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In reply to the discussion: What was the worst movie you ever saw. [View all]Jeebo
(2,315 posts)I had just seen Ed Wood and wanted to watch one of his movies. I thought that surely, his movies can't actually be THAT awful. Well, it was.
Also, not any specific movie but just every remake of a really good movie in which the remakers take liberties with the original. When that happens, they ALWAYS ruin it.
Three examples: 1952 original The Day the Earth Stood Still, GREAT movie, 2008 remake, AWFUL.
1953 original War of the Worlds, GREAT movie, 2005 remake, PATHETIC.
1939 original The Four Feathers, AMAZING adventure movie, 2002 remake, they left out EVERYTHING that made the original wonderful.
I watch those three wonderful originals and rewatch them often and never will get tired of them, but I could not stand to watch those ridiculous remakes again. It's like, when they try to remake one of those great classic movies, they forget what made those originals great. They forget what made them classics.
-- Ron