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The original. Evidently a classic at Rotten Tomatoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1925_film)
Ben Hur (Charlton Heston)
Ben-Hur (1959) - IMDb
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BUZZZ. I have to buzz you on that. It has to be in the recent past, say 50 years. It wouldn't be fair to have a silent movie as the original and then say "WOW that remake sure was a lot better when they added sound to it".:)The original. Evidently a classic at Rotten Tomatoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1925_film)
Ben Hur (Charlton Heston)
Ben-Hur (1959) - IMDb
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There was no stipulations before my posting.BUZZZ. I have to buzz you on that. It has to be in the recent past, say 50 years. It wouldn't be fair to have a silent movie as the original and then say "WOW that remake sure was a lot better when they added sound to it".:)The original. Evidently a classic at Rotten Tomatoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1925_film)
Ben Hur (Charlton Heston)
Ben-Hur (1959) - IMDb
The original evidently would have been even worse with sound.
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The Thing (1951)
The Thing from Another World (1951) - IMDb
The Thing (1982)
The Thing (1982) - IMDb
Remake by John Carpenter was a LOT better.
Of course if your not a monster movie fan you won't be watching anyway.
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Of course now we have the remake of the remake:
The Thing (2011) - IMDb
I haven't seen it but I haven't heard good things about it either.
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Is that because all re-makes were actually worse than the original, or because you began watching whilst thinking about the original, remembering the original actors, and constantly thinking about changes from the original?
Were you able to watch the remake as a separate film, or was your attention always focused on it being a remake of an old classic?
Accepting the reality that a remake can never truly be watched without remembering back to the original, and that how much it is accepted by an audience will, for the most part, have been decided in advance, or based upon unobtainable expectations, it is possible for a remake better than the original to exist?
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