How in the WORLD is the Remake of The Crow not on this list? I mean that was a film that literally no one asked for, no one wanted and was just an unmitigated disaster in every sense.
The Mummy only became pointless when they cast Tom Cruise in it and let his people rewrite the script into a Tom Cruise adventure movie. It was supposed to be the kickstart to the Dark Universe series.
Came to say this. The idea had potential, but Tom Cruise needs the spotlight so once he was signed on it was no longer a mummy movie but a Tom Cruise movie.
Yeah, the problem with The Mummy remake is kinda that it had too much point. They were so focused on launching a franchise, they didn’t prioritize making a good movie.
I thought Joker: Folie a Deux would be in this top since it has so little plot, it doesn't move events from Joker further, and even the main character is killed by a random guy. Even court drama is not engaging, since it's basically retelling of what happened previously. So what was all of this for, still mystery for me
because the joker movies are not about plot like most movies, the purpose of this movies it's to make the audience think about mental illness, injustice, and how the sistem and society doesn´t care about those kind of people, even to this day... if the movies weren't called "joker" and if the main character was called anything else the message would have been more accepted... but because it was called joker for marketing reasons everyone expected to be conected with batman and other dc characters in the way marvel made their cinematic universe... I don't think they are perfect movies, the first one was ok maybe, kind of trying to get to to many places and the main focus kind of get lost in the"social revolution" more visual aesthetics... and the second one it´s more focused on he duality of the main character and what you as an espectator think about his mental state and responsability towards his crimes...
@leonelvarelarodriguez4236 it's okay to show how society neglects mentally ill people, but what's not okay is when the main character with such illness doesn't do anything to make his situation better. In the first movie, Arthur wanted to be recognized by people as a comedian because he believed he was meant to bring joy to people, and Arthur had a good time doing this. But when all this was taken away and after finding out that all Arthur believed in was a lie, he snapped and decided to respond to the world by becoming Joker, as Murray mocked him on TV for Fleck's failed stand-up performance. That's why the first movie worked: because Arthur was an active protagonist seeking for help and better future, but after not getting it, he decided to get revenge on the society which made him happy at the end. Meanwhile, the sequel shows Arthur being depressed once again, but this time he does little to nothing in the movie except when he decides to represent himself on the court, and even there he fails. Other times we just watch him suffering and being constantly humiliated by guards and on the court, then being raped, then being rejected by Harley and then dying from the hands of a random Arkham patient who was never set up in the story which makes it absurd. If the character is humiliated and tortured throughout the movie while never getting an upper hand to deserve a better future, the story (if there is one) becomes aimless and time wasting. Once again, it's okay to show the main character being unfairly treated for his limitations, but if the protagonist doesn't take actions to make his situation better, you lose interest in the story near the half of it.
I watched Hellboy: The Crooked Man last night and my favorite thing about it is that it WASN'T a superhero movie. It was a horror movie that included a superhero. The effects were fine for what it was. It definitely looked like a limited budget horror movie, but not in a bad way. Fog and darkness were used to great effect and the characters were great. The 'bad guy' was sufficiently evil and hard to destroy. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Every single live-action remake by Disney is a giant "Why are they doing this??" I mean it's an obvious cash grab of course but at the same time they make unneeded changes right along with the remaking process. It's like what they do with their streaming releases of older animated hits: changes no one asked for that dumb down the whole thing in an attempt to make it more marketable.
Copyright renewal, mostly. Disney makes more money before breakfast than some small countries do in a year, so it can afford any losses as long as it gets to keep the intellectual property rights.
No one will ever truly forget Fant-FOUR-stic. From the stylized title, to Trank's meltdown, to the obvious reshoots, it's a disaster that keeps giving.
"The Lion King 2019" didn't even need to exist, and was just made to cash in on the original's success. The script is verbatim the same as the original.
And then they did a prequel that retconned Mufasa and Scar’s origin story. The movie showed that Mufasa was an orphan taken in to Scar’s pride, which meant he had no hereditary claim to the throne, and that Scar was truly the rightful king. 😡
It could have been justified if they used it to explain a few miscellaneous details such as Nala's Father, Zira's Devotion to Scar, how Simba got his fighting experience despite living a hedonistic lifestyle for years, what happened to Sarafina, etc.
I dont think Never Say Never Again should be in this list - Although Roger Moore was very popular , people were always looking for the return of Sean Connery as Bond. The problem was the execution of NSNA. It ironically veered towards the slow paced humour filled style of some of the Roger Moore movies ( Moonraker springs to mind ) instead of the breakneck action thriller ( say Raiders of the Lost Ark ) it so deserved to be.
