# Name your own bad remake! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215 "2005-08-01T22:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lhovis73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@lhovis73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lhovis73)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/41 "2005-08-03T18:25:35Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > The Magnificent Seven, set in a post-apocalyptic near future, either with robots, vampires, aliens, or all of the above. The casting for the seven unlikely heroes would be the greatest of all time: Bruce Campbell, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Peter Weller, Jason Statham, and Zach Braff. Again, this is an idea I’ve been working on for a while. Have you seen this movie? [http://imdb.com/title/tt0080421/](http://imdb.com/title/tt0080421/) It’s Roger Corman’s sci-fi version of The Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven (includes robots and aliens, but no vampires, as far as I know). ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/42 "2005-08-03T18:34:35Z")
> [@lhovis73](#): > > Have you seen this movie? [http://imdb.com/title/tt0080421/](http://imdb.com/title/tt0080421/) > > It’s Roger Corman’s sci-fi version of The Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven (includes robots and aliens, but no vampires, as far as I know). Wow, no way! I’ve actually noticed this at Hollywood Video, available for rental. Is it watchable? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/43 "2005-08-03T18:40:14Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Wow, no way! I’ve actually noticed this at Hollywood Video, available for rental. Is it watchable? I saw it a long time ago and forgot about it. It is a little campy, I remember laughing while watching it. I would say watch once but don’t expect too much. Sci-Fi movie from 1980 on a Corman budget. ---
**Author:** ![lhovis73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@lhovis73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lhovis73)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/44 "2005-08-03T18:58:06Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Wow, no way! I’ve actually noticed this at Hollywood Video, available for rental. Is it watchable? I thought it was great (I actually bought the DVD), but then again, I have really bad taste, so maybe you shouldn’t listen to me! If you think the original Battlestar Galactica is watchable, then you might like this film, which has the same sort of cheesy Star Wars rip-off effects…it’s a campy sci-fi flick that actually aspires to being a sort of intellectual film (with the John Sayles script and Seven Samurai reference points), which makes it both interesting and hilarious at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Eboshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Lady\_Eboshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Eboshi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/45 "2005-08-03T19:20:39Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > I’ve been making a similar argument for some time now; get a couple’a decent young Asian male actors, make Jackie the Dad, give the kids various skills (one’s a martial artist, one’s a geek, one’s a car-moddin’ clubber, etc.), it could make a decent summer action flick. > > If _Charlie’s Angels_ can do it, why not Jackie? I hate to disappoint you, but I believe someone already [beat you to the punch.](http://imdb.com/title/tt0068037/#comment) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/46 "2005-08-03T21:26:48Z")
I dread the day that a film executive realizes that he could probably choke a few more dollars out of the American public by releasing Alf: The Movie, featuring a CGI, sass-talking, skateboarding Alf. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/47 "2005-08-03T21:35:29Z")
It wasn’t CGI, but [Project: ALF (1996) (TV)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117397/). ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/48 "2005-08-03T21:46:57Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > The Magnificent Seven, set in a post-apocalyptic near future, either with robots, vampires, aliens, or all of the above. The casting for the seven unlikely heroes would be the greatest of all time: Bruce Campbell, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Peter Weller, Jason Statham, and Zach Braff. Again, this is an idea I’ve been working on for a while. Do we have any Hollywood moneymen in the house? That sounds like the Greatest. Movie. Ever!!! Can’t you just picture the Bruce, Samuel L and Walken banter? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/49 "2005-08-03T22:36:30Z")
_Lorne Michaels presents: Cheers!_ Sam Malone: Darrell Hammond Diane Chambers: Amy Poehler Cliff Clavin: Will Farrell Norm Peterson: Horatio Sanz Karla Tortelli: Cheri Oteri Frasier Crane: Chris Parnell Woody Boyd: Jim Breuer ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/50 "2005-08-03T23:35:00Z")
Surely you mean: > [@](#): > > Sam Malone: Will Farrell > Cliff Clavin: Darrell Hammond ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/51 "2005-08-04T03:21:52Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > _Lorne Michaels presents: Cheers!_ > > Sam Malone: Darrell Hammond > Diane Chambers: Amy Poehler > Cliff Clavin: Will Farrell > Norm Peterson: Horatio Sanz > Karla Tortelli: Cheri Oteri > Frasier Crane: Chris Parnell > Woody Boyd: Jim Breuer Lillith Crane: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215/52 "2005-08-04T04:08:12Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Lillith Crane: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss Rebecca Howe: [Molly Shannon](http://gallery.phillyburbs.com/photos/135/20.aspx) Robin Colcord: Robert Downy Jr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-own-bad-remake/315215.md?page=2)