Remakes/Reboots you actually like better than the original o:

[Jessweeee♪]

Feel free to include games, too. Or perhaps even changes to your favorite candy!


Off the top of my head:

The Producers- The movie of the musical of the movie! Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are great together. Plus we get to see the Sigfried Oath scene!

Batmaaaan- I don't even like Batman and I thought The Dark Knight was cool.

Tomb Raider: Anniversary- It's wonderful! No awkward controls, you can actually tell what everything is supposed to be, and it's all three times as big. It was really cool going through a second time with the commentary. There were so many things they wanted to do with the original that they couldn't until now. Apparently not even some of the developers realized one of the levels was supposed to be a village. The only thing I didn't think was superior to the original was the dinosaur area of The Lost Valley. For me, nothing can ever top the first time I saw that level. Everyone in the house was in the living room watching my dad shoot little raptors, and my uncle said something along the lines of "Good thing there aren't any big dinosaurs, or he'd really be in trouble!" Then a goddamn T-Rex came and ATE HIS FACE. THEN ANOTHER ONE SHOWED UP. I don't know how the he got that second one to show up, I've only ever ran into one of them. Anyway that was cool. You know what, I'm going to make a thread for this right now. I want to gush about it more.

[Moon Rabbits]

I was going to say Avatar but then I realized I didn't like Avatar better than Pocahontas or Last of the Mohicans.

[charliepanayi]

The Thomas Crown Affair
His Girl Friday (it's a remake of an earlier play/film)
Ocean's Eleven (shame about the sequels)

[AntRid]

Batman!
I liked the old films but the new ones are on a different level.

[Madame Adequate]

Batman.
Battlestar Galactica.

[Slothy]

Batman - the Tim Burton films were terrible on almost every level imaginable except set design, but Batman Begins and the Dark Knight were both amazing.

Battlestar Galactica - seriously, even if someone didn't like the ending I don't think they could argue the original is better.

Star Trek - I wouldn't really say I like it better than the original, but it was pretty damn awesome in it's own way and the shot in the arm the franchise desperately needed.

[G13]

Batman - the Tim Burton films were terrible on almost every level imaginable except set design, but Batman Begins and the Dark Knight were both amazing.

This. Except I thought set design sucked too.

The Day the Earth Stood Still was good.
I'm hoping the new Tron is good.
I also liked the turn PoP took.

[Madame Adequate]

The Day the Earth Stood Still was good.

are you completely baked

[charliepanayi]

The Tim Burton Batman films were terrible? *shakes head sadly*

[Bastian]

Doctor Who.

I've watched quite a bit of the old stuff, but enjoy the new stuff sooooo much more.

Then again, it doesn't really constitute as "reboot" because it takes place chronologically after the old stuff . . . more of a sequel than a reboot.

[Kossage]

So... if you're saying that Nolan's Batman movies are better to Burton's, does this include the music too? I just have a hard time imagining Zimmer & Newton-Howard's stale two-note Batman theme being better than Elfman's iconic Batman theme.

Anyway, here are some of my picks for remakes that are arguably better than the earlier version(s):

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 version)
Ben-Hur (1959 version)
The Thing (1982 version)
The Fly (1986 version)
Lolita (1996 version)
The Quiet American (2002 version)

[charliepanayi]

Argh I forgot about The Thing and The Fly

[Slothy]

So... if you're saying that Nolan's Batman movies are better to Burton's, does this include the music too? I just have a hard time imagining Zimmer & Newton-Howard's stale two-note Batman theme being better than Elfman's iconic Batman theme.

As iconic as that theme is it's also about the only song he's ever done that I like. I've never been a big fan of Elfman's style to be honest. So aside from the lack of an iconic Batman theme, I do actually feel that the new Batman movies had a soundtrack that suited the style a lot better. Not that Elfman's music didn't really suit the Burton films, but I've already established my disdain for them. I'm not sure what Tim Burton was basing them on, but it wasn't really Batman.

[Raistlin]

Batman, definitely. I can't think of others at the moment, though.

So... if you're saying that Nolan's Batman movies are better to Burton's, does this include the music too? I just have a hard time imagining Zimmer & Newton-Howard's stale two-note Batman theme being better than Elfman's iconic Batman theme.

I know you are crazy into the music of every movie, but the lack of one theme does not affect the fact that basically everything else about the new Batman series is a significant improvement over the original version. I will agree that the original theme was certainly iconic, but I'll take an overall better movie any day.

EDIT: Oh! FFT's PSP remake at least deserves a mention.

[Levian]

I like the gloomy mood from the two first Batman movies. Not sure I'd place them behind the remakes. I saw Batman Begins and I remember almost nothing from it Can't say it had a lasting impression on me. Dark knight was good though.

The Ring. I know lots of people are raving on about how the Japanese version is much more scarier. I disagree, and the remake is more fleshed out storywise, so I definitely like it better. Also, Naomi Watts.

And here's to hoping A Nighmare on Elm Street will have a remake that's better than the original!