For me, it has to be “Old Boy” which is originally a Korean movie but the US version sucks so much that it remains incomparable. Another contender is “The Ring” again a Japanese movie (the ending differs between both versions, as the original one refers to the protagonist’s father sacrificing himself but the remake states that the cursed tape is being sent to someone else, passing the omen towards another stranger).

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
    23·
    21 days ago

    Solaris, the new version is decent but it’s a totally different movie and just can’t do the original justice.

    Second place for me is girl with the dragon tattoo. The original is just better.

  • did_you_find_violets@lemmy.world
    17·
    21 days ago

    I don’t know if it’s the worst, but Speak No Evil (2022) has to be up there. It’s a bleak Danish-Dutch horror movie about the dangers of being a people-pleaser and ignoring red flags out of politeness. The 2024 American remake turned it into a pretty typical Hollywood horror movie with a happy ending, which completely undermines the whole point of the original.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      20 days ago

      I dunno, seven samurai is the kurosawa film for me. But the magnificent seven stands on its own as a classic of the same caliber.

      I’ve seen both dozens of times (more for SS tbh), and I don’t know that I can point to one or the other as better, not in totality.

  • wizardfrag@lemmy.world
    171·
    21 days ago

    Battle Royale. The US remake was called something like the hunger games and wasn’t as good…

  • samuraiapocalypse@lemmy.zip
    141·
    21 days ago

    Probably an unpopular opinion, but The Departed. They dumbed down Infernal Affairs for western audiences. The shot of the rat at the end wasn’t clever and the entire movie was like an unnecessary terrible Disney remake of an original that didn’t need remaking.

    • 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world
      10·
      21 days ago

      I watched Departed twice, not knowing it was a remake and I enjoyed it quite a bit. But after seeing Inferal Affairs I have to agree the Departed is a bit too “extra”, and the original is way more rewatchable than the remake

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 days ago

    The eye

    Korean horror. The u.s one is bad like how the old boy remake is bad.

    The original was a Pang Brothers film. Like. The audacity to think they could do better.

    • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      21 days ago

      Really, the original is pretty much perfect. Why would anyone try to make a remake of that is beyond me.

    • Shadow79@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      I remember watching Cordon which is a Belgian TV series that aired in 2014 but there’s also an American remake under another name containment, the only thing they have in common are that the character’s names are exactly the same with differences being that their settings take place else where respective of their regions.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
      11·
      21 days ago

      I enjoyed Utopia, and would have liked to see what else they had in store.

      I think I got halfway through the first season of the British version, but not for anything the show did. I just kind of ran out of steam.

  • Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml
    6·
    20 days ago

    Taxi (2004) was inspired by the French movie of the same name from 1998, and Just Visiting (2001) was based on Les Visiteurs (1993), they are both hollow, sterilized versions of the originals and made the fatal mistake of thinking they could just swap out the setting while keeping the plot, something that almost never works.

    The original Taxi is a gritty, high octane love letter to the sun drenched city of Marseille and the broader French Riviera, it thrives in the collision of two distinct worlds, a taxi driver hailing from the low income suburbs of the city and the fancier world of career law enforcement, uniting against a common enemy in a chaotic investigation.

    Les Visiteurs is a genius satire about the collision of medieval religious values and modern consumer society, making equal fun of spirituality and materialism through its various characters.

    Just watch the originals with subtitles.

  • flamingleg@lemmy.ml
    5·
    20 days ago

    not a movie, but the american remake of ‘the good doctor’ is an almost complete inversion of the south korean original. Instead of a wholesome and inclusive community accepting the talented weirdo and humanising him as a character over the course of many humanising interactions, we get a talented actor going full regard as his character spergs out and shows through his work performance how superior he is to normals.

    Also the original had a quite substantial subplot about their hospital beuarocracy dealing with a larger threat of privatisation. The issue is never fully resolved and the audience is left to linger with the uneasy sense that health outcomes are jeapardised by more than simple non-conformity. The american version celebrates the individual without addressing anything of substance

    • folaht@lemmy.ml
      2·
      20 days ago

      The american version celebrates the individual a cult of personality without addressing anything of substance.

      Fixed