Films Adam Savage Thinks Should NEVER Be Remade

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[@ADHDMedia]

Thank you so much this video is advice I need daily. Thank you for posting this

[@recommendacious8026]

Night of the Hunter

[@sonycans]

Blade Runner

[@RodCornholio]

Empire Strikes Back Raiders of the Lost Ark Goonies Back to the Future

[@B-fq7ff]

Most movies should never be remade. The only exception IMO is novel adaptations that were poorly done the first time around, like Dune or maybe the live action Hobbit movies.

[@AlbertaTrailCams]

The idea of a Princess Bride remake forever concerns me

[@wendymontie5660]

Only if it was Peter Jackson doing it, would I go see it. Reiner was masterful in distilling the key points/moments to include and keep it in standard running-time format. I’d read the book a few times as a kid before the movie ever started production…and I was not left wanting. The ONLY remake of it that I’d go see was if it was to a Peter Jackson level, even if broken up into a two or three parter.

[@AlbertaTrailCams]

​@@wendymontie5660Guillermo del Toro if it had to happen

[@chrisose]

@@AlbertaTrailCams As talented as both Jackson and del Toro are it would be impossible to recreate the magic that was created by the original cast.

[@RobertWalkerUT]

A Muppets parody would be acceptable. Otherwise, leave it alone.

[@AlbertaTrailCams]

@RobertWalkerUT I'm suddenly onboard 😆

[@reyngel]

Back to the Future. Hollywood very much needs to leave that perfection alone for the rest of time.

[@klopferator]

"Who's president in 2018? Donald Trump?! The real-estate guy?!" No, but I agree, there's no need to remake them, and I am glad that at least as long the two Bobs are alive that's not going to happen.

[@darkstardemon]

Agreed. I'm sure it will happen but not while the original cast and creative team is still alive. In the 2050s perhaps.

[@justayoutuber1906]

#2 was really not good

[@Jaythesparrow]

@@justayoutuber1906Wrong. They’re all good.

[@itscoldinhere]

Zemeckis and Gale hold the rights to the film, not the studio and they have made measures even after their death that the movies should not be remade

[@TREVONBACH]

SPACEBALLS 2: THE SEARCH FOR MORE MONEY

[@shartazokhan1043]

How about Spaceballs 3, the search for Spaceballs 2.

[@OGdadpool]

​@@shartazokhan1043Spaceballs 3: The Search for Number Two

[@Devo57]

Spaceballs 3: The Search For Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money

[@vidmikes]

Spaceballs III, Part 1: The Hunt for More Spaceballs and The Search for More Money.

[@Apogee02UK]

@@vidmikes Sorry, these are all sequel ideas. How about a Spaceballs reboot by Peter Jackson? - Spacetestes.

[@joshodmo1978]

I second that comment Adam made about making props for a play. Very low budget will drastically increase your ability to problem solve. I use to work in low income housing and now work in customs homes. The things I've learned from making repairs with a zero budget has drastically helped my abilities in a hight market.

[@BThings]

_Casablanca_ should never be remade. Not only is it a really good movie, but I think part of what aids its drama is the fact that the people making it had no knowledge of how WWII would end at the time. That makes it so that their worries and concerns-even today-feel much more genuine than something today where there would be subtle, even unintentional, winks at the camera of "We know how this all ends."

[@StarWarsMoments]

Too late, it already happened. It's called Barb Wire.

[@BThings]

@@StarWarsMoments I'd argue that there's a difference between something like _Barb Wire_ and a flat-out remake.

[@robvegas9354]

The Red Dwarf version of Casablanca was a lot of fun

[@MrUnicorn44]

@@robvegas9354 "We'll always have 'Parrot's' ..."

[@simonagree4070]

The Maltese Falcon by John Huston was the third attempt to film the book, and it paid off -- the first two were flawed, the third was perfect. It should never be done again.

[@DEVUNK88]

the True Grit remake was a beautifully done. The acting was solid and the characters felt real and not like an old cheesy western

[@thePrisoner1000]

Good choice, so much better!

[@lcagold1]

Love that I got an ad for the movie Wonka just as Adam starts talking about unnecessary spinoffs, sequels, and remakes. The ad ended and Adam says "That's crazy!!"

[@nathanhall9345]

I felt exactly like you did. And to a degree, I still do. Unnecessary. Nobody was asking for it. And yet--delightful movie, pitch perfect tone, gorgeous. Works better as a double feature with Matilda. Feels like Dahl to a degree that the other movies didn't.

[@Kayjee17]

Wonka is sweet and delightful and a little bit crazy in a way that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory can never be - and that's what makes it the perfect prequel to Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I can totally see how the young guy Timothee Chalamet plays in Wonka becomes the older guy Gene Wilder plays. Just add some tragedy where he loses someone he loves combined with the evil chocolate guys coming back, then he closes his factory for a while, then you have the old movie. So many people diss on Wonka, but to me, it was an unexpected splash of sweetness in a very bitter world.

[@PUBHEAD1]

Big Trouble in Little China. You leave Jack Burton alone.

[@trogdorrules]

We are in his debt, he showed great courage!

[@PUBHEAD1]

@@trogdorrules its all in the reflexes

[@johnhoslett6732]

I love the Coen brothers but I hated that they remade Ladykillers. The original was a low budget movie in the 50s but it was absolutely brilliant. Starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers.

[@redadamearth]

Yeah, that's the one Coen Bros. film that simply didn't work at all.

[@Speedbird9L]

I haven’t seen the remake. The original was so perfect that I dreaded watching something not as good. Similarly, the original The Italian Job was a classic that the remake came nowhere near to.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

That film has perhaps the greatest cast I've ever seen share a screen with such terrible chemistry. Tom Hanks just about got away with a southern accent in Forrest Gump, but whatever he was going for in the Ladykillers remake just didn't work. It didn't even sound like an affectation, it sounded like an *_affectation_* of an affectation.

[@Riley_Mundt]

The movies that should be remade are the really bad movies that bombed hard and have since been forgotten. John Carpenter did that with The Thing, taking a forgotten 50's B-Movie and remade it. Take some long-dead film that has likely fallen into public domain and nobody cares about, those are the movies worth remaking.

[@Riley_Mundt]

@@whocares281 Plan 9 might be one of those movies that is impossible to remake.

[@repletereplete8002]

The Thing From Another World (1951) was actually successful at the box office and was well received and was not forgotten. John Carpenters on the other hand was received negatively on release and wasn't a financial success (not a bomb though). It only became successful via video rentals. P.S I think Carpenter's is far superior and one of my favourite films.

[@norlockv]

Invasion of the body snatchers. Other than Kevin McCarthy the original had none of the tension of the ‘78 film. Though the happier ending was expected in the ‘50s.