To be fair on Matrix 4, it was forced by the studio, and the people involved deliberately made it as bad as possible to kill any future attempt at making a franchise. The director was very open about it upon the release of the movie, as was the main cast. Edit: As the Dark Monster verse, trying to make a franchise out of characters that are firmly in the public domain was a bad idea to begin with. Using poor scripts and over producing the movies was the death knell.
Exactly. They even told us that in the film. Wachowski made it so no one else would. I actually liked the fact that Neo and Trinity finally got their happy ending.
Highlander 2 was a pointless movie. A Good Day To Die Hard was a pointless movie. All the Terminator sequels after T2 were pointless movies. The remake of Roadhouse was pointless.
Remakes can be pointless, but I’d argue the terminator movies at least tried to move the story forward. The thing Terminator has vs other franchises is that we all know what is supposed to happen in the future so we want to see what happens along the way (kind of like wanting the Star Wars Prequels even though we know what basically happens) and then we want to know what happens after Judgement Day…if it indeed came to pass.
Actually I liked Highlander 2. Of course not as part of the franchise or of the lore, but it can be pretty funny, if you see this as a standalone trash-movie. You know, the ones that are so bad, that it's somehow good again. Ok, I admit, the first time I saw it at release, I was shocked. But later on... well, it really can be fun. ^^
I do like that you don't shy away from alienating much bigger production companies, gaming companies etc., well done. Never lose that independent spirit!
Brendan was blacklisted at the time, Tom and Sofia were HUGE at the time of release, and their names alone were expected to kick start the Dark universe. The movie made perfect sense on paper, and that's why it was made
It was the only Tom Cruise movie I ever paid to see in the cinema 😂 Tom Cruise is a fine actor but he picks movies I have no interest in seeing on the Big Screen or Small one 🙄
I agree with you about the director's cut of Donnie Darko. The theatrical film was perfect the way it was, while the other cut was brought down by the shoehorned insert passages that completely stopped the film and took you out of it altogether. I had to get the blu-ray copy just so I would be able to watch the theatrical version.
10:25 The two versions of Pchyco weren't entirely the same. When the toilet flushes the water rotates clockwise in one and counterclockwise in the other.
For the theme "pointless movies" the first 2 things coming to my mind are Joker 2, which was so far as I understood planed to be on the Broadway rather than movies and the moana remake (personally I think even the second one would have been better if it stayed as a series like planned)
Moana 2 definitely would have been better as a show, but squandered as far as money potential goes. It killed in the box office. Moana 2 would not have moved me to get disney plus. I wish they made the movie better overall though.
I like both versions of Donnie Darko. I don't mind a version that's ambiguous and a cut where it explains time travel, parallel universes, and Deus Machina.
#1 should have been the crow 2024 because they ruined the name of Shelly and Eric draven two happy people who liked Halloween, just to be turned into two drug addled to escapies from rehab. What a disgrace they should have just made it another crow movie not tried to remake the original Crow.
Speaking of pointless … the plinky and characterless background piano music to this video offers an underlying pointlessness as a meta characteristic to the video…
I liked the tom cruise the mummy it just was not the brendan frasier ones. I remember the media saying tom cruise career was over after it . and this are the same people who would not stop foaming out the mouth for top gun 2.
No idea what Universal was even planning with their Dark Universe crossover anyway, if they were planning to make their own Monster Squad or Creature Commandos, but I was still interested to see what would happen. They should have just kept going after Dracula Untold. Hell. Or not given Cruise so much creative control in the 1st place
Dreamworks' HtTYD remake is following Disney's Lion King 2019's footsteps in making what appears to be a near shot for shot remake, and it's probably going to do well (though I don't expect it to pull 2019 box office numbers, there is just fewer people going to the theatres these days, I think). It does at least have the potential advantage of having a human cast, though that said, I don't remember being wowed by the human cast in the trailer. The Mummy was unfortunate though. I actually did like the idea of a Dark Universe. Shame they figuratively flooded the engine trying to kickstart it with that particular film.
Many of them, yes. At least I think so too. Actually I even didn't like Bohemian Rhapsody. There were so many real things to tell about Queen... why they had to twist everything? But there's one good "biopic": Weird: The Al Yankovic story. ^^
exactly! This list is made from the view point of a casual watcher and their entitlement for a film that entertains them. FOX was making power moves, just like Sony will do with Spiderman.
