Bad Films...that need a good sequel (or remake!)

[Starbird]

What are they for you? You know...those movies that you watched (probably because they were based on something you love) and absolutely hated.

For me:

1) Green Lantern.
With all the awesome material they had to draw on from the continuity...they had to completely muck it up with this continuity killer? Please remake this movie. Give us Evil Jordan. Give us the GL Corps. Give us Sinestro Corps. Hell, do whatever you want. Just do it better.

2) The Punisher.
This would have to be a remake of a sequel. The oringinal Punisher was awful, missed the character by a mile and was horribly tame aside from one totally unneeded squick scene where an innocent character is horribly tortured.

Punisher Warzone...well, it tried. It started bloody well, with the origin of Jigsaw, good gore but then went all Constantine with remakes of awesome Punisher MAX characters that had almost nothing to do with the originals and sucked horribly.

You know, almost every single arc of MAX would make a good film, especially the two arcs involving the Russians. Just keep it true to the material.

3) Mortal Kombat.
Okay, okay. The original was cool, dumb fun when we were kids. The soundtrack was fantastic. But the sequel and everything that followed after was absolutely horrible. And while the remake could be interesting, it's not Mortal Kombat. We need a real Mortal Kombat movie, with the cheesy story, awesome gore, good fights and a focus on the tournament.

4) Constantine/Hellblazer.
Oh boy, don't get me started on this one. The original film was okay, as a standalone movie. Not good, not bad, some cool scenes but generally meh. It wasn't a Hellblazer movie at all however, which is what bugged me to no end. And...casting Keanu as John? What the hell man?

5)Daredevil.
I've never worked out what went wrong with this movie. It was a bit kiddified, sure. But nothing about it was horrible on paper. A black Kingpin? Fine. Bullseye? Awesome. Fight scenes? Not horrible. And yet...it sucked. Go and look at Frank Miller's stuff, since everything of his seems to be getting made into a movie.

How about you?

 

[Thaluikhain]

No to Green Lantern, there's plenty of other superheroes out there that haven't got a movie yet (and don't get me started on the superheroines). Now the Green Lantern Corps, fine.

Um, AVP?

 

[DugMachine]

Spawn! That movie was complete crap

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

My dream is coming true as they are re-making Manimal and apparently Aaron Ackhart may be taking on the role.

They should remake Terminator.
The original 80s film was great (or so I thought back then) and I had no problem with it but I would love to see what they could do with the CGI now. They could still have it set in the 80s which would be fun to see.

 

[Starbird]

Spawn! That movie was complete crap

Thing is though...exactly how good could Spawn be?

The comic had it's moments, back when McFarlane actually knew how to *finish* an arc. But as a movie? The entire concept has been done to death already.

My dream is coming true as they are re-making Manimal and apparently Aaron Ackhart may be taking on the role.

They should remake Terminator.
The original 80s film was great (or so I thought back then) and I had no problem with it but I would love to see what they could do with the CGI now. They could still have it set in the 80s which would be fun to see.

I *shudder* to think what a modern Terminator remake would be like.

 

[Marter]

I *shudder* to think what a modern Terminator remake would be like.

It would look like Drive Angry!

So, probably not a good thing to remake it.

OT: I still want my Van Helsing sequel, so ... yeah.

 

[DugMachine]

Spawn! That movie was complete crap

Thing is though...exactly how good could Spawn be?

The comic had it's moments, back when McFarlane actually knew how to *finish* an arc. But as a movie? The entire concept has been done to death already.

Mostly out of nostalgia. I know the story isn't amazing but I love the style and I grew up on MacFarlane action figures and comics