[@pgramsey1]

The legendary "Manos: The Hands of Fate" has the potential to be a good movie. The story has the potential to be relly compelling. All it needs is a budget, a screenwriter, cinematographer, actors, and a director.

[@cr-pol]

The Thing was a "forgotten 50's B-Movie" ?!?

[@philopharynx7910]

Never remake a movie that's strength was the actor's performance and/or chemistry between the leads. When I hear talk about rebooting Back to the Future, I shout at them. Not only were Lloyd and Fox perfect in their roles, they had a chemistry together that was off the charts. If you've seen the film, it's perfectly natural for a teenager to hang out with a senior citizen because these two are perfect together. Remaking it you'd have to find two stars of equal power that also work great together and fit the roles. They can't be too similar or they are just copying the original. They can't be too different or it's not the same characters. And once you've done that, you need to do everything else that the first movie did perfectly. We need to remake moves that have a great core idea but the execution wasn't perfect. Or the execution is very dated. For sequels, you need to bring something new to it. Including changing genre. Alien was a slasher movie, Aliens changed that to action-horror. Expand the world. Don't retread the same ground. Every Ghostbusters movie has had a scene where the government is out to stop them and they don't believe. Stop this. Why not try a case where the government says that this is national security and tries to take over the Ghostbusters?

[@wendymontie5660]

Agreed! Short of an absolute SPOOF of BTTF, using a Ford F-150 Lightning! 🤣😂🤣

[@philopharynx7910]

@@wendymontie5660 No, they wouldn't use the Ford. "You built a time machine out of a Tesla Cybertruck?" "the stainless-steel construction would serve to make the Flux Dispersal uniform across the entire surface area of the vehicle"

[@ItsMe-fs4df]

Labyrinth without Bowie 🙄

[@philopharynx7910]

@@ItsMe-fs4df And that version would have CGI instead of Henson puppetry!

[@ItsMe-fs4df]

@@philopharynx7910 😭😭

[@forresthouser5807]

THE most obvious "Sequel smoking the first" for me is "The Wrath Of Khan"

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

That film was neither a sequel nor a remake.

[@harbl99]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_ wasn't a sequel. Okay. So, what does the '2' mean then?

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@harbl99 Second in a series. A sequel carries on the events of its predecessor. Here, "II" has nothing to do with "I" because there is nothing of "I" in the "II" storyline. "III" and "IV" are sequels to "II", yes, but "V" and "VI" are not. It's an imperfect system.

[@willmfrank]

"Wrath.." was not a sequel to any motion picture, but it was a sequel to the television episode "Space Seed."@@RideAcrossTheRiver

[@tpkdm71]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Ok captain pedantic

[@redadamearth]

To extend this, some films just don't need to be "franchises", with endless entries. A film can just be a classic and stand on its own. Please, for the love of God, no more "passing the torch" sequels. What's really disheartening these days is seeing comments about a great film that's released, where half of them are "can't wait for the sequel!" Making SEQUELS was never supposed to be a common thing. When I grew up and saw "Ghostbusters", for example, NONE of us even CONSIDERED or WANTED a "sequel" to it. It just....was. It was great. That was the movie. And it had endless re-watchability. People are so conditioned now to every single hit movie having a sequel, it's like people have forgotten that it's *okay* for a movie to just BE. It doesn't need to go on *forever*. There are so few sequels that are as good or better than the originals, it should really go back to being a very special thing instead of just a GIVEN that something is just going to be a "franchise" - and the problem with that is that the studios behind them end up not working hard on the SCRIPTS and just rush them into production, often with half-finished story arcs or sub-par material, because they know that "fans" are going to see anything with the "IP" stamped on it. It's SO rare that a sequel or a remake ends up being as good as the original that it should go back to being a rare and special thing if a second film or "reboot" is done.

[@ArtamStudio]

PREACH!

[@melissawickersham9912]

And if you do need to pass the torch and make a legacy sequel like Afterlife or Frozen Empire...treat both the legacy of the original film and the original actors with respect. If the sequel is being made decades later and the original actors are getting old, then it’s best to have the original actors pass the torch to a younger generation in a way that respects both generations without one overshadowing the other.

[@drumsNstuff79]

Yes! If the movie was so good and classic and so loved, then yes, give a sequel, but put as much effort into the sequel as you did the first. Try and top the first one, instead of feeling like you used all the good stuff already and can't come up with any thing better. That's how movies felt back then. You were surprise gifted a sequel for loving the first one so much. You'd see the preview in the theater and get all excited to hear the voice over go "Look whose back.." Now people think it's just a given, and each one seems thrown together. They don't respect the franchise that way, if the movie even really needs to be a franchise at all.

[@TomOConnor-BlobOpera]

Here's a film that not only shouldn't be remade, but probably can't be remade, and that's Blazing Saddles

[@redadamearth]

The closest thing to a re-make of "Blazing Saddles" that's been done is "Django Unchained". There are tons of Mel Brooks-ian gags in it. The KKK scene about the hoods could have been an outtake from "Blazing Saddles".

[@pony3284]

Lmao truth! ​@@redadamearth

[@nks1384]

Hey boys... Look hwat I got heeyuh!

[@imapotato572]

Ever seen Tropic thunder? Highly under-rated...

[@paulreilly3904]

The reason Blazing saddles shouldn't be remade is because no one could do it better, and not because today's society can't take a joke. Which it can't. And yes I do think that people who say it's racist are wrong.

[@hurricanexanax]

Gotta love hungry cheap movies with big budget sequels, where the sequel is the level of production that the creators wanted to be at in the first place, but couldn't get the funding for. Star Wars, Mad Max, Terminator, etc.

[@charlesjohnson1123]

Mad Max was the one I thought of.

[@briandeschene8424]

Mythbusters fans: Please take what Adam answered here about remakes to-heart and stop requesting a Mythbusters reboot! It was amazing. It was entertaining. And it was one-of-kind. But the key is that is already *was* and should be enjoyed for that. It can never be again and will never be again.

[@ClintonAllenAnderson]

Every generation deserves their own "Mythbusters".

[@claysoldier0755]

@@ClintonAllenAnderson and they get it, by a different name and by different people. science youtube outclasses mythbusters. The insatiable hunger for scientific pursuit, the spirit of curiosity exists now just as it has always. It just wears different clothes.

[@kivulifenrir]

@@claysoldier0755 Your comment only brings to mind all the work of Kyle Hill. Mythbusters-style things exist out there, with different names, and different people. It's just looking for it that poses a problem for some it seems.

[@B-A-L]

Just look at what happened to Top Gear after the iconic trio left!

