?
El Dorado was essentially a remake of Rio Bravo, with the same star and director, and for my money is the better film. (Though I always cringe at the scene where James Caan imitates a Chinaman.)
Anyone for a remake of Citizen Kane? "You thought you knew all about Rosebud, but in a major motion picture from McG starring Nicolas Cage..." etc.
For me, after watching the new Dawn of the Dead I decided to stop watching remakes. I feel it's like a slap in the face, "oh so you liked The Thing, well it was crap and we can do it so much better now..." When obviously they can't.
I actually wouldn't die of horror if they remade Citizen Kane.
That would actually have some purpose. A lot of people think they should like it but don't. Maybe a new one, made by the right people, could work.
But yes, not with master of shit remakes, Nic Cage. 
Citizen Kane would be difficult to do, with the original being so ground-breaking in terms of cinematography, but it would be a brave experiment to try a modern re-imagining. Kane would have to be a TV mogul now, a la Rupert Murdoch, played by Tom Hanks, who has enough versatility to do a good Orson Welles impression. I never liked the newsreel prologue which tells you all the story before you even watch the film, so that would go.