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By:: Matt Solomon

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12 Movie Remakes That Are Way Better Than the Originals

Not all remakes are slam-dunk successes -- hello, Psycho -- but in the right hands, they can improve on the original. Here are 12 movie remakes that get the job done.

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airplane! CRACKED.co Airplane! is an extraordinarily faithful remake of 1957's Zero Hour -- except with lots of jokes. The Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams used so much of the original script that they had to pay Warner Brother and Paramount for the rights: $2,500. — nofilmschool

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scarface CRACKED.COM Pacino and De Palma's version updated the gangster myth from Howard Hawks' 1932 original -- and now it might be time for a new Tony Montana. Suspiria filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has grand plans for a 21st century update: This movie has to be shocking. — Collider

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the fly CRACKED.COM The remake's stunning visual effects won oscars for its horrific human-fly hybrid. The original Fly? You could do better at the Halloween Express superstore they set up in the mall parking lot. — Screenrant

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it CRACKED.COM The first try at adapting Stephen King's It was a TV miniseries, and even with Tim Curry as Pennywise, it didn't stand a chance against an R-rated scarefest. Combined, It and It: Chapter Two scared up more than a billion dollars at the global box office. — Looper

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true grit CRACKED.COM John Wayne got the Oscar but was that more of a Lifetime Achievement Award? The 2010 version was truly grittier, with a story that was truer to the spirit of the Charles Portis novel We'll admit to missing Rooster's pet tabby in the new one. — Outsider

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ocean's eleven CRACKED.COM You could argue that both films are big-budget vanity projects SO a bunch of buddies could drink and make a movie. You wouldn't be wrong. But the remake has Steven Soderbergh at the helm and that makes all the difference in the world. — Looper

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casino royale CASIN CRACKED.COM How do you even compare the two? The 1967 version was a goofy satire that Roger Ebert called the most indulgent film ever made. The 2006 remake ranks as one of the top- grossing films of all time in the UK. It also was the debut of Daniel Craig's icy take on the super spy. — Top 10 Films UK

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the departed CRACKED.COM The Departed is a remake of Infernal Affairs, a great 2002 Hong Kong action movie. The plots are the similar, but Scorsese replaces the original's art-house freneticism with stately storytelling. It's the pic that finally earned Scorsese his long-deserved Best Director oscar. — Film School Rejects

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the thing CRACKED.COM John Carpenter's 1982 classic is a masterful update of 1951's The Thing From Another World, which itself was selected for the National Film Registry. A third version, 2011's The Thing, gets bogged down by terrible CGI effects and not nearly enough Kurt Russell. — Screenrant

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true lies CRACKED.COM The French farce La Totale! was quickly remade into an Ahnold- stravaganza, one of the best starring vehicles of his career. James Cameron pumps up the action and special effects, with bonus points for not making us read subtitles. — Mental Floss

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little shop of horrors Seles CRACKED.CO Grab a pencil: Roger Corman's The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) was turned into a Broadway musical (1982) that was adapted into a film (1986) with Rick Moranis and Steve Martin It's being remade again with half of the cast of The Avengers. They're all pretty delightful. — Digital Spy

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invasion of. the body snatchers INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS courses IED ARTISTS CRACKED.COM Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake takes the original's ideas and does new things with them, subverts them, and presents them in unexpected ways. Did we mention it's a helluva lot scarier? Just look at Sutherland's face if you don't believe it! — Den of Geek

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