remakes for universal classics?
 

what would you think of big budget remakes of the old universal flicks? frankenstein, dracula, creature from the black lagoon, the wolfman.

i would like to see them if they still had the same basic plot and scripts were updated a little. i think that the SFX could do great things especially with CFTBL and the wolfman.

now, i know a lot of you are going to try to fry me for this thread, but i just want you to know that the old B&Ws are my favorite films of all time and i would never want to see them replaced, but i think it would be kinda cool for something like this to happen. i got really excited about "van helsing" last year, but was sorely disappointed and it left me hungry for something great to be done with those charatcers.

Is nothing sacred?

Let's hear Jedicow out, and consider the issue for a moment. Yes, the past few years have seen many sad and unnecessary remakes (one opens today, or so the reviews would seem to paint it as such), but I would definitely get behind a movement to re-envision (not re-make) the Universal monster movies if, and only if, good directors and cinematographers signed on and (here's my spin) agreed to use black and white. I'm thinking more Young Frankenstein than Nadja, but I hope you get my point re: use of b&w. Would, at the very least, be better than Van Helsing.

i think that if a little new life were breathed into these characters, it would be a good thing.

JC wrote a script for a remake of creature from the black lagoon

nothing happened as the budget required would have been too much

It seems like all the classic monsters have been featured in remakes of some sort. The Mummy with Brendan Fraiser, most definitely not a classic rendition, too much CGI for my taste.
Frankenstein with De niro
Dracula with Oldman
both good movies.

I guess the Wolfman and the Creature haven't been done properly.

in light of what has come since - the creature is more cool than scary ... they'd have to either vamp him up or make more play on the sympathy thing ..


i dunno .. its so dated now.

Humanoids from the Deep was kind of an updated version..

Nice tits in that one.......the tent scene where the idiot is playing with his puppet and his girlfriend in naked in front of him...What an asshole.

I enjoyed the "Dracula" and "The Mummy" remakes to a degree, but I didn't "like" them (there's a difference). They were fun but not classics.

"The Mummy" I was especially looking forward to, because I was almost sure it was going to be a serious big action mummy movie, and not an action comedy spoof like it was. I think that one in particular had much potential to be a seriously scary, cool film.

For some reason "The Mummy Returns" sat a great deal better with me. This was pretty funny, but I thought it played a lot more smoothly overall.

some good gore too .. didnt someone get their head ripped off ?