Totally agree–DON’T Make it.
Here’s an idea. Let’s do it. Why not be sure to bring this story into the 21st century and onwards. Let’s introduce the story in the right fashion to a whole new audience and make it live for another 50 years. Let’s invite the remaining veterans to the screening and make a big fuzz out of them. Let’s make bloody Tom Cruise or whatever stand and applaud them while they stroll by. Let the media go Dambuster crazy with stories of their heroism and sacrifice and make the world re-learn the story yet again.
Why remake it, when the original was perfectly good??
All is relative and subjective but seriously, it was not that good.
I’d ask why ‘King Kong’ needed to be remade, or ‘The Italian Job’ or even ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’…??–Get Carter, The Thomas Crown Affair etc etc etc.
You do realize that all these movies are fiction right?
Why not come up with some new ideas on WW2–or any era??
Come up with a better story than the Dambusters? The story is already outlined, it happened. It’s one of the best stories to be told from the war.
People cite Band of Brothers–good idea–no need to remake that either–even in 100 years.
I was referring to realism, not re-making. There will be no need to re-make Band of Brothers. Ever. There is a need to re-make the Dambusters out of all reasons given. The movie I’m sure was good in the 50’s, but it does nothing in 2009. In order to keep these stories alive, movies have to be made, stories have to be told. To refuse a re-make of the Dambusters is like shooting your own foot.
I think that’s what is worrying a lot of us.
Compared to the excellence of this masterpiece of a 50’s movie? Don’t get me going. It ain’t that good. BoB any day. One thing is to be against BoB for all sorts of reasons, another is to draw a paralell to The Dambusters and present that movie as superior to BoB. You have to be acting more on emotion and nostalgia than anything else.
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