Tim Burton’s first huge flop proved that just because we have more sophisticated moviemaking techniques at our disposal nowadays doesn’t mean that we can match the charm and humanity of old-school filmmaking. It’s a point that’s rammed home in this turgid redo, which attempts to set itself apart from the original film. The result is a total howler with a truly atrocious final ‘twist’.
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Bandit1
Nov 4th 2011, 8:56
Piranha 3D is a great guilty-pleasure party movie...brain off and you'll have a great time! And I always found Pink Panther very hilarious (good cop-bad cop routine!), so as Dinner for Schmucks. And for Death Race...well, great whenever I watch it! Cars, Guns, Jason Statham and Hot Chicks...man,...what else do you want! Most others I would agree on...but to each his own....
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FBNMerritt
Nov 4th 2011, 9:05
Is it just me, but since the "new " revamped website arrived to such fanfare, every time I try to read the 50 Worst or 50 Best features etc...there are NEVER actually 50. I always get stuck on 47 out of 47?
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Bandit1
Nov 4th 2011, 9:37
@FBNMerritt... maybe "Fame", "Arthur" and "Taxi" were so bad they count twice??? No, seriously...I got the same thing...on the bottom left it says even..."of 47"...
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Hadouken76
Nov 4th 2011, 9:49
6 years to approve a Paul WS Anderson film?? How many decades did he have to wait to roll out the barrels of monkeys**t he is mostly associated for?
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Hadouken76
Nov 4th 2011, 9:50
associated with...sorry..
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BobbyTwoTimes
Nov 4th 2011, 11:18
Piranha 3D was genius! Statham is too f*ckin hard to make a bad film! Apart from Fellowship, Sean Bean has never made a good film! Why are there only only 47?
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Tarantino3011
Nov 4th 2011, 11:52
WHERE ARE 48,49 AND 50? THIS SUCKS
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ChrisWootton
Nov 4th 2011, 12:10
WE DEMAND OUR OTHER THREE BAD REMAKES DAMMIT!! How about, Funny games.. exactly the same film by the same director with the same camera angles etc and yet..... it was s**t. Alfie... shockingly bad movie, and Assault on Precinct 13
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FBNMerritt
Nov 4th 2011, 12:26
Come on TF! Sort it out. Yeah, so you have made it so the moaning minority don't have to reload the web page EVERY TIME they click on to the next feature but you are doing us out of complete lists in the process. If the "new" design can't handle 50 then just call your lists the top 47! That way no-one feels cheated. lol
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MikeyRix
Nov 4th 2011, 12:53
Yes on "Clash of the Titans", my least favourite film ever. Yes on "Pink Panther", I was fourteen and found it excessively sh!t. For me, "The Grudge" was not terrible...it just made me never want to watch horrors ever again. xD
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mishterlusk
Nov 4th 2011, 13:04
Friday The 13th, check. A Nightmare On Elm Street, check. The Fog, check. The Hicher, check. The Grudge, check. One Missed Call, check. Prom Night, check. Black Christmas, check. But no Wizard Of Gore? Shocking.
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ChrisWootton
Nov 4th 2011, 13:24
I thought the Gudge was ok.. the original really wasn't that good..A stranger calls was awful, it just sort of ended.. abruptly. And yeah the Vanishing was good as well (apart from the ending). dalidab you must be the only person on Earth who prefers the Wicker Man with Nic Cage to the original. Well, you and Nic Cage probably. I actually bought Clash of the Titans thinking that maybe, it wasn't as bad as I first thought... it is... and I'm ashamed
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BobbyTwoTimes
Nov 4th 2011, 13:43
Dalibnonce - how is naming all of Sean Bean's films (in your usual 'i've got access to IMDB' show off manner) proving that he's not a bad actor? I'll accept that 'Goldeneye', 'Patriot Games' and 'Ronin' were decent films, but Bean was embarrassingly w*nk in all of them! His 'Bond Baddie' made me want to stab my eyes out, his 'Irish Loonball' was pathetic and nowhere near befitting of being up against the might Harrison and the less said about his 'cowardly brit' performance in Ronin the better. And aside from LOTR, every single other film you've mentioned on that list is absolute sh*t! I always had my doubts that you were slightly retarded, but to defend Bean's acting talents by listing 'Outlaw', 'Percy Jackson' and 'Death Race 2' as your side of the argument is bordering on Jack Nicholson in the final scene of Cuckoo's nest! The least TF could've done when they revamped their website was to include a blocker on your access to save us all from this illiterate bullsh*t....
