The worst movie reboot ever

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It must be Tom Cruise The Mummy right? One of the worst movies i ever seen. Nonsensical story along with 95% of the movie being in nighttime so you cant see shit.

It even makes Tomb of the dragon emperor look like oscar material.
 
It must be Tom Cruise The Mummy right? One of the worst movies i ever seen. Nonsensical story along with 95% of the movie being in nighttime so you cant see shit.

It even makes Tomb of the dragon emperor look like oscar material.
I thought the mummy was ok, I thought it was a reboot of the the original not the Brandon Fraser one so it leaned a little more into to the horror aspects.
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Mummy was fine, but compared to female ghostbusters it was a damn masterpiece; if it wasn't for hemsworth playing a silly billy, it might've been one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
 
Big fan of Elm Street and Ghostbusters, the Elm Street remake and female Ghostbusters are absolute abominations and all existing copies should be destroyed any way possible.
 
I've been avoiding the Disney remakes like the plague but I hear Mulan is just awful.

Girl Ghostbusters I watched about a third of and checked out.
 
Robin Hood (Crowe)
Total Recall
The Batman
Island of Dr Moreau
Snow White must be up there. Wicker Man perhaps?
Never saw the whole movie. Only saw the Nic Cage bees part. I never saw the first movie, so I didn't know anything about it when I saw the clip. Cage was so bad in that scene, I thought it was a comedy movie!
 
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Robin Hood (Crowe)
Total Recall
The Batman
Island of Dr Moreau

Never saw the whole movie. Only saw the Nic Cage bees part. I never saw the first movie, so I didn't know anything about it when I saw the clip. Cage was so bad in that scene, I thought it was a comedy movie!

OG Wicker Man is great. Highly recommended. Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee. Can't go wrong.
 
"Vacation" (National Lampoon's Vacation reboot) with Ed Helms taking Chevy Chase's role was especially lame.

So many of them are just forgettable.

Ben-Hur 2016 with some dude
Poltergeist 2015 with Sam Rockwell
Flatliners 2017 with (back then) Ellen Page

But then again, you have ones like Dune, Superman, and The Naked Gun that make rebooting worth the effort.
 
"Vacation" (National Lampoon's Vacation reboot) with Ed Helms taking Chevy Chase's role was especially lame.

So many of them are just forgettable.

Ben-Hur 2016 with some dude
Poltergeist 2015 with Sam Rockwell
Flatliners 2017 with (back then) Ellen Page

But then again, you have ones like Dune, Superman, and The Naked Gun that make rebooting worth the effort.
Never knew there was even a Flatliners remake. The original movie was decent. A little cheesy and low budget, but I thought it was still pretty good.

Googling it, the Flatliners remake got grilled. Wont bother watching it.

Never realized there was a Ben Hur remake either. It only made $94M at the box office. Got bad reviews too. How the hell does an iconic movie like this make less than $100M?
 
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It must be Tom Cruise The Mummy right? One of the worst movies i ever seen. Nonsensical story along with 95% of the movie being in nighttime so you cant see shit.

It even makes Tomb of the dragon emperor look like oscar material.

I don't see Tom Cruise version of the movie as a reboot of Branden Fraser one. Totally different tone and timeline. I thought it was an okay movie and too bad it bombed because I love to see more of Russell Crowe's Dr.Jaklly/Hyde.

 
Total Recall


Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). Yuk.
If it's one thing that's merciful about modern Hollywood it's that they've mostly stopped with the straight up remakes everyone forgets about after 15 minutes.

Legacy sequels where it's the same continuity, they bring back some of the same cast, even if they don't turn out to be great, are less pointless than the straight up remake.

It's really funny how in those 3 instances, everyone just immediately went back to only ever talking about or caring about the originals, the remakes may as well not even exist.

