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Remaking bad movies instead of good movies

I watched TOS and TNG not terribly long ago. I still like TNG better. Probably because I feel that Picard is the superior captain.

Well, which character you liked better is a matter of personal taste. But TNG's first two seasons were God-awful, and I'd argue, worse than TOS in terms of just about everything, especially considering it had fewer excuses.

It got better.

The best-produced series by FAR was DS9.
 
I suppose if I had to pick just one, I'd like to see a movie in the D&D setting, without any mention of D&D or overused tropes/cliches, a serious fantasy/drama ala GOT.
Replacing this abomination:
Dungeons & Dragons (2000) - IMDb

Where are my testicles Summer? I went into that show expecting the worse, and was super surprised at how much I loved it.

Those guys. The stars aligned, they had Darn Harmon's quirky and effective oversight, Justin's unstoppable voice talent, great writers and great animators who worked it.
 
Well, which character you liked better is a matter of personal taste. But TNG's first two seasons were God-awful, and I'd argue, worse than TOS in terms of just about everything, especially considering it had fewer excuses.

It got better.

The best-produced series by FAR was DS9.

TNG definitely got better, I think as the cast really began to mesh as well. I'm glad it got the chance to mature, and perhaps TOS would have as well if given the years.

DS9 is good, I like it, though I think there's a lot of contention about it. I liked Enterprise too, I didn't think it was nearly has bad as what people claimed it to be. Now Voyager....couldn't get much into that one. That's the one that more than anything taught me that becoming an officer in Star Fleet meant just being in the right place at the right time, lol.

"You...you were just leading a band of rebels that were fighting the Federation. You're now my second in command!"

lol
 
I suppose if I had to pick just one, I'd like to see a movie in the D&D setting, without any mention of D&D or overused tropes/cliches, a serious fantasy/drama ala GOT.
Replacing this abomination:
Dungeons & Dragons (2000) - IMDb



Those guys. The stars aligned, they had Darn Harmon's quirky and effective oversight, Justin's unstoppable voice talent, great writers and great animators who worked it.

Yeah I agree, they dropped the ball on DnD. But if you pick up the DnD: Wrath of the Dragon God (sequel to the original and super low budget), it's got what you need.
 
I suppose if I had to pick just one, I'd like to see a movie in the D&D setting, without any mention of D&D or overused tropes/cliches, a serious fantasy/drama ala GOT.
Replacing this abomination:
Dungeons & Dragons (2000) - IMDb



Those guys. The stars aligned, they had Darn Harmon's quirky and effective oversight, Justin's unstoppable voice talent, great writers and great animators who worked it.

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Gran Torino was an excellent movie, I have it in my collection. I gotta be honest I like Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns.

Likewise.
Director Sergio Leone invented the "spaghetti western" genre.
Eastwood, while not a great actor, turned out to be perfect for these movies.
 
I think the first video link, 10 movies that wasted good ideas, was spot on for the one's I've seen. I'm not saying those are my first choice for remakes in case a wish-granting genie is listing in, but they were all good examples of good ideas gone wrong.
 
Regarding the D.C. movies I would leave out Superman. None of the Superman movies have been anywhere near as good as Christopher Reeves' first and second movies.

The problem with modern remakes of superman, they get to caught up in the whole, how would the human race react to a living god trope. They always do the same old, what if he turns on us, we shouldn't trust him nonsense. And that isn't what superman is about. It's more about what if one man represented the best in everyone. Which is why Christopher Reeves versions are untouchable. Plus Gene Hackman did a great Lex Luthor, and a bad Lex Luthor can kill any Superman movie. Look at Jesse Eisenberg's Lex, in my mind he's the main reason that Batman v Superman sucks. I ****ing loved Ben Affleck's Batman. And I don't mind what's his face as Superman. They just need a new Lex and drop the Superman might turn on us and enslave the world bit.
 
TNG definitely got better, I think as the cast really began to mesh as well. I'm glad it got the chance to mature, and perhaps TOS would have as well if given the years.

DS9 is good, I like it, though I think there's a lot of contention about it. I liked Enterprise too, I didn't think it was nearly has bad as what people claimed it to be. Now Voyager....couldn't get much into that one. That's the one that more than anything taught me that becoming an officer in Star Fleet meant just being in the right place at the right time, lol.

"You...you were just leading a band of rebels that were fighting the Federation. You're now my second in command!"

lol

My favorites have always been Voyager, and Enterprise. Scott Backula or however you spell his last name killed it as Captain Archer.

