Not disagreeing that there are some bad remakes on this list, but come on both Total Recall and the Wolfman remakes were pretty good, mostly Total Recall that had a more believable story than the original did, sorry but remake wins there.
I personally liked the remake of red dawn. Especially after rewatching the original. The newer one with Hemsworth being military and the fact that they hunted and had a cabin made it more plausible that they knew how to shoot and such.
The Red Dawn remake was supposed to be about China invading the CONUS but then they couldn't get the movie into the Chinese film market so they switched the bad guys to North Korea which was so fricking implausible it was laughable.
I have yet to see an American remake of an Asian horror movie that was even close to the original in effectiveness. Both The Ring (2002) and The Uninvited (2009) belong on this list.
I am NOT a big fan of Johnny Depp, but his version of "Chocolate Factory" was much better; it was more like the book and the writer's family was closely involved. Though I absolutely liked Gene Wilder (may he rest in peace), his version was even hated by the book's writer, which is why there were no sequels as intended. I love the ORIGINAL "Evil Dead" and barely liked the 2013 one. I liked the new "Ben Hur" (no horses were killed making that; 4 were killed making the original) and have NOT liked any of Disney's remakes (Except "Beauty & the Beast"). I have no interest in seeing "The Crow"! Brandon Lee can never be replaced.
The original south Korean Old boy of a very hard core action drama movie!!✨ Is way impressive beautiful made better of instantly powerful 🥰 perfection!✨🥰💞
Some of the originals on this list are unknown to many, so why even have them? The remakes of Ben Hur, The Magnificent Seven, True Grit, and Papillon should have been on the list. All of them were terrible and should have never been remade in the first place. A good rule of thumb is that any movie that had an iconic actor(s) like John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Patrick Swazey, Charlton Heston, or Yul Brinner shouldn’t be remade. There just aren’t any modern actors that can even come close to filling their shoes.
Overall a good list and I am one of those who did not know they remade Jacob's Ladder. I think remakes of movies always need to be looked at for what they bring to the screen v.s. how they compare to the original. The Wolfman remake is overall an atmospheric movie with good acting. Comparing it to the original seems somewhat silly considering how many werewolf movies and changes to werewolf lore have been released. It would be the same trying to compare any depiction of vampires against the original Dracula. We've just expanded the concept far beyond the original movie. Total Recall deserves its criticism when compared to the original. I would suggest this is the fault of the producers calling it a remake when it really isn't. They should never have used that name. As a stand alone sic-fi film it would have been okay. Nothing special but watchable at least once. It gets hammered mainly when we think of it as a remake. Red Dawn is a good example of a bad remake. Not only as compared to what the original was like but we also have had so many other movies since of inexperienced groups standing up to authoritative and invading armies. It's become a teen trope - both in movie and books. So similar to the wolfman universe, there is an expansive universe of fighting back against invaders that could have been drawn upon to give the remake more depth than it had.
Have to disagree with A Nightmare On Elm Street. I could never take the original seriously and the sequels just became comedy horror. I thought the remake was dark and genuinely creepy.
I agree with most on the list, but one has to be a fan of the werewolf sub-genre to appreciate The Wolfman remake. And as far as the Jacob's Ladder remake... well, you can't polish a turd, anyway. Jacob's Ladder was a pretentious mess to begin with. It just seemed like the original was trying too hard to be "deep"... almost touching on the psychological horror of Lovecraft, but totally missing the mark due to its own artsy-fartsy hubris. Although I haven't seen the remake, they couldn't do much worse
Way too many mediocre remakes on this list - Your top three is good but none of the other 7 belong on a worst remakes list. Where's Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes? Where's Spielberg's War of the Worlds? Where's the Godawful Guy Pearce Time Machine? Where's Keanu Reeves' Day the Earth Stood Still? And if we count tv shows that have movie remakes the whole list would be those, from Land of the Lost to Lost in Space, from Bewitched to Starsky & Hutch, from The Avengers to The Sweeney!
They missed the latest Karate Kid remake. That was terrible.
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I will not watch that one or the female Ghostbusters.
Yes, the original Clash of the Titans had a special atmosphere. The swamp, witch and Medusa scenes were perfect.
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Not disagreeing that there are some bad remakes on this list, but come on both Total Recall and the Wolfman remakes were pretty good, mostly Total Recall that had a more believable story than the original did, sorry but remake wins there.
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I personally liked the remake of red dawn. Especially after rewatching the original. The newer one with Hemsworth being military and the fact that they hunted and had a cabin made it more plausible that they knew how to shoot and such.
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The Red Dawn remake was supposed to be about China invading the CONUS but then they couldn't get the movie into the Chinese film market so they switched the bad guys to North Korea which was so fricking implausible it was laughable.
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I agree with all except Wolfman, I thought that was well done.
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the wolfman remake wasnt a cgi mess. they used shit ton of practical effects... also its definitively better than the original...
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I have yet to see an American remake of an Asian horror movie that was even close to the original in effectiveness. Both The Ring (2002) and The Uninvited (2009) belong on this list.
