The worst film remake in the world is ..... (Nominate)

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1. Annie

Worst ever IMO. Utterly charmless compared to the original. Totally pointless as well.

The original is so lovely, charming, with amazing stars.

Alfie

The 60's film was making a statement on class and women's rights issues it was a film of it's time. Funny and tragic, showed conditions many working class lived in, the dangers of back street abortion, treatment if those with mental health issues and the impact of the rapid changes on society. The remake had none of that just a cheeky chappie being a bit naughty and getting caught out

The Fountain.

Just... Pointless. Pointlessly rubbish. I'll never get those hours of my life back. Even Hugh Jackman didn't redeem it.

Preemptive - the craft.

LEAVE IT ALONE HOLLYWOOD!!

I am still scarred by the first Annie to contemplate watching the second

Charlie and the chocolate factory. Much prefered the origonal especially Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

I should read thread titles properly. Remake. Not just film.

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was very 'Depp'ed. Didn't love it at all.

Carrie

The original Carrie was perfect. What was the point of a remake?

The Stepford Wives with Nicole Kidman - WTF??!!

I'll second Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I love Johnny Depp and so wanted to like it. But it was just wrong.
I'm just glad no one has tried to remake Bugsy Malone.

Carrie. The original is definitely the best out the 3. The second one is just awful. The latest one is ok but no where near as good as original

The Fog and The Thing (a remake of a remake as technically the 1982 version was a remake itself). John Carpenter films really should be left well alone. Admittedly the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 was actually ok but not worth massacring the other two. I won't even be watching the new Big Trouble in Little China, it can't possibly be anything other than a total abomination.

Dawn of the Dead. Original was great, the new one is terrible.

Poltergeist. I shall forever be bitter than we missed yet another opportunity to go see Mad Max to watch the new one. The trailers made it look ok. They lied.

wasn't the thing actually really a prequel?

finished with the dog just as the other one started

I second Annie. I had a rare child-free evening at the weekend and watched it. I will never get that time back. I actually cringed when Cameron Diaz was singing and I love her!

Total Recall is another (I loved the Arnie original but the remake with Colin Farrell was pants).

Do remakes of TV series into films count?

For example, Bewitched starring Nicole Kidman. High concept twaddle.

The Dukes of Hazzard. All the charm of the TV series gone in a flash.

Remakes into films:
Robocop
The Karate Kid
Arthur.

All awful but there is a special place in hell reserved for everyone involved in the remake of Arthur.

And oh my god, YY to Poltergeist. Remake was utter, utter shite.

Oh don't say that re poltergeist

I watched that as a kid and loved it. was excited there was a re make....

The Vanishing.

The Great Gatsby

Planet of the Apes.

yy remake of Stepford Wives was utter rubbish

Shall also add to the list The Karate Kid and the worse offender Psycho

Exactly what TrionicLettuce wrote, please stop fucking with Carpenter!

The Wicker Man
Planet Of The Apes.

Brideshead Revisited. The film version (2008? 2009?) is an abomination, especially as the original TV adaptation was perfection.

Oh God yes Wicker Man with Nicholas Cage. Just fuck off.

War of the worlds with tom cruise