It’s safe to say a majority of remakes are artistically uninspired and inferior.
All the following movie remakes are best left avoided, except perhaps as case studies or cautionary tales.
It’s a little of both, though.
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This reductive bad boy archetype just doesn’t work with Cruise at this point in his career.
This movie wouldn’t have worked with anyone, though.
McTiernan’sprosecution and incarceration for wiretapping around the productionis an unfortunate but interesting footnote.
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That’s a more interesting story than anything that made it to screen.
The 1959 version ofBen-Hurwas, lest we forget, a remake.
At two hours long, it feels twice the length of Wyler’s, which ran for nearly four.
So many people weren’t aware it was in theaters at the time.
Surely many reading this list are entirely unaware this movie even exists.
It would be an inappropriate stretch to call 2025’sSnow Whitea good movie.
It falls into many of the traps that have plagued this live-action remake initiative from the jump.
Still, there are sparks of charm in it, and at least one or two memorable performances.
The addition of an anemic color palette makes the movie feel like a misused Xerox.
Thats appropriate, because this new Psycho evokes the real thing in an attempt to re-create remembered passion."
“Bob Clark’s nasty, smart and effective early slasher was remade for the first time in 2006.
That version ofBlack Christmaswas railed by critics for trading in Clark’s cleverness for mindless, clinical gore.
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The slasher genre is far more than it seems to people who’ve never looked closely.
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