25 Perfect Movies That Should Never Be Remade
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12/10/2021
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1. Back to the Future
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2. You've Got Mail
There's no way that concept works in any year outside of the 1997-1999 range. -
3. Goodfellas
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4. Shawshank. There are no advances in technology, cinematography, writing, or acting that could possibly add anything to that movie.
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5. A remake of Airplane? Surely, you can’t be serious!
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6. Alien (1979). It’s still so good 40+ years later.
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7. Big Trouble in Little China. It’s already about as close to perfect as a movie can be and is also very much a movie of its time.
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8. Groundhog Day
But it would be hilarious to re-release it and pretend it’s a new movie -
9. Labyrinth. I like to think that David Bowie didn’t realize they were making a movie and thought it was all real.
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10. The Princess Bride.
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11. Pulp Fiction. Fortunately, Tarantino makes movies that I don't think anyone would even attempt to try to remake.
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12. Mr. Bean. No one will ever be able to recreate the character as well as Rowan Atkinson. Really anything from Rowan Atkinson can never be remade. Blackadder for instance
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13. Mrs. Doubtfire
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14. Jaws! The shark was huge but nothing in the movie was unbelievable. It was paced beautifully. The "we delivered the bomb" scene is incredible.
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15. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Gondor has no remakes. Gondor needs no remakes.
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16. The Goonies
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17. Galaxy Quest. “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the Sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged.”
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18. The Big Lebowski
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19. The Fifth Element
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20. The Truman Show. Jim Carrey was the perfect actor for a movie that’s both slightly comedic and tragic at the same time.
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21. Stand By Me
That combo of young actors just worked so well, and I just can’t imagine it would work so well again -
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22. Requiem for a Dream.
Great movie. Watched it once. Won’t watch again. -
23. Besides the fact that Tom Hanks was perfect, I don’t see a modern remake of Forrest Gump being received well based on cultural shifts alone
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24. Beetlejuice. There's really no beating the casting of that movie as it was.
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25. Anything by Monty Python. They can't be improved on and the dodgy special effects only add to the humor.
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