Some movies should just never be remade.
We’ve been living in the age of the reboot, but 2016 may go down as the year the tides turned against this bothersome trend among movie studios. This year, and in particular this summer, saw so many cash-in sequels and reboots of old properties that didn’t need rebooting underperform, in terms of both critical reception and box office, that many publications began proclaiming this “the year movies stopped mattering.”
Though that sort of doom-saying is a little extreme, this year was littered with lousy Hollywood franchise entries, all of which seemed especially disappointing after 2015 releases like Creed and Mad Max: Fury Road proved that reboots could be so much more than empty cash-ins. Let’s celebrate the end of this unfortunate year in Hollywood history by going through the worst reboots released in 2016.