The Good, The Bad and The Remake: Movie Podcast

The Good, The Bad and The Remake: Movie Podcast

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  • Episode 16 - Death Race 2000 & Death Race

    Here at GoodBadRemake, we're conscious of getting up ourselves and using this podcast as an excuse to talk only about prestige pictures.

    Which is why this week, we're watching two dyed-in-the-wool B-movies.

    Death Race 2000 - starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone - was made in the mid-70s for a pittance and went on to become a cult favourite. Its remake Death Race - starring Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson and Ian 'Lovejoy' McShane - was made for $45 million, has spawned three sequels so far and Catherine didn't even know it existed.

    Will either of them quench our collective thirst for blood and carnage? Can any three word review ever beat 'Samurai Cowboy USA'? And can the Stath follow where Matt Damon went before and secure a GBR seal of REMAZING?


    If you're interested in the team's views on non-remake properties, you can follow us on Letterboxd:
    Neal's profile - https://boxd.it/1EHhT
    Ben's profile - https://boxd.it/1lH3J

    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala

    1 hr 15 min
  • Episode 15 - Infernal Affairs & The Departed

    Season two kicks off with two awards big-hitters, winning dozens of international awards between them.


    Firstly, the smash hit Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs, starring megastar actors Tony Chiu-Wai Leung and Andy Lau. This is a fast-paced, slick, exciting cops and robbers thriller, with a uniquely complex hook. It's so good, in fact, that less than five years after it's release, Martin Scorsese remade it with Leonardo di Caprio and Matt Damon in the lead roles, as The Departed. 

    But just because its more expensive and has an English language audio track, that's not necessarily enough to convince the GBR team that it was worthy of remaking. The Departed is arguably the most requested film we've done to date. Find out whether it lived up to the hype.

    If you're interested in the team's views on non-remake properties, you can follow us on Letterboxd:

    Neal's profile - https://boxd.it/1EHhT
    Ben's profile - https://boxd.it/1lH3J

    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala

    1 hr 21 min
  • Season 2 Begins...

    The GBR squad are back with 20 more films - 10 originals, 10 remakes. Want to know what we're going to be watching and talking about over the next 10 weeks? Have a listen to this.

    If you're interested in the team's views on non-remake properties, you can follow us on Letterboxd:

    Neal's profile - https://boxd.it/1EHhT
    Ben's profile - https://boxd.it/1lH3J

    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala



    15 min
  • Episode 14 - Sudden Death & Welcome to Sudden Death

    Happy New Year from the GBR team! To ease you into 2021, we've got a brace of action movies to enjoy from the comfort of your sofa.


    1995's Sudden Death was one of the last big theatrical outings for Jean-Clause Van Damme and a notable entry in the Die Hard rip-off sub-genre. So it's Die Hard in a Hockey Stadium, with Powers Boothe eating large chunks of the scenery as the Hans Gruber-alike. But however that may sound, its an exciting film that is also pretty funny and includes some highly GIF-able moments, including a fight with a mascot in a kitchen.

    None of us (meaning, mankind) expected or even much wanted a remake, but in 2020 Michael Jai White stepped up to the plate and so we have Welcome to Suddent Death, wherein hockey is swapped for basketball and a $35m budget is swapped for considerably less. You need to be in the right frame of mind for this one, but there's a ton of fun to be had if you are.

    Joining us to discuss both films is Alex from The Arniethology presents.... podcast, and opinions on both films have split the team right down the middle. But will Alex vote in line with his Arniethology cohort Ben?

    If you're interested in the team's views on non-remake properties, you can follow us on Letterboxd: Neal's profile - https://boxd.it/1EHhTBen's profile - https://boxd.it/1lH3J

    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala

    1 hr 30 min
  • Episode 13 - Miracle on 34th Street

    Christmas arrives at The Good, The Bad and The Remake offices for real this time, as we watch the two Miracle on 34th Street films.


    The original, directed in 1947 by George Seaton, is something of a classic, brimming with festive wonder and cheer, as well as getting properly stuck in to questions of mental health, commercialism and politics. There are also thoroughly endearing turns from Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle and young Natalie Wood as the girl who doesn't believe in santa. If you only watch one Christmas film this year, The GBR team recommend you make it this one.

    However, the 1994 remake - overseen by John 'Home Alone' Hughes -  is probably even better known and stars young Mara Wilson in the Natalie Wood role, Sir Richard Attenborough is perfectly cast in the Kris Kringle role and then there's the debate-stirring Dylan McDermott in a rather fetching sweater. There's no question of the film's sweetness and sentimental charms, but can it hold a christingle candle to the earlier film? More importantly, can it join the rarified ranks of the films that have earned a Remazing rating?

