David Potter answered one question everyone seems to have when it comes to remakes: Was the new adaptation really better than the original?

Here's what the IMDB data shows. Potter looked at the 20 highest-grossing remakes and found that seventy percent of the originals were still rated higher than their remakes, while only five movies managed to do better than their predecessors.

Key Takeaways

• The lowest-rated original film on Potter's list is "Doctor Doolittle," with a rating of 6.1, whose remake scored an even lower 5.4.

• The highest-rated remake on the list is "Dune," with a rating of 8.1, which outscored the original "Dune," at 6.5, by quite a bit. Sorry, David Lynch.

• The "Planet of The Apes" remake had the biggest disparity between original and remake, with a difference of 2.3, followed by "Godzilla," with a difference of 2.1.

Overall, it looks like original movies generally tend to score better in IMDB ratings than their newer versions — except for "A Star is Born," "Dune," "Ocean's Eleven" and "True Lies."

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Via David Potter.