Blade Runner, With 4 other movies is my favorite movie... it need not be touched. IMO.

That saying, even if this one sucks... it won't make the first any less good. I look forward to seeing it as there's not that much sci-fi. I just wish that if it is good they would have just not made a new blade runner. But, a new standalone franchise.

well you wonder why they would want to mess with it,they made a classic by accident i reckon

i guess i wouldn't mind if it was an old miserable deckard doing something,it was quite weird and strange bladerunner wasn't it(and good) they don't really do that kind of thing anymore and there is a good chance it will be all fast and furious with annoying edits and a protagonist just out of nappies/dypers but like the guy above said at least they can't take away bladerunner from us and its up to ridley scott in the end,maybe he has run out of offers after robin hood

Question: Could someone explain to me how they could possibly improve on the original?

Somewhat related question: Why do people remake classics? It would make more sense to remake a movie that had a great idea, but was poorly executed. This way they could make a BETTER version.

I don't think it's necessarily wrong to remake a classic. There are 3 (rare) examples where I love the remakes nearly as much as the originals:

Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) => The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)

Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) => Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)

The Front Page  (Lewis Milestone, 1931) => His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940, with Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell) => The Front Page (Billy Wilder, 1974, with Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau)

All 7 movies are great in my opinion, all of them are classics.

You are right though, I also think it's generally a better idea to take a mediocre or okay movie and try to turn it in a better one. That's why I'm against a Blade Runner remake but all for the announced Westworld remake (and I'd also be interested in a Logan's Run or The Black Hole remake).

We've seen some remakes of SciFi classics in recent years and unfortunately most of them disappointed imo and none was better than the original (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Planet of the Apes, War of the Worlds, I Am Legend, The Time Machine => I was especially disappointed with the terrible Time Machine adaption from 2002, as imo this book is by default the perfect SciFi stuff to be remade from - well - time to time). I can't judge Tron as I haven't seen the remake yet.

half as long, twice as bright?

tron isn't a remake,its a sequel and a pretty good film if you ask me,i enjoyed it anyway

films like scarface are in different eras and totally understandable or remaking foreign films

they are going to remake bladerunner aren't they,i'd rather they made a sequel really like they did with alien

Hmm, I didn't really feel it need a sequel, the movie felt nice and self contained and I feel if they want to properly explain all the background a tv series might be a much better idea... but let's wait and see

yes it was pretty bad wasn't it,shame really as its quite good subject matter

i'm looking for an honest man,said the king and it all went downhill from there,he promised to deliver something back to england and decided to be the person

i saw the directors cut that had a bit more dialogue/story in it than the cinema release and i'm pretty easy to please when it comes to movies as they are not easy to get right i'd imagine but robin hood didn't work,it still makes me laugh when cate blanchett is on a donkey charging into battle on that beach at the end,lol