Name the Worst Hollywood Remakes of Good Movies

[dsturgeon]

I did a quick scan and saw Total Recall, Ben-Hur, Carrie and Conan The Barbarian were already posted but I will add:

Fantastic Four
Ghost in the Shell
Planet of the Apes
The Amityville Horror
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Manchurian Candidate
The Omen
War of the Worlds

The Last Airbender is actually a remake of the superb American television anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender. M. Night Shyamalan screwed it just like his earlier FIRST R-rated movie, The Happening, so badly that I wrote off all his movies from that point on.

I have walked out of 2 movies at the theater. The last airbender and castaway. It was a good series though

 

[Corso]

Evil Dead

 

[Corso]

I did a quick scan and saw Total Recall, Ben-Hur, Carrie and Conan The Barbarian were already posted but I will add:

Fantastic Four
Ghost in the Shell
Planet of the Apes
The Amityville Horror
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Manchurian Candidate
The Omen
War of the Worlds

The Last Airbender is actually a remake of the superb American television anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender. M. Night Shyamalan screwed it just like his earlier FIRST R-rated movie, The Happening, so badly that I wrote off all his movies from that point on.

Lol, which War of the Worlds? There are a ton and more coming.
I vote for the disco one by Jeff Wayne.

Waitasecond... I take that back. It's become a guilty pleasure.

 

[ESisback]

AAAGGGHHH!

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Terrible!

 

[triplets_93]

Worst Movie and TV Re-Makes, either way, that I have even bothered to see:

• War Of The Worlds (Movie and Cable Show)
• Wild Wild West
• Hawaii 5-0
• Batman (The Original Movie Re-boot)
• Maverick
• The Flintstones
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• Bewitched
• The Green Hornet
• Lost In Space
• The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
• Planet of the Apes (2001 Tim Burton film)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie
• The Shining (TV Movie)
• Dennis The Menace
• Shaft (S. L. Jackson)
• Fahrenheit 451

That said, I was kid for most of the 60's, and I consider the 1960's The Golden Age of Television for kids.

In the category of the Best Re-Makes:
The Thing
Zero Hour
The Fugitive

 

[Streifenkarl]

With all these examples I throw in the question what those people think about it, who have seen the remake first and the probably years later the original on tv. Sometimes I guess it's just about what we grew up with.

With that being said yes, there are a few horrible and completely unnecessary remakes out there.

But Man of Steel was better than anything with Reeves in it. The original Planet of the Ape movies look just too stupid from a today's point of view. And both Red Dawn were / are just incredibly silly even to the point of being embarrassing lol. I mean the whole premise...


One remake I like alot better than the original was 3:10 to Yuma for example.

A cool "remake" was Outland (to High Noon). Really loved the whole atmosphere in it.


An example for a truly bad remake was The magnificent seven.

 

[DallasEast]

Lol, which War of the Worlds? There are a ton and more coming.
I vote for the disco one by Jeff Wayne.

Waitasecond... I take that back. It's become a guilty pleasure.

The 2005 version. With emotionally immature father Tom Cruise (not believable to me). Wonderful child actress Dakota Fanning whining emotionally through much of the movie (very annoying at times even for a child). And the actor playing Cruise’s son, who sometimes was more immature than his younger sister and had a death wish. The world’s coming to an end from the most dysfunctional family’s perspective imaginable.

Spoiler

For me, the BEST part was near the beginning. The city is being attacked and everyone seems to have some kind of clue something terrible is happening EXCEPT Cruise’s mechanic friend. Cruise suggested he look at repairing an SUV’s starter to get it to crank. Cruise returns later to carjack the guy but pleads with him to get in too. Nope. Mechanic is indignant and stands there all mad while Cruise drives off moments before he gets ZAPPED into dust. Hilarious!

 

[Khartun]

Evil Dead

The Evil Dead remake was fantastic!

 

[gtb1943]

With all these examples I throw in the question what those people think about it, who have seen the remake first and the probably years later the original on tv. Sometimes I guess it's just about what we grew up with.

With that being said yes, there are a few horrible and completely unnecessary remakes out there.

But Man of Steel was better than anything with Reeves in it. The original Planet of the Ape movies look just too stupid from a today's point of view. And both Red Dawn were / are just incredibly silly even to the point of being embarrassing lol. I mean the whole premise...


One remake I like alot better than the original was 3:10 to Yuma for example.

A cool "remake" was Outland (to High Noon). Really loved the whole atmosphere in it.


An example for a truly bad remake was The magnificent seven.

The vast majority of people seem to disagree about Man of Steel being even remotely as good as Superman.

You want really silly? Virtually any remake of anything the last 10 years whether TV show or movie.