The Amityville Horror(Horrible 😂) 2005. Psycho is what reminded me of this (1998). Both using guys who are comical in nature and success. Call it casting partly.
@@TheGryphonLJJ Neither movie failed because of the actors, the 2019 one was just a shite script, with some janky effects despite a decent budget, the Crooked man had a low budget and the acting fit it perfectly imo.
The Mummy should have followed Coppola's Dracula formula and created a redemption arc, with the resurrected Queen meeting her sister and baby reincarnated, rather than that annoying character Annabelle Wallis played.
You CAN'T HARSHLY JUDGE the live action How To Train Your Dragon when there's only been a TEASER TRAILER. The animation of Toothless from the gleaming reflective eyes to the darkness of his scaly skin is AMAZING
I also thought The Crooked Man was good. Definitely better than it had a right to be with the budget it had! I think people would be rather more interested in additional Hellboy movies than in the several mentioned candidates that didn’t make the list. Indeed, if there’s one thing that the low budget of the Hellboy movie did *for* the film, it was to tempt the franchise into telling a story that didn’t really involve some giant threat to world or the universe; and telling stories with a smaller scope is something that many action and adventure movies could really benefit from. The Crooked Man wasn’t the Hellboy movie we deserved; but it was the one we needed right now. Totally agree with the rest of the list.
It sure will be good looking and all. At least that's what one can hope. I'm just a bit disappointed that it most probably will be a shot for shot remake of the original movie. Since a while I hear the audiobooks, the books that the animated movie is based on. Read by David Tennant at his best. And the books are actually different to the movie(s). I would say, even better. So, if they really need to make a live action movie, why not more close to the books?
Nobody forgot Fantastic Four, there is just nothing worthy to talk about regarding it so we pretend as a whole that it never existed. Its still cursed our brains to permanent memory.
The 2011 Footloose was a completely pointless movie. it didn't bring better actors, not taking anything away from Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell, but I felt John Lithgow and Diane Weist came across as a Midwest religious family better and only Miles Teller went on to a successful career since. Stick to the 1984 original, it's far superior.
All I remember about The Mummy is Tom Cruise outrunning a soundwave, as glass cases shattered around him. Yes, if you run with your hands straight you can go nearly 800mph 😂
Never Say Never Again came about, so Kevin McClory could keep the rights to Thunderball, and apparently he was going to remake it again as "Warhead 2000" with Timothy Dalton returning as Bond, which never happened
How about Police Academy? You'd think it was over after the first sequel but there were five more and even a TV series. Barbara Carrera was the best thing about Never say Never again. It's the only reason I really still watch the movie
Never say Never again is far more superior than Thunderball. One of the Best Bond Movies ever made even being a Non Canonic movie. And was a very good farewell to the role to Sean Connery.
I generally stay out of the comments sections on youtube, but I'm going to step up for Hellboy: The Crooked Man. While correct, no one (myself included) asked for this, I think this is actually the best interpretation of Hellboy onscreen! My only real complaint is that Jack Kesey's make-up didn't go as a far as Perlman's (but still looks much better than Harbour's). The movie is gritty and creepy, but not without humour, with Hellboy's matter-of-fact responses to the increasingly escalating situations always elicit a chuckle. It is also a near perfect adaptation of the original comic story, taking everything there, but also punching up the action and set pieces some more. Don't skip it!
I don't care what anyone says about The Mummy, Sofia Boutella looked better than ever before, and it gave us the unexpectedly great movie tie-in The Mummy: Demastered video game!
I enjoyed the live action version of The Lion King, I love the original also. Same with The Jungle Book, I enjoyed both the animated version, and the live action version.
No film in the history of Hollywood needs to be made. Films are like any other industry, made to make money. No matter how much people think Lion King 2019 was pointless it made $1.6 billion so Disney are VERY happy.
The problem with 'The mummy' is i remember reading reports that Cruise had them rewrite the film to give his character more screen time and make them the centre of attention.
I would absolutely love a Brendan Fraser The Mummy sequal. The 3rd iteration left alot wanting, and I bet even Rachel Weisz would be happy to now. She was in Black Widow so surely The Mummy 4 would be a huge step up. Also this list is missing Black Widow.
There has never been a good reason to have more Home Alone movies. Even the second one doesn't make that much sense. The Dark Universe could've been a good idea but they didn't seem to plan it very well. One of The Mummy's problems was Tom Cruise. Unless he was the mummy, it just became a Tom Cruise movie.