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Total Recall wasn't a remake of the Schwarzenegger movie, it was another adaptation of Phillip K Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
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I am NOT a big fan of Johnny Depp, but his version of "Chocolate Factory" was much better; it was more like the book and the writer's family was closely involved. Though I absolutely liked Gene Wilder (may he rest in peace), his version was even hated by the book's writer, which is why there were no sequels as intended. I love the ORIGINAL "Evil Dead" and barely liked the 2013 one. I liked the new "Ben Hur" (no horses were killed making that; 4 were killed making the original) and have NOT liked any of Disney's remakes (Except "Beauty & the Beast"). I have no interest in seeing "The Crow"! Brandon Lee can never be replaced.
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The remake of Ben Hur was a complete shit show and should have been on this list.
What about the recent Conan the Barbarian? Footloose? Flight of the Phoenix?
All of them sucked.
Hollywood has run out of original ideas.
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Also a top 10 list of remakes better than (or as good as) the original would be harder to put together, I think.
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For me nr1 is pretty much every Disney real life remake.
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Red Dawn i like the "new" version
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The original south Korean Old boy of a very hard core action drama movie!!✨ Is way impressive beautiful made better of instantly powerful 🥰 perfection!✨🥰💞
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missing loads that were worse: The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Assault on Precinct 13, Ben Hur just to name a few.
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"Swept Away" was absolutely wretched. Abysmal. Excruciating.
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The Crow
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worst, or not cashing money at the box-office?
Those are not the same.
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CGI is BS. We used to watch movies and ask, "Wow, how did they do that?" No one asks, "Wow, how did they write that computer code?"
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Some of the originals on this list are unknown to many, so why even have them? The remakes of Ben Hur, The Magnificent Seven, True Grit, and Papillon should have been on the list. All of them were terrible and should have never been remade in the first place. A good rule of thumb is that any movie that had an iconic actor(s) like John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Patrick Swazey, Charlton Heston, or Yul Brinner shouldn’t be remade. There just aren’t any modern actors that can even come close to filling their shoes.
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Overall a good list and I am one of those who did not know they remade Jacob's Ladder. I think remakes of movies always need to be looked at for what they bring to the screen v.s. how they compare to the original. The Wolfman remake is overall an atmospheric movie with good acting. Comparing it to the original seems somewhat silly considering how many werewolf movies and changes to werewolf lore have been released. It would be the same trying to compare any depiction of vampires against the original Dracula. We've just expanded the concept far beyond the original movie.
Total Recall deserves its criticism when compared to the original. I would suggest this is the fault of the producers calling it a remake when it really isn't. They should never have used that name. As a stand alone sic-fi film it would have been okay. Nothing special but watchable at least once. It gets hammered mainly when we think of it as a remake.
Red Dawn is a good example of a bad remake. Not only as compared to what the original was like but we also have had so many other movies since of inexperienced groups standing up to authoritative and invading armies. It's become a teen trope - both in movie and books. So similar to the wolfman universe, there is an expansive universe of fighting back against invaders that could have been drawn upon to give the remake more depth than it had.
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Have to disagree with A Nightmare On Elm Street. I could never take the original seriously and the sequels just became comedy horror. I thought the remake was dark and genuinely creepy.
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Remakes are almost always a bad idea. They only exist because people these days lack creativity.
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Clash and Total Recall weren't bad movies. They just weren't as good as the originals. Nightmare remake was terrible .
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The original "The Fog" wasn't all that great. It's only notable legacy was forcing Stephen King to call his novella (and then the movie), "The Mist".
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I agree with most on the list, but one has to be a fan of the werewolf sub-genre to appreciate The Wolfman remake. And as far as the Jacob's Ladder remake... well, you can't polish a turd, anyway. Jacob's Ladder was a pretentious mess to begin with. It just seemed like the original was trying too hard to be "deep"... almost touching on the psychological horror of Lovecraft, but totally missing the mark due to its own artsy-fartsy hubris. Although I haven't seen the remake, they couldn't do much worse
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The wolfman really wasn't that bad...Its not like the original was amazing
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Where's the other 50 minutes of this video? There also seems to be a typo, it should be 100 not 10.
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Love Denzel Washington l and Meryl Steep but Manchanuan Candidate remake could never live up to the original.
Angela Lansbury being terrifying, hell yeah.
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there are some stupid background noices in the video, that can drive someone crazy !!! so bad
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CAPE FEAR; THE DEPARTED
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What about Tom Cruise' 'The Mummy'. Fell far short of the original 'The Mummy' and "the Mummy Rturns'.
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The Wickerman didn't make the list? the remake of this classic film was truly awful.
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Hat about totally useless remakes like Robocop and Point Break? Both of them missed the mark big time
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Way too many mediocre remakes on this list - Your top three is good but none of the other 7 belong on a worst remakes list.
Where's Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes?
Where's Spielberg's War of the Worlds?
Where's the Godawful Guy Pearce Time Machine?
Where's Keanu Reeves' Day the Earth Stood Still?
And if we count tv shows that have movie remakes the whole list would be those, from Land of the Lost to Lost in Space, from Bewitched to Starsky & Hutch, from The Avengers to The Sweeney!
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The remake of point break was terrible.
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I think the worst remake was point break
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Ghostbuster?
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