# Worst remakes ever!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 28, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949 "2009-05-28T17:53:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2009, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949/61 "2009-06-18T11:36:05Z")
For me, it would be the illadvised remake of \*Born Yesterday \*with Melanie Griffiths utterly dreadful in the lead role that Judy Holliday orignally played with such grace, wit, charm and inpeccable comic timing.
Sad to see the usually wonderful John Goodman playing in such a piss poor movie.
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### Author:  [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949/62 "2009-06-18T15:27:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> New twist?
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> Soylent Green is made outta dogs.
Or could go with the ending out of ‘Make Room, Make Room’, the original book, in which
Soylent Green is … Well, just plankton. No cannibalism reference at all.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949/63 "2009-06-18T18:04:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Which, in turn, is a remake of **The Last Man on Earth** , starring Vincent Price. All of them are supposedly based on Richard Matheson’s novel “I Am Legend”, but none of them is really faithful to it. Arguably the Price version comes closest, but the recent Will Smith version is more watchable. One o’ these days I’d like to see it (like I’d like to see so much SF literature) filmed straight.
Then what about this? [I Am Omega](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075746/)! Dun dun dun!
Also, the remake of My Bloody Valentine. Crap twist, no likeable characters, and the 3-D part didn’t really add anything to it. The original was a nice little slasher film.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949/64 "2009-06-18T23:44:46Z")
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> Then what about this? I Am Omega! Dun dun dun!
Good lord – so soon?
I’ll bet they still screw it up. But we’ll see.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949/65 "2009-06-19T00:28:39Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#):
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> About [three years time](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334614/) roughly.
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> An oldie, but I thought that the '78 remake of _King Kong_ was generally stinky. The Peter Jackson version was OK, but still didn’t outdo the original.
The original is one of the best monster movies (or just movies) ever made. The '78 one just stunk and Jackson’s was passable.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949/66 "2009-06-19T00:36:17Z")
The de Laurentiis version of **King Kong** was from 1976, not 1978. I wrote a review of it for that year. The movie was unbelievably _awful_. Rick Baker’s costume and Carlo Rambaldi’s mechanical arms were actually pretty good, but in every other way the look of the film was incredibly worse than in 1933, despite the passage of almost 50 years, with all the advances in film technology. And it had a script by the “camp” writer of TV’s "Batman, Lorenzo Semple, Jr. Just awful.
I agree that the 1933 original was great, in many ways. But I also think Peter Jackson’s version was great, too.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-remakes-ever/497949/67 "2009-06-19T20:36:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> > Then what about this? I Am Omega! Dun dun dun!
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> Good lord – so soon?
> I’ll bet they still screw it up. But we’ll see.
I recently saw it on SciFi, and it was about the quality you’d expect from a movie on SciFi. That is to say, no quality at all.
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