Okay, here goes!
33 is "Places in the Heart", which won Sally Field the Oscar for Best Actress (where, upon winning, she uttered the memorable line 'You like me, you really like me!')
36 is "The Getaway" - the original, not the awful remake
39 is "Atlantic City"
40 is "Thief"
#21 is The Onion Field
#30 is MASH - one of the all-time funniest films
#4 is A Little Romance, which I believe was Diane Lane's film debut
#31 is The Player
#29 is Jackie Brown
OH MY GOD!!! Somebody actually remembers "Can't Stop The Music"??? I thought I was the only one who remembered this clusterf**k of a movie. And I dragged to the theatre to watch this, because my dad thought the Village People were cool...
Another film I can suggest to use to torture friends is "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. Simply embarassing, a new low. I think this movie may have single-handledly wrecked what momentum the Bee Gees and Frampton had at the time.
Oops, my mistake! It just occured to me that there is a Richard Rodriguez, and his claim to fame is one that I don't think merits mention here. I guess the point I was making, which I didn't make very well previously, was that El Mariachi and Desperado have many similiarities between them, as they were made by ROBERT Rodriguez, hence the inference that Desperado was a remake of sorts.
I wasn't trying to rip into Bertie's opinion about bad films resulting in bad films, but I'm of the majority that believes a good film, whether it's foreign or US-made, doesn't merit a remake...but it's not going to stop me from seeing the new Planet of the Apes...
You can also make the argument that "Desperado", starring Antonio Banderas, was a "remake" of sorts of Richard Rodriguez's "El Marichi". Rodriguez, by the way, directed "Desperado".
I enjoyed this list very much. I just found out "Insomnia", which is absolutely one of my favorite films, is being remade (starring Al Pacino, if I'm not mistaken), so I'm looking forward to that with a bit of apprehension.
I have to disagree with Bertie's comment that the US-made remakes are just as good as the foreign-made originals. "The Birdcage" was just flat-awful, and "Point of No Return" was literally a scene-for-scene remake of "Nikita", made worse by the fact that Bridget Fonda was seriously miscast.
Can I play again???
Okay, here goes!
33 is "Places in the Heart", which won Sally Field the Oscar for Best Actress (where, upon winning, she uttered the memorable line 'You like me, you really like me!')
36 is "The Getaway" - the original, not the awful remake
39 is "Atlantic City"
40 is "Thief"
#21 is The Onion Field
#30 is MASH - one of the all-time funniest films
#4 is A Little Romance, which I believe was Diane Lane's film debut
#31 is The Player
#29 is Jackie Brown
Am I right???
OH MY GOD!!! Somebody actually remembers "Can't Stop The Music"??? I thought I was the only one who remembered this clusterf**k of a movie. And I dragged to the theatre to watch this, because my dad thought the Village People were cool...
Another film I can suggest to use to torture friends is "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. Simply embarassing, a new low. I think this movie may have single-handledly wrecked what momentum the Bee Gees and Frampton had at the time.
Come on! How can you not include "Grumpy Old Men"?
Just kidding...
Oops, my mistake! It just occured to me that there is a Richard Rodriguez, and his claim to fame is one that I don't think merits mention here. I guess the point I was making, which I didn't make very well previously, was that El Mariachi and Desperado have many similiarities between them, as they were made by ROBERT Rodriguez, hence the inference that Desperado was a remake of sorts.
I wasn't trying to rip into Bertie's opinion about bad films resulting in bad films, but I'm of the majority that believes a good film, whether it's foreign or US-made, doesn't merit a remake...but it's not going to stop me from seeing the new Planet of the Apes...
You can also make the argument that "Desperado", starring Antonio Banderas, was a "remake" of sorts of Richard Rodriguez's "El Marichi". Rodriguez, by the way, directed "Desperado".
I enjoyed this list very much. I just found out "Insomnia", which is absolutely one of my favorite films, is being remade (starring Al Pacino, if I'm not mistaken), so I'm looking forward to that with a bit of apprehension.
I have to disagree with Bertie's comment that the US-made remakes are just as good as the foreign-made originals. "The Birdcage" was just flat-awful, and "Point of No Return" was literally a scene-for-scene remake of "Nikita", made worse by the fact that Bridget Fonda was seriously miscast.