The Warrior and the Sorceress , starring the delicious Maria Socas. Topless. Through the entire film. Beats Fistful of Dollars all hollow.
Boy does that ever look bad … I’ve just added it to my netflix queue. 
So say we all!
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I seem to strongly disagree with you. I think the Tom Cruise led “lack of acting ability” team remake of WotW was a horrible film. One of the worst I have ever sat through. It was pure dreck and the ending really brought the film down another 8 notches.
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The movie certainly had a lot of weak moments, and the ending was much too Hollywood-happy, but “pure dreck”? Nah. Consider:
The scene when Cruise, his daughter, and the crazy dude are hiding in Crazy Dude’s basement, and Cruise has to kill the crazy guy for no other reason than that he won’t be quiet, and is going to give them all away to the aliens. That scene does a fantastic job of showing just how desperate the characters are, how grim the situation is, and the mental toll its taking.
That’s a bit of brilliance, right there, and it shows how much better the WOW remake could have been if the writers could have taken it as dark as I suspect they wanted to.
And speaking of Bad and WTF remakes of ‘A Christmas Carol’, this one’s slated for a 2009 release.
I’ll tell you WTF. Absolutely the only reason to watch this movie. Smokin’ hot!
I just want to add a good remake, since all the bad ones I thought of have been mentioned. Outland, starring Connery, is not better than High Noon, but it’s still a good flick.
Oh, I gotta disagree with you there. Outland was not a good thing to do to that Fred Zinneman film. If you get a chance, find and read Harlan Ellison’s spot-on disemboweling of Hyams’ film.
I’ll get dinged for this myself, but
1.) I’ve liked every version of The Front Page I’ve seen. Everyone loves the His Girl Friday version, but I liked the original with Adolphe Menjou, and the 1974 Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau version. (I haven’t seen “Switching Channels”)
2.) I actually prefer the Mel Brookks version of to Be or Not to Be to the Jack Benny/Ernest Lubitsch original.
I haven’t seen the original but I LOVE all the Ocean’s movies.
Agreed wholeheartedly. Psycho was a terrific movie. Anne Heche is just weird as Marion, Vince Vaughn is laughable and equally bizarre as Norman, and I felt that Susan Sarandon was pretty decent as Lila but seemed out of place as a good actress in such a heap of a movie.
Oh Lordy Lord…YES. That movie sucked. SUCKED, SUCKED, Sucked. Faith Hil should never act again and I have hated Matthew Broderick for a long time. (I think it was since he appeared in The Music Man.) I thought his only good movie was the iconic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which I watch pretty much once a week.
Just to defend Matthew a little, but what about Wargames, Lady Hawk, Biloxi Blues & The Freshman? I realize these are all from 1990 or before, but he was one of my favorite young actors in the 80s. I even liked Project X at the time.
Jim
Lucas says no in an interview on the DVD. In that I believe him. Took stuff from it yes, a remake no.
How about Tarzan remakes?
Good: Greystoke, for being accurate, if a bit boring.
Bad and WTF - The Bo Derek version.
I prefer the Elmo Lincoln version to the aJohnny Weissmuller version, since Tarzan as ERB wrote him was not mentally deficient.
And the Disney version was good, so far as Disney versions go.
I agree completely. Steven Spiellberg is perhaps the best director alive. His technical control of the medium is unparalelled; nobody can - or ever could - craft an action sequence like his. However…
… his abilities as a producer are pretty much hit-or-miss, especially when it comes to picking scripts. The man is a living repudation of the Auteur Theory.
This thread is polarizing, to say the least. Sorry, but the opinion of HE wouldn’t sway me.
A good remake works by itself. For people who’ve never seen the original or iconic, the remake should work. And I think Outland does.
It’s not because it’s Ellison’s opinion. I happen to agree with it.
Yes, this is a Personal Taste kinda thing, but there were just too many stupid things in that film for my taste. YMMV