Leave Them Alone! Most Upsetting Movie Remakes
3. Fame
Enduring characters with a passion for the arts and a drive for success catapulted this movie to legendary success.
The film chronicles the lives of a group of students as they make their way through the New York High School of Performing Arts.
The movie, which is divided into sections that highlight auditions for the school and then each of the four years of study, really gave mainstream audiences a first look at the true struggle involved with becoming a performing artist.
One of the movie’s most memorable contributions to pop culture is the song “Fame,” which won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
The 2009 remake was helmed by director Kevin Tancharoen and followed the same general format as the original. With the bad editing, one-dimensional characters, and an indirect demographic, it’s not hard to see why it only earned a 4.4 out of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes.
Several critics bemoaned the fact that the grittiness of the R-rated original had been cleaned up into something that resembled an after-school special (the remake was only rated PG). Filmmakers also got flack for casting young people who were clearly too old to portray high schoolers – especially high school freshmen.
