There were no vikings in Thor. Americans, Asgardians and Frost Giants set in the present. Not a marauding Scandinavian warrior in sight.

I would also like to see the film versions of the sequels to "Once Were Warriors." They made a movie out of the first one, "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted," but I can't find a copy.

I've been holding my breath for the next Remo Williams.
Ditto, Buckaroo Bonzai.

I want a modern remake of "Capricorn One" or maybe "The Martian Chronicles".

I watched this on Youtube. Someone had loaded 10, ten minute parts up.

The Magnificent Ambersons

According to some, the original cut to Orson Welles follow up to Citizen Kane was actually superior to what many call "The Greatest Film Of Them All". However, RKO freaked out when they screened it and got a negative test audience reaction. Ho hum. But after editing it, some jackass went and destroyed the parts that were cut, thereby preventing any kind of restoration using the original material.

Therefore one cannot help but wonder if a remake, using the original script - which reportedly still exists, would look like. Could a top notch director actually manage to top Citizen Kane?
-Jeremy

Are you aware that this was done a couple years ago with his shooting script?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252147/

From what I understand, it still has pretty much the same happy ending as the Welles original.

Yes, I heard of it, but a TV miniseries and movie are two different beasts. I mean, I don't know if this was done for the miniseries, but this project would most benefit from Gus Van Sant's Psycho technique, except in cases of what was reshot by RKO, and using Welles style for the sections that were cut out and destroyed.
-Jeremy

Well it was a TV film, not a miniseries, but I think I know what you mean

Okay, I thought what I read earlier used the term "miniseries" but yeah, there is still a bit of a difference.
-Jeremy

Ghost and the Darkness: Due to a pedestrian script, incompetent direction and a lazy performance by Michael Douglas (who ironically was one of the executive producers), this monster flick was a dud instead of the monster classic it could have been.

Pontypool: Again, a script matters. This is the Orson Welles War of the Worlds scenario come to life, but the script is badly unfocused. It's a creepy experience with good performances, but it makes no sense.

If the script sucks, why does the Ghost and the Darkness need a remake? It's not like it has a super-compelling premise. It's basically "Jaws with paws," as I once heard it said.

I've read that Robert Towne had planned to do a third movie in the Chinatown/The Two Jakes series called Cloverleaf, set in the 1950s and which had the creation of the LA freeway as its background (just as Chinatown had the water system and The Two Jakes had oil). It'll never happen, but that doesn't stop me wondering what might have been. Despite the general negative reception it got, I actually like The Two Jakes, and I think it makes a worthy sequel to Chinatown. Just as Chinatown has parallels with Raymond Chandler's fiction, The Two Jakes is very reminiscent of the detective novels of Ross Macdonald in its approach to old family secrets that have an effect on the present.

Cloverleaf does exist....it's called Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

I've read the book "The Maneaters of Tsavo" which is the source material for GatD. This is currently the only movie that I owned on VHS and then had to purchase the DVD. I guess it could be said that I have it in triplicate -or more, as I have been to The Field Museum in Chicago to view the exhibit with the actual taxidermied lions on display. -I even have a "Maneaters of Tsavo" mousepad.
The glaring defect that I had always seen in the movie is that no "Remington" (Michael Douglas) character exists in the original story. I had always thought that, for a compelling movie, his character was necessary to provide interaction with the J.H. Patterson (Val Kilmer) character. Until I saw Cast Away I wouldn't have believed that watching a solitary figure on the screen could've been fulfilling in any way.

I don't see a broad enough appeal for a 'purist' retelling of this story, but I would be first in line if they crafted one.

Ghostbusters 3 goddamnit!!!

I know it is in the pipeline, but Billy Murray must be in it... Fuck Murray, why can't you act normally and do this one for all your fans!

When a Stranger Calls deserves another remake

Because even Bill Murray (arguably, especially Bill Murray) knows the original Ghostbusters was pretty mediocre

Dude, fuck that. Ghostbusters is an awesome 80s comedy that will never get old.

It's one of the movies which I wish I could enjoy like everybody else seems to. But I just don't think it's that good...