DEFCON 4.

I'm talking about that terrible 80's Canooxploitation film with the totally rad box art.

Generally, I'm not someone who sees the point in remakes.  It's more gratifying to see a new approach to familiar ideas or themes.  Why get hemmed in?  All the same, if I was going to remake one movie, that film would be DEFCON 4.

This film is the single worst offender when it comes to a movie not living up to the box art.

Being an astronaut in space for a nuclear showdown and then descending into the mutant wasteland should, by rights, be awesome.  It's ANTIWALL-E.

My first act would take place entirely on the space station, and involve the slow descent into madness from lack of human contact.  Two astronauts have to try and squeeze every last bit of life out of a space station that isn't ever going to be replenished, but in the end the batteries won't last, the orbit is disintegrating, and they have to use the lifeboat and plot their own reentry, Apollo 13-style.  Maybe there are three astronauts, and one is fatally wounded because of the equipment failures that come with no spare parts, and the other two eat him!  Cannibal astronauts.  Hmm...

Anyway, they have to come down in the raft or burn up on reentry.

From there on, they've got five hours of air in the space suits, and if they can find a radiation fallout shelter before their air supply runs out, they might just survive without getting radiation contamination.

This movie would be the first film to take place in a proper nuclear winter.  Imagine two guys in space suits walking through the abandoned streets of Moscow, long since covered in snow...  Badass.

That would be a movie that lived up to the awesome VHS cover art.  That box art still taunts me from the dark recesses of the science fiction section in the video store of my dreams...