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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.

3. Fantastic Four

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Why? Because the 20th Century Fox films were just plain terrible, and this team of superheroes deserves so much more. A reboot was announced in 2009, but since then, there’s been very little information released. As with Catwoman, the 2005 Fantastic Four made the mistake of going with bombshell Jessica Alba as Susan Richards (aka The Invisible Woman) instead of an actress who could really communicate the comic-book character’s inner struggle with her newfound powers. Ioan Gruffudd didn’t make for a very compelling Mr. Fantastic, either. The other two, Chris Evans as the Human Torch and Michael Chiklis as the Thing, were simply mediocre.

Outside of bad casting, the movie’s storyline dragged with prolonged exposition and a disorienting, overly goofy tone. A reboot could take a more serious approach, à la Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, and expand on the mythos of the comic books, while introducing a credible, more evil Doctor Doom. With a solid cast and a script true to the comics, a Fantastic Four reboot could be every bit as entertaining as The Avengers without the special effects overhaul.