    If you're interested in the team's views on non-remake properties, you can follow us on Letterboxd:
    Neal's profile - https://boxd.it/1EHhT
    Ben's profile - https://boxd.it/1lH3J

    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala

    Sponsorships: off for this episode

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 12 - Black Christmas

    Christmas is coming and the first of the GBR team's Christmas Specials has arrived, and it doesn't get much more festive than this. Sort of.


    First up is the original Black Christmas from 1974, starring Franco Zeffirelli's Juliet, Olivia Hussey; 2001's Dave Bowman, Keir Dullea; and the once and future Lois Lane, Margot Kidder. Considered one of the first slasher films, this was a template that many films in the genre followed, especially John Carpenter's Halloween a few years later. Ben loves horror, Catherine doesn't and Neal is just happy - but none of them have seen this, so how will it land?

    Next up is the 2019 remake starring Imogen Poots and Cary 'Man in Tights' Elwes, which takes the basic setup of the '74 film, but updates it with a modern, feminist agenda for a slightly younger audience. The ideas are there and it's coming from the very successful Blumhouse production house, so will this be Remazing, an Agreemake or will we try to Unmake it?

    If you're interested in the team's views on non-remake properties, you can follow us on Letterboxd:

    Neal's profile - https://boxd.it/1EHhT
    Ben's profile - https://boxd.it/1lH3J 

    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala

    1 hr 5 min
  • BONUS: Episode 11 - The Things

    The public have spoken and the films for the final episode have been chosen - by a landslide, you voted for Neal, Catherine and Ben to watch The Thing From Another World (1951) and its remake John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).


    The original is another slice of high-grade 1950s B-movie from producer-director extraordinaire Howard Hawks. Adapted from John Campbell's story 'Who Goes There?', the thing from another world takes on the form of a very tall man with an odd-shaped head, limbs made of plant and a taste for blood. If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, fear not - there's actually lots of great stuff to recommend in this sci-fi thriller.


    The 1982 remake needs little introduction - it's the one with Kurt Russell's magnificent beard, the chest cavity that eats hands, a head that sprouts legs, THAT blood test and one of the best dog performances in cinema history. Neal and Ben are lifelong fans of this one, but Catherine's never seen it and doesnt much care for horror films. So will the Remazing award be contested or can John Carpenter et al win her over?


    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala

    1 hr 24 min
  • Episode 10 - Seven Samurai & The Magnificent Seven

    We believe in going out with a bang and, perhaps, saving the best for last. That's why this week Neal, Catherine and Ben will be tackling two classic, epic interpretations of the same story.


    Up first is the indisputable masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai - featuring the Japanese John Wayne, Toshiro Mifune - a 3.5-hour, black and white, subtitled film from the 1950s. But don't let that put you off, it's genuinely really entertaining.

    Then - vying for the final Remazing of the series - is John Sturges' 1960 Americanisation, The Magnificent Seven. Adapted into English and updated into colour, cutting an hour and a half of runtime and enlisting Hollywood legends in the shapes of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach in the process, can Sturges stand a chance of matching the great Japanese master?

    It's a hotly contested battle and neither film comes out unscathed.

    Stay listening until the end for details of how to help select the bonus episode to close out this first run of films.


    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:

    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/

    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake

    And get in touch here: [email protected]

    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 9 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    Two bona fide classics for you this week, as Neal, Catherine and Ben get stuck into the black and white 1950s B-movie version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers - complete with communist undertones - directed by Don "Dirty Harry" Siegel. Then it's onto Philip "The RIght Stuff" Kaufman's late-1970s update, starring Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright and the once and future Spock, Leonard Nimoy.
    Special effects, paranoia, fear and distrust course through both of these films, which are both clever, fast-paced and well direcetd. So will there be anything to call the difference in quality, or are we destined for a 5-star Agreemake?
    We want your feedback, 3-word reviews and suggestions for any other films that have been remade, so find us in these places:
    Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Goodbadremake/
    and on Twitter: twitter.com/GoodBadRemake
    And get in touch here: [email protected]
    Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala
    1 hr 4 min

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The Good, the Bad, and the Remake: Movie Podcast. Where we watch some classic films, some not so great, and their respective remakes. Will the recreation be an Unmake, an Agreemake, or Re-mazing!