Just leave it in the past
Last night I was handed a shiny little DVD of the new ATeam movie. No spoilers but the whole thing was a huge barrel of shite. I really had hoped that this might break the trend of movie crossovers and rebirths of old tv shows, remakes etc. It also made me think what other tv shows, films, video games etc would make good/bad movies.

What should never have been made into a movie?

Alt Q: What would you like made into a movie, books, old films, tv shows etc etc?
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:31, 112 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Kung Pow.
My friend Grant made me watch it in the holidays - it was dreadful.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:36, Reply)

Grant you wanker!

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:13, Reply)

that's what I said to him.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Hitchhikers should not have been made into a film.
Although the radio, book and TV series were all awesome.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I actually liked the film.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:42, Reply)

If I had never read the book or seen the TV series I probably would have
But they changed too much.

As I said quite loudly in the cinema at the time "Where the fuck is Zaphod's second head?"
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:44, Reply)

haha fair enough,
I never read the book and hadn't seen the tv series. I just thought it was really quirky. Plus I'm a sucker for a movie with Zooey Deschanel.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:47, Reply)

are you TGB on lolcats?
your name popped up in the comments and I wasn't sure if it was you since the grammar and spelling on that site is pointedly atrocious. Or do you get your sick sexual thrills from that kind of thing?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:47, Reply)

I can't even bring myself to type the URL
so no.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:49, Reply)

that's what I figured
although the comments are written in impeccable lolspeak so you never know....
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:50, Reply)

I hear Monty is a massive fan of the site
He may have stolen my name
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:52, Reply)

maybe he's trying to contibute to your downfall
so he can be Lord of the Grammar!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:55, Reply)

the sneaky bastard!!

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:02, Reply)

The Simpson movie was utter shite
Should never have been made.

I would like to see part 3 of the Godfather trilogy re-made as it was awful.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:44, Reply)

Agreed on the Simpsons
I turned it off after 15 minutes. It was as if they wanted to make every second of every scene ridiculously over the top amazing. Which kind of ruins the comic delivery of the jokes..
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:49, Reply)

Spider pig was awesome

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Puh-leeeeeease
The amount of times that scene was reproduced on adverts...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:52, Reply)

I disagree
After a couple of watches, I think it's superb
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:08, Reply)

The Catch-22 film was absolutely dreadful
I generally don't like remakes and this whole "dark" shenanigans brought on by the Batman thing is getting quite repititious...

I just wish they would do a good job of continuing the Terminator story. What I wanted in the new films was the epic future battles that featured in flashbacks during the first and second film. Instead we get fucking Christian Bale and that guy from Clash of the Titans ruining things. That new Terminator was awful.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:48, Reply)

aye it was horseshit.
I am hard pressed to think of anything that's been reimagined thats good. Apart from Batman as the last two were ace. I do also quite like Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lundgren.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:50, Reply)

I thought the remake of Oceans 11 was good
But I do shun 12 and 13 for the cash ins they are.

ooh ooh and the remake of the Fly! Jeff Goldblum FTW
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:00, Reply)

the only good thing about 12 is that Arsenal are in it.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I'm always disappointed when books are turned into films
I had high hopes for "The Road", but it fell short of the mark. I thought "The Time Travellers Wife" was quite a good film, even if they did cut about 60% of the book (by necessity I suppose).

"Alien" and "Aliens" by Allen Dean Foster are brilliant books, as are the films.

I like Kubriks "The Shining", I actually prefer it to the book.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:50, Reply)

I don't generally like films of books
yet I must have a massive streak of optimism hidden somewhere since I still watch them in hope
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:52, Reply)

I was gutted when I went to see Eragon as a movie.
it just murdered the books.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:53, Reply)

this.
It was so crappy.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:56, Reply)

I know!
Also - I read the twilight series long before it got so cliche'd and the movies came out. The movies nearly made me burn the books.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:58, Reply)

I dunno
I thought the film was better than the book. But then I really dislike the books
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:00, Reply)

Nah I read them a couple of years ago.
loved them. then the movies came out and wrecked it all.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:01, Reply)

I would agree with you one hundred percent
but the films have introduced me to the wonder that is Nikki Reed. Apart from that the films suck balls.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:01, Reply)

so many things have been ruined
but the biggest travesty is I,Robot. Watched the first ten minutes and vowed never to watch the rest. Crying shame that.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:57, Reply)

They just took the tittle
and the idea of the 3 laws, but made a new story out of it. Nothing to do with Asimov.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:58, Reply)

exactly
and a crap story at that
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Did you know that the cast and crew of that film lined up at Isac Asimovs grave
and took turns pissing all over it?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:59, Reply)

I didn't
But it doesn't surprise me.

