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Angels in the Outfield. 1951.

Ermergerdness

Plot: Manager was a lonely meenie weenie. An nosy, uppity young woman news reporter started following him around. The team sucked because he was being too mean and angry. She prays for him. God makes a deal with him. Cut the cussing and meanie weenie stuff and he'll help the Pirates win some games,
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Father of the Bride!

A bunch of folks are freaking out because of the remake of the Steve Martin film, but guess what? That one was a remake of a 1950 movies starring Elizabeth Taylor.

This is all brand new information to me.
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Ben Hur (the one with Charlton Heston) was a remake.

Carpenters The Thing too.
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Airplane!
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The Ten Commandments
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I was always impressed by the balls that it took to remake Top Gun as a NASCAR movie so soon after it's initial release
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If I didn't know a movie was a remake, how would I know to post it?

After googling, I had no idea that Meet the Parents was a remake.
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Many of these.

https://www.looper.com/51822/movies-didnt-know-remakes/
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Oceans 11

Also I'm throwing in the Incredibles as a remake of any Fantastic 4 movie
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Looked it up and found out Mr Deeds is a remake. WTF?

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During the Great Depression, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), the co-owner of a tallow works, part-time greeting card poet, and tuba-playing inhabitant of the hamlet of Mandrake Falls, Vermont, inherits 20 million dollars from his late uncle, Martin Semple. Semple's scheming attorney, John Cedar (Douglass Dumbrille), locates Deeds and takes him to New York City. Cedar gives his cynical troubleshooter, ex-newspaperman Cornelius Cobb (Lionel Stander), the task of keeping reporters away from Deeds. Cobb is outfoxed by star reporter Louise "Babe" Bennett (Jean Arthur), who appeals to Deeds' romantic fantasy of rescuing a damsel in distress by masquerading as a poor worker named Mary Dawson. She pretends to faint from exhaustion after "walking all day to find a job" and worms her way into his confidence. Bennett proceeds to write a series of enormously popular articles on Longfellow, portraying him as a yokel who has suddenly inherited riches, and giving him the nickname "Cinderella Man".

Cedar tries to get Deeds' power of attorney in order to keep his own financial misdeeds secret. Deeds, however, proves to be a shrewd judge of character, easily fending off Cedar and other greedy opportunists. He wins Cobb's wholehearted respect and eventually Babe's love. She quits her job in shame, but before she can tell Deeds the truth about herself, Cobb finds it out and tells Deeds. Deeds is left heartbroken and decides to return to Mandrake Falls. After he has packed and is about to leave, a dispossessed farmer (John Wray) stomps into his mansion and threatens him with a gun. He expresses his scorn for the seemingly heartless, ultra-rich man, who will not lift a finger to help the multitudes of desperate poor. After the intruder comes to his senses, Deeds realizes what he can do with his troublesome fortune. He decides to provide fully equipped 10-acre (4-hectare) farms free to thousands of homeless families if they will work the land for three years.

Cedar joins forces with Deeds' only other relative, Semple, and his domineering wife, in an attempt to have Deeds declared mentally incompetent. A sanity hearing is scheduled to determine who should control the fortune. During the hearing, Cedar calls an expert who diagnoses Deeds with manic depression based on Babe's articles and witnesses to his recent behavior. Though Deeds has pledged to defend himself, he refuses to speak. Babe speaks up passionately on his behalf, castigating herself for what she did to him. When he realizes that she truly loves him, he begins speaking, systematically punching holes in Cedar's case and then landing one in his face. The judge declares him to be not only sane, but "the sanest man who ever walked into this courtroom". Victorious, Deeds and Babe kiss.
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The Gambler. Not the Kenny Rogers one. The more recent one. I think it was Marky Mark, and it really sucked. Hope the original didn't suck as bad.
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Star Wars The Force Awakens
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mandevilleag said:

Airplane!

Wait what????
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jr15aggie said:

Star Wars The Force Awakens

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/tired joke
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Private PoopyPants said:

Father of the Bride!

A bunch of folks are freaking out because of the remake of the Steve Martin film, but guess what? That one was a remake of a 1950 movies starring Elizabeth Taylor.

This is all brand new information to me.

Cheaper by the dozen
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Know Your Enemy said:

mandevilleag said:

Airplane!

Wait what????
Almost scene for scene from Zero Hour! With the exception of the jokes. Even the creepy cockpit scene is pretty spot on.

ETA it's actually pretty funny to watch after seeing Airplane!
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is one of my favorite Gary Cooper movies. Far surpior to the Sandler remake.
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ETA it's actually pretty funny to watch after seeing Airplane!
So true since so much of Airplane is word for word from Zero Hour.
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Fast and Furious is a remake of Point Break

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Serious answer: I believe I read that "A Star is Born" is a remake of a Barbara Streisand movie that is a remake of a Judy Garland Movie.
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The Judy Garland film is even a remake.
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jkag89 said:

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is one of my favorite Gary Cooper movies. Far surpior to the Sandler remake.
Super duper.
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oragator said:

Many of these.

https://www.looper.com/51822/movies-didnt-know-remakes/
If someone here doesn't know that the recent True Grit was a remake, I just don't think I want to know that person.
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jkag89 said:

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is one of my favorite Gary Cooper movies. Far surpior to the Sandler remake.


My dad hates Adam Sandler for remaking Mr. Deeds. Any time Hollywood remakes gets brought up, I get a speech about it.
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jkag89 said:

The Judy Garland film is even a remake.

This was the gotcha for me.
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mandevilleag said:

Know Your Enemy said:

mandevilleag said:

Airplane!

Wait what????
Almost scene for scene from Zero Hour! With the exception of the jokes. Even the creepy cockpit scene is pretty spot on.

ETA it's actually pretty funny to watch after seeing Airplane!

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Although I do enjoy classic hollywood films. I do not dislike remakes when done correctly. For example, Steve Martin's Father of the Bride is a wonderful film that in many ways exceeds the orginal.. Heck I did not even hate Sandler's Mr. Deeds. It even helped me get some younger friends of mine to watch the original and a few other of the screwball comedies of that era.
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If you're gonna hate Adam Sandler for a remake, hate him for remaking "The Longest Yard".
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Heaven Can Wait is a remake oh Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
***It's your money, not theIRS! (At least for a little while longer.)
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Bruce Willis' Last Man Standing is one of my favorite films, but it's a remake of Clint Eastwood's A Fistful of Dollars, another one of my favorites, but it's an homage to Yojimbo a japanese film with the same premise.
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Spielberg remade A Guy Named Joe as Always (1989)
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Isn't this thread a remake of a thread from two weeks ago?
Let's go, Brandon!
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NoahAg said:

Isn't this thread a remake of a thread from two weeks ago?

This is a reboot, not a remake.

There is a difference.
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Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Just found out the Ben Stiller film was a remake earlier this year.
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