Re:Double Bills du Jour
Lizard, good thinking. I’ve also enjoyed the odd original/remake double-bill evenings at home. Much as I generally dislike remakes (unless, perhaps, it’s extremely reimagined), or the idea of remakes, I truly enjoyed all the remakes you listed other than the new Solaris one which I can’t bring myself to rent. Another sci-fi remake I loved was Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland.
Like Sidhecafe, I loved Tarkovsky’s Solaris (I also love his Stalker). I look at it as a true masterpiece, and while I thoroughly enjoy many SF films, there are very few sci-fi[i]ish[/i][ films that achieve, as I see it, such lyrical perfection. Imagine the horror of a 2001: A Space Odyssey film remake (of course it’s 2004 now, so they’d probably want to retitle it even if they did).
Another remake I’m loathe to see is Shall We Dance? I absolutely loved the Japanese one (though those who haven’t spent time In Japan will probably miss a lot of the cultural text/subtext). And Stepford Wives, and…