Top 5 Worst Remakes (no sequels)

[Tequila]

Can I put Michael Bay's The Island since it was an extremely bad remake of Logan's Run and a B-movie called Clonus?

I saw a lot of THX 1138 in that one too.

Anyway, in no particular order I give you "The Vanishing", "The Shaft (aka Down)" and Nightwatch, all great european movies, that were remade by their original directors for an american audience.
Also there's "City of Angels".
I'd also like to preemptivly nominate the upcoming "Escape from new York" remake, for there can only be one man that goes by the name of Plissken and it certainly isn't King Leonidas.

That's it. I feel better now.

[justin]

A few more:

• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Stepford Wives
• Point of No Return
• The Getaway
• Shaft

[JoshuaOst]

Hey, Alex, have you seen this - http://www.xanaduonbroadway.com/

thought you Xanadu "fans" might be interested in what I'm sure is a sign of the coming apocalypse - Xanadu is coming to Broadway! 

Oh my God, that's so awesome!  I love Xanadu!

[Telegram Sam]

Hercules - the Disney one. There was no rule that said there had to be a good version first.
Frankenstein -  the 3D Warhol one
The Wiz
Crossed Swords
Flubber

[Junior]

Hercules - the Disney one. There was no rule that said there had to be a good version first.
Flubber

Oh man. You are taking out two of my favorite movies as a kid. I realize now that Flubber probably wasn't a cinematic masterpiece, but it made me laugh when it came out.

And Hercules! The first movie to make me cry in the theater. When he goes into the green well of dead people to save her and he turns all old and junk got to me.

[Boopie]

Oh, I loved Hercules as a kid as well! There's NO WAY it qualifies for this top 5! My friends and I would pick one of the gospel singers and pretend to be them as we sang along to the soundtrack. And I agree, the well of dead people actually used to scare me, but I always felt brave for sitting through it, as opposed to the end sequence of Fantasia which I realised only a couple months ago when I watched it again that I'd never actually seen it.