[@PaulGualtieri-m6v]

Discovery already made a reboot and it failed miserably since they couldn't recreate the original's charm

[@qft0]

That last comment, seeing our adult children as lenticular nested versions of themselves... what a beautiful vision, and so so true! I never thought of mine this way, and now can't unsee it. Thank you!

[@lynettegraves6261]

That blew my mind a bit. It’s so so true. Beautiful

[@zyrain]

Terminator 2. I appreciate the first one, but love the second.

[@tebla2074]

this is my go to for a better sequel too. the first one is good, the second one is one of my favourite movies

[@jasonGamesMaster]

It's kinda like Alien/Aliens though. First one was squarely horror, the second one was squarely action. A little like his Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back example, they are basically different genres and thus hard to compare. Prey was a good call out though.

[@michaelanderson2166]

Sequal is not a remake.

[@slebetman]

Yes. In my mind T2 defines the Terminator. The 1st movie was interesting but whenever I think of the Terminator I think of T2

[@tebla2074]

@@michaelanderson2166 the question of sequels came up too...

[@Gorilla_Jones]

Don't do remakes, re-release the originals to theaters for new generations to appreciate. Not only do a new generation of people get to appreciate the film, but they may get into the works of the artists in other genres. But like you said, some films like OG planet of the Apes can have a well done remake. But some films should be untouchable, and yes Empire is one of the untouchables.

[@dopeshades4134]

For the 25th anniversary of Jurassic, I took my daughter to see it as a limited time showing in the theaters. It was incredible to see it again on the big screen AND for her to see it when I was her age at the time.

[@Gorilla_Jones]

@@dopeshades4134 Wonderful!

[@kitefan1]

Good Point. When I was a kid one of my favorite films was Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 James Mason). It turns out it had one all kinds of special effects awards. In my 20s I got to see it on a movie screen. It was more interesting when not formatted for TV.

[@animeyay4]

This is sort of how I feel about animated movies/series going live action. It should never be it can't capture the perfect artistry that has already been.

[@matildastanford7019]

l'm making my animation series as the storyboard for a live action movie production (with as much practical effects as possible, limited CGI) Originally the goal was a film series but l have no budget to speak of or access to any of the locations. l think it all depends whether the creator envisages a live action based on their work or not.

[@bradleyhartman577]

For the last question: Wrath of Kahn vs. Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

[@mre9593]

yes! the first one just kind of felt like a reunion. but Khan (my favorite Trek movie) made us feel like the gang was back and kicking butt! it reminded me a lot of "Balance of terror" what I consider the best Trek battle sequence.

[@manohmanusa]

Superman II, Star Trek II, Lethal Wapon 2 and Aliens. I will probably think of more, but that's a fast and dirty list.

[@A_M_Bobb]

"Every age they've ever been" that is the sweetest tie in to Predator I've ever heard and I'm always gonna think of that now :)

[@Speedbird9L]

The best ever remake: The Maltese Falcon. In fact, the classic Bogart version was the third attempt at filming the original novel!

[@spyderfreestone736]

The Crow is a perfect example of movies that should never been remade

[@NONAMEHERETACOS]

Facts.

[@moondog3056]

Honestly, I've never understood the love for this movie. This is a movie more known for the death of the lead actor. If this didn't happen, I have doubts anyone would talk about this film.

[@MrMatches44]

Had to pause this and go watch the trailer. Interesting... choices... yeah.

[@jasonGamesMaster]

​​@@moondog3056 considering I loved this movie for years before I learned Brandon Lee died making it. The general concept of a person so in love/angry that they come back from the dead is very gripping to a lot of people. Hence Spawn and several other stories with a similar stories.

[@chrisgenovese8188]

​@@moondog3056 this is a movie YOU know because of the lead actors death. I was obsessed with this movie when I was a kid in the 90s, and was my go-to Halloween costume year after year.

[@peckenstein]

Awesome, my question generated a video title!! Love the live feeds, thanks for having them.

[@bobcoombs7924]

Noice. That's cool. 👍

[@stargazer1682]

I'm of two minds about remakes. On the one hand, the quintessential movie(s) that immediately come to mind, that I'd never want remade is "Back to the Future". _But,_ on the other hand, I can't help but also think about it from a theatre perspective. Way back, before the JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek, it was inconceivable for most fans to even think about anyone else playing Kirk or Spock or any of the other iconic characters from that franchise. How could anyone else ever live up to the original actors? But then there were these fan made productions, specifically Phase II/New Voyages with James Cawley as Kirk; and in the mission statement of the production, they likened it, not as a replacement for the original series or as them trying to be better, but rather in comparison to doing Shakespeare and other classic plays. You wouldn't just have one iconic production of Hamlet or As You Like It, and say, "oh, this was the perfect cast. So and so was the epitome of Hamlet, no one can ever play that role again." You wouldn't say that, because of course someone else could play Hamlet or Juliet or Mark Antony. Or they're going to play Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, or Laurey in Oklahoma! They can be and have been great actors who will go down in history for defining or even redefining certain roles. But often they define those roles for a certain generation. Newer generations will sometimes discover older works and it may land for them or it may not. Some of that speaks to the fickle nature of fame and how quickly a star can fade. How many people today know who Spencer Tracy or Laurence Olivier were? That's not to say they've been forgotten entirely, but compared to the height of their fame, their names are not as well known; and the stars of others of their caliber and cinematic age have likewise dimmed in the minds the public consciousness. Granted, unlike with stage theatre and especially older productions, where none of us alive today will ever get to see the genius of performers from 100+ years ago, we can still discover and celebrating the work of screen performers, which is preserved for posterity. The point still stands though, we still put on new productions of old work; we still breath life into the classics and strive to find new ways of telling the story or put a new spin on it. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and thanks to my mom we frequently watched the Spencer Tracy and Liz Taylor original, "Father of the Bride". So imagine our surprise when we hear of a remake with Steve Martin. We didn't know if it would live up to the original, but it did and it's become a classic in its own right. A lot of people probably don't even realize it's a remake. The problem with remakes is when they're pursued by the studio who have only a financial interest; they have no creative vision, they just want to deconstruct what may work from a marketability or nostalgia standpoint and hope for the best. It's superficial, they think if they throw just all of the special effects into a project it'll magically generate an exponential return on their investment. Remakes work though when it comes from a place of deep understanding and love from the people who make it. I think an excellent example of this is the series Elementary. Sherlock Holmes as an IP has been remade countless times; there are multiple iterations done just within the last 20 years. Which of them is good or better is subjective. In my opinion though, Elementary is a great Sherlock Holmes adaptation, for many reasons. It puts a modern spin on it in a way that fits the core premise of the characters and keeps it relevant. It keeps the plot fresh by using the sum knowledge of the characters and their arc being able to take the story in different directions. And after having watched the series and then gone back and read through all of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Doyle, it becomes very clear just how deeply rooted the series was in Holmes lore; using plot and character elements that I would have assumed they just made up, but were actually derived from the source material. Some of it might be obvious if you have at least a moderate knowledge of Holmes stories, but some of is rather obscure; which I would argue underscores how well it was done that such great care was taken to find a balance between a "remake" and original at the same time.

