Worst remake of a classic film?!
Question:
Worst remake of a classic film?
Bedazzled? The Ladykillers? The Wicker Man? Any others?
Which remake most totally destroyed the original and why?
Answers:
Thankfully I have not seen any of the remakes you mentioned, nor would I.
I cannot imagine anything worse than an all Yankee cast for a movie like "The Lady KIllers" - a wonderful movie, set in a mad and totally daft postwar London, of fond memory. A classic cast, impossible to find today, including Alec Guiness, Hebert Lom and Peter Sellars, plus a small part for Frankie Howerd. Brilliant. Seen it hundreds of times. Must get the DVD.
The worst ever was the Yankee remake of "Titanic". The original British version had been made back in the 1950s and was true to the story. There were still then hundreds of survivors from Titanic who gave their stories.
The worst aspect of the Yankee remake was the way in which they dealt with the brave captain of Titanic, making him look an idiot. He went down with his ship. We got to respect that. Then there was all that rubbish about an Irish kid meeting an upper class English girl. What total crap is that? No such event could possibly ever have happened. We're talking strict Edwardian rules here.
The entire movie remake was bollox!!
A movie is not a stage play. In my belief, once a movie has been made, it is in effect a snap-shot of history. Not the story, but the people in the movie. It should never be remade, not even THE BIG MOVIE II etc.
Quite often the remakes offend an older generation who remember the original of their youth of fond memory. A new generation is getting a totally crap version of the movie and in particular if the original is set in some historic setting and location, then it simply will not match up.
Worse; there are actors in Hollywood who, because they are in receipt of massive incomes, actually believe they can act. Well, I have to tall you they cannot. I am NOT impressed.