Movie Remakes that shouldn't have been

[Ranger REG]

And I'm quite glad that some of those were made; the Michael York and Raquel Welch version is one of my favorite movies of all time. Along with about 50 other movies, of course.

Ugh! Tried watching it now than I did way back when it was on CBS. The only good thing is the abundance of cleavages in the laundry room, including Racquel Welch's.

 

[Dagger75]

Ugh! Tried watching it now than I did way back when it was on CBS. The only good thing is the abundance of cleavages in the laundry room, including Racquel Welch's.

Myself and few friends love that version of the 3 Musketeers. The scene when they rob the tavern for dinner is priceless. I even bought the 4 Musketters on DVD.

 

[king_ghidorah]

C'mon, the worst remake ever was Barb Wire!

Especially since it was a very thinly disguised theft of the plot from Casablanca.

No, I'm not joking. It was so terrible that I thought it might be entertaining. I was wrong. Like the star's physique, it was just frightfully unnatural.

 

[Testament]

Worst remake ever? Godzilla, hands down. You can't kill Godzilla!

Best remake ever? Ocean's Eleven.

 

[Villano]

And does anyone think it's funny that while The Magnificent Seven was a re-interpretation of The Seven Samurai, Kurosawa's Ran was a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear?

And Yojimbo was an uncredited rip-off of Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest. Bruce Willis later remade it as Last Man Standing. However, aside from getting the period correct, it had even less to do with the novel than Yojimbo.

I don't think it's really fair to mention remakes of films that were originally books. The Planet Of The Apes remake was so much worse than the original, but that was a book first, so I can't really count it. The only exception is Psycho, because that was a shot-for-shot remake. Honestly, I can't even imagine how that one got okayed.

For bad remakes, I'd go with Godzilla, The Haunting (although that might have been a book), the 70s King Kong, and there was a really, really bad remake of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari from 1962. I caught it on AMC, TCM, or FMC. It has absolutely nothing to do with the original.

And, while I haven't seen I, Spy, from what I've heard about, I'd add it to the list. Thunderbirds and Get Carter are supposed to be terrible, too.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I'll add to this my opinion. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, shouldn't have been remade. It's not even out yet, but the original is a freakin' classic. Heck, my best friend can quote it it, verbatim. Thats how often he watches it. I'm not that much of a fanboy of the original but iway done very very well.

 

[Desdichado]

I actually prefer the newer Godzilla to the older ones. Same for Planet of the Apes.

 

[Rackhir]

Worst remake ever? Godzilla, hands down. You can't kill Godzilla!

Best remake ever? Ocean's Eleven.

****(Nobody tell him about the original Godzilla movie.)****

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'll add to this my opinion. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, shouldn't have been remade. It's not even out yet, but the original is a freakin' classic. Heck, my best friend can quote it it, verbatim. Thats how often he watches it. I'm not that much of a fanboy of the original but iway done very very well.

But, at the same time, it was barely like the original book at all. This new movie IS, and will definitely be a much different experience.

 

[Ranger REG]

But, at the same time, it was barely like the original book at all. This new movie IS, and will definitely be a much different experience.

As long as someone sing "The Candy Man" in Johnny Depp's film, I'm in.

That and the beat-box rap version of "Oompa Loompa" (hopefully NOT performed by Eminem).