Most pointless 'remake' of all?

[RCMerchant]

Did anyone mention PSYCHO (1998)?

Ya know...with the cow?

[claws]

Did anyone mention PSYCHO (1998)?

at least 2 or 3 times

[chainsaw midget]

The 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives.

They certainly had an interesting cast.  Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, John Lovitz.  However this is a cast suited for a comedy and not a horror film.  Not that there was a lot of horror in the movie.  The ending certainly felt like something that should have been in a comedy.  Plus the thing showed some obvious signs of script rewriting.  Are the women robots or are they just women with chips implated in their heads?  The movie never seems wot want to decide.  In one scene they're able to use one of the women like an ATM, and in another sparks fly from a woman's head, but the script seems to insist at the end that they're just women with a microchip stuck in their brain.

[pacman000]

The 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives.

They certainly had an interesting cast.  Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, John Lovitz.  However this is a cast suited for a comedy and not a horror film.  Not that there was a lot of horror in the movie.  The ending certainly felt like something that should have been in a comedy.  Plus the thing showed some obvious signs of script rewriting.  Are the women robots or are they just women with chips implated in their heads?  The movie never seems wot want to decide.  In one scene they're able to use one of the women like an ATM, and in another sparks fly from a woman's head, but the script seems to insist at the end that they're just women with a microchip stuck in their brain.

I thought it was a comedy remake...

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

Since the 90's Psycho has been stated too much. I would go with The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). The original had a timeless message where the 2008 tried turned it to modern themes instead that dated it in less then a decade.

[zombie no.one]

haha that cringe feeling I get from unexpectedly seeing my posts/ threads from years ago randomly surface...    

in the intervening 9 years since making this thread I think ROBOCOP  now gets my vote for most pointless remake.

it's like they did everything they could to suck the fun, wit, excitement and energy out of the original... I know some people liked it though

[Alex]

haha that cringe feeling I get from unexpectedly seeing my posts/ threads from years ago randomly surface...    

in the intervening 9 years since making this thread I think ROBOCOP  now gets my vote for most pointless remake.

it's like they did everything they could to suck the fun, wit, excitement and energy out of the original... I know some people liked it though

I remember my young niece who had just turned 18 telling me she was going to see that one and being really excited about it. I like to bring that subject up every now and again.   

[indianasmith]

Probably the most recent CABIN FEVER.  I mean, the original movie was only about 10 years ago!

[RCMerchant]

The s**tty Netflix mini-series of the HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018).
No real connection to the book, or the 1963 masterpiece. Garbage.
Glossy, soap opera tripe.

[Alex]

The s**tty Netflix mini-series of the HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018).
No real connection to the book, or the 1963 masterpiece. Garbage.
Glossy, soap opera tripe.

I tried watching it, but I don't think I made it past the first episode.

[ER]

Remaking episode IV and calling it episode VII.

If this were a thread about TV I'd say it was the unpalatable Are You Being Served rehash.

[zombie no.one]

I remember my young niece who had just turned 18 telling me she was going to see that one and being really excited about it. I like to bring that subject up every now and again.  

oof... I admire her optimism though

Probably the most recent CABIN FEVER.  I mean, the original movie was only about 10 years ago!

yeah when they remake a movie and your first thought is "that one?...already?", then you know yer gettin old  

[pacman000]

They remade the 1st Pokemon movie using 3D CG. Seemed pointless to me, because I always thought of animation as timeless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon:_Mewtwo_Strikes_Back—Evolution

But I suppose a lot of folks prefer 3D animation today, do the remake makes some sense. Dramatic conventions change, so a story can be told again & again for each generation, to meet that generation's expectations. As such, very few remakes are completely pointless. That doesn't
mean I like endless remakes.  

[Trini]

Honestly, it's a tossup between Cabin Fever (2016), The Last House on the Left (2009), and the extremely overrated Dawn of the Dead (2004)

[RCMerchant]

I think the LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT was riding the coat tails of the ' torture porn' trend.

DAWN OF THE DEAD was made because of the zombie craze at the time.
I agree both were throw away junk.