Did the producers poo on it as well?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:03, Reply)

They did, they smeared it all over his gravestone
then they all had a dance on top of his grave. I think it was "The Macarena"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:07, Reply)

Poor guy
I wish he had woken up as a zombie and eaten their brains before they made the film.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:08, Reply)

Now THAT'S a film!
Zombie Asimov V's Hollywood
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:11, Reply)

I'd watch it

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:12, Reply)

Can't be worse than "Mega Shark V's Giant Octopus"

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:14, Reply)

do not speak ill of the MEGA SHARK V GIANT OCTOPUS!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:15, Reply)

Can't be as good good as
Shark in Venice.

Stephen Baldwin grows a leg back
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:16, Reply)

It was on the Horror channel at the weekend
I tried, I really tried, but it's...just...terrible...
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:18, Reply)

Watch Black Sheep
If you want a bad-but-awesome horror film.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:21, Reply)

if you want a plain bad one
watch Aquanoids
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)

I've given up on "so bad they're good" horror films
after I sat through a film about giant killer mosquitos, and then realised that I had seen it before.

I took a long hard look at my life after that.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)

Black Sheep
is made of win. And gore.
(berk, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:40, Reply)

it creeped me out so much when that little sheep foetus is creeping up his back to bite his ear

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:41, Reply)

I didn't know there was a book?
who's it by??
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:59, Reply)

/cries
it was a collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. The story the film is very loosely based on was much much better
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:00, Reply)

why are you crying?
I live in a small country town in Aus - a lot of things just pass by... :(
Might see if my history teacher has a copy.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:01, Reply)

I'm just joking :)
I know where you can get an ebook of it, if you want. Very good reading
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:03, Reply)

that sounds lovely, thank you.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:06, Reply)

will gaz

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I hope you at least know Asimov
as he's the best SciFi writer ever.

Have you heard of Fundation?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I've heard OF him, but never read anything of his.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:05, Reply)

I see
He's really good. Well, the stories are, he, as a writer... not so much...

Fundation might be a bit too much to start, but I, Robot is a really nice collection of stories, very much worth reading.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:09, Reply)

haha
my dad gave me the Foundation series when I was seven or eight, and it was the first book to interest me in sci-fi
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:13, Reply)

I cry with you
*sight*
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:03, Reply)

It wast the worst film ever
I fall asleep half way trough. Really dissapointing, considering how much I had enjoyed the book.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 10:57, Reply)

but he had 2007 vintage converse!
and an Audi! And only ate Dominos pizza and drank Pepsi
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Ha! There's product placement...
...and then there's stopping the film to advertise trainers.

Probably worse than the bit in Minority Report where they stop the film to go shopping at GAP and stop to look at a Guiness advert.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:09, Reply)

What?
Are we still talking about Eragon?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:09, Reply)

No I, Robot
and the EPIC product placement.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:10, Reply)

I really enjoyed it
I'm just a philistine I guess!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:10, Reply)

I'm an Aries

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:11, Reply)

I'm an Aquarius.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:14, Reply)

I thought you were Australian?
"Wap-wap-WAHHHHHH"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:15, Reply)

I am many things...

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:18, Reply)

...to many people?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:19, Reply)

exactly.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:20, Reply)

Splendid.

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)

I enjoyed it but I renamed my copy
Will Smith's advantures through Robot Land
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:16, Reply)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Should have been made differently. The beginning of the film was fine, but at about the halfway mark it becomes a mess.