One of the most pointless remakes: Evil Dead They went from comedic horror to full on gore-fest that didn't even really need a script. A weekend where all the college kids d!3, from demon rampaging.
Loved the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde battle. They should have spun that portion off somehow. But the Mummy movie itself, god. They made it like Mission Impossible meets add whatever horror franchise here.
They can easily reintroduce Hellboy via BPRD to explain away what happened to the Ron Pearlman Hellboy. Have him stuck in purgatory or something and explain the other movies as his failed attempts to escape it and enter HIS universe at FULL power.
Then create a sequel where the Ron Pearlman Hellboy escapes and has to help his universes version of BPRD who had to attempt to take over and do their best without him. Hell you can open the movie of Hellboy getting trapped and the rest of the BPRD, be like "the hell did he go?"; then have Del Toro direct for visual continuity then bam print money.
Hell boy, the crooked man was awesome and was very very much like the source material. The other movies was just a dressed up action flick trying to be a comic book movie
Honestly The Crooked man was pretty decent, can think of many other titles as late as this year that was less needed, like The Crow for instance, or how about Joker 2.. Nah this list does not go near the bottom of unwanted movies..
Hollywood will always crank out duds, ripoffs, or complete reboots in order to keep studios and executives well paid. Although not always well received.
Amazed they brought up lion king and ignored Ariel....lion king 2019 one of the highest grossing movies ever versus something thats never mentioned again....
How in the WORLD is the Remake of The Crow not on this list? I mean that was a film that literally no one asked for, no one wanted and was just an unmitigated disaster in every sense.
Not the remake, EVERY remake
Could not agree more with this statement
I liked it.
@@TopazTowaz more than the 1994 version with Brandon Lee?
Not just the remake, all the sequels too.
The Mummy only became pointless when they cast Tom Cruise in it and let his people rewrite the script into a Tom Cruise adventure movie. It was supposed to be the kickstart to the Dark Universe series.
Came to say this. The idea had potential, but Tom Cruise needs the spotlight so once he was signed on it was no longer a mummy movie but a Tom Cruise movie.
That movie is awful. It’s the Sharknado of the Mummy franchise.
Yeah, the problem with The Mummy remake is kinda that it had too much point. They were so focused on launching a franchise, they didn’t prioritize making a good movie.
I thought Joker: Folie a Deux would be in this top since it has so little plot, it doesn't move events from Joker further, and even the main character is killed by a random guy. Even court drama is not engaging, since it's basically retelling of what happened previously. So what was all of this for, still mystery for me
To punish people who enjoyed the first film for the "wrong reasons".
because the joker movies are not about plot like most movies, the purpose of this movies it's to make the audience think about mental illness, injustice, and how the sistem and society doesn´t care about those kind of people, even to this day... if the movies weren't called "joker" and if the main character was called anything else the message would have been more accepted... but because it was called joker for marketing reasons everyone expected to be conected with batman and other dc characters in the way marvel made their cinematic universe... I don't think they are perfect movies, the first one was ok maybe, kind of trying to get to to many places and the main focus kind of get lost in the"social revolution" more visual aesthetics... and the second one it´s more focused on he duality of the main character and what you as an espectator think about his mental state and responsability towards his crimes...
@leonelvarelarodriguez4236 it's okay to show how society neglects mentally ill people, but what's not okay is when the main character with such illness doesn't do anything to make his situation better. In the first movie, Arthur wanted to be recognized by people as a comedian because he believed he was meant to bring joy to people, and Arthur had a good time doing this. But when all this was taken away and after finding out that all Arthur believed in was a lie, he snapped and decided to respond to the world by becoming Joker, as Murray mocked him on TV for Fleck's failed stand-up performance. That's why the first movie worked: because Arthur was an active protagonist seeking for help and better future, but after not getting it, he decided to get revenge on the society which made him happy at the end.
Meanwhile, the sequel shows Arthur being depressed once again, but this time he does little to nothing in the movie except when he decides to represent himself on the court, and even there he fails. Other times we just watch him suffering and being constantly humiliated by guards and on the court, then being raped, then being rejected by Harley and then dying from the hands of a random Arkham patient who was never set up in the story which makes it absurd. If the character is humiliated and tortured throughout the movie while never getting an upper hand to deserve a better future, the story (if there is one) becomes aimless and time wasting. Once again, it's okay to show the main character being unfairly treated for his limitations, but if the protagonist doesn't take actions to make his situation better, you lose interest in the story near the half of it.