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JPDisco
Nov 4th 2011, 14:10
Pretty sure it was Owen Wilson titting about in The Haunting...
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dharmab
Nov 4th 2011, 14:49
Right there with the bandwagon that Piranha 3D is glorious, well made trash. I appreciate however that you didn't include the rather excellent remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I found it genuinely chilling, yet I always find it on the receiving end of undeserved scorn.
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RaveyDaveyGravy
Nov 4th 2011, 17:00
Have a word with yourselves, you include the new Straw Dogs saying its a 'dogs dinner' yet on the same day give it a 3 star review saying 'this is one of the better remakes of a ’70s heritage title, made with care and consideration'. Im confused, is it sh!t or shinola?
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aaroncupboard
Nov 4th 2011, 21:42
I have to say that I loved Death Race! It was just pure, over the top mayhem and the bit where that massive tanker thing hits the bolllard and flips over........awesome! Although I do have a soft spot for a good bit of car destruction in a film! And I totally agree with One Missed Call! One of the most unintentially hilariously awful films I have ever seen. If I remember correctly, isn't the main character scared of peepholes and a ghost with asthma?! Seriously?! And Dalidab1982, don't you think that you might not get comments made about you if you didn't respond by wishing those people where dead?! Isn't that a wee bit extreme?! Just a thought.
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StevePotter
Nov 5th 2011, 1:49
I like writerdave...
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Heisenberg
Nov 5th 2011, 10:21
Dinner for Schmucks starred Paul Russ?? Luke Wilson was in The Haunting? Jesus H Christ, was this a 5 minutes to deadline kinda put together or what? lol
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lonea
Nov 6th 2011, 22:24
I was six years old when the Flubber-remake came out. I can't say I'm a fan of Robin Williams, but for a six-year old, that Flubber remake was THE s**t!
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MrScary
Nov 7th 2011, 18:05
So basically every remake of the last 15 or so years sucks? Yep...I agree 100%. Would somebody please let Hollywood know? Because after making all of these re-tread bombs, they obviously don't get the message.
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Faers
Nov 7th 2011, 23:02
Does anyone think it's weird reading about Straw Dogs in the 50 worst remakes when it has 3 stars next to the film literally a couple of centimetres to the right of the feature? Most remakes are terrible, but The Italian Job was a fun, easy to watch remake of the original; and at least they tried something new instead of just directly ripping of the Caine-classic. The same goes for Death Race: it's actually better than the original in my humble opinion. Maybe it's a Statham thing? Also, I wouldn't consider a couple films as remakes: Herbie, Godzilla, etc.
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Ramah
Nov 8th 2011, 8:39
I only clicked on the feature because I saw the Planet of the Apes image and I wondered if any kind film buff on here could actually answer the question of what actually happened at the end of the film? I saw it at the cinema and I actually came out of there furious and was contemplating asking for my money back. It made absolutely no sense to me and I could not fathom the logic that would lead to such an ending. I haven't seen it since the cinema and so details are sketchy but can someone tell me how the endings alternate reality came into being?
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DukeN
Nov 8th 2011, 18:36
Why isn't "The Getaway" on this list. Come on, the Alec Baldwin remake of the Sam Peckinpah/Steve McQueen movie was terrible. Just like "Straw Dogs", trying to remake Peckinpah is an exercise in futility.
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