Okay so you know my thoughts on remakes... they ought not be attempted. However, I hear that that most repeated of themes Pygmalion, is being done again - this time in a remake of
My Fair Lady (funny really, given that this itself was a remake)
. Now I don't like musicals and I prefer Katharine to Audrey, but the original MFL was, I must concede, a fairly delightful film.
Given the ridiculous spate of remakes poisoning our screens, here is a list of those I wouldn't disown you for watching (you may be surprised that some are remakes!):
- Sabrina (again, I dislike Bogie and Hepburn so Ford/Ormond was gorgeous plus Kinnear for good measure!)
- The Italian Job (go Jason Statham)
- Bourne trilogy (although it's now ripped off by much worse films, these pioneered a new hand held camera style)
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- Casino Royale
- Ocean's 11 (don't bother with the sequels)
- The Dark Knight (Ledger makes Nicholson look positively clownish)
- The Magnificent Seven (though I prefer the japanese original)
- The Ring
- Mission Impossible III (far superior to the others)
- "Battlestar Galactica"
- Chicago
- Fatal Attraction
- The Four Feathers
- Gone in 60 Seconds
Okay so you know my thoughts on remakes... they ought not be attempted. However, I hear that that most repeated of themes Pygmalion, is being done again - this time in a remake of My Fair Lady (funny really, given that this itself was a remake). Now I don't like musicals and I prefer Katharine to Audrey, but the original MFL was, I must concede, a fairly delightful film.
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