Films that can not be remade

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You want to a know a film that can't be remade? The Brave Little Toaster. But the sad thing is, they actually are remaking it... T.T Somehow, Waterman Entertainment got a hold of the rights from Disney, so now they own it!

Seriously, how are they going remake something so dark and twisted aimed at little kids of this generation? Some little kid might even look up clips of the original on youtube, and come across that scary clown dream sequence...

Forgive me if I'm being a little bit biased, because it actually is one of my interests... I'll probably still give it a chance, but they better not make some stupid iphone reference...

I just read "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem and as much as I like Tarkovsky's version, I would love to see a version that actually followed the book. The first version, a low budget production for Russian television done in 1968 is the most faithful to the book, but lacked the visual effects budget to get across the sheer alien quality of the planet.

Whistle down the wind from 1961

Apart from the fact its based on Humanity rather than killing and action, it wouldn't make sense to portray modern Children getting excited when they mistake an escaped criminal for Jesus.

Kids of today would be more excited to mistake the returned Jesus for an escaped criminal.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

1988 cult classic that should NEVER be remade.

The Pianist
Caddyshack
Raging Bull
Patton

Forrest Gump, oh no, wait. Hmph! It's a rumour though, but if that's confirmed, I may as well give up trying to be a Filmmaker.

Definitely Patton.
George C Scott WAS General Patton ! !! It's sad that the movie contains so many mistakes as far as the equipment is concerned. (Wrong type of tanks, jeeps, and so on.) BUT the acting grabs you by the throat, and the incidents portrayed are all historically accurate (believe it or not.) The scene where he directs traffic was actually ad-libbed by Scott, the director simply told him the set-up and then rolled film.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Oldboy
The godfather

The Dark Knight trilogy
The original Star Wars trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Scarface
Saw
Forrest Gump (they better not have a remake)

The Crow



Just like Al Bundy will always be Ed O'Neill and the Terminator will always be Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eric Draven will always be Brandon Lee.

Remember the Titans, all of Jurassic Park, Blood Diamond and Saving Private Ryan should be untouchable too.

Repo Man, both because it's too incomprehensible to rewrite and because it's so rooted in a particular era in punk music and LA history that it wouldn't work at any other time.

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Gravity

I think another special effects exhibition about astronauts lost in space is inevitable, especially as technology improves. Gravity's story wasn't very strong, though, so I'd sooner expect another take in the same concept rather than a full remake of the film.

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Some off the top of my head:

The Wizard of Oz
Forrest Gump
Star Wars
The Breakfast Club