Worst Film Remake

[MontyVeda]

Any Hollywood remake of a non-USA film is pretty pointless, and just shows how Hollywood literally "lost the plot" a long time ago.

Oh i dunno... there's nowt wrong with Let Me In, although i prefer Let The Right One In.
Judge Dread is pretty much a carbon copy of The Raid, just set in a bigger block of flats and both are decent films.

Some folk shy away from subtitles and dubbing is seldom done well... so an English language remake is the way to go.. sometimes they work, sometimes the don't.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is probably the one that winds me up the most... there's a sequel to the original waiting to be made and would have been a great opportunity for Tim Burton to make The Great Glass Elevator... but no... instead he made yet another turd of a movie.

 

[Tin Pot]

Oh i dunno... there's nowt wrong with Let Me In, although i prefer Let The Right One In.
Judge Dread is pretty much a carbon copy of The Raid, just set in a bigger block of flats and both are decent films.

Some folk shy away from subtitles and dubbing is seldom done well... so an English language remake is the way to go.. sometimes they work, sometimes the don't.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is probably the one that winds me up the most... there's a sequel to the original waiting to be made and would have been a great opportunity for Tim Burton to make The Great Glass Elevator... but no... instead he made yet another turd of a movie.

Methinks Judge Dredd has the prior art claim, somehow.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

The Karate Kid... just a vehicle for Will Smith's kid.

 

[Tin Pot]

The Karate Kid... just a vehicle for Will Smith's kid.

Hmm, I thought it was ok - particularly Jackie Chan.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Karate Kid... just a vehicle for Will Smith's kid.

Hmm, I thought it was ok - particularly Jackie Chan.

The original doesn't take much beating.

 

[Tin Pot]

The original doesn't take much beating.

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

The Lady Killers with Tom Hanks was a bit rubbish.

I never saw the point of that one - a rare Cohen Brother's mistake - the odd thing about it was that Tom Hanks said he had never seen the original, and then, once cast, purposely didn't watch it so that he could come at it fresh so to speak but how many actors wouldn't have watched and studied everything with Alec Guinness in? I just found it odd that he had never seen the origional

 

[MontyVeda]

c'mon it's sh!te... instead of teaching Daniel karate, Mr Miyagi should have slapped him round the head and told him to stop being such a d!ckhead all the time. Daniel-son was never a victim... he was a tw@t right from the very start. I'd happily punch him myself.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Peter Jackson's King Kong. It's like 10 hours long and quite soulless.

 

[Tin Pot]

c'mon it's sh!te... instead of teaching Daniel karate, Mr Miyagi should have slapped him round the head and told him to stop being such a d!ckhead all the time. Daniel-son was never a victim... he was a tw@t right from the very start. I'd happily punch him myself.

If I identified with any of the Brat Pack it was Ralph - this, the Outsiders, The Crossroads. I was a homeless guitar player at twelve and studied karate at fourteen.

You might prefer "Wax On, F**k Off" which I've just discovered

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtd2r49wFw

 

[Over The Hill]

Dr No seems to have been re-made about 23 times.

 

[Profpointy]

The Italian Job..why mess with a Classic

Isn't the "re-make" a totally unrelated film using nothing more than the title.
I seem to remember it indeed being rather poor, what I saw of it anyway, but still not really a re-make

 

[Profpointy]

Any Hollywood remake of a non-USA film is pretty pointless, and just shows how Hollywood literally "lost the plot" a long time ago.

Some re-makes are classics in their own right "Fist full of dollars", and "last man standing" - both rather good, and the former a classic. Similarly "Magnificent Seven" is pretty good too.

Arguably ever "heist" movie is a remake of Rififi - admittedly that really is a masterpiece, but there are some enjoyable heist movies subsequently. Basically .a 3 act structure - I. Assemble the gang and prepare, II. the job, and of course III - it all goes horribly wrong.

That said, you are still mostly right !

 

[Diggs]

My Bloody Valentine was an early 80s slasher movie remade a few years ago. I can't really say if either was worse but as a kid with a new VHS in the house, I loved watching the original.

As I recall, some fool tried to remake Casablanca as a TV series (staring if memory serves David "Don't give up on us baby" Soul) That was truely awful

 

[cyberknight]

Hmm, I thought it was ok - particularly Jackie Chan.

worth watching just for Jackie chan.