Remaking it now or ever will never capture what Welles achieved.
There’s no other decade you could find more bullet-soaked, testosterone-fueled, pulse-pounding excitement than this action-packed decade.
He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for.
Directed by and starring Orson Welles in his feature film debut, Citizen Kane tells the life story of Charles Foster Kane, a self-made business tycoon partially based on William Randolph Hearst. The film tells the story of Kane’s rise and fall from power, narratively framed by the sensation caused by death at the beginning and end of the film. Besides Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, and Ruth Warrick also star.
Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages – but him.
It’s a near-flawless masterpiece that no one other than Tarantino could have directed it so uniquely.
But not all of them need to be updated because some are just perfect the way they are.
TakeWilliam Friedkin’s frighteningly iconic 1973The Exorcist, for instance.
This memorable horror masterpiece is a benchmark for the genre andone of the scariest movies ever made.
Indeed, this cherished flick remains a pop culture staple, always brought up yearly around the holiday season.
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Few other films are more perfectly directed, written,and acted thanThe Godfather.
However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger.
But it’s still a memorable story and feels emotional and amazing to watch.
Indeed, no one wants this one redone.
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New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages – but him.
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son, Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger.
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
