With the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still opening this week, and new interpretations
and sequels of Star Trek, Transformers and Terminator on the way next summer,
sci-fi re-imaginings and remakes seem to be all the rage (we'll see how the big-screen treatments of
Highlander and Voltron hold up). To date, the genre has already offered up
both feast and famine. Here's a look back at the top 5 greatest, and lamest sci-fi remakes. First,
the bad news...
by Chuck Walton