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Movies that you want to be remade in the future...

posted 10 years ago by The_paranoid_android
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I love Gattaca, but Andrew Nicol with In Time was just a huge disappointment. There are nuggets of brilliance hidden in this film if it was just written and executed better. These are the films I would love to see be remade in about 20 years or so that have so much potential to be great:

* In Time (obviously)
* Transcendence
* Interstellar
* Troy
* Elysium
* Terminator Salvation
* Prometheus
* The Boondock Saints II
* Django Unchained (my reasons for this one are a bit extensive, so I'll save that for another day)
* The Matrix Reloaded/Revolution (obviously recasting everyone after all this time)

What films would you like to see be remade for whatever reason?

Fallen, fallen is Babylon

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[–] jaywensley2004 10 years ago

I am so much in agreement with you; "In Time" has a concept, a philosophy, and a vision that deserves another treatment.

After my first viewing (of two) I was convinced "In Time" was originally conceived as a TV pilot. The implied history was so profound that I couldn't appreciate a second watching of the film (on DVD) for all the questions it raised: The economics, the sociology, the ideology and most of all...what happened to religion?

"In Time" is pregnant with why's, how's and so what's. I would subscribe, in advance, to a production of its vision.

[–] seth-shaw23 9 years ago

I agree, this was close to being really good. It's not bad but something was certainly missing. Great visuals, good camera work and I didn't have any issues with the acting. Would love to see this premise redone down the road.

[–] ribby45 9 years ago

The_Paranoid_Android

Um. Don't want to rain on your parade, but In Time isn't a million miles away from Logan's Run (1976).

Some films are major stinkers, so you long for someone to do it right. Someday - yeah, I get that.
And some great films aren't English-language and, as a lot of English-speakers are allergic to subtitles, the only way anyone will get to see a great foreign film is if it's remade in English.

But something is always lost in translation. 