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<blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 2065515" data-attributes="member: 924">Interestingly enough, IMDB rates the original as a 7.0.&nbsp; Which means the movie definitely has a lot of fans. Even the remake gets a 5.9, which is pretty good. Now,&nbsp; you want to see a bad horror movie, go into your local Best Buy and get one of those 10 and 20 packs of horror movies for $10-20. Some are actually pretty decent, but quite a few are downright terrible. What I've never understood, is why they remade the movie &quot;Maximum Overdrive&quot;. Except they called it after the real title of the Stephen King novel. &quot;Trucks&quot;.&nbsp; I mean, AFAIK, MO bombed, despite having a great song by AC/DC written for it (Who made who?). Why would a sequel minus AC/DC and the all-star (sorta) cast do well?Or similarly, the remake of The Shining. With the guy from Wings playing the role of the crazy guy.&nbsp; Now, the original movie might have room for improvement, but Jack Nicholson made that role famous.Or going outside of horror, what about the remake of The Big Sleep? With Robert Stack playing Phillip Marlowe? But it was re-set into the 70s (the present day).&nbsp; Which didn't make sense, because the whole plot wouldn't make sense in the 70s. (I dunno if it was covered in the movie, but it involved in part a pornography ring, which was illegal back when it was written, but not in the 70s)And don't even get me started on the Shaft remake.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trancejeremy, post: 2065515, member: 924"] Interestingly enough, IMDB rates the original as a 7.0. Which means the movie definitely has a lot of fans. Even the remake gets a 5.9, which is pretty good. Now, you want to see a bad horror movie, go into your local Best Buy and get one of those 10 and 20 packs of horror movies for $10-20. Some are actually pretty decent, but quite a few are downright terrible. What I've never understood, is why they remade the movie "Maximum Overdrive". Except they called it after the real title of the Stephen King novel. "Trucks". I mean, AFAIK, MO bombed, despite having a great song by AC/DC written for it (Who made who?). Why would a sequel minus AC/DC and the all-star (sorta) cast do well? Or similarly, the remake of The Shining. With the guy from Wings playing the role of the crazy guy. Now, the original movie might have room for improvement, but Jack Nicholson made that role famous. Or going outside of horror, what about the remake of The Big Sleep? With Robert Stack playing Phillip Marlowe? But it was re-set into the 70s (the present day). Which didn't make sense, because the whole plot wouldn't make sense in the 70s. (I dunno if it was covered in the movie, but it involved in part a pornography ring, which was illegal back when it was written, but not in the 70s) And don't even get me started on the Shaft remake. [/QUOTE]

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