Pointless American remakes...

Any movie or even TV show that American filmmakers or television creators.
Made to appeal to American audiences?

I'm going to say all of those Japanese horror remakes. Except The Ring.

The NBC American version of Coupling back in 2003.

And I heard they're going to remake Låt den rätte komma, "Let the Right One In"

Okay that one is based on a book. But please let have Sweden have that one. I mean there's Twilight that America could own up to. Even though it looks like a CW series. Anyways what's your list?

Oh this thread can be any remakes for that matter.

psycho brought NOTHING to the table.

Actually, I admired it for Vaughn's painstaking adaptation of Perkins. When he walked, he even moved his hands in the very same ways Perkins did. It was uncanny.

For the most part, if you've seen an original series/movie, that is adapted to the "american market" it's a lot harder to like the remake since you're used to the old one. I'm not a fan of NBC's The Office as a result, though I'm sure it's actually pretty funny.

I really pray that the talks of the Oldboy remake will be scrapped.

i actually enjoyed the remake of "hills have eyes" , even though it really twisted Craven's original idea around.
i wouldn't mind all the remakes if they didn't all feel so diluted and wimpy. that remake of "when a stranger calls" was just pitiful.

the original "bangkok dangerous" wasn't that great, and i can't imagine the new one is even slightly better.

"the vanishing" was a terrible remake of an awesome dutch movie called "spoorloos".

Life On Mars

The original British Series is hands down one of the best TV shows I have ever seen; Actor Phillip Glenister has made his character "Gene Hunt" one of the most memorable characters ever; and the music... the Music! Those of you who have seen this know what I am talking about. If you haven't, get on it! You can order it through Amzon.co.uk and watch it on a non-regional DVD player (the cheap ones are almost always non-regional) They also run it on BBC US.

That said, I was seriously worried about ABC making a version for North America, especially when they were going to set it in LA. Then there was problems, they needed a new Gene HUnt and they moved it to New York. Then they said they were going to change things in the story.
I thought for sure the show was doomed.
However, after having watched it since the pilot, I am happy to say that this has done the almost impossible and become it's own show.
The mythos is very familliar and the general concept the same, but it has taken on it's own flavor. It's standing on it's own, seperate from it's originator, but without become a farce.
Good Job ABC.
Harvey Keitel is a good Gene HUnt, but he's no Phillip Glenister.

I hope that ABC follows the BBC route though and winds the show up with Season 2 so they can get on and adapt Ashes to Ashes (also named after a Bowie Song/I know awesome) which is like a sequel series in that some of the central characters remain, but the main character changes as does the time period in which the show takes place.

I just seen the remake of the second one, The Hills Have Eyes II

I don't even think it was a remake just a off spring for the 2006 version.

Dude, it's already been cancelled. They're just going to let Season 1 play out and then it's done. Fortunately, they found out in time that they were being canned so they can wrap it up properly.

Dude, the American Power Rangers kick way more ass than the Japanese Power Rangers!!!

The one Asia-to-America remake that I actually admire (well, other than The Ring) is The Departed. I did watch Infernal Affairs, the original Korean movie, but I felt like the remake benefited considerably from Scorsese's hand at the wheel.

Other than that, please fucking stop it already. Some of us don't mind subtitles.

I'm having a hard time coming up with one that was actually worthwhile.

I guess The Office is pretty good, and it's technically a remake.

They ought to have a special movie channel devoted to pointless American remakes.

Edge of Darkness is being remade as a film - I really hope they make a good job of it, it would be pointless not to.

Edge of Darkness is a bleak five-hours miniseries released in the 80s telling the story of a police detective (played by the late great Bob Peck, more famous of his role in Jurassic Park - "clever girl!") trying to work out why his daughter was killed - a mystery which taps into cold-war paranoia of the thatcher era, worries about nuclear power, labour unions and Anglo-American cover-ups. It's amazing, and it had an eerie soundtrack from Eric Clapton to boot.

The remake is being billed as the come-back vehicle for Mel Gibson (in the leading role), which is worrying, but it is being directed by Martin Campbell (who directed the original series, and also has GoldenEye and Casino Royale to his name) - it could be a great film, I really hope it is, it's coming from incredible existing material - I thoroughly recommend hunting it down and watching it before the film is released.

I think the Office is a pretty good American remake.

Was Coupling that bad ? I never saw any of the remake.

the original is one of my favorite movies. it's brilliant. i agree the remake is worthless

Yeah, I actually preferred The Departed to the original.

I haven't seen much of the American version of The Office, but it must be better than the original bif only because all traces of Gervais have been removed. I didn't think the original Coupling was up to much either.

BBC miniseries State of Play has been filmified, with Russel Crowe and Ben Affleck in the lead roles. I'm in two minds about this... I suppose it might turn out to be pretty good in its own right (decent cast and writers, very good source material), but they're squeezing about 6 hours of complex plot into a 2 hour film. and Ben Affleck is a poor substitute for David Morrissey.

British accents were sexier!

This is a movie I really want to see, but both Netflix and BitTorrent resolutely refuse to provide it.

Here!

Point of No Return still bothers me