Has Hollywood ever remade a sh!tty movie into a good one?

[mb23100]

Seems like they always take movies that didn't need to be remade and remaking them into just plain awful reboots. Has the opposite ever occurred? I can't think of one. Excluding cult classic B movies like Godzilla and Planet of the Apes.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

Don't know about being good but they remade Shaft didn't they.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

 

[TapoutforSprawl]

I didn't really like the original Mad Max, but the remake was fantastic.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

I didn't really like the original Mad Max, but the remake was fantastic.

Fury Road is not a remake. Its just another story.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

Was the 1950s The Thing any good?

 

[TapoutforSprawl]

Fury Road is not a remake. Its just another story.

True

 

[Zer]

Was the 1950s The Thing any good?

I thought of The Thing and The Fly, but no idea if the originals count as shitty. Would think the remakes blew them out of the water though

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

The Fly '86
Thing
310 to Yuma

 

[Cheese]

The Shinnig. the remake tv series was better than the movie.

 

[bandicoot]

I think IT probably qualifies.

While I absolutely love Tim Curry in the original, most everything else about the movie is pretty damn subpar.

 

[Guestx]

Not sure Hollywood has ever gone out of their way to remake a shitty movie. Seems counterintuitive.

But they have either remade, or readapted from the original source material, a handful of movies that were as good or better than the original.

 

[ralphc1]

The Wizard of Oz 1939 was the fifth and best OZ movie.

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

Dredd

 

[El_Dyablo619]

Scarface

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

Scarface

I'll admit i have never seen it but isn't the original scarface considered an all time classic?
100% on RT

 

[FierceRedBelt]

I'll admit i have never seen it but isn't the original scarface considered an all time classic?
100% on RT

I thought Scarface was about Capone.

But the eyes don't lie, chico.

 

[Naught2Sixty]

Oceans eleven. Flame away

 

[Fedorgasm]

The Shinnig. the remake tv series was better than the movie.

Trolliest post that ever trolled.

 

[mb23100]

Not sure Hollywood has ever gone out of their way to remake a shitty movie. Seems counterintuitive.

Well I'm thinking maybe a director liked a concept but not the execution. For example District 9 imo is a really interesting concept but I didn't like the direction they went with it. Not saying its a bad movie but I think it could have been much much better