[@RinoaL]

I'm glad you brought up Flubber. It was an improvement upon the original and I wasn't even thinking about it when going through my memory thinking of remakes.

[@leistico]

Thank you for the first half of this video! I just forwarded it to a student of mine who is just getting her start in props and effects (community college theatre department) and it’s a great distillation of all the stuff our designers and professors and I (shop foreman) have been telling her. The portfolio part is especially helpful.

[@mattblack6736]

It's not like remakes erase the original film, but the effect of studios being risk averse and not investing in new IPs is denying audiences of new experiences.

[@lolilollolilol7773]

It *does* erase the original film, though. It's laziness at the service of greed and most often, the remakes are worse than the original. I dont undestand the idea that non-american movies need to be remade for american audiences. It erases cultural differences. It's insulting, both for the original author and his culture, AND the american audience. It means that the movie has to be dumbed down for the american public. It's american washing, a sort of variant on white washing, not based on skin color, but on cultural differences. No other country does that, by the way. The rest of the world must NOT exist, we are supposed to believe that the Hollywood way is superior. Except that almost always, the copy is worse than the original. The other day, I read a comment on the almost perfect geman sci-fi show named "Dark" (Netflix). The comment was : "I wasn't too sure in the beginning but mid season it definitely got a proper hold of me! I don't say this often but I really think there could be an American version of this" Wait, what ?? WHY ??? Why do you want to ruin a show that is perfect as it is, you idiot ? There is no way an american copy is going to be better, so WHY ?

[@CollinBirmingham]

Rescuers Down Under completely outshines the original Rescuers

[@smoll.miniatures]

Haha I need to rewatch! My favourite moment was when the pea fell from the plate in the restaurant and the roaches made into pea soup for the mice 😂.

[@CollinBirmingham]

@@smoll.miniatures haha. I still randomly say. "pea soup" in that tone of voice after he makes it in the thimble

[@smoll.miniatures]

@@CollinBirmingham 😂 I said it when I wrote my post

[@jaycollins2036]

The opening shot of down under is so epic.

[@LordShockadelic]

Years ago, I would say, "Some films shouldn't be remade", but now (in my 50s) I believe the opposite. No film is above reproach. Every story deserves a fresh look and nothing should be trapped in amber. Lest we forget, The Wizard of Oz and The Maltese Falcon both were remade a few times before the "definitive" version.

[@NoUniqueUsername]

It is strange that studios don’t take a movie with a good idea but bad execution and try to work with those.

[@1pcfred]

They do. But you've never heard of the first one because it was a bomb disaster.

[@leftoverthoughts2275]

They didn't make money and they want all the money they can grab.

[@1pcfred]

@@leftoverthoughts2275 yeah well who doesn't?

[@leftoverthoughts2275]

@@1pcfred Most people want more. These megacorps think it already belongs to them and we are obstacles to their having it. There is the natural instinct for greed, born out of fear of not having enough... and then there is the black-hole greed we see in media companies who remove software and movies you've paid for from your device whenever they feel like it.

[@Nathanatos22]

Title topic begins at 5:23

[@elektrotwerk]

I was scared when I heard my fav scifi film Blade Runner get a sequel, but than I was super surprised and happy Denis made such an amazing masterpiece.

[@michaelmoore7975]

I'm gonna go with _Movies That Need to be Made Now._ I nominate Ringworld and Tunel in the Sky.

[@ivanvanogre-nd1sw]

Yeah, I'd love to see Ringworld on the big screen.

[@johnlowe37]

@@ivanvanogre-nd1sw Much as I would love to see that, I don't think Larry Niven would go for it, nor do I think the result would be in any way satisfactory.

[@badplay156]

People probably don't know Tunnel In The Sky but it would be great. The terror of the Sleepy Joes would be gripping

[@michaelmoore7975]

@@badplay156 I had another reply on another thread where the guy said _Tunnel in the Sky_ is essentially a repackaged _Lord of the Flies._ I agreed to a certain extent....mostly the beginning and endings would have the most similarities. But the difference is in the middle, the heart of _TITS_ (LOL) where it could really distinguish itself from _LOTF._ Because instead of young boys making the decisions and reacting to the environment, you have young adults who have come with the necessary examples and maturity to (presumably) be more successful. But that's where those dynamics add a completely different idealization of not just survival, but a successful civilization of sorts. Also you get the more adult oriented issues and fallibilities like murder, execution, power, selfishness, betrayal, death, marriage, sex, children, exile, different ideas about how to exist, splitting into opposite camps of differing opinions, war between those camps, etc. Then of course, how they are able to understand and navigate an alien environment and its various issues. It really invites a whole array of extensive, comprehensive solutions and problems to be analyzed and considered by the characters. Not to mention the stark contrast of future tech science fiction devolving into essentially struggling against a stone age world with unsteady mettle and unfounded confidence. A movie I would love to see. Can you tell I already watch the movie in my mind? Cheers. And thank you for your reply.

[@michaelmoore7975]

@@johnlowe37 I seem to remember a while back a _Ringworld_ movie was in pre-production, but hadn't heard a peep since then. Is Niven a control freak or is it maybe he's holding out for the right director? If it were mine, I would insist on Ridley Scott to direct. He's the only one that could exceed visually what I have in my mind. And we are at a perfect time in film technology to really do it justice. If Not in Niven's lifetime, I sure hope whoever eventually owns it will option it out. Fingers crossed. Even the Niven/Pournelle books would be great cataclysmic/apocalyptical dystopian movies. Like _Lucifer's Hammer_ and/or _Footfall._ Still, a far cry from _Ringworld,_ though. That would be the ultimate. Thank you for your reply.

[@wesrrowlands8309]

If they ever manage to make a reboot of Back To the Future I'll lose what little faith in humanity I have left. Thankfully the guys who made the film are adamant that it won't be remade. I'd be happy to see Bay's Transformers remade into movies that follow the 80s storylines, same with GI Joe. Casablanca is on the don't remake list as is most films from before the 1990s to be honest.

[@CodenameRockerika]

Love that Adam also puts Rogue One near the top of his Star Wars list. So underrated.

[@tested]

Right?

[@chrism1503]

“Underrated”? I feel like that word is very much overused. Didn’t everyone love Rogue One? A lot of people still say it’s their favourite Star Wars movie, or at least favourite modern one.

