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apocalyptic_4 posted...

Has anything good come from "reviving old classics" in Hollywood?

Scarface immediately comes to mind. Mel Gibson's Payback is a remake of Lee Marvin's Point Blank, and Payback is considered by some to the be the better one (I'm on the fence, since I liked both in their own ways).

There's a lot of other modern classics that are remakes of older-gen movies (though I can't think of any more off the top of my head since I haven't thought about the subject in years). Thing of it is that the internet's collective brain isn't geared to remember the 'good' remakes as being remakes, since the newer version tends to make the old obsolete (assuming most people even knew that the original existed).