Films that can never be remade

More generally, films like that are impossible to remake. You cannot fake stuff that bad.

Well, it was announced that James Franco will direct an adaptation of The Disaster Artist. So that's sorta a Room remake.

Well not really, since they aren't trying to recreate the actual comedy of the original.

The original wasn't intended to be a comedy. Thus, one can't call it "actual comedy".

If you want to play a semantics game, "actual" means "existing in fact, real" or "existing now, current" (Oxford English Dictionary) or "real and not merely possible or imagined : existing in fact" (Merriam-Webster). The comedy of the original would thus seem to be very "actual", since nearly everyone who views the film reports being amused and not moved by it; the hilarity of The Room is "real" and most certainly "existing in fact". The laughs generated by "hah what a story Mark" would seem to be far more real than the dramatic emotion.

But what I initially meant was: the new film is not trying to recreate the unintentional ridiculousness of the original Room. The Nostalgia Critic said it very well; the humor in a film that is So Bad, It's Good comes from seeing what the film was aiming for and comparing it with what's actually on the screen. If you deliberately aim for incompetence, then you might make a serviceable comedy, but you'll be harder pressed to recreate the unique quality that a SBIG film has.

edited 13th Feb '14 2:49:59 PM by Achaemenid

I'm actually interested more in what the response to a movie based on The Disaster Artist would be. Because I cannot see how we could convince professional critics that Tommy Wiseau is a real person and he did behave that way.

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edited 13th Feb '14 6:32:24 PM by LeGarcon

The critics have seen Ed Wood. And they've seen other movies as laughably incompetent as The Room. All it takes to convince anyone that Tommy Wiseau is this nuts is to watch The Room.

I don't think it's impossible to make something deliberately so bad it's good. This is a parody, and it's intentionally bad. So I think they have a chance with The Disaster Artist film to recreate the quality of The Room.

edited 13th Feb '14 7:06:05 PM by Tuckerscreator

I doubt anyone could ever remake any of the Mel Brooks movies. Especially not something like Blazing Saddles

Or at the very least be able to do it properly.

Or be able to outrun me when I chase them down and do unspecified nasty things to them for blasphemy.

What? Blazing Saddles is serious business. I watched that film for the first time with my papa.

I'm thinking that remaking The Matrix would be incredibly pointless.

On the other hand, they should totally make sequels to The Matrix.

Looking at the "Most 90's Film of All Time" a lot of them certainly qualify. I mean who would remake Kazaam? (Kid find genie Shaq in a boom box) Anything involving dated technology as a major part of the plot (like the Home Alone movies) would also qualify. On the Kazaam note, anything dating to a time period when a specific celebrity was popular. Like Space Jam, for example.

What about films that literally CANT be remade? Like, due to unions or technical details

edited 24th Feb '14 8:30:06 AM by Xopher001

Roger Rabbit?