Robocop ruined by assholes

[Donovan]

I don't mind remakes when they do them well. It's just that they so rarely do it well. Seems like it only really works if quite a few years have passed. Or if the remake goes in such a wildly different direction as to be a whole new movie (like Scarface).

I'm actually wracking the Ramen noodles in my head to think of a remake I actually liked and so far I've come up with none.

Is there a remake that anyone actually liked? Has there ever been a remake better than the original?

Depends on your definition of remake. I had a hard time thinking of any as well before I started considering a wider spectrum. Some would argue genre films do well as remakes especially as technology catches up to the director's vision. So while I risk blasphemy here I would argue the Chris Pine Star Trek is far superior to the first Motion Picture and is even better than the original series in some ways. Original Planet of the Apes: way better than Wahlberg of the Apes but not as good as Rise of the Apes. Carpenter's The Thing is a thousand times better than the original. And while it would be tough to slight Kurosawa in any way, the westerns made from his samurai movies were every bit as good. Just don't know if you could call them remakes, exactly.
Like I said: the ones that seem to do well are remakes that go a whole different way so as not to remind anyone how iconic the original was. I hear good things about Oldboy. Here's hoping it holds up...