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Sticking with Sci-fi, 2012 is the most recent one to spring to mind. I felt as if a portion of my life had been ripped away from me after watching that. Battlefield Earth is a film I just couldn't sit through until the end, and that rarely happens to me. Lastly, Highlander II was a bitter disappointment considering how good the first film was and luckily the 3rd fared much better.
Outside of Sci-fi, Disaster Movie or any one of the more recent 'spoof' movies could well be considered too terrible to watch.
Thought Zack Snyders 2004 remake of Dawn Of The Dead was very good,thought he did a good job of updating it for the MTV generation.
Also thought Matt Reeves Let Me In (remake of Swedish film Let The Right One In) was on a par with the excellent original.Which lets be honest,no one was expecting.
* Growls *
You've just insulted 2 of my top 10 films of all time. The Dawn of the Dead remake was an abomination in comparison to the original and I'm not even going to start on the how inferior Let Me In was.
Shaun of the Dead however.... maybe was better than the original..... (I kid I kid, don't kill me).
* Growls *
You've just insulted 2 of my top 10 films of all time. The Dawn of the Dead remake was an abomination in comparison to the original and I'm not even going to start on the how inferior Let Me In was.
How exactly have I ''insulted'' those films ? :S
IMDB ratings :
Let Me In 7.5/10
Let The Right One In 8.1/10
Dawn Of The Dead (2004) 7.4/10
Dawn Of The Dead (1978) 8/10
Not an enormous difference is it ?
There were certain things in both remakes that I actually preferred over their originals and certain things that I did not.As remakes go those were a couple that I did not think did a bad job at all.
How exactly have I ''insulted'' those films ? :S
I think you misjudge my tone sometimes. That may be my fault for not adding smilies.
IMDB ratings :
Let Me In 7.5/10
Let The Right One In 8.1/10
Dawn Of The Dead (2004) 7.4/10
Dawn Of The Dead (1978) 8/10
Not an enormous difference is it ?
Not helping your argument by citing the IMDB. It's easily the worst forum on the internet.
I think you misjudge my tone sometimes. That may be my fault for not adding smilies.
Smilies are good mate,you definitely should use them more :)
Don't get me wrong,I loved the originals of both of those films and wasn't trying to say the remakes were superior nor was I attempting to diss the originals in any way.But I honestly thought as remakes go neither Let Me In nor Dawn Of The Dead (2004) were bad movies and both introduced something new for me.In both cases some stuff worked well,other stuff not so well.If you want to talk about remakes worthy of a ''growl'' then The Fog,The Pink Panther,REC (Quarantine),Planet Of The Apes and A Nightmare on Elm St. spring to my mind,they were all totally useless.As for Let Me In and Dawn Of The Dead (2004),lets just say that I enjoyed both of them a hell of a lot more than I did Avatar.
Let's bee friends.
Most over hyped recent film - The Hangover...yeah, it was ok. That. Is. All.
Regarding the 2004 Dawn Of The Dead remake I probably should have mentioned the 2008 Day Of The Dead remake,now that was garbage.