I challenge the members of SF to name a single Hollywood movie remake that wasn’t utter bum gravy compared to the original.
In other news, Fallout remains hilariously true to the source universe and the opening episode of the GoT prequel A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms has given me hope that it might be decent.
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris? A British remake of a Hollywood film, sadly without Omar Sharif.
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You might have me there as I haven’t seen either version; possibly due the absence of cars chases, exploding things/people, bayonets being fixed and violent alien life forms from both.
I didn’t know it was a remake, with Lesley Manville, so probably enjoyed it all the more.
I didn’t realise it was a remake either until I googled it to buy the DVD.
OH bought the DVD for his mum and she absolutely loves it. She was a highly skilled dressmaker and could have made dresses like the ones in the film, some of which she remembers from the time.
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Omar Sharif… sigh. From age 12 to my great age I am wistful 
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Little Shop of Horrors. I’ve not seen the 1960 original but the 1986 remake is brilliant (who could forget Steve Martin as the sadistic dentist) and is widely regarded as way better.
Also Jeff Goldblum’s remake of “The Fly” (in this case I haven’t seen the remake and it is 30+ years since I saw the original) is also normally regarded as a step up from the 1958 version.
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I liked him in Dr Zhivago.
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Funny that, I liked Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago 
Really enjoyed this - also the ending promises further seasons…
I thought the same, I hope there will be more too.
I watched boxing matches on BBC TV in the 60s and 70s - Cassius Clay, Sonny Liston, Henry Cooper and more, and lesser-known names and contests. Boxing was a regular cultural event, popular on TV in those days.
When I saw that Million Dollar Baby was on ITVx I didn’t want to see it - a story in the world of boxing – boring! But it was directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film, and I found it wasn’t about boxing! It seems so though, in the beginning, but grows into something else.
Part of a revue from IMDb.
See this film. It’s about real characters and is directed with honesty, warmth, and true pain. Clint Eastwood gets better with age and his films reflect the days of real movie making. The sets are simple, the characters are complex, and the story moves in a pace closer to real life than any other director could reach. Eastwood has been called the Hemingway of Film making. You don’t get more real than that. It was great seeing this natural storyteller take home his second Oscar for Best Director and Picture. It is a true masterpiece.
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He is superb! The best of men and of directors.
Agreed, but who would have thought it when he was just eye candy in Rawhide?
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Don’t forget Paint Your Wagon where he sings too
He also wrote some of the background music in the film I posted – Million Dollar Baby.
Episode 4 is as good as anything in the first series. Watched Episode 5 last night on BBC - just as good.
I thought that was that grumpy faced bloke who had a police tv series back in distant memory. Can’t remember his name errr Lee Marvin, that’s the one. No?
If like me you like the series Virgin River, you should watch Sullivan’s Crossing on Netflix too. From the same author too I believe with a lot of the same plots and types of characters but a nice bit of schmaltz to watch and get into and set in Nova Scotia as against N.California
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