Filmicability's 50 Best Remakes
"I had to decide what deserved to be a remake and what didn't. Did remaking TV series, or TV-produced teleplays count? (They do.) And did musical remakes, having been made for stage originally, count? (Yes, they do, too.) How about remakes of historical dramas and classic stories? (I decided against this; though I perhaps broke this rule with Cleopatra). But, in including The End of the Affair, The Bounty, The Winslow Boy and Tom Sawyer, did I further break this rule? (I decided not...). I preferred to include largely only films that were remakes of other filmed products. After all my haggling over this stuff, I'm supremely satisfied with this list. I think it's definitive. The titles are ranked in order according to (1) overall quality, (2) allegiance to, divergence from, and improvement upon the original, and (3) overall influence." - http://filmicability.blogspot.com
avg. score: 16 of 50 (31%)
required scores: 1, 7, 11, 16, 25
