10 Inferior Remakes That Should Never Have Been Made

2. War of the Worlds (2005)

When €˜War of the Worlds€™ was radio broadcast by Orson Welles in 1938 there ensued panic in the streets as fact and fiction dangerously collided. Adapted into a 1953 movie it was remade in 2005 and starred Mr. €˜Top Gun€™ himself, Tom Cruise as a father trying to save his family from alien invaders. Action and special effects aside, even Tom couldn€™t carry the weight of this vehicle and the images of aliens using human beings as a Sippy cup were not quite as disturbing as laughable.
 
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