What Were the Worst Hollywood Remakes of the Decade?

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7. The Invasion (2007)

Remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

This decade has seen Nicole Kidman ascend to the title of Queen of the Inadvisably Recycled Hollywood Materials. And nowhere did she wield her power more formidably than on this abysmal version of Body Snatchers. It's a hodgepodge that resulted from Joel Silver's decision to shelf German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel's vision for a year, then bring in the Wachowskis and James McTeigue to juice up the action. The result? Some interesting notions becomes infected by a studio's alien needs to tell a conventional story, resulting in audiences cocooning themselves into states of hypnagogic sleep.

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6. Vanilla Sky (2001)

Remake of Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos) (1997)

Cameron Crowe's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Alejandro Amenabar may have birthed the tabloid couple known as "Cruiz," but as far as producing a compelling and/or coherent movie goes, it was more of a facially deformed abortion.

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5. The Pink Panther (2006)

Remake of The Pink Panther (1963)

Sullying two comic legacies -- Peter Sellers' and Steve Martin's -- in one shoddy remake, Martin's Clouseau fails to even come close to the deadpan subtlety that made the original's broad, physical humor fly. A virtually laughless retread that nonetheless earned $159 million, and a sequel.

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Comments

  • marcus says:

    Reading these comments I am utterly amazed at how some people think their opinion dictates reality. All these lists are subjective, they should be taken as such. What does not amaze me is all the horror fans said to chime in. I have nothing to more to say than I have pretty much given up on the genre, remake or not.
    Anyway a runner up to the runner ups would be Vanishing Point

  • Deaf Ears says:

    I thought CD's performance was the one element that improved on the original. Having said that, I liked VANILLA SKY and including it on this list instead of THE WICKER MAN or PLANET OF THE APES mystifies me.

  • Sophie says:

    Agreed that CD was the only good thing about Vanilla Sky. The rest of it was just awful, though. I don't understand how people can have seen Abre Los Ojos and not hate VS. Penelope Cruz is terrific in the first and abject in the second.
    I was dumbstruck at how appalling the remake was.

  • Laura Lee says:

    I have to agree with you about M. Night Shyamalan's the "Happening" being the worst movie of the decade. I left the movie theater resenting (myself) for having not only wasted money to see this movie, but for allowing myself to sit through it. The movie wasn't well written, developed, directed, edited, or cast. Mark Whalberg with his limited acting range, was not convincing as a teacher, in fact most of the cast, I felt, were cast for the wrong parts. The movie was esoteric, disjointed, and nonsensical. And I hate to say it but I also think Mr. Night may have poached the movies plot line. The Happening hands down was the worst movie of the decade, and for all the right reasons.

  • Laura says:

    maybe because people haven't seen the original, I'm just guessing? maybe? yeah, I think that may be the case. But I agree Vanilla Sky is leaps and bounds from being the worst movie of the decade. The problem with this movie my be that, You're forced to think with this movie. And for some people that may be a bit much, when all anyone really want to do is veg out in front of a screen, with a movie that requires little to no thinking at all. Yes I'm calling it most American's are too lazy to think for themselves, and expects the director to do their thinking for them. Hate me! I said! If you can't figure out Vanilla Sky then it's your own lazy fault!

  • Laura says:

    You're absolutely crazy! NO WAY! LOL!!!! but for real, that movie was very entertaining. I loved Johnny Depps interpretation of Willy Wonka. I thought the collaboration between Depp and Burton worked for this movie, and I loved it. I think you may want to re-watch this movie again alone, that way your opinion can't be influenced.

  • I myself am new to marathon running and have not qualified for Boston, but its certainly a goal of mine, so I would hate to see the qualifying times changed. People have invested years training towards a 3:10 time and I think it would be devastating and defeating to suddenly find out that its no longer good enough. Personaly, Im wondering if it wouldnt help to limit or better monitor Boston qualifying races. I recently ran a Marathon that was a Boston qualifier. It had turn-around points at mile 8.5 and mile 21. However there were no D-tag check points at either of them. My husband who was spectating watched two different people cut the turn-arounds by 3/4 of a mile. I was surprised that as a Boston qualifying race, official times were not more appropriately enforced. Perhaps monitoring the qualifying races to ensure Boston type quality would limit the field.

  • Dan says:

    Halloween was worse than all of these films combined.

  • Andy says:

    A very interesting read, you make some very interestingpoints. I look forward to reading your next blog.

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