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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1960 Village of the Damned This cult British sci-fi horror is a classic of the evil child subgenre, and its sequel was well-received too. John Carpenter's remake wasn't - not even by Carpenter himself, who only did it to fulfill a contract. 1995 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1956 Around the World in 80 Days The classic adaptation of Jules Verne's novel won five Oscars (including Best Picture), and gave Mexican comedian Cantinflas a Golden Globe. Now, we love Jackie Chan, but his remake with Steve Coogan was... well, just as bad as an American family movie with Jackie Chan can be. 2004 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1962 Cape Fear Martin Scorsese's brutal, twisted, and awesome version honors the (also awesome) original, and even features cameos by its two actors, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, alongside Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte. Watch both back-to-back, and enjoy. 1991 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1950 Born Yesterday This classic rom-com with Judy Holiday tells the story of an uneducated woman whose pig of a boyfriend gets her an educated man to, erm, educate her. The remake with Melanie Griffith, John Goodman and Don Johnson wasn't nearly as good, but we still think this dangerous concept still has some steam in it. 1993 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1939 The Women This comedy-drama with a huge, all-female cast, received great reviews, and is still highly regarded. Its forgotten remake was critically panned, but we want yet another remake, just for the usual crowd to whine about movies being woke now. 2008 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still The original is a classic of Cold War sci-fi- smart, with great FX for its time, and helmed by the underrated Robert Wise. The remake with Keanu Reeves tried to be gritty but came off as bland, and relied too much on CGI. 2008 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1954 1937 A Star is Born You can write a history of Hollywood just following this movie. The original was a hit, and so were Judy Garland's and Lady Gaga's versions. Barbra Streisand kinda dissed the latest one - but then again, hers has been the most criticized as well. 1976 2018 CRACKED COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake RECEIVING 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Don Siegel's anti-communist metaphor is classic sci-fi noir, with many remakes. The worst one is The Invasion, with Nicole Kidman. The best? That'd be the 1978 one, which adds always reliable '70s paranoia, closely followed by Abel Ferrara's 1993 version. 1993 2007 1978 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sabrina

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1954 Sabrina The original is a timeless classic by Billy Wilder, starring Audrey friggin' Hepburn and Humphrey friggin' Bogart. The Sidney Pollack remake with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond adds a nice post- Petty Woman twist, but can't really touch the first one. 1995 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1960 Ocean's 11 The heist movie with Frank Sinatra and the entire Rat Pack isn't bad at all. Soderbergh's reimagining, however, is better (although our favorite is the underrated Ocean's Twelve). 2001 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1962 The Manchurian Candidate The original (helmed by the unjustly forgotten John Frankenheimer) is a paranoid, terrifying Cold War thriller, pretty much a classic. Jonathan Demme's remake is good, but not that good. AIRBORNE 2004 CRACKED COM MADOO — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1960 The Magnificent Seven Inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, the original is widely considered a classic, even if its own sequels aren't. The remake has an impressive all-star cast, some cool action, and even True Detective's writer, but didn't do anything new with the concept. 2016 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1967 1998 2020 Doctor Dolittle The original was never a classic, and the '90s version isn't exactly Eddie Murphy's best movie, but both are masterpieces compared to the latest one. How Robert Downey Jr. went from out-snapping Thanos to dragon fart jokes, we have no idea. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1933 King Kong The original changed movies forever, and spawned a string of awful sequels and knock-offs-which include the '70s remake. The one by Peter Jackson is much better. (And our boy got to fight Godzilla in fully realistic CGI glory in 2021! Good for him!) 1976 2005 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1963 The Haunting Robert Wise's horror movie is a divisive classic, but a classic nonetheless. Jan de Bont's remake had to compete against The Sixth Sense with cheese, bad acting, and awful '90s CGI. It never stood a chance. 1999 CRACKED.COM — Source