[@leftoverthoughts2275]

@@chrism1503It wasn't an insanely horrific movie. "Favourite", is really pushing the limits there.

[@michaelm.1947]

@@chrism1503 "Didn’t everyone love Rogue One?" Negatory. One of my good friends *hated* it. Ends up, he didn't like Andor, either (not enough lightsabers, apparently). He also found The Last Jedi palatable. That one broke my will to survive and damaged the amount I like the SW universe.

[@Geeksmithing]

Yeah Underrated is overrated.@@chrism1503

[@MichaelHalsell]

Adam your guidance is golden. Salesmanship is a constant professionally. Thank you for the reminder.

[@emrybennett8809]

The Thing. I love the practical effects, the cast, the tension. It's perfect the way it is. The newest one is also really good and is a good entry for newer viewers, but its good because it shows what happened at the Norwegian not Swedish) base and left the American base out of it. ...... controversial opinion..... I count the PS2 video game as a cannon sequel lol.

[@GreenChillZone]

Ironically, John Carpenter's The Thing was a remake of an older film.

[@emrybennett8809]

@GreenChillZone I knew it was based on the book Who Goes There, but didn't know it too was a remake. I'll check that out.

[@christophbrylka6256]

I admire your enthusiasm and energy. Transmits parts of them when watching your clips. Thank you!

[@robo3915]

It’s like I’m having a visit with Adam while I have breakfast on a Saturday morning!

[@darkhoffman8739]

Hey Adam, great advice for future prop makers. I've been making props and miniatures for around 30 years professionally and still love making them for my own films. Being propmaster, designer and builder on Babylon 5 was my dream job! Then working at NeoTech, New Deal and the Hand Prop Room was so much fun! And I agree about not doing so many remakes but they have been remaking films since film began. Look at A Star is Born.

[@mattcolver1]

I was a mock-up mechanic at a large aerospace firm. We built mock-ups of the ISS Habitation module plus other rockets, missiles, consoles etc. I remember one time thinking that I had developed the skills to be a pretty good prop builder for the movie industry if I wanted to go in that direction. A remake of 2001 A Space Odyssey would be sacrilege.

[@Eric_Schon]

Godfather 2 is, if not better, just as good as the first... we wouldn't talk about 3

[@seanmmccarthy]

Yep, the perfect example. Yet I didn't mind 3 tbh

[@vinceemmons]

GF1 and GF2 are miraculous halves of the greatest American film thus far. GF3? I have a disc that came with my boxed set labeled GF3, which I use as a coaster and refuse to otherwise acknowledge….

[@dimebag667]

"Prey is better than Predator" has to be the most ridiculous statement I've heard in a long time. And I watch the news. 😊

[@garychaiken808]

Great job. I hate films that were remakes. It shows Hollywood has no original ideas. Thank you 😊

[@FantasticOtto]

It depends though. In 99% of cases I agree, but I think it's because most remakes are made because they want to make the same movie but "better" or "more modern". And that always backfires. But if a director has a unique artistic vision on the base material, and wants to make something original, it's another thing. A great example of this is the two Suspiria movies. Completely different movies almost 40 years apart, and both wonderful in their own way, because they don't compete.

[@TristanColgate]

The thing that winds me up with the Psycho remake is that they seemed to specifically do it to do it in colour where Hitchcock *specifically* chose to make it in black and white. Hitchcock had already made North by Northwest in colour (amongst others I think). It's literally saying "maybe Hitchcock got that wrong, let's see..." (spoiler, turns out he didn't).

[@watcher1326]

Remaking the Planet of the Apes series at that high of a level was a surprise. It was such a high bar and they totally did it.

[@watcher1326]

It was his remake that reminded me of how high that bar was. On its own, I think Mark's version probably would have been pretty well received. But use the name 'Planet of the Apes' and you'd better be bringing something really special.@@sturat5166

[@magreger]

My opinion of Prey is different. I couldn't find the lead actress believable for much of the movie. Also some of the CG was obvious and distracting. I think the most exciting thing for me was seeing Dan Trachtenberg get another big budget film under his belt. Dan is a cool dude and I've been following him since the totally rad show.

[@curseyoujordanshow]

The example that immediately comes to my mind of a sequel I love to an original I didn't think was great but that I still appreciate is Mad Max. It's by no means a bad movie, but I think it had to have been more shocking in its day. Now it comes across as much more tame and maybe even a little boring. But, it's worth watching just to fully appreciate The Road Warrior, which is still incredible.

[@redadamearth]

"Mad Max" is a great film, but yes, "The Road Warrior" was just on another level.

[@jdkemsley7628]

I was just coming down to the comments to say exactly this

[@bobcoombs7924]

I saw Mad Max as a teen because my dad wanted to see it and thought It might be interesting to me. 🤯 It was during the original release in '79. It was the only time we went to an independent theater, no cina-plex. At the time, it was considered shocking, but compared to now. 😆😆 it is to laugh. George does like his jump scares. I had a tape of Mad Max, Road Warrior, Dr. Strangelove and A Boy And His Dog. the blend from the end of MM to RW is seamless, (Max in the car, on the road) Dr S, is a palate cleanser and ABAHD is just an insane apocalyptic movie. the transition from Dr. S to ABAHD was the atomic explosions change from black and white to color. back when movies were 90 minutes and a tape could hold 6 hours.

[@captainxemo3804]

The portfolio question really resonates with when I did timber tech in year 11/12, and the portfolio I had to make for my major project.

[@technosworld2]

Scarface is a good remake. Aliens, Terminator 2 as far as remakes/sequels that improve on some things IMO. Not exactly a remake but a new film done with the same source material is The Great Gatsby. The 1970's version is very bland in comparison.

[@bowser515]

Prey is definitely not better than the original imo, or even P2. And I hate the actual design of the creature in both the way it looks and acts. It just walks stupidly towards people while being shot at. It tanks damage as if they're invincible. The original moved silently through the trees and used its intelligence, showing that it was vulnerable if caught out (If it bleeds, we can kill it!) The creature in prey is so far removed from Stans design that it may as well be some generic monster. But that's what opinions are... Prey was fine, but I have no desire to watch it again. I could watch the original over and over. Predators (2010) was a far better movie with better creature designs also, a very underrated sequel. I think Terminator 2 is probably better than the first movie. Empire definitely is. They're the two main sequels that are superior. A lot of people would probably say Aliens also. But that's very different to the original so is harder to compare. I like both, but Aliens relegated the actual Aliens to cannon fodder. That's my only complaint about what is a superb movie. The Big chap in the original Alien, with his eerily beautiful human skull occasionally visible beneath his dome was terrifying.