While they were Rebels, they were rebelling against the Cardassians and not the Federation specifically. The federation mostly looked the other way unless they were forced to act to prevent an all out war with the Cardassians. So it is feasible. Plus, who doesn't love Commander Cha'kote, who was a star fleet officer before he joined the Maquee to fight basically Space Nazis. If you really look at the races as Gene originally had them, Cardassians are space nazis.
 
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I'd like to see a lot more of the old unknown sci-fi movies remade. The super cheezy ones.

A whole buttload of movies done for Mystery Science Theater 3000 fall into that catagory.

One episode that made me think would've been perfect for a Star Trek: Voyager episode would be Crash of the Moons.
 
An alien with poor acting skills, lol.

Man, TNG was so much better.

TNG sucked, the solution to every dilemma in their episodes was technobabble.
 
Do that with the old Kung Fu movies and I would be a happy man. Those movies were so much fun. :)

You may like this very low budget movie that take the best and worse of the 80's including kung fu movies. Full short movie.

 
Oh for sure, that's where there charm comes from. I'm not saying remake them as high budget anything. I'm saying do it up like Sharknado, which was super successful for the same charm. Take who ever directed that, and give him a lineup of anything in the public domain.

American remakes of movies from other countries are often both bad and unnecessary. So it should atleast be more fun if Hollywood also made remakes of over the top B movies from other countries. With the same charm but also a lot more resources.

Troll Hunter from Norway.



Black sheep from New Zeeland.



Also Kopps from Sweden. Too little crime in a Swedish small village so the local police station have to be closed. So the cops try to create crimes so they can keep their station and their jobs.

 
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Likewise.
Director Sergio Leone invented the "spaghetti western" genre.
Eastwood, while not a great actor, turned out to be perfect for these movies.

Leone didnt invent spaghetti westerns- they were around before he made his first one. Though he did make the best ones in the genre- along with Sergio Corbucci (his movie The Great Silence (1968) - IMDb ranks up there with the Clint Eastwood ones).

I'd love to see the following movies remade:

The Punisher
That one is being made into a TV series on Netflix.

 
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Leone didnt invent spaghetti westerns- they were around before he made his first one. Though he did make the best ones in the genre- along with Sergio Corbucci (his movie The Great Silence (1968) - IMDb ranks up there with the Clint Eastwood ones).


That one is being made into a TV series on Netflix.



Yeah, but Leone had Enio Moricone, one of the greatest modern composers out there.
 
Yeah, but Leone had Enio Moricone, one of the greatest modern composers out there.

EM did a lot of music for many, many movies- like lots of other spaghetti westerns for many other directors (including The Great Silence).
 
You may like this very low budget movie that take the best and worse of the 80's including kung fu movies. Full short movie.



Seen it before and you are right, I like it a lot. :)
 
That one is being made into a TV series on Netflix.



Yes, I loved the character portrayal in the 2nd season of 'Daredevil'. I'm looking forward to this one. Marvel has done a fantastic job of their Netflix series with the exception of 'Iron Fist'. Hopefully the renew my faith in them with 'The Punisher'. Danny Rand even destroyed 'The Defenders' IMO - he's that bad. They have announced they will have a different show runner for season 2 of 'Iron Fist' and I hope that makes a difference.
 
TNG sucked, the solution to every dilemma in their episodes was technobabble.

And the fantastic leadership of Captain Picard!.
 
The problem with modern remakes of superman, they get to caught up in the whole, how would the human race react to a living god trope. They always do the same old, what if he turns on us, we shouldn't trust him nonsense. And that isn't what superman is about. It's more about what if one man represented the best in everyone. Which is why Christopher Reeves versions are untouchable. Plus Gene Hackman did a great Lex Luthor, and a bad Lex Luthor can kill any Superman movie. Look at Jesse Eisenberg's Lex, in my mind he's the main reason that Batman v Superman sucks. I ****ing loved Ben Affleck's Batman. And I don't mind what's his face as Superman. They just need a new Lex and drop the Superman might turn on us and enslave the world bit.

It's hardly just Superman. Heroes can't be heroes anymore, there always has to be something pulling the rug out from under their heroism. (This goes for a lot more than just superhero movies, BTW.)

The Marvel movies are notorious for this. Everyone mocks Captain America for his simple idealism. There's always got to be a joke when a character takes an idealistic stand.

The only unabashedly heroic character who simply lived it, and the movie wasn't cynical about it, was this year's Wonder Woman.
 
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