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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 20, 2024 13:47:00 GMT
..........or "previously filmed"..........I added "the most" since remakes are rarely good.......... Pacino's been in 4 good ones (Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Heat (from TV), Insomnia).........Jessica Lange has been in A LOT of 'em off the top of my head - King Kong, The Gambler, Cape Fear, Lange Long Day's Journey Into Night, Postman Always Rings Twice, Night and The City....... * How about actors who have their BEST performance in a remake?
* Anybody particularly good - repeatedly - at this usually "bad idea"?
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Feb 20, 2024 16:26:01 GMT
I think you nailed the two big ones with Pacino and Lange.
You definitely have to give credit to Julianne Moore here, too - daring to recreate as many iconic cinematic characters as she has is ballsy, to say the least - Lila Crane, Clarice Starling, Margaret White... And then of course she's paying homage to Jane Wyman in Far from Heaven.
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Post by ibbi on Feb 20, 2024 16:48:18 GMT
I don't really like calling new adaptations of stuff remakes, but I liked Naomi Watts quite a lot in her Painted Veil (Painted Veil, 1934) her King Kong (King Kong, 1933) The Ring (Ringu, 1998), Funny Games (Funny Games, 1997), Diana (Downfall, 2004), and of course she's going to be in the new Emmanuelle too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 20, 2024 20:29:54 GMT
Dick Gere - if may call him Dick - is in a ton of these also - The Dinner, Shall We Dance?, Breathless, The Jackal, Sommersby, Unfaithfuk, the upcoming Longing.........might be more......  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 20, 2024 20:42:09 GMT
Faux GOAT Denzel Washington has a bunch also...at least 7 (more?) if you count Macbeth....off the top of my head The Manchurian Candidate (pictured below) Man on Fire Preacher's Wife The Tragedy of Macbeth Taking off Pelham One Two Three Magnificent 7 upcoming High and Low 
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2024 14:29:30 GMT
Jeff Bridges - as idiosyncratic and singular as Amrican movies have (ever?) produced is in a bunch too - Lange's King Kong co-star, none -ape category The Vanishing, Against All Odds, True Grit, King Kong, Iceman Cometh (a version of Robards earlier TV film)
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Post by thomasjerome on Apr 12, 2024 20:54:02 GMT
After watching " Steve!" recently, I was thinking of Steve Martin. He had been in, at least, three remakes (" Father of the Bride", " Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", " Little Shop of Horrors") that are arguably more popular than their originals now? " Pennies from Heaven" is generally deemed as a flop but it has mostly good critical scores and got three Oscar noms. Some of his other stuff received mixed reception but were box office success regardless (" Cheaper by the Dozen", " The Pink Panther"). He had two flops (" Mixed Nuts", " Sgt. Bilko"). And of course, " Roxanne" is basically a Steve Martin version of "Cyrano de Bergerac". |
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