The biggest travesty of all was what they did to Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds is absolutely perfect to play him, and they got the wise-crackin' nature down pat at the beginning, but then they go and make him a mute super-mutant with cyclops eye-lasers and innate teleportation?!
To those who don't know Deadpool, that'd be like if they took Aragorn in LotR and halfway through the film he becomes a 20ft tall cyborg with miniguns for legs and rides into battle on a mecha-raptor.
Yes, the fights looked cool, but it's ostensibly NOT Deadpool!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:20, Reply)

NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK
Hugh Jackman's Wolverine! How dare he.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:21, Reply)

I don't care if they do
I just had to let that rant out. Cathartic.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)

I enjoyed the fact they also removed his shirt though

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:23, Reply)

PERVERT
I bet you loved it in Blade Trinity too. He was the best thing in that movie.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:24, Reply)

I don't think it's perving if it's my future husband

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:27, Reply)

oh god yes.
FIT
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:48, Reply)

I was pretty disappointed about that too
He was funny as hell at the start
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:23, Reply)

Rumour has it they'll make a Deadpool movie
They'd better get it right this time.
Mind you, Ryan Reynolds is playing Green Lantern now.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:24, Reply)

ha - BRILLIANT!
"In brightest day, in darkest night..."
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)

*blackest night
Ryan Reynolds nails the oath at Comic Con
io9.com/5596819/ryan-reynolds-recites-the-lantern-corps-oath-for-the-littlest-green-lantern
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)

sorry mr perfection-ist.
I'm poorly and fuzzy headed. :P
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:33, Reply)

I thought it had already been confirmed?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Yep, it has. He's doing both.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 27 Jul 2010, 17:10, Reply)

Oooh good question!
I wish I Am Legend was never made into a big blockbuster, especially when they fucked the whole thing up. I would like to see a book by Karen Rose called Don't Tell made into a film, or a Jeffrey Deaver booked called The Blue Nowhere made into a film! :)

I am sad to hear about the A Team, this makes me cry. :(
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:33, Reply)

I thought the A Team was going to be good too

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)

Sad times!
The trailers look groovy! I have a feeling it'll end up being one of those films that I love and everyone else thinks is shit... like the Island or DeJa Vu! :(
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:36, Reply)

I'm hoping this happens with me.
I have mostly crap taste, but that doesn't mean I'm easily pleased oh no siree.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Same here!
DiT likes to point out to people the DVDs that are 'crap' in our house and then he points at me and shouts 'They're all hers'. :(
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:40, Reply)

That snob

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Yup!
He may have a point with some, I did go through a phase of buying DVDs on release only to find out they were rubbish, now I'm stuck with them. Examples of this would be Silent Hill and American Dreams! :S
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:47, Reply)

I like TV movies

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Ooooh me too!
I really like those crappy Stephen King tv movies, oh and Dean Koontz Intensity is wicked and crap all at the same time! :)

Which ones do you like? A bit of Danielle Steel? Hehe
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:51, Reply)

No, silly rom-coms
Like there was this one called the Counterfeit Contessa, with Tia Leone and some fit bloke. It was all exaggerated Noo Yoik but I loved it.
Like shit versions of Roman Holiday basically.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Awww
I really like Tia Leone, shes tops! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:00, Reply)

me too
She was in some shit-com that I liked int he 90s too
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:02, Reply)

I like her in Family Man
and also Bad Boys, I love that film! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:09, Reply)

I was hoping it would be good but it's just not. I wanted it to win me over. It sucked balls.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:50, Reply)

The Island and Deja Vu
were both AWESOME.

TWO!! Ewans!! TWO!!!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Thank the lord!!
This is my point! Hes lovely lovely and there are two of him! :D

Also Denzel is smokin' so Deja Vu made me happy just because he is in it! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:40, Reply)

I pity the fool who pays to see the new A Team
Although Mr T would probably be eating snickers throughout the entire film and then I'd have to demote I, Robot a place
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:36, Reply)

I've seen it already, I quite liked it. I was half asleep, mind.
It's not a patch on Hot Tub Time Machine.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Nothing is I'm sure! :)

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I'm so hungry.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:49, Reply)

I fucking loved the Blue Nowhere!
that was my first Deaver.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:49, Reply)

It is wicked!
I find that some of his books promise a lot and deliver bugger all, but The Blue Nowhere is one of his best I think! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:50, Reply)

I have found that of late I can guess where the twist at the end of most chapters is going to go
because he's very fond of the 'one step ahead' misdirection, but I love the Lincoln Rhyme stuff.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Oooh yeah the Lincoln Rhyme books are great
I like that one called The Empty Chair, that was good! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)

I'd like to see Firefly made into a movie
Oh wait, they did.

And it was AWESOME!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:59, Reply)