[@kilroy987]

Reasonable people: "Great movies should not be remade." Hollywood: "We're remaking a movie." People: "Why, we already have-" Hollywood: "HERE'S A TRAILER IN YOUR FACE, HOT YOUNG ACTORS, HOT TAKES, SEE IT" Not so reasonable people: "ok, ok..." A movie can make a lot of people simply because people saw it, but that doesn't make it enriching or worth doing. Hollywood needs to support unique enriching efforts, or people will be done with movies. More fulfilling art forms where real efforts are apparent will take over.

[@B-fq7ff]

Hollywood has been a slop factory for decades, because slop is easy to produce and market. And the sad part is that people keep buying tickets for said slop.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

What movie should never be remade? Groundhog Day. But they should _announce_ a remake - then just re-release the original.

[@finkelmana]

I dont have a problem with remaking a movie or TV show, as long as it is actually better than the previous one. However, knowing that to be the case is the hard part.

[@bobward7508]

The portfolio advice you give in this video is spot on. It can be used across almost any creative career path there is! Thank you for the tips and insights.❤ Only someone who has had the experience and wealth of knowledge there from could give such advice. Thanks again Adam!🎉

[@EruIlúvatar1]

Lord of the Rings Trilogy. You will never ever ever capture that again.

[@staceygram5555]

What if the Fellowship was all bIack lesbians, though?

[@redadamearth]

Oh, 100%. Nobody will ever do what Peter Jackson did to that level of quality again. "The Hobbit", however...lol That should have been a stand-alone, 2+ hour film. Turning it into a bloated trilogy was just ludicrous, so I can see another filmmaker doing "The Hobbit".

[@EmperorSigismund]

If anyone wants to make another LoTR trilogy it would have to be in a different medium. I'd be stoked if someone wanted to make a 2D animated film based on the Angus Mcbride illustrations.

[@TravelingStacker]

@@redadamearth Seeing as the first Hobbit movie outgrossed two of the LotR films, I'd say it wasn't bad at all. I enjoyed the Hobbit films.

[@michaelnoble2432]

@@TravelingStacker doing well at the box office and being good movies are 2 different things. I hardly made it through the first Hobbit film; seeing the extreme padding required to make it into 3 long movies just ruined a childhood classic for me.

[@lojeda]

that's why there are lots of fruits on a table paintings without signatures, they were auditions to execute more important paintings

[@TheVagolfer]

Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, The Third Man, Forbidden Planet, It's a Wonderful Life, My Favorite Year, The Graduate, Bullett, Lawrence of Arabia, A Touch of Evil. Ten of the top of my head.

[@B-fq7ff]

Wizard of Oz remake is coming sooner or later, and it's going to be terrifically mediocre.

[@melissawickersham9912]

@@B-fq7ffThe Wizard of Oz remake won’t have the exact flavor of the original because the original was made in a specific way to showcase the new Technicolor film technology at that time. It would be better to make the new Wizard of Oz adhere more closely to the novel’s storyline, but even that would be difficult.

[@justicefool3942]

@@B-fq7ff The movie "Wicked" that's coming out, based on the play, is set in the same universe as Wizard of Oz, but instead follows the origin of the Wicked Witch. Doing something like that has the potential to be interesting, even if it usually falls flat in execution.

[@TribalGuitars]

The "Lethal Weapon" series got better with each one. I went into the theater each time hoping it would be close to as good as the last one and the next one was always better. "Rogue One" is peak "Star Wars". Best remake is a tie between "The Thomas Crown Affair" with Pierce Brosnan and "Cape Fear" with De Niro.

[@redadamearth]

You think "Lethal Weapon 3" and "4" are better than the first 2? Seriously?

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

I have a hard time believing you've actually seen the original 'Thomas Crown Affair' with Steve McQueen if you think the Pierce Brosnan remake is anywhere close to being a "best remake". The only improvement it had over the original was Rene Russo. Now, the De Niro 'Cape Fear', I'm with you on that one, it's one of the great remakes of all time.

[@TribalGuitars]

@@bartolomeothesatyr If we all liked the same thing the world would be a very boring place.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

@@TribalGuitarsTrue that.

[@JaceDanielFilms]

What about movies that would fare BETTER with a remake? Movies that had a good idea, but maybe weren't executed very well. Or movies that had great execution by had no story or characters. I think a few Ray Harryhousen movies, like 20 Millions Miles to Earth, Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. One Million Years BC or the Sinbad films. I adore stop motion, but I think most can agree that nobody remembers anything about those movies when there isn't a monster on screen. I think doing them with more advanced modern stop motion would be really cool too. I also think the Star Wars Sequel trilogy needs to be remade entirely.

[@3nertia]

I never want to see Abyss or Waterworld remade - though I wouldn't mind a sequel for the latter. I would LOVE a remake of Spawn though - Gui DaSilva-Greene should play the main character, Al Simmons/Spawn :D

[@colinshawhan8590]

I agree. But for me, there is an obvious through-line from "The Abyss" to "Terminator 2: Judgement Day". Better film, better effects, but basically the same idea (liquid humanoids) taken to the next level. T-1000 walking through metal bars: GENIUS! And the gun gets stuck. That film, "Terminator," was mediocre. It's still a floppy, pseudo-apocalyptic kind of a story arc, whatever. The Abyss gave us the CGI we needed to bring the "Terminator" universe to life the way it needed to be brought alive, just my two cents. THAT'S how you "remake" a film - you don't! That was one of the last great Guns 'n Roses moments as well. It just all "clicked". You never get a moment like that again.

[@rogerwalker3969]

Prey was a good movie, but in no way better than the original. IMO. A movie that should never be remade, Casablanca. or a reboot of Indiana Jones.

[@shawnmayo8210]

Funny enough this is EXACTLY how I felt about Dune. The latest remakes are visually great and stunningly boring and lacking all context as to why anyone should care. I actually fell asleep in Part 2 because even the graphics weren't up to par with it's first iteration (here's looking at you Avatar/Fern Gully) when the crowds were just low-res poly blobs. For all the cheese of 80s miniseries or the 2000 remake, there were stories told about the world and explanations for why we ought to care for what are all terrible people in the end. A plight in Hollywood is an inability to tell MORE stories in existing IPs. No need to retell another 9 times the same bad Shakespeare that is Star Wars, but all the side shows at least attempted fleshed out a world, to mixed successes. Contrary to Adam's feelings on Doctor Sleep, I felt like the premise was there it was just a very poorly written script that didn't come close to eliciting the in universe feelings.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

As far as I'm aware Dune part 1 was well liked overall, I thought it was pretty decent seeing it in theatres at least. Not my all time favourite by any stretch but the story was coherent enough to follow even for someone who hasn't read the books or seen the original. Not quite as clear as some movies I've seen but far from the worst example of the modern trend towards an artsy wander through the plot in place of a tight narrative

[@melissawickersham9912]

Dune as a franchise is way too hard to remake or adapt directly from the original novels. The novels are just too complicated for film adaptations to properly do them justice.

