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Originally Posted by Shady McGough

But why not?????????

By that token if there was never a remake then there'd've never been new versions of Shakespere's plays because surely a remake is just a new interpretation of something that's gone before so............... So no Olivier's Henry V, no Branagh's Hamlet and by the same token, no "my version of Much ado about nothing that I directed a few years back for Ossy Players that was bloody fantastic.

Sort of agree about Kenneth Branagh and re-interpreting Shakespeare, but I don't think there was a filmed definitive Hamlet before his, so I still think I'm right. As much as I love the June Alyson/Elizabeth Taylor 'Little Women' it was no where near as good as the original 1933 one with Katherine Hepburn, and both were in my opinion much better than the 90's one with Winona Ryder.

Besides Branagh's Shakespeare can anyone think of a remake of a film that was better than the original?