6. Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is an immensely underrated sci-fi satire that has Paul Verhoeven using his signature over-the-top gore to make light of America's domestic security policies as well as the mass media. Take that violence away and you severely diminish the impact of the film, something the filmmakers behind this crass reboot are going to learn the hard way pretty soon. Yes, the planned Starship Troopers remake (after a glut of straight-to-video sequels) is reportedly going to give the satirical elements the short shrift - though to be fair, they didn't appear in the 1959 novel either - but more crucially, tone the violence down to achieve the much sought after PG-13 rating. Producer Toby Jaffe, who also produced last summer's flop Total Recall, noted that they will take the same approach as with that film, and if you got round to watching it, you know that it's a bad sign. We're going to get a limp reboot of a classic film, and that's why it's doomed to fail.