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Horrible Remakes and the bad lists they make

Horrible Remakes and the bad lists they make

How could the British public be so wrong!

According to a poll by DVD rental firm ScreenSelect.co.uk, the 10 worst remakes were:

1) Get Carter

2) Psycho

3) Thunderbirds

4) La Femme Nikita(Point of No Return)

5) Charlie's Angels

6) Alfie

7) Planet of the Apes

8) Starsky and Hutch

9) Cape Fear

10) Oceans Eleven.

Which makes me wonder what these people were thinking... I mean, yes, there are some HORRIFIC movies in that list, but there have been much, much worse remakes than Cape Fear and Ocean's Eleven(which I enjoy).... like Shaft for instance. Don't get me wrong, I really like Samuel L. Jackson's work, but Shaft... that's a cultural institution he sullied!

What about the Italian Job? That was a steaming pile of crap... or Lost in Space... did the viewing public have to be subjected to that? Then there were the forgettable ones... like Car 54, Where are you?, the In-Laws and the Out of Towners... which thankfully, a lot of people were able to miss.

But I think the worst remake/re-envisioning of a movie has to be the Devlin/Emmerich fiasco Godzilla... in which they both sullied both Jean Reno and a giant nuclear lizard in a 2 hour span. This crime was so great that I can think of no more fitting punishment than to stick Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich in a cell for 2 years and force them to watch this movie over and over so they understand the collective pain they caused the world.

So what were the worst remakes YOU have ever seen?

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Reply #26 Top
My question is why did you choose to ask me this TV related query?
Reply #27 Top
Two reasons, really . . .

1. I figured you might know something about it 'cause you seem to know a bit about everything.
2. I figured if you didn't know, you could probably steer me in the right direction.

Should I not have asked you?
Reply #28 Top
Should I not have asked you?


Oh, it wasn't anything like that Texas... it was simple curiosity on my part..
Reply #29 Top
*phew*

I thought maybe I had pissed you off by asking you.

I really don't think of you as a magic knowledge monkey who can answer all my little questions . . . or do I? Muahahahahahaha!
Reply #30 Top
*ahem*
Wow. That was lame. Don't know what got into me. Sorry!
Reply #32 Top
Excellent point! And you proved it with your excellent link finding skills!

I am hoping I can actually do what they recommend I do without further damaging my TV. I can add this to my "I'm a man" list, though!
Reply #33 Top
My 2 cents - the first Charlie's Angels was reasonable, not great, but not horrible. But the second one- people need to be slapped for making that. All the CHEESY stunts and fight scenes and every concievable excuse to dress them up and get them to act sexy (which sad to say was the best part of the movie). It was like they threw a couple of script ideas in a blender and made what came out. I thought the Ocean's Eleven remake wasn't a bad movie, but I haven't seen the original.
Reply #34 Top
Mission Impossible - it's not like it was. I prefer the old series, with the fabulous five member MI team, to the movie with Tom Cruise acting as lone agent. I just couldn't watch it to the end, ever. It was boring to me.
Reply #35 Top
Mission Impossible - it's not like it was. I prefer the old series, with the fabulous five member MI team, to the movie with Tom Cruise acting as lone agent. I just couldn't watch it to the end, ever. It was boring to me.


I both like and hate the first MI movie... but the second one is an abomination against film.....
Reply #36 Top
I just saw Kill Bill Vol 1 again, and I had a flashback to... My Favorite Martian... BLECH!
Reply #37 Top
I saw this blog and wanted to throw the godzilla remake in there, but you beat me to it. The Thing was another horror remake best left undone, I prefer James Arness as the alien carrot from the original.
My Sons both thought that the remake of Apes was an abomination due to Heston saying " Damn Dirty humans". Just wrong, and marky Mark? Gimme a break.
Reply #38 Top
The Planet of the Apes Remake... where to begin with that one... ACK! Wrong on SO many levels....