Movie remakes vary from the good to the awful, but when they’re good – they’re great!

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40 Mortal Kombat, 2021

Original movie: Mortal Kombat, 1995; Director Paul W.S. Anderson

MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth’s greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.

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39 Solaris, 2002

Original movie: Солярис, 1972; Director Andrei Tarkovsky

Grieving psychologist Chris Kelvin is sent to investigate a lonely space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris, where terrified crewmembers are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including impossibly halcyon visitors that seem all too human. Once aboard, he confronts an unfathomable power that could hold the key to mankind’s deepest dreams and darkest nightmares.

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38 West Side Story, 2021

Original movie: West Side Story, 1961; Directors Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

Manhattan, Upper West Side, 1957. Against the backdrop of the decaying tenements in the San Juan Hill neighbourhood and the constant threat of the wrecking ball, two warring gangs-tough Riff’s Jets and swaggering Bernardo’s Puerto Rican Sharks-fight for supremacy. Now, with a once-and-for-all, winner-takes-all rumble on the cards, an unexpected whirlwind romance at the high-school dance between former Jet brawler Tony and Bernardo’s delicate little sister María sets the stage for an all-out turf war. But what’s a gang without its territory? Above all, when the future is uncertain, what’s hope without love?

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37 The Magnificent Seven, 2016

Original movie: The Magnificent Seven, 1960; Director John Sturges

Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in The Magnificent Seven. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.

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36 The Thing, 2011

Original movie: The Thing, 1982; Director John Carpenter

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd is invited by Dr. Sandor Halvorson to join his team who have found something extraordinary. Deep below the Antarctic ice, they have found an alien spacecraft that has been there for perhaps 100,000 years. Not far from where the craft landed, they find the remains of the occupant. It’s cut out of the ice and taken back to their camp but as the ice melts, the creature reanimates and not only begins to attack them but manages to infect them, with team members devolving into the alien creature.

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35 Dredd, 2012

Original movie: Judge Dredd, 1995; Director Danny Cannon

In the future, the overpopulated and chaotic Mega City One with 800 million inhabitants occupies the former territory between Boston and Washington and is surrounded by desert. Justice is brought by the judges, who have the power to judge and execute the sentence against those who break the law. The incorruptible Judge Dredd is summoned by the Chief Judge to evaluate the rookie Anderson, who has failed the test for judge but is a mutant with psychic abilities. They witness a murder and chase the killer in a 200-floor building. However the laboratory of slo-mo of the drug lord Ma-Ma is located in the 200th floor and she seals the building, trapping the two judges inside. Then she orders her clan to kill Dredd and Anderson in the beginning of a gore manhunt.

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34 Murder on the Orient Express, 2017

Original movie: Murder on the Orient Express, 1974; Director Sidney Lumet

Hercule Poirot, the best detective in the world, decides to travel on the Orient Express. The train accidentally gets stopped because of a small avalanche. Little did he know that a murder was planned and that a person on this train was capable of committing such crime.

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33 Alice in Wonderland, 2010

Original movie: Alice in Wonderland, 1951; Directors Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.

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32 Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000

Original movie: Gone in 60 Seconds, 1974; Director H.B. Halicki

Memphis Raines must return to the world of auto theft after his brother breaches a contract with a Russian crime lord to deliver high end cars. Memphis must get a gang together for a one night ‘boost’ to grab all the cars while avoiding apprehension by the auto theft cop who trailed him years before.

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31 Cinderella, 2015

Original movie: Cinderella, 1949; Directors Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

When her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her scheming stepsisters. Never one to give up hope, Ella’s fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.

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