4. Total Recall
Another reboot/remake nobody asked for, and one obviously intended to spark a new sci-fi franchise if not for the fact that it was a box office and critical flop, Total Recall is less a re-imagining of Philip K. Dick's original story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, and more a straight-up robbery of the Paul Verhoeven classic movie. Countless shots - like the above one - are nicked right out of the previous film, the protagonist is changed from the novel's Dennis Quail to Quaid as in the previous film, and though this is perhaps a more political film than Verhoeven's, it clearly attempts to mooch off of the legacy built up by the original. The three-breasted hooker, for instance, is one of the most memorable moments in the original, shamelessly copied here, which pretty much tells you all you need to know; this is a film made by people not clever enough to come up with their own amusing flourishes, so they just stole the ones from the previous film. It might have a shiny new coat of paint, but here is a film trying to simultaneously coast off of an audience's ignorance of and familiarity with the original, yet didn't succeed either way.