Remakes you would actually like to see

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The Last Starfighter (1984)
It's a bad movie with a great premise, some of you people like it because of nostalgia but it's bad.
For those who don't remember, a kid gets this video game and gets a high score, only to find out that the game is actually a recruiting tool made by aliens in order to find pilots to fight an interstellar war.
Think about how much more relevant would a video game themed movie be today instead of the mid 80's when gaming was barely getting off the ground and the industry was still figuring itself out.
You could even make the game that the kid plays in the movie and sell it as a tie in.
I'm surprised that Hollywood isn't making that movie right now.
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I love The Last Starfighter but some aspects of it definitely haven’t stood up, particularly the primitive CGI. There’s been a lot of talk about rebooting it and several aborted attempts...the latest is that Wyatt & Kurt Russell want to do a TLS reboot, which I hope happens. Wyatt Russell as some 30-year-old burnout who ekes by as a “Twatch” streamer playing a marginal Starfighter game he’s good at, etc. Kurt Russell could play either Centauri or Grig. I can envision that. It would be even better as a series or limited series, the movie had a lot of background characters that were interesting but lacked depth because of the time limits of a 90min movie. What’s the story with Xur and how he come to hate his father & the Star League so much he joined their enemy? There was a lot of potential with that android-clone character Beta too.
 
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This occurred to me when it comes to hypothetically remaking a notorious bad movie like Manos: The Hands of Fate. Even if the remake is above average or universally praised, would it surpass the original because of the cult following the original got for being so terrible?
 
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
It's a bad movie with a great premise, some of you people like it because of nostalgia but it's bad.
For those who don't remember, a kid gets this video game and gets a high score, only to find out that the game is actually a recruiting tool made by aliens in order to find pilots to fight an interstellar war.
Think about how much more relevant would a video game themed movie be today instead of the mid 80's when gaming was barely getting off the ground and the industry was still figuring itself out.
You could even make the game that the kid plays in the movie and sell it as a tie in.
I'm surprised that Hollywood isn't making that movie right now.
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1. They probably already made it, only it starred a girl as the main character and was totally lame and gay.
2. Ready Player One killed off the idea of the gamer-as-protagonist-themed movie.
3. The premise no longer holds up, since we now have computers and AI that could outplay a human any day. The idea of a human gamer being good enough to be recruited by aliens was probably only viable for a short period of time after video games were invented.
 
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This occurred to me when it comes to hypothetically remaking a notorious bad movie like Manos: The Hands of Fate. Even if the remake is above average or universally praised, would it surpass the original because of the cult following the original got for being so terrible?
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I mean at a certain point, if you make it good, or even mediocre, it essentially takes away everything that makes it Manos. About the only thing that separates it from a dozen other movies is the shitness and some pretty minor nuances.

I mean if House of 1000 Corpses had a family instead of some college kids, called Captain Spaulding (or Tiny) Torgo and Otis
Master, you wouldn't really need to change much else (other than the ending) to call it a re-boot/re-make.
 
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