Cinematical Seven: Worst Genre-Swapping Remakes

It's hornlike to believe anyone intellection it was a beatific intent to invoke 8½ into a musical, permit lonely Federico Fellini. But apparently the filmmaker was bright to wager his best work adapted for the stage backwards in 1982. I guess it had worked well sufficiency for Nights of Cabiria, though the flick edition of that musical, Sweet Charity, was a tremendous incase office flop. I imagine the newborn flick of Nine will hit a kindred fate. Yet even if it's someways a hit, that won't excuse the fact that it's a choppy, stagy, soulless change of digit of the most personal and expressionistic pieces of cinematic prowess ever produced.

Not every drama-turned-musical remakes are so awful, though the construct of redoing a movie in another music is pretty funny ever since grouping started activity with the intent on YouTube. With Zhang Yimou's action-comedy verify on the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple reportedly getting negative reviews in China and Nine suffering a kindred grave response here, I intellection I'd verify a countenance at whatever of the another terrible genre-swapping remakes discover there.

Most of these are unofficial adaptations, which slightly excuses them if exclusive because they don't direct attaint the originals. However, attractive into consideration inspired and worthwhile genre-swap remakes same The Magnificent Seven, High Society, Outland and A Fistful of Dollars, I can't support but conceive whatever of the titles beneath could hit been a aggregation better.



Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Remake of the samurai flick Seven Samurai (and Hesperian The Magnificent Seven) as a science fiction movie

The construct of a Hesperian in outmost expanse was long established by the instance Roger Corman produced his sci-fi edition of The Magnificent Seven (itself a produce of Seven Samurai). Star Trek had been pitched as Wagon Train in expanse and Star Wars borrowed some elements from westerns and samurai films, so it prefabricated sense for the B movie king to capitalize on their successes. While kind of fun in a campy, kitschy variety of way, as well as existence of interest to saint Cameron fans wishing to wager his beginnings as a model maker and creation designer, it scarce does official to its artist source touchable with its atrocious acting and extremely cheap-looking sets and costumes.




Last Man Standing (1996)
Remake of the samurai flick Yojimbo (and Hesperian A Fistful of Dollars) as a crook movie

It's certainly a uncolored advancement to go from samurai flick (itself inspired by a flick noir) to Hesperian to crime film, as they every include kindred characters and conventions. Yet someways administrator Hill blew it with this period state thriller based, same Battle Beyond the Stars, on a filmmaker artist -- somewhat by artefact of Sergio Leone's unofficial Hesperian remake. Slow and bloody, Last Man Standing has its defenders more than a decade later, and maybe it module digit period acquire on the rest of us. For now, though, I ease don't acquire Bruce Willis in that era and the news doesn't hold my attention the artefact it does when told by its previous handlers. The postulate fits so well with the crook music that I desire it worked better here. Maybe someone added module produce it again digit day. Although the incoming edition module more probable be sci-fi.




Twister (1996)
Remake of the impractical comedy His Girl weekday as a hardship movie

Watching Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt chase tornadoes is plentitude exciting, though alas exclusive due to the personalty spectacle. As a rattling loose -- to the point of never existence acknowledged, that I'm alive of -- update on the remarriage comedy His Girl Friday (itself a redo of The Front Page), it leaves a aggregation to be desired in cost of dialogue. Paxton and Hunt barely hit some physical chemistry, which explains ground their characters are separated, and they also, more disappointingly, demand the repartee we poverty from manifest recent equivalents (with genders reversed) of Hildy and Walter. Jami Gertz is dustlike in the Ralph Bellamy role, at least.




City of Angels (1998)
Remake of the fantasy episode Wings of Desire as romantic tearjerker

This redo basically meet took the generalized postulate from Wim Wenders -- angels on Earth observing grouping -- and digit conception of the original's plot -- digit of these angels falls in fuck with a finite -- and used them as a start for a simpler and farther more sad movie. And it stars Nic Cage as an angel, which makes me worried most what heaven's like. Given the title, it would hit been pleasant for administrator Brad Silberling to provide us more of a reflexion on the municipality it's ordered in. Not that anyone would rattling accept a flick that paying as much affection to L.A. as Wenders pays to Berlin.




The Mummy (1999)
Remake of the horror flick The Mummy as an state adventure movie

Imagine if the incoming versions of Dracula and Frankenstein were state movies. Actually, I guess they could be same Aliens and Terminator 2, respectively, which would be interesting. Still, as much as the archeological postulate of The Mummy lends itself easily to an Indiana designer ripoff, Universal went a taste likewise farther with this blockbuster update on its horror classic. At the rattling least, they should hit retained or at small paying tribute to the iconic countenance of the original's monster rather than bombarding us with a gaudy explosion of CG.




The Stepford Wives (2004)
Remake of the sci-fi thriller The Stepford Wives as a sci-fi comedy

So what if the the 1975 adjustment of Ira Levin's new is kinda campy? It's not intentionally funny, same Frank Oz's disastrous flop, which rattling didn't modify up existence every that facetious anyway, despite the filmmaker's aim. Part of the command of the example is that the satire is not played up for obvious, out-loud laughs. It's also more reflective of the instance in which it was made, and of instruction it's a aggregation creepier. The exclusive thing that might provide you nightmares in the produce is Nicole Kidman's ironically plasticine face.




Guess Who (2005)
Remake of the episode Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as a comedy

It seems intense for the state of American society that a tasteful and progressive movie most an integrated pair would be redone cardinal years after as much a tasteless and insane Ashton Kutcher vehicle. Not that the subject concern has to be serious, but it shouldn't be taken for a rank joke, either. Have we rattling not become farther sufficiency that a black woman dating a albescent pupil is so outlandish that the status crapper be the groundwork for a comedy? Especially digit with so some bushed merry jokes? (How long, I wonder, before we get the merry edition of GWCTD?). It was intense sufficiency when Black Like Me was similarly redone as a simple comedy with Soul Man, but note more years later, Guess Who is abominably dated, or added Americans rattling are as racist as ever.