My Ten & Counting Worst Remakes of All Time.. list!
I have a definite aversion to remakes of great old movies anyway, but to me these just take the cake!
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- DirectorSam WeismanStarsSteve MartinGoldie HawnJohn CleeseThe remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark as they are vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.Great cast, but in no way their greatest performances. Terrible mistake with a lot of dumb hijinx, and happenings that had very little likeness to the great classic and 1st-rate original of 1970, starring Jack Lemmon, and Sandy Dennis, directed by Arthur Hiller.
- DirectorRichard BenjaminStarsJeff DanielsPatricia HeatonHallie EisenbergThe Goodbye Girl is a contemporary turn on Neil Simon's Academy Award-nominated classic film about a dumped-on divorcee and an aspiring actor who become unwilling roommates.This one really pi**es me off! I mean REALLY!
To take a multiple-award-winning/nominated film, {and not just in the U.S., either}---including Best Actor, and Actress, Supporting Actress, Picture {comedy}, Screenplay, and Director.. One of the BEST movies to come out of what's been called "The best decade for movies", with actors the caliber of Richard Dreyfuss, and Marsha Mason, and reduce it to a flick that didn't even make it to the big screen, is not only a huge slap in the face, it's huge mistake. -_- - DirectorDonald WryeStarsTaylor FirthRob MayesHenry CzernyAlexis is a young girl who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. One day, while practicing, Alexis suffers a terrible accident that takes her sight and threatens to destroy her dreams.YUCK! A beauiful movie, with gorgeous Robbie Benson, {my heartthorb at the time}, and the inimitable Colleen Dewhurst, with heart and soul, and the power of love, once again turned into a touchy-feely, bubble gum flick. ...just seems to be the cheap, American way~ ...pity!
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsKathy BatesAlan CummingAudra McDonaldA little orphan girl catches the attention of a kind man named Mr. Warbucks, who wants to adopt her, but the cruel, strict orphanage owner has a scheme to keep Annie - and her reward money.I LOVE Kathy Bates, and she was a scream as Miss Hannigan, but this "Annie" was just too dreadfully drenched with PC, and implausible senarios. To take a timepiece SO out of its time, and realm of thinking is just plain wrong. FDR might have had a black maid, but a black secretary. And the orphanage, with all the multi-colour children, come on. I also felt the one playing Annie was far too old. Too much was amiss in thiss take. Not unwatchable, but just not.... "Annie". =/
- DirectorPaul AaronStarsPatty DukeDiana MuldaurCharles SiebertDevoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.Why Melissa Gilbert ever thought she could make it as a believable Helen Keller at 15 is beyond me.
- DirectorShawn LevyStarsSteve MartinKevin KlineJean RenoBumbling Inspector Clouseau must solve the murder of a famous soccer coach and find out who stole the infamous Pink Panther diamond.I usually love Steve Martin, but he seems to have a penchant for making remakes that just don't measure up in my book. Sorry, Steve, I love ya, but pleeease do some new material!
- DirectorJonathan LynnStarsSteve MartinDan AykroydPhil HartmanSgt. Bilko is a well-liked conman in charge of the army base's motor pool, developing a hover tank and unofficially of gambling etc. One man hates Bilko and he's coming to inspect the base for possible closure.Steve, Steve, Steve..... Steve, can we twalk?!
- DirectorShawn LevyStarsSteve MartinBonnie HuntHilary DuffWith his wife on a book tour, Tom Baker finds his life turned upside down when he agrees to care for his twelve children while simultaneously also coaching his new football team.And 2, toO?? PULLEEEASE, Steve--C'monnn! SssstOPP already!!!!!
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsVince VaughnAnne HecheJulianne MooreA young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.Frame-for-frame, the same, but in NO way the same quality! Not even close! While Vince Vaughn was chilling, and as good as anyone I think could have been, as Norman, and certainly William H. Macy did well in his part in marvelous Martin Balsam's stead, all the rest of the cast did not one thing to add to, or help the bloody stinking remake. I think both top leading ladies, Anne Heche, and Julianne Moore, were terribly miscast! For me, Scarlett Johansson would have been a much better pick for delicate, somewhat aluring Janet Leigh's part. And ..just about anybody but very-out-of-place Julianne Moore would have been a better choice. All in all, a redo of a time honored, unbeatable classic that should have never been done.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppFreddie HighmoreDavid KellyCharlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.A disturbing, all too technical, and computerized, modernized mock up of the original, and for the most part, delight! Johnny Depp was in no way anywhere near the magical charmer that Gene Wilder was as The Candy Man, Willy Wonka. Noo waaay.
- DirectorScott DerricksonStarsKeanu ReevesJennifer ConnellyKathy BatesA remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.Whyy, oh, whyyy do they DO this?! Take a CLASSiC film like this, and any number of others, and make a shameful mockery of it.. Remakes, more often than not, get my blood boiling as it is, but some... They are, first of all, using actors who are in no way -- whatsoever -- the geniuses who acted in the original great pieces. Nor are these fiascoes directed by the original brilliant creators. Bad concept in my book.