Terrible american remakes of foriegn films?

When you think about it, the topic is a bit redundant.
Remakes are 90% rubbish by default.
Remaking films is just a bad idea. Remaking a foreign film may be a worse one,
I wouldn't know. I haven't watched many.

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Originally posted by Randolph When you think about it, the topic is a bit redundant. Remakes are 90% rubbish by default. Remaking films is just a bad idea.

-The Birdcage
-Dawn of the Dead
-The Producers
-The Manchurian Candidtate
-Homeward Bound (Incredible Journey Remake, though the sequels sucked)
-The Maltese Falcon
-Miracle on 34th Street
-The Italian Job
-Point of No Return
-Heat (TV Movie remake)
-Ocean's Eleven
-Psycho
-A Fistful of Dollars (Yojimbo remake)

Oh, and I guess Charlie and the Chocolate Factory could count, too.

Speaking of which...YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR!

90%. 90%!!

God, I need to stop trying to make points when I'm half asleep.

EDIT:
I'm sorry for the blatant generalization of remakes. Yes, a lot of them
are indeed very good. Classic, even.
I have not watched more than one or two remakes, and I
really have no business commenting on them.

However, I can say with confidence that the remakes of Bewitched,
Garfield and Yours, Mine and Ours were very poor.
If only by intuition and word-of-mouth.

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Garfield

There was an earlier Garfield movie?

Oh also..IT'S GARFIELD. The source material can't really be denegrated, since it's about an obese cat that dislikes mondays.

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 There was an earlier Garfield movie?

Well, if you count the animated holiday specials.

Even those were better than the animated series.