Most Shameful Remakes in Film History
http://blog.robotforest.com/2009/07/31/the-most-shameful-remakes-in-fi lm-history/
shareThe remake* of Solaris was pretty terrible, although I suppose it could have been a lot worse. Could you imagine Verhoeven doing it? Hari/Rhea and Chris/Kris would have spent half the film "at it" with full frontals and more. Or worse Steven Spielberg and his mentor Emmerich? Then we'd have ended up with most of the plot revolving around the children, cute aliens putting in an appearance, and most of the emphasis on special effects that would look outdated after ten years.
I agree with most of the rest of the list, although "The Manchurian Candidate" remake was just about watchable IMHO. "The Time Machine" was a travesty of HG Wells' novel about the class system. "Psycho" is a puzzling one. Why remake it, shot for shot, in colour, when black and white was an integral part of the original's atmosphere?
* Some folk will dispute that it is a remake. However, a comparison of the two films, and the novel, I think, makes it pretty clear that it is. (Although Soderbergh tended to go back to the novel for the names.) I can just about forgive him for this, because of his two excellent films on Che Guevara.
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The Wicker Man remake was pretty terrible.
What about "the Stepford Wives have a secret"? (How about, everyone who hasn't seen the film knows it)
I find both versions of "Solaris" movies good, and their reading of Lem's novel quite different. Neither reading is very close, BTW, with focus shifted from Solaris itself to humans.
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I've got to disagree on Spielberg. A.I.? Brilliant in my opinion.
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