The worst affair about the flood of godawful remakes of scientific discipline fiction movie classics ? After a while , you just sort of get dead . From Keanu Reeves as Klaatu to Eddie Murphy as the Nutty Professor , it ’s just … why .
Here are the 10 absolute worst remakes of science fiction movies .
1 . Planet Of The Apes
The culprit : Tim Burton , plus a whole crowd of performing monkeys .
Why the hate ? Burton ’s remake of the 1970s classic is just cheesy in the faulty style . Too many supposedly apt lines like “ Extremism in the defense of imitator is no frailty . ” Helena Bonham - Carter delivers a life history - worst carrying out as a crusader for human rights . Even the unremarkably reliable Paul Giamatti is chilling spoilt as a cowardly striver - bargainer .
2 . The Island Of Doctor Moreau
The culprit : Really , it sounds like the blamebelongs with star Val Kilmer , who postulate that original theater director , Richard Stanley be fired . Then new director John Frankenheimer obtain into fight with Kilmer , and the shoot devolve into a shuffle .
Why the hate?Webomatica sums up :
The original director was fired . actor including Fairuza Balk take the air off the Seth . The playscript was rewritten while shooting . This pandemonium was an ideal home for Brando ’s notorious antics and in one vista he fall apart an ice bucket on his head because … well , he was world-weary and nobody dared say no to the great thespian . I wonder if other estimation like the white clown composition or the forte-piano duet with Mini Skinless Chicken were his , too . Val Kilmer was going through a divorce , called the shoot “ crazy , ” and improvised much of his functioning , phoning in a mouthful of marble Brando imposture at one point . The original film director cabbage back on set just to participate , as an extra in furry makeup .
3 . encroachment
The perpetrator : Director Oliver Hirschbiegel and star Nicole Kidman .
Why the hate ? in reality , it starts out reasonably well . It ’s only once we get the revamped explanation of what ’s croak on — there are no eubstance snatchers , it ’s just a weird prozac - esque sponger — that it slides downhill . The last half hour , include the unaccented glad ending , are where it really fall back its grip .
4 . Stepford Wives
The culprit : Nicole Kidman , what are you essay to do to us ? Plus ordinarily heavy director Frank Oz . Yoda , what were you thinking ?
Why the hatred ? Oh man , where to set out ? For starters , you have the same excessive campiness and winking that deflower Burton ’s copycat . And then you have the same desire to throw forth the premise of the original that ruined Invasion — the wives are n’t automaton , but humans controlled by an deep-seated chip . Also , like Invasion , it has a tacked - on happy ending .
5 . Rollerball
The culprit : John McTiernan
Why the hatred ? I skitter this photographic film , butthe consensus on Rotten Tomatoes(where it gets a 4 percent rating ) is that it skips everything that made the seventies master copy into one of my fave film . The societal criticism and succeeding dystopia are croak , interchange with some vague Russian mobster plot . Worse yet , it ’s non - stop action but you ca n’t even tell what ’s happening .
6 . The Day The Earth Stood Still
The perpetrator : Director Scott Derrickson and star Keanu Reeves
Why the hate ? This is another movie that starts out okay — and I really like the production blueprint with the glowy vault of heaven — and then just goes way off the rail . Keanu ’s unengaging performance is n’t even the problem — it ’s the way this film just feed out of oomph after Klaatu escapes from the government facility … and then goes and hangs out in a McDonald ’s in Upstate New York . There ’s none of the drama and political machination of the original flick , and the ending sample for profound and falls deeply light .
7 . Godzilla
The culprit : Roland Emmerich .
Why the hate ? Emmerich and the world ’s most far-famed Kaiju , joining forces , ought to have been a shot dunk . Emmerich loves the mass destruction , and he ’s generally pretty good with big issue sequences . The main trouble is the crappy CG fiend , that does n’t look anything like the genuine Godzilla . Plus all of the human characters in the picture show are unengaging — and this is the second smasher for Matthew Broderick , after Stepford . Most of all , the action is boringly staged .
8 . The Time motorcar
The perpetrator : Simon Wells , the nifty - grandson of H.G. Wells .
Why the hatred ? I actually have a entire soft touch for this movie , but I have to let in it ’s pretty regretful . One huge problem : there ’s a sequence where New York is destroyed due to a bungled lunar colonisation endeavor in 2037 . This could have been a great sequence , but or else it was cut off heavily because the film came out right after 9/11 . Also , the 2nd half of the cinema , where he goes to hold out among the Eloi , is just laughably cheesetastic . But I do like the idea that human scientific discipline essentially peaked in 2037 , and then never recovered from the disaster for one C of year after .
9 . I Am Legend
The culprit : Francis Lawrence , plus champion Will Smith . Plus the studio suit who made them reshoot the ending .
Why the hate ? I in reality care the first half of this movie just fine . Plus this moving picture really has to work severely to be worse than the Charlton Heston film Omega Man . ( Which is also a remaking , of The Last Man . ) The movie just run into major trouble once the crappy CGI automaton show up . The 2d one-half feel kind of like a disappointment after the spooky first half , and the newfangled ending is kind of rant . Here , for the record , is the original ending , which is still meh but secure than what they finally pass away with .
10 . The Nutty Professor
The culprit : Star Eddie Murphy , first and first of all .
Why the hatred ? Okay , maybe I ’m softheaded , but I kind of like the original Nutty , with Jerry Lewis . Murphy ruin the remaking with his fatsuit compulsion , turning the dichotomy between the Professor and Buddy Love into a passing annoying fat cat , penny-pinching guy riff . Plus , Murphy takes the affair of play a hundred persona ( which worked okay in Coming To America ) and pushes it right smart over the bank line . The result acquire a allegory of a nerd attempt to amend his societal skills and way over - gain into jerkdom , and turns it into a extensive funniness about blubber and fart jokes .
Runners up : War Of The Worlds ( Spielberg ) , Village Of The Damned ( John Carpenter ) , Solaris ( Steven Soderbergh ) , Vanilla Sky ( Cameron Crowe ) , Death Race ( Paul W.S. Anderson ) , Flubber ( Les Mayfield )
This io9 flashback to begin with come along in December 2008 .
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