The dreadful remake of Arnie’s Total Recall which starred Colin Farrell. For heaven’s sake, WHY?! My eyes!!!😫😤😡🤬
I watched Hellboy: The Crooked Man last night and my favorite thing about it is that it WASN'T a superhero movie. It was a horror movie that included a superhero. The effects were fine for what it was. It definitely looked like a limited budget horror movie, but not in a bad way. Fog and darkness were used to great effect and the characters were great. The 'bad guy' was sufficiently evil and hard to destroy. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Certainly a far better Hellboy movie than the one with David Harbour (no offence to the guy) but that was just a shite story..
Did I miss you talking about The Crow remake (or any of the sequels)😂?
That was the first thing that came to my mind. Such a complete waste of time and money. No one wanted that remake
Every single live-action remake by Disney is a giant "Why are they doing this??" I mean it's an obvious cash grab of course but at the same time they make unneeded changes right along with the remaking process. It's like what they do with their streaming releases of older animated hits: changes no one asked for that dumb down the whole thing in an attempt to make it more marketable.
Copyright renewal, mostly. Disney makes more money before breakfast than some small countries do in a year, so it can afford any losses as long as it gets to keep the intellectual property rights.
No one will ever truly forget Fant-FOUR-stic. From the stylized title, to Trank's meltdown, to the obvious reshoots, it's a disaster that keeps giving.
Shared trauma!
I think the Footloose remake is the most pointless movie of all time
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There was a footloose remake?
Oh yes, 2011, and they all have earbuds, which makes the point moot
"The Lion King 2019" didn't even need to exist, and was just made to cash in on the original's success. The script is verbatim the same as the original.
And then they did a prequel that retconned Mufasa and Scar’s origin story. The movie showed that Mufasa was an orphan taken in to Scar’s pride, which meant he had no hereditary claim to the throne, and that Scar was truly the rightful king. 😡
Just about any live action remake from Disney never needed to exist lol.
@@nightangel972000lmao yea. They did Scar dirty af.
It could have been justified if they used it to explain a few miscellaneous details such as Nala's Father, Zira's Devotion to Scar, how Simba got his fighting experience despite living a hedonistic lifestyle for years, what happened to Sarafina, etc.
Yes it did
I dont think Never Say Never Again should be in this list - Although Roger Moore was very popular , people were always looking for the return of Sean Connery as Bond. The problem was the execution of NSNA. It ironically veered towards the slow paced humour filled style of some of the Roger Moore movies ( Moonraker springs to mind ) instead of the breakneck action thriller ( say Raiders of the Lost Ark ) it so deserved to be.
The music in the remake was dreadful. Can't remember a.note of it. Don't want to.
Live version of Aladdin, Disney should be ashamed
the answer to most of these is: to keep the IP rights
To be fair on Matrix 4, it was forced by the studio, and the people involved deliberately made it as bad as possible to kill any future attempt at making a franchise. The director was very open about it upon the release of the movie, as was the main cast.
Edit: As the Dark Monster verse, trying to make a franchise out of characters that are firmly in the public domain was a bad idea to begin with. Using poor scripts and over producing the movies was the death knell.
Exactly. They even told us that in the film. Wachowski made it so no one else would. I actually liked the fact that Neo and Trinity finally got their happy ending.
Highlander 2 was a pointless movie. A Good Day To Die Hard was a pointless movie. All the Terminator sequels after T2 were pointless movies. The remake of Roadhouse was pointless.
you forget, Highlander 2 NEVER HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!
Remakes can be pointless, but I’d argue the terminator movies at least tried to move the story forward. The thing Terminator has vs other franchises is that we all know what is supposed to happen in the future so we want to see what happens along the way (kind of like wanting the Star Wars Prequels even though we know what basically happens) and then we want to know what happens after Judgement Day…if it indeed came to pass.
@@ScottFunk-us6ro First rule of Highlander 2 is you do not talk about Highlander 2!
@@crippletron6879 That's one thing I'll give Salvation, it tried to do something different. 3, Genisys and Dark Fate were just treading water.
Actually I liked Highlander 2. Of course not as part of the franchise or of the lore, but it can be pretty funny, if you see this as a standalone trash-movie. You know, the ones that are so bad, that it's somehow good again. Ok, I admit, the first time I saw it at release, I was shocked. But later on... well, it really can be fun. ^^
We will not move on. We want Hellboy 3.
I do like that you don't shy away from alienating much bigger production companies, gaming companies etc., well done. Never lose that independent spirit!
