12 Reboots That Just Shouldn't Have Happened

If you're going to remake the same movie half a dozen times, at least get it right every time.
12 Reboots That Just Shouldn't Have Happened

It's become the norm that Hollywood is either going to reboot a film franchise or just remake a great movie in hopes of achieving the same success. But that rarely ever happens. Why?

Well, our current theory is because, in between doing mountains of blow and sleeping on piles of cash, the filmmakers never bothered to watch the film they were redoing. How else do you explain things like ...

TOTAL RECALL ISN'T A ARNOLD MOSTEE BY PAUL VERHOEVEN IT'SPOOARY WITH DEPTH IN THE 1990 ORIGINAL, YOU'RE NEVER OUITE SURE WHICH VERSION OF REALITY TRUE
The orlginal The Gambler follows the CRACKED.COM character's slow descent Into addlctlon to an ending where he gambles wIth hls own lfe. The remake sh
In Straw Dogs (1971), Sam Peckinpah sends you away disturbed, questioning your humanity, and left with the challenge to ask yourself: No matter how ci
CRACKEDc COM. The original Ghestbaasters was about the struggles of starting a smalll business. A good Part of the film is dedicated to buying an offi
The original Planet of the Apes is about reversing the master-slave relations, not just a war between apes and humans like Dawn of the Planet of the A
Robocop is a Satire of violent cop movies that might or might not be an allegory for the story of Jesus. but even ignoring the Messianic parallels, a
Alice in Wonderland Was designed to be a story about nothing, in contrast to most children's stories commonly disguilsed as parables. For example, t

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The original Point Break is a raunchy action thriller about a gang of surfers who rob banks to finance their lifestyle. It's interesting, full of grea
CRACKED cO Mowgli in The Jungle Book (1967) was a happy character who was at one with the jungle and thrived in it. The Jungle Book (2016) misses that
THE 1976 VERSION OF CARRIE THE TITLE ROLE WAS CAST WITH SISSY SPACEK. AN IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THE CHARACTER IS THAT SHE'S VERY PLAIN. WHICH IS WHY IT'
THE LONE RANGER In the 2013 version, the Lone Ranger is portrayed as an incompetent doofus who can't do anything without his companion Tonto. In the o
The first movie version in '72, followed Dr. Seuss' Loraxe all the way through. Then 2012 saw a new incarnation: He speaks not for the trees but for

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