Adjusting for inflation can be a tricky thing -- especially when it comes to movie remakes.

Take 1974’s “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3,” which starred Walter Matthau as a hangdog train dispatcher who becomes the central point of negotiation when a gunman (Robert Shaw) takes over a subway train. What are his demands? The lives of his hostages for a million dollars.

Or as Dr. Evil put it in the first “Austin Powers” movie, one ... meeeelion … dollars!

Kinda quaint.

Whenever we play that pick-up game of softball, we swing and miss exactly the same way we did before. And we're just as appalled at our play as we were last time.