Brendan was blacklisted at the time, Tom and Sofia were HUGE at the time of release, and their names alone were expected to kick start the Dark universe. The movie made perfect sense on paper, and that's why it was made
The only problem was Tom. He had the script almost entirely rewritten to make it a "Tom Cruise movie" the original idea was great.
It was the only Tom Cruise movie I ever paid to see in the cinema 😂 Tom Cruise is a fine actor but he picks movies I have no interest in seeing on the Big Screen or Small one 🙄
I liked the matrix resurrection
I agree with you about the director's cut of Donnie Darko. The theatrical film was perfect the way it was, while the other cut was brought down by the shoehorned insert passages that completely stopped the film and took you out of it altogether. I had to get the blu-ray copy just so I would be able to watch the theatrical version.
I didn't even know that there was a Directors cut until this video
10:25 The two versions of Pchyco weren't entirely the same. When the toilet flushes the water rotates clockwise in one and counterclockwise in the other.
For the theme "pointless movies" the first 2 things coming to my mind are Joker 2, which was so far as I understood planed to be on the Broadway rather than movies and the moana remake (personally I think even the second one would have been better if it stayed as a series like planned)
Moana 2 definitely would have been better as a show, but squandered as far as money potential goes. It killed in the box office. Moana 2 would not have moved me to get disney plus. I wish they made the movie better overall though.
"One of the Most Pointless WhatCulture Videos Ever Made"
There...I fixed the title for y'all. Thanks for the video anyway!
I like both versions of Donnie Darko. I don't mind a version that's ambiguous and a cut where it explains time travel, parallel universes, and Deus Machina.
#1 should have been the crow 2024 because they ruined the name of Shelly and Eric draven two happy people who liked Halloween, just to be turned into two drug addled to escapies from rehab. What a disgrace they should have just made it another crow movie not tried to remake the original Crow.
Speaking of pointless … the plinky and characterless background piano music to this video offers an underlying pointlessness as a meta characteristic to the video…
Every single Disney live Action Remake should be here
I liked the tom cruise the mummy it just was not the brendan frasier ones. I remember the media saying tom cruise career was over after it . and this are the same people who would not stop foaming out the mouth for top gun 2.
Top Gun 2 was over hyped so was Avatar the way of the boring 🥱
No idea what Universal was even planning with their Dark Universe crossover anyway, if they were planning to make their own Monster Squad or Creature Commandos, but I was still interested to see what would happen. They should have just kept going after Dracula Untold. Hell. Or not given Cruise so much creative control in the 1st place
Dreamworks' HtTYD remake is following Disney's Lion King 2019's footsteps in making what appears to be a near shot for shot remake, and it's probably going to do well (though I don't expect it to pull 2019 box office numbers, there is just fewer people going to the theatres these days, I think). It does at least have the potential advantage of having a human cast, though that said, I don't remember being wowed by the human cast in the trailer.
The Mummy was unfortunate though. I actually did like the idea of a Dark Universe. Shame they figuratively flooded the engine trying to kickstart it with that particular film.
biopics are usually pointless
Many of them, yes. At least I think so too. Actually I even didn't like Bohemian Rhapsody. There were so many real things to tell about Queen... why they had to twist everything? But there's one good "biopic":
Weird: The Al Yankovic story. ^^
Fant4stic wasn't a pointless movie, dumb yes but not pointless. 20th Century Fox needed to make it to keep the rights.
exactly! This list is made from the view point of a casual watcher and their entitlement for a film that entertains them. FOX was making power moves, just like Sony will do with Spiderman.
. No it is not technically a dumb decision for business but yes it is a dumb reason as a viewer
Still feels like movie nobody actually cared about making. Even the original director after he was replaced said he hated it.
And what did they do with the rights once they kept them?
They really didn't need to remake Aladdin either. Robin Williams was perfect for that roll.
The Amityville Horror(Horrible 😂) 2005. Psycho is what reminded me of this (1998). Both using guys who are comical in nature and success. Call it casting partly.
At least the crooked man was MUCH better than the 2019 reboot
I do not blame the actors. You have to work with what you are given.
@@TheGryphonLJJ Neither movie failed because of the actors, the 2019 one was just a shite script, with some janky effects despite a decent budget, the Crooked man had a low budget and the acting fit it perfectly imo.
The Crooked Man was a good movie, people gotta get over low graphics, and just enjoy a story.
The Mummy should have followed Coppola's Dracula formula and created a redemption arc, with the resurrected Queen meeting her sister and baby reincarnated, rather than that annoying character Annabelle Wallis played.
cruise rewrote the whole script, what we saw wasnt even the original script.