Female Ghostbusters maybe?
Though yeah Robocop sucked
This is the correct answer because the fucking 2016 movie damaged the brand permanently, Ghostbusters went from this ubiquitously beloved ip to now being mostly ignored due to people's bitterness over the 2016 movie and the controversy over the "ghostbros", the fanbase is not nearly what it once was, even though the 2020s movies delivered what everyone wanted to see, but the mental association with 2016's controversy has never gone away.

It's one of the saddest things to happen to an ip, I really, really miss when it was this innocent thing everyone loved.
 
It must be Tom Cruise The Mummy right? One of the worst movies i ever seen. Nonsensical story along with 95% of the movie being in nighttime so you cant see shit.

It even makes Tomb of the dragon emperor look like oscar material.

Mummy was fine
I thought the mummy was ok
The best thing that ever happened with that new Mummy movie was the Wayforward video game:


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It's probably top 3 in the category of 'best game with the worst movie' right beside X-men Origins: Wolverine.
 
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Ghostbuster by far

Robocop 2014 isn't a bad movie by concept. It has some really interesting ideas and it transpires that Padilha was trying to do a "Elite Squad" out of it. But yeah... it simply falls short.
 
Robocop reboot wasn't that awful. There's just no potential to revive the original idea and not make it looks silly. 1980s & 90s were just different times and technological advancements were seen differently.
 
The Mummy was painfully average, now the Ghostbusters 2016 that might take the prize. (I see everyone forgot about Conan reboot)

What's the line between a dormant series with a sequel done after many years and a reboot/remake?
 
Gonna say Robocop, it is the very thing the first movie is about. Ripping out the humanity to create a soulless corporate machine.

It's so unnoteworthy as a reboot I don't see anyone talk about it, largely forgotten to exist. Not even Robocop 3 has that problem.
 
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Honesty it wasn't that bad. The major issue was it released in that time when every action movie was pg13 so no blood, crap cuts with violence and no swearing.
It was effectively a shot-for-shot remake but everything was just shittier. Worse acting, worse effects, no Verhoven social commentary, no Sharon Stone at her most smoking hot. Just no soul or personality whatsoever.

I think a part of why I think its the worst remake is the amount of disdain and ignorance it shows the writers had about the original movie.
 
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Gonna say Robocop, it is the very thing the first movie is about. Ripping out the humanity to create a soulless corporate machine.

It's so unnoteworthy as a reboot I don't see anyone talk about it, largely forgotten to exist. Not even Robocop 3 has that problem.
Again another movie that came out during that period of no blood, swearing or violence.
 
I'm gonna guess this, though I can't bear to even watch it.

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And would this count as a reboot?

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TV land is FULL of them, from Magnum P.I. to The Equalizer, to Matlock, to Twilight Zone.
 
I entered this thread thinking, it's gotta be Ghostbusters, but so many candidatews in this thread, all from basically the same period, starting in the 2010s, really tells you how Hollywood just became creatively bankrupt so quickly.
 
I entered this thread thinking, it's gotta be Ghostbusters, but so many candidatews in this thread, all from basically the same period, starting in the 2010s, really tells you how Hollywood just became creatively bankrupt so quickly.
They are just targeting OUR nostalgia in that time period. You can already see the window shifting to 90's and 00's reboots. TBH no idea what my kids would even be nostaligic about, they are still pre-teens and 80% of what they watch is random youtube crap.

Though my son has been turned on to Samurai Jack.....so maybe there is a faint glimmer of hope :P
 
They are just targeting OUR nostalgia in that time period. You can already see the window shifting to 90's and 00's reboots. TBH no idea what my kids would even be nostaligic about, they are still pre-teens and 80% of what they watch is random youtube crap.

Though my son has been turned on to Samurai Jack.....so maybe there is a faint glimmer of hope :P
I think the success of Minecraft proved categorically that these younger people do not want our warmed up leftovers. They do not want remakes of boomer stuff like RoboCop. Not just that they suck, if they are interested they can just watch RoboCop.

But I think increasingly even the people they are targeting do not want remakes. Again, we can just watch the original.
 
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