Do agree about Outland; a very under rated movie and one of Sean Connery;s best performances in my opinion. At the time it was bandied about it being like High Noon; but not considered a remake. More like a variation.

 

[Roadtrip635]

I did a quick scan and saw Total Recall, Ben-Hur, Carrie and Conan The Barbarian were already posted but I will add:

Fantastic Four
Ghost in the Shell
Planet of the Apes
The Amityville Horror
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Manchurian Candidate
The Omen
War of the Worlds

The Last Airbender is actually a remake of the superb American television anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender. M. Night Shyamalan screwed it just like his earlier FIRST R-rated movie, The Happening, so badly that I wrote off all his movies from that point on.

Can't really add "Fantastic Four" to this category as it was supposed to be a bad remake of a good movie. Has there ever been a good FF movie?

 

[joseephuss]

Worst Movie and TV Re-Makes, either way, that I have even bothered to see:

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• The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

I thought The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was a good movie. An easy, fun, delightful watch. The TV series it was based on really wasn't anything special. It was not bad, but not great.

 

[DallasEast]

Can't really add "Fantastic Four" to this category as it was supposed to be a bad remake of a good movie. Has there ever been a good FF movie?

That is a very good point. My answer is 'not really'.

 

[ESisback]

That is a very good point. My answer is 'not really'.

Yeah, ALL FF movies have sucked.

 

[ESisback]

Speaking of FF, I’d like to see Ben Grimm fight the Hulk.

 

[Streifenkarl]

I thought The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was a good movie. An easy, fun, delightful watch. The TV series it was based on really wasn't anything special. It was not bad, but not great.

I really liked that one too.


More bad remakes:

Robocop
A-Team
Miami Vice
Vacation (Griswalds)
Ghostbusters 3 (yes, the one with the women, loved the fourth one with the kids)

I hate those movies in general, where they just gender switch roles for no appareant reason and try to tell the same story. Overboard for example, or Oceans Eight. The before mentoned Ghostbusters being the worst example of them all.


Some good remakes:

Equalizer
21 Jump Street (oh come on )
Transformers (guilty please of mine, but just the first one)
Ocean's Eleven (first one)
True Grit

 

[darthseinfeld]

Rosemary's Baby

 

[Reality]

I do not think I have ever seen a "good" movie rebooted years later with a movie that was better or even as good as the original.

I have seen bad movies that were rebooted that were better than the original (ex: Batman - The Dark Night trilogy was way better than those older Batman movies) and I have also seen sequel movies that were better than the original.

What Hollywood fails to realize is that many of the older good and great movies had a lot more factors going for them than any rebooted movie has.

We live in a world now where there is so many entertainment options vying for our time that even a great movie will struggle to garner more than a short-term passing compliment.

There are countless movies and TV shows I loved growing up that I never go back and watch now because they can never bring back the feeling and experience they provided when I first saw them back then.

These days, movies, TV shows, etc. have to stand on their own merits even if they are reboots.

If they really want to reboot movies from the past, they should take the concepts, settings, characters, etc. from those movies and simply write new stories for them rather than simply recreating a higher production quality of the same story.

 

[ESisback]

My gripe is changing a character to appease certain militant groups in the pc, “all inclusive” sort of way—gay Superman, female Bond, etc., etc.

 

[kskboys]

My gripe is changing a character to appease certain militant groups in the pc, “all inclusive” sort of way—gay Superman, female Bond, etc., etc.

I refuse to watch The Equalizer. TV series. No way. Such an obvious example of virtue signaling.

Denzel was great in the Equalizer movies.

 

[dsturgeon]

I do not think I have ever seen a "good" movie rebooted years later with a movie that was better or even as good as the original.

I have seen bad movies that were rebooted that were better than the original (ex: Batman - The Dark Night trilogy was way better than those older Batman movies) and I have also seen sequel movies that were better than the original.

What Hollywood fails to realize is that many of the older good and great movies had a lot more factors going for them than any rebooted movie has.

We live in a world now where there is so many entertainment options vying for our time that even a great movie will struggle to garner more than a short-term passing compliment.

There are countless movies and TV shows I loved growing up that I never go back and watch now because they can never bring back the feeling and experience they provided when I first saw them back then.

These days, movies, TV shows, etc. have to stand on their own merits even if they are reboots.

If they really want to reboot movies from the past, they should take the concepts, settings, characters, etc. from those movies and simply write new stories for them rather than simply recreating a higher production quality of the same story.

It would not suprise me if they didnt care if the remake is any good. They know the original fanbase will make the new movie profitable. I am sure there is also profit when the remakes are so bad causing the fans to go back and watch the old ones again.