Worst remake

[Vrex360]

Remakes are a very popular thing right now in this movie industry. It means you can spend millions of dollars on an idea that's already been done and no one will accuse you of ripping it off. Sometimes remakes in movies are just there because no one else can come up with new ideas (Godzilla) or because some other creative director came up with a great idea and you want to cash in on it (Dawn of the Dead 2004, not in any way a remake to the original and should have been retitled '28 days later: But in America!!!) and of course there are the Americanising sequels to foregn films becasue the directors seem to think Americans can only relate to other Americans and because too few people want to read subtitles.
My personal worst ever remake was the remake of the French film Taxi, that was dumbed down for the American public and everything was changed for stupid reasons that only existed to ruin the movie completely. German gang members replaced with hot Brazillians (only there to get some needless shots of them in bikini's), the smart assed Dan is turned into Queen Latifa, the witty sexually depreaved girlfriend of Dan replaced by a neglected boyfriend of Latifa who never says anything funny, the wit and clever satire replaced by sheer pointlesness. A movie that only exists because America (not blaming you all just the idiots in the mainstgream) would otherwise let the French Taxi (a damned masterpiece) dissapear into obscurity because they refuse to watch something without an American cast.
I'll do a full detailed review sometime but I can't do it now.

Anyway what is your most hated remake and why?

 

[CapnGod]

I won't see it, because I read a synopsis and they've botched it entirely. I refuse to see The Day The Earth Stood Still. In the original, humanity fucked up first contact and he still gave them a chance. It was a great movie. It was a masterpiece. The remake? Hopefully forgotten soon in the annals of cinema.

 

[Tattaglia]

The Wicker Man.
"OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!"

 

[Good morning blues]

I question your assertion that the Dawn of the Dead remake had anything in common with 28 Days Later (the fact that one took itself seriously and the other most certainly did not makes them pretty radically different if you ask me), and I also disagree with all the remake hate that's been circulating around for the past few years. A lot of these remakes are very good and a lot of fun.

It's completely true, however, that some of them are god-awful, and while Taxi was a terrible, terrible movie, it was not nearly as bad as Mr. Deeds, a remake of the 1936 Frank Capra movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," which was done by the always terrible Adam Sandler. This was the movie that introduced me to the horror that is a bad comedy.

I won't see it, because I read a synopsis and they've botched it entirely. I refuse to see The Day The Earth Stood Still. In the original, humanity fucked up first contact and he still gave them a chance. It was a great movie. It was a masterpiece. The remake? Hopefully forgotten soon in the annals of cinema.

They filmed this movie at my university. It was cool to see how badass the place looks in the trailer, and I'm sure it would be a lot of fun to identify places in the movie while you're watching it, but I can do the same thing in Battlestar Galactica and be 95% certain that I will actually be watching something good. The BSG people milling around campus to film weren't a problem; I vividly recall a helicopter flying back and forth over campus for several hours at a time during midterm season while they were filming The Day the Earth Stood Still, as well as blocking busy passages with gates, film equipment, and military trucks. Fuck those dicks.

 

[omicronpercei]

I have to be honest. I hate almost 98% of ALL remakes. I feel that not only is it the film industry's way of shoving a big red-white-and-blue dick in your ass, but they're pointless. As previously stated for the most part it's an excuse for someone to get their tits out. And even if I like a remake, it's only for certain parts. I liked the Dawn of the Dead remake because Ving Rhames is a beast and there was a baby getting shot in the face.

 

[omicronpercei]

They filmed this movie at my university. It was cool to see how badass the place looks in the trailer, and I'm sure it would be a lot of fun to identify places in the movie while you're watching it, but I can do the same thing in Battlestar Galactica and be 95% certain that I will actually be watching something good. The BSG people milling around campus to film weren't a problem; I vividly recall a helicopter flying back and forth over campus for several hours at a time during midterm season while they were filming The Day the Earth Stood Still, as well as blocking busy passages with gates, film equipment, and military trucks. Fuck those dicks.

I feel your pain man. They actually shot 95% of Live Free or Die Hard in Baltimore, Maryland and NOT Washington DC. They had closed off almost every way to my campus for that movie and actually wound up changing the name of the school until the duration of their filming stopped in that area.

 

[Good morning blues]

They filmed this movie at my university. It was cool to see how badass the place looks in the trailer, and I'm sure it would be a lot of fun to identify places in the movie while you're watching it, but I can do the same thing in Battlestar Galactica and be 95% certain that I will actually be watching something good. The BSG people milling around campus to film weren't a problem; I vividly recall a helicopter flying back and forth over campus for several hours at a time during midterm season while they were filming The Day the Earth Stood Still, as well as blocking busy passages with gates, film equipment, and military trucks. Fuck those dicks.