[@shawnmayo8210]

@@melissawickersham9912 No it's not. We saw the navigators in other iterations. And for some reason the one with the pretty sand just didn't bother. But they were more than capable of doing Playstation 1 quality generic blobs in cut and paste singular movements for Harkonen crowds. Not bothering to tell the story or try because Part 1 was a qualified success, doesn't make this unfilmable. Plenty of harder stories have been done.

[@shawnmayo8210]

@@bosstowndynamics5488 I wouldn't say it was terrible, but it wasn't even just Ok. It's a solid representation of a 5/10 movie. It had a story, though it dragged for almost three hours. The animation was generally great, but we didn't need three hours of scenery pans. Animation they for whatever reason decided to slash the budget on with the Harkonen crowds being phoned in by a Playstation 1 animator apparently. Something that Avatar 2 did with the tram scene being old videogame graphics quality overlaying their existing jungle renders. Corridor Crew even wound up backing up their praise of Avatar 2 after learning the water effect they had been praising for the better part of a year was a practical shot that was played up to be ultra high quality animation in the trailer. That sort of thing is egregious to me. Set up the audience for great expectations and then let them down. I dug the ornithopters. I'll probably buy model kits of those. I liked Adam's diorama from the popcorn bucket. But when half the story is missing and they want to drag it on through now six hours of nowhere leading plot and not giving us a single reason for anything beyond telling us we should care, I think they've done terribly. I'd rather go back and watch 2000's Frank Herbert's Dune or the 80s admittedly hammy Shakespearean miniseries. Those respected the audience's time. I actually fell asleep for five minutes towards the end of Part 2. I haven't done that in at least a decade.

[@melissawickersham9912]

@@shawnmayo8210 I did not imply that the special effects were too hard to do. I meant that the *storyline* itself was too hard to adapt for a single major motion picture. Dune is better off adapted as a big budget *television series* akin to Game of Thrones.

[@parkerbradley2457]

Your portfolio & self-promotion advice is spot-on! And applies to any endeavor.

[@MonkeyBooth]

That’s pretty cool but don't let that distract you from that fact that In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team.

[@davidsilverman1741]

Another great remake - The Maltese Falcon (1941). Was incompetently made twice - before John Huston transformed the great book into a brilliant screen classic.

[@brandiweed4570]

Oh, and a sequel that surpasses the original: Bride of Frankenstein. The 1931 Frankenstein is a fine film but Bride benefits from oddball humor and an improvement in sound film techniques-- in particular, having a terrific musical score by Franz Waxman.

[@xvor_tex8577]

Blade Runner, Star Wars, 2001 a Space odyssey, Alien. And there's many more examples of films that should never be remade

[@harbl99]

Anything by Kubrick. "No! No touchy."

[@melissawickersham9912]

2001 cannot be remade because the storyline of the original was set *in* the year 2001, hence the title of the film. A remake would only point out that it’s set in an alternate vision of that year.

[@beachcomberbob3496]

I would recommend the RPF. I enjoy sharing my own experience and budget problem solving with other makers. My Warehouse 13 builds were a journey, and I like to pay it forward with solutions/shortcuts to other makers (along with possible sharing of 'found parts'). Especially with that 'steam-punk' style of props, the original prop builders used a lot of 'found parts' and identifying those esoteric junk parts can make the difference between a faithful replica and a 'fan build'.

[@recommendacious8026]

The Night of the Hunter. Someone had the gall to remake RoboCop...not sure why

[@leftoverthoughts2275]

Some entries into a franchise are done to hold onto a licence. Think of all the merch you've ever seen for Robocop; official merch is all licenced, yes? The owner of the licence gets the money from the licencing fees. They don't typically own the licence forever when they are not using it, so they have to make another entry. And they get ridiculously lazy with them (Hellraiser: Bloodlines, no one?) So that's one possibility. Another - "Robocop make money... make Robocop again... make money again..." They really don't think in terribly sophisticated ways.

[@WolvenSpectre]

That's the issue... I loved The Absent Minded Professor (original Flubber movie) and it was a childhood favourite. I have only seen about 15 min of Flubber to know "Not for me, the original was better". Robin Williams is a brilliant actor and comedian but I have to be in the mood if the rest of the movie was like what I saw. IMHO the right movies to remake are the ones that even if they are classics and considered hits, if the general public is largely disengaged with a film to the point of most people going "What Now?" even though they have been blockbusters or cult classics. I also believe that there should be more world building or world adjacent films instead of rebooting or continuing on from an original hit. The only ones that should never be rebooted or remade are those classic stories that a large part of their impact is how they started and ended and how that left the audience feeling certain things. Other than that is should be fair game.

[@anonymes2884]

"12 Angry Men" should never _have been_ remade (that sin has already been committed :), nope, not even with _that_ amazing cast and director (for anyone now looking it up on IMDB). Revive the play by all means, even livestream some performances to cinemas so more people can see it. But the movie itself already exists in its most fully realised, perfected form - anything more is simply redundant. (and as a kid some friends and I snuck onto a building site and found some "large bouncy bales" to play on. Yep, well guessed, actually rolls of fibreglass insulation. _Days_ of discomfort followed, barely dented by multiple baths, rivalling even my tangle with chicken pox for sheer miserable itchiness :)

[@ivanvanogre-nd1sw]

There never should have been any sequels to Jaws. It was perfect.

[@acratone8300]

A lowly employee at Disney one time actually managed to schedule a short meeting with Bob Iger himself! He pitched a new company strategy of never remaking famous classic films. Unfortunately he was then frog marched out of the building by security.

[@mandalorianjedi2288]

One word: Ghostbusters

[@drumbum7999]

I thought the last one was pretty well made but the sequel that just came out did not carry the same energy which is a shame.

[@redadamearth]

Too late, unfortunately.

[@gingerscholar152]

I would love a reboot of the Stargate series. Mostly because I’m seeing the faults in the storytelling and world building, and would love to see a modern take with an ensemble cast and various alien factions

[@CJRoberts8812]

@@gingerscholar152 Not so much a reboot of the original, but a continuation, like they're doing with "Quantum Leap". New crews, new worlds, upgraded technology, but the same Gate, Command Center, and facility. Bring back some of the original stars for guest appearances.

[@michaelmoore7975]

Another one, _Bedazzled.,_

[@kevinvitale8980]

They remake movies because of people like my wife… who will not even give a movie older than a few years old, a chance. So the studios are trying to attract those will only watch new material.