You CAN'T HARSHLY JUDGE the live action How To Train Your Dragon when there's only been a TEASER TRAILER. The animation of Toothless from the gleaming reflective eyes to the darkness of his scaly skin is AMAZING
I also thought The Crooked Man was good. Definitely better than it had a right to be with the budget it had!
I think people would be rather more interested in additional Hellboy movies than in the several mentioned candidates that didn’t make the list.
Indeed, if there’s one thing that the low budget of the Hellboy movie did *for* the film, it was to tempt the franchise into telling a story that didn’t really involve some giant threat to world or the universe; and telling stories with a smaller scope is something that many action and adventure movies could really benefit from.
The Crooked Man wasn’t the Hellboy movie we deserved; but it was the one we needed right now.
Totally agree with the rest of the list.
The 2025 How to train your dragon 🐉 movie is going to be awesome 😎
Agreed
It sure will be good looking and all. At least that's what one can hope. I'm just a bit disappointed that it most probably will be a shot for shot remake of the original movie.
Since a while I hear the audiobooks, the books that the animated movie is based on. Read by David Tennant at his best. And the books are actually different to the movie(s). I would say, even better. So, if they really need to make a live action movie, why not more close to the books?
Nobody forgot Fantastic Four, there is just nothing worthy to talk about regarding it so we pretend as a whole that it never existed.
Its still cursed our brains to permanent memory.
I like The Mummy, but then I like Sofia so that helped.
The 2011 Footloose was a completely pointless movie. it didn't bring better actors, not taking anything away from Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell, but I felt John Lithgow and Diane Weist came across as a Midwest religious family better and only Miles Teller went on to a successful career since. Stick to the 1984 original, it's far superior.
Tbh WhatCulture , you could have filled a lot more than just top 10, make it a top 100 😂👍🤟🏻
All I remember about The Mummy is Tom Cruise outrunning a soundwave, as glass cases shattered around him.
Yes, if you run with your hands straight you can go nearly 800mph 😂
Never Say Never Again came about, so Kevin McClory could keep the rights to Thunderball, and apparently he was going to remake it again as "Warhead 2000" with Timothy Dalton returning as Bond, which never happened
How about Police Academy? You'd think it was over after the first sequel but there were five more and even a TV series.
Barbara Carrera was the best thing about Never say Never again. It's the only reason I really still watch the movie
I would watch anything with Carrie Ann Moss in it with a kind of pleasure you would never understand.
Never say Never again is far more superior than Thunderball. One of the Best Bond Movies ever made even being a Non Canonic movie. And was a very good farewell to the role to Sean Connery.
are you insane?!
Red Dragon, it even used the same script from Manhunter.
Amen.
No it was better
I generally stay out of the comments sections on youtube, but I'm going to step up for Hellboy: The Crooked Man. While correct, no one (myself included) asked for this, I think this is actually the best interpretation of Hellboy onscreen! My only real complaint is that Jack Kesey's make-up didn't go as a far as Perlman's (but still looks much better than Harbour's). The movie is gritty and creepy, but not without humour, with Hellboy's matter-of-fact responses to the increasingly escalating situations always elicit a chuckle. It is also a near perfect adaptation of the original comic story, taking everything there, but also punching up the action and set pieces some more. Don't skip it!
I had no idea half of these movies were even real LOL
The only one that was a surprise to me was Donnie Darko Directors cut seriously I never knew that was a thing
Crooked man was a good film, better than the third one.
I liked it too. Felt a lot closer to the comics in tone.
Agreed even though there were somethings that needed some improvement
I don't care what anyone says about The Mummy, Sofia Boutella looked better than ever before, and it gave us the unexpectedly great movie tie-in The Mummy: Demastered video game!
I too thought she was particularly hot, tho the movie still sucked. Hally Berry was haf in Catwoman, but that sucked badly too.
I enjoyed the live action version of The Lion King, I love the original also. Same with The Jungle Book, I enjoyed both the animated version, and the live action version.
No film in the history of Hollywood needs to be made. Films are like any other industry, made to make money. No matter how much people think Lion King 2019 was pointless it made $1.6 billion so Disney are VERY happy.
Bill & Ted 3, I consider to be pointless. The story ended perfectly at the end of Bogus Journey
Saw it once. Never wanted to see it again.
God Gave Rock and Roll to you was the perfect ending. The third was nostalgia pandering.
