The 'Burbs remake

<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>RickyButler wrote:

Bring back Corey Feldman as RB. Give him the lead role and say he moved back to Hinkley Hills with his family because he inherited the house or his parents retired ETC.. Bring him back and give him a kid or two. Introduce the new cast of characters and possibly still give any of the characters from the original who want to return a role or a cameo of some kind. The Klopek house which burned down has obviously been rebuilt and over the years various families have moved in and out but nobody has stuck. Let a little time go bye he gets settled in and we introduce the new family. Instead of being odd and dark like the Klopeks this family is seemingly perfect , a little too perfect. Ricky starts to suspect something sinister is starting to happen again in the neighborhood. While his wife, daughter, etc think he's over reacting. He takes it upon himself and a co star(similar to Art) to investigate the new family and get to the bottom of it all.

On my lunch so I had to keep it short. What do you guys think about my idea?<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

Maybe the "normal" family who move into what used to be the Klopek house turn out to be psychos who chose the house because of what happened there. They move around the USA, kind of like the Klopeks, always living in houses with horrific pasts, and they like to reenact those horrific pasts...

But they didn't count on Ricky Butler, someone who's witnessed first-hand a house of horrors in his street, and someone who learned a lot from Ray, Art, and Rumsfield about how to snoop around Mayfield Place to get to the bottom of a dark mystery...:D
 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>RickyButler wrote:

Personally I don't think a remake can do this movie justice. As I've seen with other remakes of classic movies I love( Halloween , Nightmare on Elm Street, etc) you can't top or even duplicate perfection.
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That's not always true IMHO. Just take a look at the Fright Night remake, both the OLD and the NEW version are pretty good, a bit different from each other, but both are quite good.

 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>JoOngle wrote:

<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>RickyButler wrote:

Personally I don't think a remake can do this movie justice. As I've seen with other remakes of classic movies I love( Halloween , Nightmare on Elm Street, etc) you can't top or even duplicate perfection.
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That's not always true IMHO. Just take a look at the Fright Night remake, both the OLD and the NEW version are pretty good, a bit different from each other, but both are quite good.

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I think it's true when you absolutely love a film and have seen it dozens of times. I've never seen a remake I could even stand when i've seen the original lots of times. Not a single one. And yet there are times when I've seen the remake first, like Night of the Living Dead, where I love the remake and can't stand the original!

 
I agree the fright night remake was pretty decent. That is very rare. I also agree the Night of the Living Dead remake was better than the original. I just look at it like this . A remake of The Burbs like a Halloween or NOES isn't necessary because the original was so. Watching it would be a huge letdown. A sequel is easier to separate from the original. For instance I love NOES 1 but not a big fan of 2. It has never taken anything away from the original because a sequel sucked.. A remake will constantly draw comparisons to the original. Which I'd untouchable.
 
The 'Burbs is untouchable.

The Fright Night remake had some good qualities going for it. David Tennant as Peter Vincent was one of the better qualities. Although, Roddy McDowall is the better of the two.

I still think the original is vastly superior and it should not have been remade. The new one is just alright.
 
In almost all cases, the remakes just make me desperate to see the original again. Every time I see The Karate Kid remake, I've got to watch the original. The same thing recently happened with Robocop.

That makes me wonder. What do you think is the worst remake ever? I might go with The Karate Kid. I'm sure there have been worse (Total Recall comes to mind), but I love the original Karate Kid so much that the remake almost feels like a sin.
 
The Karate Kid remake was terrible!

One of the only remakes I've liked better than the original is Dredd. It was better than Judge Dredd in my opinion.
 
For me it had to be the Nightmare On Elm Street remake. I feel like they failed in every possible way.
 
I despise almost all remakes, i think the only ones i've liked are Snyder's Dawn of the Dead and De Palma's Scarface.
The remake of Lustig's Maniac is watchable but vastely inferior to the original.Mann's Heat (wich is a remake of Mann's LA Takedown) is also a masterpiece.

Burbs remake ? No way.
 
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