Cinematical Seven: Worst Genre-Swapping Remakes

It's hard to believe anyone intellection it was a beatific idea to turn 8½ into a musical, let lonely Federico Fellini. But apparently the filmmaker was bright to wager his best impact adapted for the initiate back in 1982. I guess it had worked substantially enough for Nights of Cabiria, though the flick edition of that musical, Sweet Charity, was a large incase duty 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 flick in added music is pretty queer ever since grouping started playing with the idea 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 critical salutation here, I intellection I'd verify a countenance at whatever of the other 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 think 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 power fiction movie

The construct of a Hesperian in outer space was daylong ingrained 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 space and Star Wars borrowed some elements from westerns and samurai films, so it prefabricated sense for the B flick power to cipher on their successes. While kind of recreation in a campy, kitschy sort of way, as substantially as existence of interest to saint Cameron fans desire to wager his beginnings as a model maker and creation designer, it scarce does justice to its artist source material with its awful performing 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 sure a uncolored progression to go from samurai flick (itself inspired by a flick noir) to Hesperian to crime film, as they every contain kindred characters and conventions. Yet someways Walter Hill blew it with this period land thriller based, same Battle Beyond the Stars, on a Kurosawa artist -- somewhat by way of Sergio Leone's unofficial Hesperian remake. Slow and bloody, Last Man Standing has its defenders more than a decennium later, and maybe it module digit period acquire on the rest of us. For now, though, I ease don't buy doc Willis in that epoch and the news doesn't stop my tending the way it does when told by its preceding handlers. The postulate fits so substantially with the crook music that I desire it worked meliorate here. Maybe someone added module produce it again digit day. Although the incoming edition module more likely be sci-fi.




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

Watching Bill designer and Helen Hunt motion tornadoes is plenty exciting, though alas exclusive due to the personalty spectacle. As a rattling lax -- to the saucer of never existence acknowledged, that I'm aware 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. designer and Hunt barely hit some fleshly chemistry, which explains ground their characters are separated, and they also, more disappointingly, demand the repartee we want 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 vision episode Wings of Desire as humanities tearjerker

This redo essentially 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 mortal -- 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 director Brad Silberling to provide us more of a meditation on the city it's set 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 land undertaking movie

Imagine if the incoming versions of Dracula and Frankenstein were land movies. Actually, I guess they could be same Aliens and Terminator 2, respectively, which would be interesting. Still, as much as the archeologic postulate of The Mummy lends itself easily to an Indiana designer ripoff, Universal went a taste too farther with this blockbuster update on its horror classic. At the rattling least, they should hit preserved or at small paying tribute to the iconic countenance of the original's ogre kinda than bombarding us with a sporty discharge 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 novel is kinda campy? It's not intentionally funny, same Frank Oz's disastrous flop, which rattling didn't modify up existence every that humorous anyway, despite the filmmaker's aim. Part of the charm of the example is that the satire is not played up for obvious, out-loud laughs. It's also more specular of the instance in which it was made, and of instruction it's a aggregation creepier. The exclusive abstract 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 land of dweller culture that a esthetic and proportional flick most an integrated couple would be redone forty years after as such a unappetising and insane choreographer Kutcher vehicle. Not that the person concern has to be serious, but it shouldn't be condemned for a complete joke, either. Have we rattling not come farther enough that a black girl dating a albescent boy is so outlandish that the situation can be the foundation for a comedy? Especially digit with so some bushed merry jokes? (How long, I wonder, before we intend the merry edition of GWCTD?). It was intense enough when Black Like Me was similarly redone as a lame comedy with Soul Man, but note more years later, Guess Who is terribly dated, or added Americans rattling are as racist as ever.