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The Andrew Klavan Show

Are Movie Remakes Better Than Originals?

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

News Commentary, News

4.822.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Is the original always better than the remake? Not necessarily. So today, I'm going to be looking at a series of movies, as well as their remakes, and definitively choosing which version is superior.  - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy

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0:00.0

All right, today we have a really interesting idea for a video.

0:04.3

I would have to thank my producer Tom for coming up with us.

0:06.8

Usually he just sits around plotting on how to destroy me.

0:11.6

I guess he took a vacation from that, and he decided he was going to give me this idea

0:15.3

of looking at films that have been remade and judging whether the remake was better than the original or not.

0:23.1

That's really an interesting idea to me, and so I'll take a look.

0:25.9

If I haven't seen them, I'll just skip over.

0:36.6

Oceans 11, 1960, obviously, was the Frank Sinatra, was the Rat Pack, Sammy Davis Jr., Ocean's 11.

0:37.9

1960, obviously, was the Frank Sinatra,

0:39.9

was the Rat Pack, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin,

0:42.9

and then the Steven Soderberg version

0:45.1

with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and everybody else.

0:48.4

You know, I'm sad to say it because I love Sinatra.

0:51.3

I like the Rat Pack, the whole ethos,os was lots of fun, but the original is bad.

0:56.7

You go back and look at it now. It's got some fun rat pack, you know, stuff in it. They were

1:01.3

sleeping with like 12 prostitutes a night, and they were drinking, and they weren't really

1:05.8

paying attention to what they're doing is out-living. This is a recording. You've dialed the right number. Now please hang up and don't do it again.

1:11.8

It doesn't make any sense.

1:13.0

The Soderberg original is really tight and good story and everybody's great in it.

1:18.0

And, you know, it's just better.

1:20.2

It's much better.

1:25.9

True Grit, John Wayne in 1969 and Kim Darby and True Grit by the Cohn Brothers in 2010,

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