Nice topic thanks for starting it. Got me to looking and there are a lot more remakes than I ever realized:
List of film remakes And a lot more on the way:
55 movie remakes currently in the works 38 Planned Movie Remakes You Didn't Know About My take has always been that remakes (same language) often suck because it’s just lazy to redo something in the first place and that lack of energy/enthusiasm comes through. Additionally IMO a lot of older stuff is engaging at a different more cerebral level. Either do to intent or limitations in film making they force you to think about what’s happening instead of just throwing it in your face. When you remake a movie like that as a modern action/adventure/horror it’s often so in your face there’s nothing really left to draw you into the story, it‘s like the magic is gone.
OTOH, some remakes work for me because they took the original idea and decided to go in a different direction with it.
