Worst Film Remake

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Shut Up Legs

Down Under Member
Good rule in general, but much as I liked City on Fire, Reservoir Dogs is better.

(for some reason Tarantino pretended it wasn't a remake, even though it had the same plot and the Mexican standoff at the end. The inverted story telling was all his own)

Edit: several other examples of good remakes on page 2. Should read the whole thread first :smile:
I have read the whole thread. Why did you assume I hadn't?
 

John the Monkey

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I'm not sure that it's objectively the worst remake (it must be close) but as someone with a great affection for the original, I'd vote for the Travolta and Washington "The Taking of Pelham 123".

Death Race 2000.

I can't event figure out why they remade it.
Having recently rewatched the Carradine one, I agree that it's unclear why it was remade, largely because the original didn't strike me as great work either. At least the remake has Statham, and lacks Stallone.
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Judge Dread
is pretty much a carbon copy of The Raid, just set in a bigger block of flats and both are decent films.
Dredd was written before "The Raid", afaik, so that should, perhaps, be the other way around (although in truth, both films seem merely to have had the misfortune to be in production with similar premises at the same time, to the detriment of "Dredd", sadly). Dredd is a decent action film, and a bloody good Judge Dredd film, having twigged that capturing the spirit of the character and the strip mattered more than slavishly replicating costume and props to the comic blueprint.

In other fora where I've seen this hashed out, a 1987 film "Enemy Territory" is sometimes brought up as the true antecedent to both The Raid and Dredd.
 
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Brick Mansions ..the remake of the French 'District B13'
 

Profpointy

Legendary Member
Come on, have you read Block Mania? Or played the board game?

I know there are similarities with other things, but I'm fairly sure Dredd was one of the earliest to do the tower block riot thing. Block War was a huge characteristic of the Dredd universe!

I just wished it had broken out in Deptford in the nineties...

I loved the board game. A fun & stupid game rather than having much strategy. Rules broken as supplied - my first game had both blocks destroyed in the first 5 minutes after a chain reaction collapse. A bit of biro to change "score over 5 to score over 6" or whatever it was and it became playable.

The JD board game from the same stable is less destructive but quite good as a game.
There's also a JD role-playing game - which is different again, but not played that.
 
The original doesn't take much beating.

Agreed,the original can Wax Off,as it was pants
 
Not a remake,but worth a mention.
Lord of The Rings.
If you thought King Kong lasted too long,this took the biscuit.
And the supposed main character Frodo was the most boring and non descript person I have ever saw.
Add to that the guy who accompanied him who seemed to have a West Country accent(Why ?)
Watched a Harry Potter film once as well,and had to switch it off.
J K Rowling is quite literally "rolling" in it,writing that crap
 

Hitchington

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[QUOTE 4185123, member: 45"]I was about to post this one.

Not least because of his attempts to make a chimp look sexy. There's something wrong there.[/QUOTE]
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Didn't stop Charlton having a go.
 
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