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The idea of a Princess Bride remake forever concerns me

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

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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!!"

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

_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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Rescuers Down Under completely outshines the original Rescuers

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

"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 :)

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

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!

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!🎉

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.

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

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

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.

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'.

One word: Ghostbusters

The Blues Brothers

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.

Just watched your Expanse episode last night again! Great show!

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.

Prey is better than predator? Yaaaaaaaaawn!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

I would like to combine two points that I’ve read below. First of, for the specific type of movie that it is, The Princess Bride has to be a perfect movie (of that type). It’s casting was perfect, as was the location shoots, and of course the script, the endlessly quotable (and quoted) script. Screen Junkies (honest trailers) themselves admitted that they couldn’t pan out the movie as it was perfect. The parody even outdoing the very movies that it was supposed to be parodying. Classic. And the other comment worthy of a Re mention, is to Re Release them in Cinemas. There is nothing quite like seeing a movie on the big screen. And the Princess Bride didn’t do particularly well at the time, simply because of the lousy effort in marketing it. But to be fair, it’s a hard title to interest teenage boys. But once they’ve seen it, they all love it. If they want to make a shameless and crass cash Grab, don’t remake a masterpiece (this also obviously goes for the other excellent answers about other movies too). Instead they should Re show this one two a brand new young Audience. This movie simply can’t be replaced or replicated. And if it’s money they want, they would make a small fortune for virtually no outlay, outside of cleaning up the optical print (if needed, and I do mean NO CGI). The only other costs would naturally be marketing and possibly new cinematic copies for current cinemas and other related issues etc. They did this for Star Wars several times, and they still made money, despite everyone having seen it so many times already. I would happily pay to see the original trilogy at the cinema once again. To sum up, no cast was so perfectly matched as that found in The Princess Bride, not one single miscast rôle anywhere at all. Edit. I only paraphrased what Screen Junkies said. It’s actually well worth a watch or a rewatch or two (or three or four). Btw, The fencing scene has been analysed on KZfaq by various fencing experts, and they all heap praise on it for accuracy in both fighting style and also in regards to what they are chatting about as well. And they only used stunt doubles for the purely acrobatic stunts, every thing else they trained very hard and so did it all themselves (technically acrobatic stunts aren’t fencing, so they really did do it all themselves). Here is the Screen Junkies link. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5hofqeZ2LCaZYk.htmlsi=ZD-6_z9diRF1uxjV

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

Love to see ya ol man🍻💪🏻 great video

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

Aliens. Though the original is fantastic.

The remake of the Thomas Crown Affair is modestly better than the original

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.

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

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.

Holy moly Adam, we need to have a movie night!! Your choices are like you buried into my skull. LOL

love your stuff

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

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.

The Absent Minded Professor (the original "Flubber") actually IS one of my childhood favorites! AND it had a sequel back then that actually is really good!

Out of Sight is such an underrated gem! As much as I love the Ocean's Trilogy I think that Out of Sight is by far the best collaboration between Soderbergh and Clooney (and yes, Don Cheadle is awesome in that as well). :)

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, ❤

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

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

You are spot on with Rogue One!

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

"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 :)

I added that quote starting at 00:44 to a talk I'm writing because it hits on so many of the points I am trying to convey to a group of mostly introverts.

Oh man, out of sight! That was the second ever DVD I bought for my first big screen and surround sound system. Such a great movie. I've often argued, a dry run of the "oceans" series.

Need another pitch black/riddick movie

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.

"It's old now...late '90s..." My desk now has a forehead-shaped dent in it.

Your statement about seeing adult kids, my Grandson in particular, he will get a look or make a move that takes me back to the first time I saw it. A certain smile he has and I am back with him when he was 8 and we are hunting " the bad team ".

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.

Blessed be the RPF

Prey is indeed amazing loved that movie so much amber midthunder so badass

...Thank you dear Sir, God bless.

What movies are remakes that are actually good? The only ones I can think of are The Mummy (with Brendan Frasier), The Thing, and Scarface.

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.