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5 Remakes We Actually Want To See Happen

For years, American audiences have suffered through remakes, re-imaginings and rip-offs that exist for absolutely no good reason. Don't believe me? Take a look at this year. Fede Alvarez's ultra-gory Evil Dead update may have been better than expected, but did we need it? I think Sam Raimi's low-budget original will always be the ultimate. This October, a remake of Carrie will hit theaters, starring Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore, which begs the question, what part really needed an update? Brian de Palma's original was a great horror flick, and it holds up pretty well today. I'm interested to see what Moretz does in the role Sissy Spacek made famous, but I can't think of anything that really justifies this reboot's existence. Can you? And I want people to see and become obsessed with Park Chan-Wook's terrifically twisted original Oldboy, not this October's Spike Lee version.

4. Ghostbusters

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Make no mistake, the original Ghostbusters is a great film. That said, those special effects just don’t hold up today, and we should worry that younger audiences will stay away from Ghostbusters, distracted by the shoddy-looking ectoplasm. An update with more realistic special effects could be a great thing, provided the new script stays true to the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the original. The one requirement is that Bill Murray must return, budget constraints be damned. Part of the original’s joke was how ridiculous all of the Ghostbusters’ ghost-fighting tech actually looked. A remake could make the tech look more realistic but still retain the original’s nuttiness, giving the Ghostbusters countless new inventions to work with.

We might need to wait a while for this remake, if Ghostbusters 3 gets off the ground, but it’s not an idea without merit. Hopefully a new Ghostbusters could work modern technology into its script in an interesting way, perhaps by allowing ghosts to pass through the Internet and wi-fi networks. With a strong comedy team at work, a Ghostbusters remake could potentially do right by the original while introducing the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man to a whole new generation of moviegoers. That’s a win-win.