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.
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.
Then what about this? I Am Omega! 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.
Good lord – so soon?
I’ll bet they still screw it up. But we’ll see.
The original is one of the best monster movies (or just movies) ever made. The '78 one just stunk and Jackson’s was passable.
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.
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.