Well, it's like the title says: do you prefer the original or the remake? Below are some of my examples and why I feel the way I do. Feel free to comment on these or any others you might think up. Ok, here goes:
1)"Psycho" - The original is a classic, and almost perfectly follows the book. Hitchcock's style is nothing short of genius and Perkin's portrayal of the haunted and disturbed Norman Bates is spot-on. In the remake he does... naughty things....... (ew...)
2)"The Ring" - Well, the movies are radically different, and both pretty good. All the stuff that wasn't very good in the original is portrayed well in the American version, and vice versa. So, I'm going to have to go with the book, even with it's clunky Japanese-to-English translation.
3)"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - Well, this is an interesting one- see, the remake isn't a very good movie, nor is it a particularly bad flick. It's even a little above average for a modern-day big-budget Horror film. The Problem comes in it's comparison to Tobe Hooper's classic.The original was just so good, so ground-breaking and ingenious, that the remake looks extremely bad and insulting to it's inspiration. The film-makers pulled a bad move by remaking "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," when their film would only need slight tweaking to stand alone as it's own piece. It would be a decent movie if they removed all refernces to the original.
Well, that's all I've got for now. Tell us your opinions on these and other remakes.
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3) I refuse to watch the remake of Chainsaw Massacre. I can hardly watch the first one, knowing it is a true story. 
