The question: Which are worse — sequels or remakes.

The answer: It isn’t even close.

Sequels are usually awful, except for direct-to-video sequels, which are always awful.

Remakes, on the other hand, almost always make awful look good. Execrable would describe them perfectly if it were less namby-pamby.

Just look at the remakes of two Dudley Moore movies (but from a safe distance).

Instead of remaking Bedazzled and Arthur (a local reviewer just awarded the latter a half-star out of four possible, with the half-star apparently the result of giving people on the cast and crew jobs in a period of high unemployment) … re-releasing the originals would have cost less and entertained more.

This is just one way movie-making and software development aren’t parallel,