So how many in the list have you seen?

I myself have seen "The Island of Dr. Moreau", "Planet of the Apes", "Godzilla" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and all of those sucked. I did however like "I Am Legend" but with the original theatrical ending, not the alternate ending.




http://io9.com/5893247/10-worst-science-fiction-movie-remakes-of-all-time

OMG... I've seen all of them, except Rollerball.

I guess too much time in my hands for a while...

Incredible how movies made with so much technology and such big marketing machines running behind them can't hold a candle to the originals made decades ago.

I've seen bits and pieces of all of them on cable, I think, but the ones I've watched completely are listed below:

1. Planet Of The Apes - Lame.

2. The Island Of Doctor Moreau - Weird. And lame.

3. Invasion (I saw most of it on cable, anyway) - Lame.

6. The Day The Earth Stood Still - Lame.

8. The Time Machine - Not great, but not terrible.

9. I Am Legend - Kind of bland to me. Lacked tension and genuine conflict. Omega Man was much better.

10. The Nutty Professor - The original wasn't exactly Oscar material, so to me this wasn't that bad, compared to the orginal material.

I think the runner up Death Race could have replaced some of the others, like the time machine. Or maybe not think of it as a remake, as it really had nothing to do with the original movie.

The Nutty Professor was sci fi? LOL

I liked I Am Legend, and the recent "Rise of Planet of the Apes" was pretty darn good too. The Mark Wahall one wasn't very good though. I agree on the rest.

I've got high hopes for the Total Recall movie.

You have?

I enjoyed the original; this remake (urgh) would have to have stellar reviews to make me want to risk souring yet another fondly-remembered movie-of-my-youth.

There's just something about Arnie being in any movie other than Conan that makes it just seem a little comical and over the top. He's got a lot of movies I like, this being one, but I can see it being done better if taken seriously.

Does it HAVE to be a movie? I would like to submit for consideration the A&E Miniseries remake for 'Andromeda Strain'...

I think the "tongue in cheek" aspect to the original Total Recall had more to do with Paul Verhoeven than Arnold. Starship Troopers, Robocop and Total Recall all had that same kind of black humor with a slight helping of cheesiness.

I didn't mind The Day the Earth stood still, watched with my son and we both liked it.

I've seen all of them, sadly. Two of those are actually remakes of remakes...Island of the Lost Souls and the FIRST Invasion of the Body Snatchers were both shot over fifty years ago and still remain superior to their successors. I don't know why Hollywood insists on remaking movies that don't really demand remakes. (I DO, actually, but I wish they wouldn't) Why not remake movies that SHOULD have been good, but failed to work? That would make a good list in itself.

Another interesting list would be SNEAKY remakes...that is, remakes under new titles that few people realized were just modernized classics, like:

Independence Day -- Essentially a retelling of War of the Worlds, right down to the 'virus' defeating the aliens

The Island -- Logan's Run with more car chases and explosions

2012 -- When World's Collide, with worse science. Note that Roland Emmerich created both it and Independence Day. I think Roland was a George Pal fan...and has never, ever read a physics book.

Alien -- It! The Terror From Beyond Space, only with a MUCH scarier alien, thanks to H.R. Giger.

Invasion of the Eye Creatures -- Dreadful remake of a more entertaining...and hard to find...b-movie, Invasion of the Saucer Men. Probably should have made the IO9 list, but most modern audiences are unlikely to have heard of either of them. (MST3K fans may have seen Eye Creatures, though)

I think most sci-fi fans realize The Thing is a remake, but I'm not sure it's fair to describe it as one. It is truer to the short story than the Howard Hawks film, and as a result has a very different feel. (Actually, they are both true to the story in their own way...the older movie begins more like the John Campbell story, but then diverges, while Carpenter's film adheres more closely to the overall storyline)

Can you think of more? It's kinda hard to know where to draw the line between ripoff and remake..after all, films about radiation-born giant monsters destroying a city are all pretty derivative of Toho's biggest star...but I think some movies have so many parallels to older films, while retaining enough individuality to avoid being true ripoffs, that you'd have to call them undercover remakes.

BTW, IMHO, The Transformer movies are this generation's Godzilla films. They are movies about giant monsters symbolic of our fears about the latest world-changing technology which we feel powerless to avoid. Think about it: what is the All-spark? It's a little chip you can put into any device and suddenly it takes on a mind of its own. Our only hope is that the good use of that power can outweigh its potential for destruction. Godzilla vs Megatron.