Today at work, Josh and I were talking about this new trend of remaking movies from the 80s (which is a different trend than making movies out of TV shows from the 80s). First about a year or so ago they re-made the movie Manhunter (released in 1986) when they put out Red Dragon, then they remade Can't Buy Me Love (released in 1987) into Love Don't Cost a Thing. Now I see they are remaking Man on Fire (released in 1987) with Man on Fire which is due out this year; and also they are doing a loose remake of Vacation (released in 1983) with this summer's Johnson Family Vacation, and Josh told me that supposedly there is very possibly going to be a remake of The Breakfast Club (released in 1985).
Anyway, with all the 80's movies being remade, it made me wonder what 80's movies I'd really like to see them remake (cause let's face it, if Can't Buy Me Love can get remade a mere 16 years after it was released, then pretty much any movie from the 80's is fair game). Here's my short list of movies I'd love to see get remade (add some if you can think of any):
- Just One of the Guys (put Brittany Murphy in it and maybe she'll vanish like Joyce Hyser did)
- Weekend at Bernie's (maybe Jack Black and Vince Vaughn in this one)
- Soul Man (this could be particularly funny if it got the "urban remake" treatment like Love Don't Cost a Thing did: imagine a black guy having to pretend he's a white guy like Eddie Murphy did in that SNL skit)
- Zapped! (they'd have to try to work Willie Aames into it somehow)
- The Legend of Billie Jean ("Fair is fair!")