succubiss

Concept: Take a boring story, remove the explosions and special effect scenes, crop off the edges to make it full frame, take out the color, and combine 6 channels into a dull mono mix.

Result: Citizen Kane

Qui Gon Jim

Knew that first one was only a matter of time...

jekbrown

concept: take a legend of sci-fi filled with very interesting and provacative social commentary and combine that with great special effects and a hot young cast.

reality: Starship Troopers.

being a fan of the book, ST may be the biggest film dissapointment to me. I know lots of people liked it, but honestly, it was crap.

j

Rivero

...and for good reason.

Rivero

zooiiks

Concept: Take 3 of the funniest, most successful comedic actors from the 70's and 80's, throw in a hot young actress fresh off an incredibly popular and academy award-nominated film, and have them play numerous characters in a bizarre, dark comedy.

Reality: Nothing But Trouble

modfather

You are my hero, Shannon Nutt. Finally the truth comes out!

glassdragon

Mortal kombat annihilation suuuuucked... I really enjoyed the first but the second one made me want to gouge my eyes out with pieces of popcorn at the theater (oh by the way salt stings when you get it in your eye) but the pain was well worth it to not have to endure another minute of that monstrosity

dhmac

Concept: Adapt a superb satire of modern-day society and the media written by a great author with a strong cast and a visually-talented director into a highly anticipated feature

Reality: Bonfire of the Vanities

Jericho

Concept: Take an established movie franchise and an ultra-famous comic book hero and then give him rubber nipples. Then turn the city he lives in from dark and dreary into the neon capital of the world. Recast the main role twice, and keep adding sidekicks and villians until you kill the franchise.

Reality: Batman and Robin

Okay, so maybe that wasn't a good idea

shaun3000

Fixed. I thought we could use a movie that didn't suck to liven this thread up a bit

demonio

Concept: get a young cast with one who's name reminds you of a porn star. A flesh eating virus takes them out one by one while having to tolerate a horrible script and slow pacing.

Result: Cabin Fever

Concept: A crappy remake with Jessica Biel.

Result: Texas Chainsaw Massacre

wmansir

You want to see potential really killed, check out Starship Troopers 2. For starters the entire movie takes place at night, during a sand storm, so you can barely see the bugs, for what little screen time they have. Most of the film takes place inside an outpost. It's a much more intimate film than the original. Unfortunately, the cast makes Casper Van Dien look like Olivier.

EDIT:
Wow, I looked up Van Dien's IMDB record to see whatever happened to him. I though he fell of the face of the Earth, but the guy has been making a buttload of movies. He has 30 projects listed since Starship Troopers, but I haven't heard of a single one.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000680/

gregx55

Concept: Adapt the third book of a very sucessful childrens book series to the movie screen, make it a little darker, and bring in a new director.


Reality: HP3

rushmore223

Hmmmm.... They screwed this up? Everyone I have heard from just gushes about this movie.

Cusm

What about Sleepy Hollow?