30 Movie Remakes

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Every rule has exceptions, and while Leonard and Baron have reservations about many remakes of older films, this week they spotlight a couple they love! They praise the breathless, incredibly funny His Girl Friday, lament that the latest RoboCop was hamstrung from the beginning by a terrible script, and recommend a remake of a spooky Swedish thriller.

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0:33.6	Hello, everybody.
0:34.6	I'm Leonard Malton, and this is Malton on movies with Baron Vaughn.
0:38.3	I'm the other guy. That would be Baron Vaughn. I'm the other guy.
0:40.7	That would be Baron Vaughn.
0:41.5	That's right. And we are here. We are here to talk about today remakes.
0:47.1	Not the happiest subject, if we're going to generalize about movies.
0:52.3	You know, it's a sorry state of affairs that every 10 years, 20 years, Hollywood feels
0:59.3	a kind of an imperative to rehash, retread, redo what they've done before.
1:06.8	And, you know, the odds are not in their favor, are they?
1:11.1	No.
1:11.5	I mean, how many, I mean, usually remakes are.
1:14.5	People go, ah, why are they remaking that?
1:17.2	That's usually what I hear people say when a remake is coming out.
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