It would be nice if animation companies (Pixar, Dreamworks, Disney, etc) would make actual animated films instead of Live Action with Animation
Someone's review of The Mummy (2017) was "all the parts that don't have Tom Cruise are great."
Mufasa is probably the first thing i thought i dont think anyone in the last 20 years thought they wanted a movie about that
I swear i thought the Hellboy movie was a fake fan film.
A yearly staple. We applaud for Lumpy in this house.
The color version remake of 12 Angry Men was nearly a shot for shot remake as well
The problem with 'The mummy' is i remember reading reports that Cruise had them rewrite the film to give his character more screen time and make them the centre of attention.
The Matrix Resurrections does a far better job of addressing toxic fandom than Joker Folie A Deux did earlier this year.
I watched the fifth Home Alone this holiday. My little guy loves them all.
Never seen any of those movies...I passed because of all the reasons you mentioned...like why? just why?
Choosing movies that made a ton of money defeats the purpose of this list
I would absolutely love a Brendan Fraser The Mummy sequal. The 3rd iteration left alot wanting, and I bet even Rachel Weisz would be happy to now. She was in Black Widow so surely The Mummy 4 would be a huge step up. Also this list is missing Black Widow.
The remake of fire starter trash trash
More like garbage juice 🤢
What about when a stranger calls? The original is a classic
the Donnie Darko Director's Cut, is actually a lot easier to understand than the original.
I do my best to forget everything Tom Cruise related.
"Woot Coolchah"
There has never been a good reason to have more Home Alone movies. Even the second one doesn't make that much sense. The Dark Universe could've been a good idea but they didn't seem to plan it very well. One of The Mummy's problems was Tom Cruise. Unless he was the mummy, it just became a Tom Cruise movie.
Never Say Never ain't all bad. I like the humor and that grotesk fight in the lab.
One of the most pointless remakes: Evil Dead
They went from comedic horror to full on gore-fest that didn't even really need a script. A weekend where all the college kids d!3, from demon rampaging.
Never Say Never Again is a glorious tribute to Kevin McClory's pettiness, lol.
Loved the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde battle. They should have spun that portion off somehow.
But the Mummy movie itself, god. They made it like Mission Impossible meets add whatever horror franchise here.
They made more than two home alone movies?
You should add Kung Pow to the list.
NEVER
I love that movie
Blasphemy! That movie is a cult classic.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man was indeed pointless.
In my opinion I don't think it was pointless it was more targeted for true comic book fans of Hellboy
@ Yeah, but…
@@SolCresta3405Hey man your opinion I can't change it no matter what I do but it doesn't go for everyone
@ Okay.
Surely it has to be ‘How it Ends’ ???? Ironically has no ending …
They can easily reintroduce Hellboy via BPRD to explain away what happened to the Ron Pearlman Hellboy. Have him stuck in purgatory or something and explain the other movies as his failed attempts to escape it and enter HIS universe at FULL power.
Then create a sequel where the Ron Pearlman Hellboy escapes and has to help his universes version of BPRD who had to attempt to take over and do their best without him. Hell you can open the movie of Hellboy getting trapped and the rest of the BPRD, be like "the hell did he go?"; then have Del Toro direct for visual continuity then bam print money.
Alien resurrection. Alien 3 did a good job wrapping everything up
The live action Jungle Book. It's still the only film I've walked out on.
By the way, for me the 1994 Lion King original is still as impressive looking as 30 years ago...
Hell boy, the crooked man was awesome and was very very much like the source material. The other movies was just a dressed up action flick trying to be a comic book movie
In defense of Donnie Darko. I didn't like the movie until the directors cut. Then I liked the original because it finally made sense to me.
Honestly The Crooked man was pretty decent, can think of many other titles as late as this year that was less needed, like The Crow for instance, or how about Joker 2.. Nah this list does not go near the bottom of unwanted movies..
Hollywood will always crank out duds, ripoffs, or complete reboots in order to keep studios and executives well paid. Although not always well received.
The remake of Roadhouse is also just wrong
Never Say Never Again was light years better Octopussy, which I think was also out at the time.
some English-language remakes? - THE DEPARTED, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Every live-action remake of animation should be here.
Frankenstein Island....iykyk
Jesus, you know that was the FOURTH hellboy right? Because there was a truly fucking terrible one with David Harbour in third position
Amazed they brought up lion king and ignored Ariel....lion king 2019 one of the highest grossing movies ever versus something thats never mentioned again....
Spiderman 3 should be here along with Howard the Duck .
And Hellboy isn’t a superhero