9. Notorious
The two movies released under the same name some 50 years apart couldn't be more different. The earliest, released by Alfred Hitchcock in 1946 is a towering achievement in almost every aspect, from Hitchcock's direction, through Gregg Toland's photography and the dream acting team-up of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Unlike it's more contemporary namesake, the film centres on duplicity, Nazis and spy-games, and though it is not Hitchcock's best loved film, it deserves to be cherished nonetheless. Somewhat unthinkably, someone thought that a made-for-TV remake, helmed by Colin Bucksey in 1992 was a good idea. Predictably, it wasn't. The 2009 version, portraying the life of tragic rapper Christopher Biggie Wallace follows an entirely different thread, relying on the real life drama of Big's rise from street hustler to rap-music icon to sell itself. Though not terrible by any means, the Notorious B.I.G. biopic is considerably inferior to the Hitchcock classic, though the two tread few of the same steps. But in general film-making terms, the 1946 classic is a world ahead of the later biopic.
Handy Watching Tip No Alfred Hitchcock films featured that much rapping.