I just watched the remake/miniseries of the classic sci-fi The Andromeda Strain. I have trouble thinking of ways they could have fucked it up more; it's surprising they didn't add a fluffy wisecracking CGI sidekick spewing oneliners to complete their game of Awful Sci-Fi Bingo.
I'd say the original story's aged quite well, but Robert Schenkkan clearly thought he could improve upon it: what it really needs is a conspiracy, wormholes, time-travel, terrorists, a clumsy out of place romance scene unconnected to anything else; oh, and that ending is a bit bland, let's throw in a deadly nuclear reactor pool and some gore. Jesus wept.
And what's with all these fucking sci-fi remakes? Blake's 7 is next on the chopping block, I dread to think how they're going to fuck that one over. Can't we have something new for a change? Maybe bring a proper book to the big screen instead of some rebadged hack-job.