My list of movies that should not be remade

Heard the other night that Hollywood is going to be remaking the movie Scarface. Was a little hard to believe. In fact, I secretly question the producers sanity for making such a decision. Why in the world try to fix something that's not broke?!?! 

It seems there are SO many older movies being remade lately. Add these to all the sequels and it's hard to believe that Hollywood could come up with an original concept. 

Some classic stories are retold again and again. Dickens and Shakespeare stories have dozens of reiterations. You'd need the fingers of both hands to count how many different people have played Scrooge. You'd need a bookshelf to hold all the different versions of Hamlet. But in both cases it is the stories themselves being retold in different ways from different artists. Each movie is different. This is good.

But why take someone's retelling of a story and then try and redo that?!?! Scarface is complete - it doesn't need to be remade! If someone wants to dive into the Tony Montana character and attempt a new retelling of the story, OK, that might be interesting. But retell it, don't remake it. 

A perfect example of what I'm talking about is Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He retold the story, he didn't just go in and try to reproduce what had already been done. Though obviously close together and compared, there was still a separation between the two.

So this got me thinking of other movies that shouldn't be remade. Those that should have an edict of protection put around them so Hollywood can't mess them up. 

The list is just my opinion because they are movies that I love. I've stuck with only mentioning movies before 2000. To make the list I wrote a ton off the top my head, and then skimmed through this list and this list. 

Yes, there are some movies that need a remake! But in my opinion, these movies are fine just the way they are. Hollywood should use them as inspiration, but don't mess with them!

1. Star Wars series
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark series
3. Rocky series
4. E.T.
5. Braveheart
6. The Breakfast Club
7. Dead Poets Society
8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
9. The Goonies
10. Chariots of Fire
11. The Godfather
12. Jaws
13. The Shawshank Redemption
14. Beetlejuice
15. Se7en
16. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
17. Back to the Future
18. Schindler's List
19. Dead Man Walking
20. Good Will Hunting
21. Patch Adams
22. Every Disney cartoon ever made
23. Beverly Hills Cop
24. Dances With Wolves
25. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
26. It
27. Poltergeist
28. Jerry Maquire
29. The Silence of the Lambs
30. The Naked Gun
31. Forest Gump
32. Terminator series
33. Nightmare On Elm Street (Yes, I know it was remade. The remake was horrible and proves my point!)
34. Saving Private Ryan
35. War Games
36. Pulp Fiction
37. Saw
38. One Crazy Summer
39. The Three Amigos
40. Fletch
41. Ghostbusters
42. The Green Mile
43. Die Hard
44. Gone With the Wind
45. Stand By Me
46. The Princess Bride
47. The Truman Show

Which ones do you agree with? Disagree with?

What movies would you have on your list that I missed?