Many beloved classics have been remade, but often the remakes are not as good as the originals. Someone recently asked, “What is the most unnecessary remake ever made?” Here are the top 18 answers.
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
“Only remade because Americans can’t read.”
Total Recall
“I turned it off after 10 minutes so thank you for confirming my decision”
Lion King
They took something perfect and ruined it
Karate Kid
“In this movie, the karate kid will not do karate, only Kung fu”
Red Dawn
“I had a first date watching the Red Dawn remake. I should have known then it wouldn’t work out.”
Psycho
“It’s kind of appropriate that the movie was pretty much taxidermy.”
“A pointless shot-for-shot remake facsimile.”
Oldboy
“ItS a ReInTeRpReTaTiOn”
“is 100% the answer to the most unnecessary remake ever made”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Gene Wilder is absolutely perfect in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, even someone with talent like Johnny Depp stood no chance to get out from under that shadow.”
Poltergeist
“Yeah, that didn’t make sense to me at all.”
“I could probably pen an entire essay on why I absolutely loathe the Poltergeist remake from just the trailer alone. Poltergeist is one of my all-time favorite films of any genre, and easily my favorite horror film hands down, and the degree to which the remake absolutely butchered its attempt to retell the story is wretchedly evident.”
“The original from 1982 is an absolute classic horror movie. I watched the remake, and I honestly cannot even tell you anything about it. It really was that bad.”
Footloose
“So unnecessary and awful. The original is still better and a classic.”
Ben Hur
“Why Hollywood…whyyyyyy…I know it is money but still…..whyyyyyy”
Robocop
“It wasn’t even bad in a good way, which makes it even worse. It was just, boring as hell. It’s like they took the original and boiled all of the satire fuelled joy out of it.”
A Nightmare On Elm Street
“The whole movie feels like a fan fiction created by an edgy teenager”
“One of the absolute worst remakes ever”
Cabin Fever
“The remake was word for word the same movie”
“Cabin Fever 2016 is almost the exact same movie as the original but somehow also way worse”
Carrie
“Why do a remake when De Palma already adapted the novel pitch perfectly without even any major adjustments?”
“Yeah, Chloe Grace Moretz is one of my favorite actresses but that remake was totally unnecessary.”
Jacob’s Ladder
“I accidentally watched the remake, and it was really boring and terrible. Then I watched the original, and I hated the remake even more. The original is a masterpiece of psychological horror.”
Flatliners
“I’m honestly shocked I’m the first person to mention it after 473 comments.”
The Witches
“Absolutely utterly pointless.”
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