Independence Day - I would have treated the whole plot more seriously. No Randy Quaid, no trash-talking Will Smith, no weak attempts at catch-phrases, etc. This was an awesome idea for a movie and the special effects were top knotch, but the execution of the story was just terrible. War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise version) - I would have focused more on the tri-pods. Those things were awesome but we barely saw them. And I won't mention all the plot holes, like Cruise meeting up with his son at the end. Attack of the Clones - Besides all the obvious and well-documented flaws that don't need to be mentioned, I would have had the Clones look exactly like the Stromtroopers in the sequels. And their ships (Star Destroyers, Tie Fighters) should have looked the same too. It would have connected all the movies better. The Revenge of the Sith - First of all, I would have called it The Rise of the Empire and I would have spent less time pre-Anakin/Kenobi duel and more time after it with Vader being Vader. The duel would have been halfway through the movie. The rest of the movie would be Darth Vader kicking Jedi ass. Return of the Jedi - Instead of Ewoks, I would have had them be wookies on Chewbacca's home planet. It would have made their defeating those Stormtroopers a little bit more believable.
I think everyone is going to say the Star Wars prequels. Those just sucked. The only thing that carried them were the cool lightsaber battles.
Transformers. No Bruckheimeresque cliches. EX: Super hot hacker chick, Funny Black guy, slow-mo shots ever other second, flipping, turning, ever-transforming transformers. Substance over style. In fact, that should be done with every Bruckeimer and Bay movie.
Caddyshack. If you took out the goofy foreign girl love interest side story it would be more awesomer.
Or this: Yub nub, eee chop yub nub; Ah toe meet toe peechee keene, G'noop dock fling oh ah. Yahwah, eee chop yahwah; Ah toe meet toe peechee keene, G'noop dock fling oh ah. Coatee chah tu yub nub; Coatee chah tu yahwah; Coatee chah tu glowah; Allay loo ta nuv. Glowah, eee chop glowah; Ya glowah pee chu nee foam, Ah toot dee awe goon daa. *Coatee cha tu goo; (Yub nub!) Coatee cha tu doo; (Yahwah!) Coatee cha tu too; (Ya chaa!) Allay loo ta nuv, Allay loo ta nuv, Allay loo ta nuv. Glowah, eee chop glowah. Ya glowah pee chu nee foam Ah toot dee awe goon daa.
Totally agree with the Sith one. You have ONE character who can still look and sound exactly the same as they did in the 70's and you don't exploit it?!? Just ridiculous. Should've had Vader as Vader for an entire movie. Instead, we get about a minute. Ugh. Interesting take on Jedi. From what I've read, they were going to use wookies but I heard that it was too costly, so they went with the r****ded ewoks.
All the Batman's between Burton's and Nolan's. I would have just tried to root the plots and characters more in reality kind of like Nolan has done and severely toned down if not eliminate the campy-ness. Dear god those movies were bad.
it's not really a decent movie, but striptease could've been so much better. the book was hysterical and dark, not cheesy like the movie.
I agree that everybody will say the Star Wars prequels. The biggest problem is a lot of the suggestions very well could have been the way the movies were shot if Lucas didn't go after kiddies and toys. For examply, Jar Jar was supposedly initially going to be a warrior that was exiled, not some dimwit comic relief. And in Jedi, the original plan was really going to involve Wookies uprising against Imperial oppresion, but Lucas wanted it to be more kid friendly and sell Ewok toys and make Ewok spin off cartoons and movies. The issues I have with Lucas making all these decisions to make the movies more kid friendly is that he didn't need to. The first two Star Wars were great movies, and Empire had some pretty dark and gritty scenes. Yet they were still loved by kids and sold tons of toys.
Few people really appreciate the genius that is Joe Dirt. I would change nothing from that movie because it so incredibly pwns.
It was good but that was in spite of the many stupid things we saw. Come on... we give the Alien computers a virus? How stupid is that?!
