Remakes and Reboots Part 1

Your favorite movies remade, even if they weren't your favorites or you didn't need it.

With the release of the Wolfman and news about that upcoming Spider-Man reboot coming along (Why?) I have decided to make an article about the Reboot and the Remakes that have happened over the past while.

First up:

Star Trek (2009)

Directed by JJ Abrams, Written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Eric Bana and Simon Pegg

Remake/Reboot of:

The first ten Star Trek Films (1979-2001)

If you're wondering why this is here despite it being a Sequel of sorts, You'd be suprised. This movie explains a lot of how each character from the Original series became to be who they are in the series. Plus the FX don't hurt.

Transformers/Revenge of the Fallen (2007/9)

Directed by Micheal Bay, Written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Ethan Kruger, Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Peter Cullen, Tony Todd, Hugo Weaving, Charles Adler, others

Remake/Reboot of:

Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Directed by Nelson Shin, Written by Ron Friedman, Starring Judd Nelson, Orson Welles, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker and Leonard Nimoy among others

The first animated film is consider to be the better TF film with the first live action film by Micheal "Explosions" Bay coming in close second. But with revenge of The Fallen, not only is there more explosions, but there's also Boobs, Butts, Stereotypically racist Robots, Robot Genitalia, Dog Humping and other insanely disturbing stuff that makes it one of the worst films of the previous year.

Plus the animated film had Unicron in it. UNICRON!

The Ten Commandments (2007)

Directed by John Stronach & Bill Boyce, Written by Ed Naha, Starring Ben Kingsley, Elliot Gould, Christan Slater, Alfred Molina and Kathleen Barr

Remake/reboot of:

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Written by various, starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brenner, Anne Baxton, John Carradine, Vincent Price and a cast of Thousands.

Which in turn is a remake of this 1923 silent film also made by DeMille:

The original 1923 film was different then its two remakes as it only had the Moses story for only half the film. The '56 remake boasted a cast of thousands and great special effects for the time. Unfortunately, the 2007 remake was horrid. The animation and voice acting being the worst things about it.

Bad Moses, Bad!

Finally:

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Directed by Louis Leterrier, Written by Zak Penn and Edward Norton (albeit uncredited), starring Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt and Tim Roth

Remake/Reboot of:

Hulk

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Directed by Ang Lee, written by James Schamus, Michael France & John Turman, Starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliot, Nick Nolte and Josh Lucas

I know what you're thinking, why the hell would there be a movie from the 2000's in this list of remakes that was later rebooted only five years later. That's a very good question that I can't rally answer. But either way, while the first movie had ILM, the second movie had both plot and Abomination. 'Nuff said.

I also apologize for the lack of pictures too. I'll be adding more as I write onward through this series.

Comments

There's nothing wrong with writing an article that fails. How else will you learn what people want? Failure is just an excuse to try until you succeed.

Retrojerk is right. You're a class act. Best of luck on your next article.

Retro Phil, you can take it like a champ. I think everyone can appreciate it when someone admits their article sucks. Although your article may suck more than the black hole in Star Trek, YOU sir, do not. You can vote on your own article by just clicking the thumbs down above the comments.

As my first article, I will admit that it sucked hardcore. But Trust me, the second one won't be as bad as I plan on having more retro remakes and I will need some suggestions on both, movies that need to be covered and some better writing tips.

BTW, is there a way to vote on your own article?

I see that the two people above me beat me to the comments I was going to make. So, just assume I would have said the same exact thing as RetroJerk and taciturnwes. Thumbs down.

While your article formatting and efficient use of pictures is noteworthy, nothing else about this article is. First and foremost, your article needs to be FAR more retro. It's one thing to briefly reference present day stuff in an RJ article, but when like 90% is present day stuff, you miss the point of the site. Secondly, your article doesn't appear to be very well researched. As RetroJerk pointed out, there's inconsistencies in your information. Lastly, you need more interesting information. If you're just gonna briefly summarize the plots of the movies or list the cast members, then your article comes off as a poor man's IMDB and you lose the attention of your readers. Like I said before though, the article looks good at least, but better luck next time.

This article sucks on so many levels. Where to begin? First off your talking about movies that only came out a few years ago, nothing retro about that at all. Second off, you barely talk about these movies at all. You literally have only one sentence for just about every movie you mention. Star Trek is not a remake or reboot at all, it is a sequel to the other films that takes place in an alternate time line in the future, hell the origional spock from those movies is in it! The transformers movies are not remakes or reboots either. The stories have nothing to do with the Unicron story, and since its a live action movie I dont think it should be considered a reboot, just another version. The ten commandments is a bible story, not necessarily a remake just another movie about the same story. And the incredible hulk is a full blooded sequel hulk. The story picks up directly where the last one left off, with the same characters and everything, they even talk about the events that happened in the first film.

Transformers 2 what a disgrace *big face palm*

Hulk 2 >> Hulk