[@shanejayell]

I think you CAN remake even a great film, with a different approach. But yeah, it's hard....

[@terrylong8894]

Battlestar Galactica and Ducktales are both examples are of the right way of remaking something.

[@marklovelace297]

You are spot on with Rogue One!

[@TrevzTv]

The Blues Brothers

[@harbl99]

They tried. We don't talk about it.

[@bluesrocker91]

@@harbl99 If you mean Blues Brothers 2000, I think that was intended as a direct sequel rather than a remake... But yeah, it's dire to the point of being unwatchable.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Caddyshack

[@button-puncher]

NO KIDDING. Besides Belushi and Aykroyd, nobody is going to put on a performance like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.

[@nks1384]

And Cab Callaway

[@andrewvenor8035]

Here is an example of a remake that was better than the original. The Maltese Falcon staring Humphrey Bogart that we all love was the third time that Dashell Hammet's novel was adapted for the screen.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

Movies that should never be re-made star wars, the 1st star trek, star trek 2, alien, aliens, smokey and the bandit, the terminator, Conan, the godfather, scarface, Lemans, the wizard of Oz, the sound of music, platoon, iron man, predator, gone with the wind, bridge over the river kauai, the song remains the same, heavy metal, out of Africa, goodfellas, taxi driver, videodrome, rocky, what's up doc?, the excorsist, pumpkin head, the road warrior, Raiders of the lost ark, e.t.,close encounters of the third kind,officer and a gentleman, ❤

[@tpkdm71]

I would have loved to see a King Conan with Arnie 10 years ago. I think there are enough Conan stories out there that they could do more movies based on them, I wouldn't consider those remakes.

[@melissawickersham9912]

I don’t think that anyone would want to remake Gone With The Wind nowadays because the original film itself is now considered to be too politically controversial for its “Lost Cause of the South” ideology.

[@charlesjohnson1123]

They already remade star trek 2, Into Darkness the villain was Khan, it was not good, they already remade Conan, haven't seen it.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

@charlesjohnson1123 thanks that's why I wrote that.😀

[@michaelnoble2432]

Prey is the best Predator film (10:00) - have you LOST YOUR MIND?! Granted, Prey was far better than any of us expected. The premise (petite woman with no modern weapons kills huge alien hunter) was of course ridiculous (as they all are). But to think it's better than the original is just bonkers.

[@DAWS0NStream]

100% agree about Prey. they really did the franchise much needed justice.

[@johnlynnbeck]

Agreed. I went into it with low expectations, almost expecting it to play out like a glorified Predator fanfic... but came out the other side thinking "holy crap, did I just see the best Predator movie made to date??"

[@heenez2397]

I usually share your views, but the prey / predator one....not at all. My opinion of prey is , well, lets just say i think its utter ..well not so good. Where the original is , to me, just what it should be. Not overthinking things, not trying to please a certain moral , blunt violence without way too fancy camera views and effects, real characters. Just good, as it is.

[@justinwilliams4212]

Prey was incredible. The cinematography, score, performances were way beyond what anyone expected, and it should have been recognised more strongly. They even had native craftspeople and historians work on the costumes and props

[@delvictor7570]

The knife play in Prey was 1000x cheesier than anything in the original.

[@kirktravis5780]

Prey is better than predator? Yaaaaaaaaawn!

[@DynamicSeq]

It was entertaining, but the story sucked...

[@bobcoombs7924]

"You think that I am not a hunter like you. That I am not a threat. That is what makes me dangerous."

[@madnessbydesignVria]

Wrath of Khan (Star Trek 2) is way better than the first one. Also, Aliens is way better than Alien. I know many people loved the first Alien movie, but it left me flat. I never felt any suspense, and the only good part was the chest-burster scene (which was great). That said, never remake a classic. At best, you equal something already done - but more likely, you make a shoddier version of something that earned its place in history...

[@cmisci6508]

Aliens. Though the original is fantastic.

[@SteveForteGMR]

That is a tough one because they're both so different. And both excellent in their own way.

[@Elwaves2925]

I like both equally because they are very different but if I had to, I'd pick Alien because without that the sequel wouldn't exist.

[@repletereplete8002]

I think Alien is the better film as a piece of art (made me become an artist) but Aliens is way more enjoyable and that's why I've re-watched it twice as much as Alien.

[@tpkdm71]

@@repletereplete8002 Thank you for this comment. Ive felt this way about many franchise where I enjoy one of the movies more but can admit that it may not be the "best" (what ever that means) movie in the series. I think we sometimes forget that we all see movies thought our own lenses and what I think is an amazing movie because I enjoyed it another will think its hot garbage, and thats OK.

[@Ben-pd2bx]

Weird to see the guy who does set visits to the Jason Reitman 'Ghostbusters' movies talking about how the classics should be left alone. I know he's talking about remakes, but he mentions sequels too.

[@toeb1n]

I think in those cases adam is more interested in the process and props and all of those aspects I get what you're saying though.

[@cento13]

If I am to stay strictly within MOVIES, a sequel that is so, SO much better than the first is Wrath of Khan. The first Star Trek movie is such a tedious slog, while Wrath of Khan is one of my top 10 movies of all time to rewatch. But of course, it is more accurately a sequel of a TV series rather than a sequel of the previous movie. But even then, while the episode it is a sequel to is good, I would still call the movie sequel way better.

[@Green_Tea_Coffee]

Star Trek 1 is a slog because it is trying really, really hard to be 2001: A Space Odyssey. As a slow burn sci-fi movie, it's got a lot of good ideas, but most people don't watch Trek for a slow burn.

[@MichaelEdelman1954]

The most heinous act of criminal cinema abuse of recent years was the remaking “Day of the Jackal,” one of the greatest suspense movies ever made. If you’ve never seen the original… you should.

[@tomhorsley6566]

The next obvious question: Should your kids be worried? 🙂

[@jdion79]

Fun fact: Out of Sight exists in the Jackie Brown Universe. The connection? Ray Nicolette. Love that Adam brought up Out of Sight. Nobody talks about that movie. So great.

[@ivanvanogre-nd1sw]

Love the sequel better than the original? Aliens and the second Terminator movie. Both are high points in their franchises IMO.

[@frank9592]

disagree on your Prey is better than Predator! both are great, but the original was a ground breaking sci fi action film

[@FJA---]

Battlestar Galactica was a remake that was much better than the original live action cartoon. I really want to see Logan's Run done again, but at the same time I don't because I'm thinking they'd totally screw it up.

[@malachiXX]

The Italian Job as a remake is a far better movie, story and adventure than the original. I always wanted to see the original and when I finally did, I wanted that time back.

[@Trunky-r8f]

Blessed be the RPF