I just realized how many bad remakes we could prevent if somehow we could get Harlan to work on the scripts without a deadline...

Mountains of Madness and Who Goes There came out at about the same time, and there is a similarity. Carpenter definitely was influenced by Lovecraft's story with the whole Norwegian camp (in MoM, they lose contact with an arctic camp just after they dig up these 6 foot tall things. When they investigate they find it trashed and the humans and dogs slaughtered, apart from one of each which have been dissected).

I love a quote attributed to John W. Campbell, author of Who Goes There, upon seeing the premier of the first movie: "It's a great film. Maybe someday they'll make one based on my story."

There's a couple interesting things about remakes of old. One, they were often done when technology changed, as once there was sound nobody was going to watch the silent Ben Hur. Two, they were also done because nobody was ever going to see the original again. Pre-TV, let alone home video, you could make a living just redoing the same film every decade and nobody would notice. Third... they often wouldn't tell you it was a remake! Would someone go to your awesome new version of Biodome? No. But, if you call it something else and give the original writers a "based on a story by" credit, your movie will probably get a fair airing.

As for what should be remade... The Longest Day, and probably A Bridge Too Far despite my affection for that film. Go back to the books, keep the historical accuracy and see what you can do with them.

If the Golden Compass movie had been a success, we could have had a children's movie with trepanation in it (along with all the atheism). Sadly, tis not to be...

The days when they'd actually film a clean version do seem to be over. Ghostbusters did alternative scenes for TV, as did Animal House (which led to a fun blooper- they filmed a topless version and one with bras, and right after the makeout scene in the car in both versions it's a covered girl that jumps out.) I give the Avatar DVD set props for including an audio track without any profanity.

Grave of the Fireflies

Ah, so I can retire my bootleg download

The only reason I could see to save the video of the episodes, apart from just because, would be to maybe toss them on a disk and offer them as a gift for donations. Donate $25, get a DVD with a full day's recording session on it. Cheap to do, maybe it brings in some money. Anniversary shows would also be good for this.

With regards to subtitle accuracy, from the old Star Trek Nitpicker's Guide's we learn that at least for TV, subtitles often are based on the shooting script. This means that any on set or post production changes might not make it in there. At least for Next Gen, the closed captions told you where last minute plot and name changes occurred. You'd also see this in some anime where to be cheap they just used the translated script the Japanese sent as the subtitles, meaning any lines ad-libbed by the Japanese actors have no translation. Streamline was famous for this.

I was disappointed in the ending, as given the apparent ethnic look of the new character that shows up it would have been fun if Trolls also hated Muslims but it had just never come up before, but alas no.

It has been said the Hollywood movies that on average tend to do best overseas are the big stupid ones that really don't HAVE to be translated, or at least not translated well. Where did Alice make most of its money?

Cube is... interesting, as an experiment in how to do an action filled movie when you can only afford one room. One of those that for me you applaud for having been made more then for actually being good. It's the fact that it got two sequels that I find interesting (looking at the wiki pages for them I'm not sure I want to track them down)