I feel your pain man. They actually shot 95% of Live Free or Die Hard in Baltimore, Maryland and NOT Washington DC. They had closed off almost every way to my campus for that movie and actually wound up changing the name of the school until the duration of their filming stopped in that area.

Living in a filming hub is cool most of the time but occasionally it bites you in the ass. They filmed a movie called "The Invisible" at my high school on weekends during the school year; the only change that they made for filming was removing the table that my friends and I always sat at to eat lunch.

 

[Not Good]

I thought that the remake rule was already in place here. Oh well.

My friend Liked the Remake of Friday the 13th. Which I'm not surprised of considering the gruesome amount of sequels that film had. He hated the Halloween remake though.

 

[Citrus]

I Am Legend.

It wasn't a horrible movie in itself, but it just completely missed the depth and point of the novel (and the other films) that preceded it.

 

[Trifer420]

I Am Legend.

It wasn't a horrible movie in itself, but it just completely missed the depth and point of the novel (and the other films) that preceded it.

same goes for Babylon AD, apparently there was a good moral that was going to be taught throughout the movie, but I guess it ended up on the cutting floor, leaving an unnecessarily violent and boring movie.

 

[sonicmaster1989]

All of them!!! Every remake I have ever seen is a sin against the world of entertainment!

 

[Nazulu]

Most remakes suck, I recently saw Friday the 13th and that was so crap that I left half way through and got my money back!

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

I won't see it, because I read a synopsis and they've botched it entirely. I refuse to see The Day The Earth Stood Still. In the original, humanity fucked up first contact and he still gave them a chance. It was a great movie. It was a masterpiece. The remake? Hopefully forgotten soon in the annals of cinema.

I saw "The Day The Earth Stood Still", now I would never call it a masterpiece, but I wouldn't call it terrible.

 

[sms_117b]

I won't see it, because I read a synopsis and they've botched it entirely. I refuse to see The Day The Earth Stood Still. In the original, humanity fucked up first contact and he still gave them a chance. It was a great movie. It was a masterpiece. The remake? Hopefully forgotten soon in the annals of cinema.

I rather liked the remake, although I didn't see the original, and refuse to on the case it's black and white.

To be honest, I'm not sure which of the films I've seen are remakes

 

[c0ld3r]

brave fencer musashi

 

[tk1989]

The Wicker Man.
"OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!"

I think we have a winner!

By far the worst film i have ever seen! I know that the original is meant to be really good, but sadly enough after watching the remake i cant bring myself to watch it... I have been traumatised by the remake so much that i am too scared to watch the original... how sad is that?

I won't see it, because I read a synopsis and they've botched it entirely. I refuse to see The Day The Earth Stood Still. In the original, humanity fucked up first contact and he still gave them a chance. It was a great movie. It was a masterpiece. The remake? Hopefully forgotten soon in the annals of cinema.

I rather liked the remake, although I didn't see the original, and refuse to on the case it's black and white.

To be honest, I'm not sure which of the films I've seen are remakes

Well, thats a bit sad for you, missing out on some amazing cinema just because its not been recorded in colour... Does that go for all black and white films? because you are missing out on a LOT of good films

 

[KaZZaP]

Dragonball Evolution, that movie caused me physical pain to watch.

 

[blankedboy]

King Kong: the eight remake of the world.
It's true, sad, and a horey movie.

 

[Mayonegg]

There seems to be a wave of horror remakes from the eighties or earlier made in the last few years: The Hitcher, The Last House on the Left, Prom Night, When A Stranger Calls, House of Wax, Dawn of the Dead

Whilst not all of them are terrible, all of them fail to be the classics of there originals.

The Wicker Man (oh god yes, that was terrible)
The Omen (Nice release date, that was it)
Ladykillers and Posiedon Adventure.

Some remakes are fun, not terrible, but not of the level of the original. Godzilla, Planet of the Apes, Mr Deeds, Manchurian Candidate and The Italian Job to name a few.

And some remakes are arguably better than there originals. Scarface and Ocean's Eleven for example.

I can't think of any more right now.

 

[Aerziel]

Dragonball Evolution, that movie caused me physical pain to watch.

Yeah I agree to this its just plain horrible what they are doing to the movie they should just have made another animated movie to be honest.