Hmm, with the old silent into talkies I think a few have been dome really well, The Lodger for example, I consider the remake to be better than the Hitchcock original (heaven forbid) Laird Granger is brilliant and the ending is really edge of your seat stuff. I don't like new remakes, but I always forget that a lot of films from the 50's were remakes too, Ben Hur being one of them