You Could’ve Kept That: 9 Movie Remakes and Sequels That Shouldn’t Have Seen the Light of Day

June 12th, 2012 - By IndigoBlack

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If you didn’t get the memo already, Hollywood has run out of fresh ideas. When there are no more fresh ideas, you reach back and start trying to redo a good thing. That’s where remakes and the blasted sequel come in to play. In the last year alone we learned that there would be remakes of the movies Sparkle, Annie, A Star is Born, Steel Magnolias and a third sequel to Bad Boys, all with black leads this time around. While some sequels and remakes can actually be better than the originals (The Godfather II, Toy Story III for example), most do a great job of making fans pissed (or worse, making them fall asleep). These were a few that had me ready to start a riot…or something of the sorts…just know I didn’t like these movies at all.

PS, Be prepared to click. I warned you, so hey…

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Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Really? This might have been one of the worst movies of all time. OF ALL TIME! *In a Kanye voice* Granted, it was only a TV movie, but Bey, Mos Def, Mekhi Phifer and the rest of them should have known better. A remake of the classic movie Carmen starring Dorothy Dandridge, which also came from a Broadway play and book, Beyoncé plays the lead as an aspiring actress who uses folks to get to the top, including Phifer’s character of Derek. While it was a nice attempt by Robert Townsend, the acting is HORRIBLE, and if you were wondering, not just by Bey Bey. The music bits were a tad bit corny, and the adapted storyline just didn’t work. But I should have known the movie wasn’t going to be all that deep. Anything with Da Brat as the narrator, Wyclef as a tarot card reader, and Bow Wow as a jailbird (even though he was barely out of puberty) just won’t go well…

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  • Movie Fiend

    In Scream 2, killing off Omar Epps and Jada Pinkett in the first 10 minutes WAS the whole point of doing it. They were INTENTIONALLY trying to perpetuate the stereotype because the whole series is a commentary on the whole slasher film genre.

  • Solo40

    I agree Eddie Murphy should have stopped after the first Nutty Professor, Gang Of Roses creator, director, producer should be punished, I don’t know why anyone w/ a brain would want a pt. II, and add My Baby’s Daddy to the list of the worst movies of all time. As for sequels, its really unfortunate when a pt. II is so terrible, it brings down the value of the first one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Danyelle-J-King/1309815664 Danyelle J King

    Please, this is the list that was created? REALLY? I can think of SEVERAL OTHERS that should have made the list. This list is a mess.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gregory.d.caldwell Gregory Demetrius Caldwell

    Im sorry but this list sort of became VOID as soon as the writer even suggested that the craptastic Friday After Next was better than Next Friday. The Scream series was always conceived as a trilogy so the third was necessary to finish the story. The 4th (while entertaining) was the unecessary add on and why it was SO shocking that Sidney would actually have other family besides her mother and father is beyond me.

  • JimMarshall

    Good list, too many to choose from, The Bad Lieutenant with Nick Cage, was on at my buddy’s house, un-f–’g-watchable! Nick, you need a new agent, bro’! Call me!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000241800312 Mark Warneke

    “…if you’re a man, you can go ahead and skip over this one, but if you’re a fan of the show “Sex and the City…”

    Um…I know for a fact that hundreds of thousands of men watched Sex and the City religiously, including my partner. It’s a little offensive that you imply that anyone who watched S&tC couldn’t be a man.

    Like I said, I never saw the series, I never saw the first movie, but I liked this movie.

  • thislistsucks

    terrible list. there are so many worse sequels out ther and all the matrix movies are amazing.

    Spiderman
    Transformers
    Valentines Day/New Years Eve
    Twilight

    i mean seriously you can do better

  • http://twitter.com/AngryPopCulture AngryPopCultureGuy

    Can I add (Quite possibly the worst book to movie translation of all time…) “Queen of the Damned” to the list, seeing as how it was technically a sequel to “Interview with a Vampire” (Which wasn’t fantastic, but far and away better than that other POS.)?

  • JE

    Actually, enjoyed “Fast & the Furious 5″ set in Brazil with The Rock and Vin Diesel & it made about $150 million at the box office. “Scream 4″ was also surprisingly good, better than I expected, & it was just as scary as Scream 2.” I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. “Why Did I Get Married Too?” was great & Janet Jackson and Jill Scott gave exceptional performances, let’s end it there.

  • Albert

    The classic opera “Carmen” did not star Dorothy Dandridge. “Carmen” , an opera with music by Georges Bizet, was written in 1875 for the stage, long before Dorothy Dandridge was even born. “Carmen Jones”, on the other hand, was a musical based on the opera “Carmen”. It premiered on Broadway in 1943 and was filmed in 1954 with Dorothy Dandridge. So “Carmen: A Hip-Hopera”, is not a remake of “Carmen Jones”. It is a new version of “Carmen”, and it doesn’t even use the original music.

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