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"Worst films of all time"

Having watched Skyline yesterday and being a tad disappointed by what could easily have been a great film (if they had included a story, likeable characters and a different ending) I was wondering what films you've been bitterly disappointed by or would warn people off entirely?

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.

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Nin wrote:

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.

pete_21 wrote:
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.

Nin wrote:

* 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.

Just because the original was far far better (which it was), it doesn't make the new one awful. I enjoyed it, but still loved the original.

Shaun of the Dead however.... maybe was better than the original..... (I kid I kid, don't kill me).

pete_21 wrote:
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.

Mine still has to be the famous Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus. You can always rely on Lorenzo Lamas to star in absolute garbage.

I remember watching a film called Sabrina (not the witch). It lasted for hours and was really awful, pointless and boring!

Machie wrote:

Can anyone think of a remake that was better than the original?

Haven't seen the remake of Bad Lieutenant but seeing the original was probably the worst film I have ever sat through the remake wouldn't have to try that hard to beat it.

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.There's a very good review of the film over on AVF if anyone's interested.

Anyway,hows everything going Machie San ?

Lost in Space (remake), Planet of the Apes (remake), The Time Machine (remake). Can anyone think of a remake that was better than the original?

Fantastic 4 wasnt great but much better than Catwoman and Elektra guys. On a related note why are they rebooting Spider-Man? Everyone should know the story by now.