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Yeah please don't remake Terminator, Hollywood. PLEASE. Like Alien/Aliens the original still stands up just fine, and looks better than 90% of the CGI riddled crap we get hoisted on us yearly. It's also dark and melancholy, and not cheesy as fuck or stupidly optimistic, which a remake would inevitably be.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Star Trek V. It was the worst Star Trek film (or at least, the worst of the original six), but it was also the one that hands down had the best premise. To give you an idea of how much I like the premise, I have it sitting on my shelf in movie form, book form, and comic book form. The book is the best of the three, with the comic still being better than the movie. Unfortunately, executive meddling killed it. William Shatner (who directed it) wanted to tell a serious story, Star Trek at its best. Unfortunately Paramount wanted a Star Trek IV-style comedy, and we got a nasty mish mash of the two. Of course I don't really want a remake. I just want Paramount to approve a The Motion Picture-style director's cut. STV has a /lot/ more to gain from a DC than TMP did, since TMP was already a good (if slow and in need of more editing) movie. STV was a horribly botched execution of a wonderful premise.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I thought The Punisher was cool D:

Remake the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers movie but make it dark and kick ass and with cool CGI. The CGI in that movie was awful! Make a new version of the theme song too and bring back Ron Wasserman!

 

[TheIronRuler]

Waterworld and Constantine.

Make a good Constantine movie based off the comics and I will buy tickets to see it half a dozen times.

Waterworld has potential, but the script can be heavily rewritten and it can be a really good movie.

BTW, I would like to have a Punisher remake for the sake of a new Punisher movie.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I don't know why they couldn't just make Spider-Man 4. Stan Lee himself said that the next villain in line would've been The Lizard, Gwen Stacy was introduced to be Peter's new love interest, and Mary Jane was going to step out due to the events of Spider-Man 3 (i.e. Kristen Dunst's absence wouldn't be apparent).

Instead, Sony had to wheel in the Twilight crap wagon and appeal the the audience with the most financial appeal at the time: teenage girls and mid-aged women. The results: a movie that resembles the Spider-Man mythos in name and in subtle origin traits only.

 

[BNguyen]

Actually, even though I haven't seen the movie, I'd like to see a Green Lantern remake based off of moviebob's simplified examination of the comics, it could be made into two movies
1) the origin (and use of the version where he was a pilot from the 50's or something
2) when his hometown is destroyed and he goes insane up to the point where he regains himself long enough to die a hero (or something along those lines)

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

I rarely smile upon the idea of remakes, but one film in particular actually made me pause and think "Maybe a different director could have made a fantastic film out of this.."

That film is called "Bullhead". It was nominated for best foreign pic last year (Lordy knows why) and while they're certain elements of it that are fantastic (The acting, bits of the story and the setting) it just didn't work for me, as film. It's narrative was a jumbled mess, juggling three different plots for almost two hours before dumping all save one and then ending abruptly and flatly.
What was most painful was seeing how a fantastic film could have come of it, if only it hadn't been all over the place. Now, it was a first-time feature for the director, so Imma peg it on that, but still, it's a pity. Some great moments and performances does not a great movie make.

 

[Meatspinner]

They already did Judge Dredd. The best movie of the decade,FACT!). So i'm happy.

Maybe a Starship Trooper movie that's closer to the book

 

[Legion]

A decent sequel to the original Starship Troopers film would be nice. The second and third films were just appalling and lazy.

 

[Vigormortis]

One, fairly recent, film springs to mind:

Tron Legacy

Don't get me wrong, I loved the hell out of that movie. But damn...the writing was terrible and roughly half of the acting mediocre. The only truly redeeming things of that film were the fantastic soundtrack, Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, and Joseph Kosinski's amazing world/set/character designs.

That said, just as with the first film, there is still a LOT of potential within this story-verse. It could be used to tell both an exciting adventure/conflict type of tale as well as to comment on contemporary technology and it's place in todays society. It's a shame Disney seems less interested in exploring the story-verse than they are in just exploiting it.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I wouldn't necessarily call it a "bad film," but Drive definitely should have been done differently. The scenes in which he actually drives his car, like the title would suggest, are nearly perfect. If the film was about how he used his observational and technical skills to be a good getaway driver, it might have been a lot better. Instead, it's a revenge movie about characters we don't really care about. I think there was so much wasted potential there. I know Nicolas Winding Refn is talented, I just with that he could have done the movie differently.

 

[Coffeejack]

Eragon. That one was a terrible disappointment. Nearly every character seemed to be poorly cast.

Postal. Uwe Boll struck again. I though the film's one funny moment was during the job interview scene, when the protagonist is asked the question "What is the difference between a duck?"