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True Grit

Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1969 True Grit The Coen brothers movie isn't a straightforward remake, but rather a new adaptation of the novel, darker and better focused on the teenager's point of view. The first movie is kind of a classic, but the Coen version has gone down as the best take. 2010 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1915 The Birth of a Nation D. W. Griffith's movie is a technical and narrative wonder-and an embarrassment in every other respect. Nate Parker took the name to tell the actually worthwhile story of true American badass Nat Turner. 2016 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1925 1959 Ben-Hur Ben Hur has had five adaptations (including a friggin' cartoon), with the 1959 version being a cinematic event that won eleven Oscars. The latest version got mixed-to bad reviews, and the hug-filled ending is baffling even for a Christian story. 2016 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Adam Sandler remaking a Frank Capra movie is a thing that happened, somehow. The original is funny, charming, and smart, and it won a bunch of awards. The remake is, well, an Adam Sandler movie. 2002 CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Robocop writer got the idea by working his a*s off on the Blade Runner set. Edward Neumeier worked in the Blade Runner art department, making garbage for the futuristic street scenes, and got to watch Ridley Scott direct the movie. After four straight nights of that, pulling shifts after his day job, the title RoboCop and the main character (in a bluish armored thing) flashed into his mind. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Shape of Water came about because six-year-old Guillermo del Toro didn't like a movie's ending. At six, del Toro saw the 1954 monster movie Creature From The Black Lagoon and thought the shots of the Gill-Man reaching for lead actress Julie Adams' legs were romantic and exciting. Не was sure they'd be together by the end, and was really disappointed when that didn't happen. So he decided that, some day, he needed to fix that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Director Ari Aster was going through a horrible breakup when he was offered to direct Midsommar. So he modeled his latest folk horror after breakup movies like Modern Romance (1981). — Source

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Director Christopher Nolan wanted to create empathy in the audience towards the plight of the soldiers by focusing on visual storytelling and suspense, instead of in dialogue, in his award-winning movie DUNKIRK UN FILM DE - HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT To achieve this, LE DE SALAIRE LA PEUR he got YVES MONTAND inspiration from suspense masters, EXPLOSIVES especially from Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Palme L'er Cannos 1957 Ariz I Charles Famel. Fear. — Source

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Inception

Christopher Nolan has said that Inception was very much inspired by the James Bond movies. — Source

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Hereditary

HEREDITARY Ari Aster cited the theme of family breakdown and emotional brutality in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From A Marriage as one of the influences in his debut horror film. — Source

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GREMLINS Director Joe Dante pored over Frank Capra's iconic It's A Wonderful Life and decided that it was the exact spirit he wanted for Gremlins; a heartwarming, magical, small town, Christmas journey, with horrible green monsters. — Source

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T H E FAVOURITE Director Yorgos Lanthimos was inspired by the quick back and forth bickering between Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple (1968). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shaun of the Dead

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Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment, got the idea for the show Lost after he watched the movie Cast Away. LOST CAST AWAY CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Million Ways to Die in the West

GRACKED.COM MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST Seth McFarlane was watching Hang 'Em High (1968) when he began joking to his writers about how depressing it would be to live in the Wild West, where GUNT EASTWOOD everything could kill you. HANG'EMHIGH The inside joke turned into a feature film. — Source

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Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller got the idea for Tropic Thunder while he was working on Empire of the Sun. A number of his castmates were getting roles in war movies, and they'd compare the work to boot camp. It inspired Stiller to wonder what would actually happen to actors in a war zone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 2010's Buried, Ryan Reynolds plays Paul Conroy, a US citizen working in Iraq who wakes up trapped in a coffin. The entire film takes place inside the tiny casket. The film is director Rodrigo Cortés' love letter to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, using Rope's real-time aspect, Rear Window's single point of view, and Lifeboat's claustrophobia. — Source

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Joel Silver said that the Wachowskis had showed him the anime Ghost in the Shell to give him an idea of what they wanted to achieve with The Matrix. - 8 12 S 2 a 10 a SKO ... МЕМЕСИЯ fe t n CRACKED.COM 8 La 04 — Source

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After Earth

Will Smith got the idea for AFTER EARTH from the TV show I Shouldn't Be Alive. Discovery SHOULDN'T CHANNEL 1 BE ALIVE It was originally intended to be about a father and son who have to survive after a car crash. It was then turned into a sci-fi story. CRACKED COM — Source

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