Is anybody else tired of remakes?

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wounded mullet

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Or reboots or TV to the movie screen? Its really getting out of hand now. I remember when The Brady Bunch Movie came out and thought it was cute , now 10 years later and its ridiculous.

On the subject of remakes, to me these trends remind me alot of the phenomenon of reality shows that infest our TV screens. Execs have figured out that safe and unimaginative will rake in big bucks so why change.. Maybe we have just run out of new ideas.

Worst remakes ever? lets see...

1. Psycho
2. The Pink Panther
3 Planet Of The Apes



Best remake ever? The Departed or Cape Fear
 
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The new Planet of the Apes might be the worst movie I've ever seen.
 
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Did you guys know that they are coming out with another Nightmare on Elm Street? Take a shot at who's going to be a producer for the movie.

Michael Bay. Which means that the US Military will be featured prominently, even though it has nothing to do with Freddy Kruger. The movie will also be 125 minutes long and random stuff will blow up after Freddy kills someone.
 
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wounded mullet said:
Or reboots or TV to the movie screen? Its really getting out of hand now. I remember when The Brady Bunch Movie came out and thought it was cute , now 10 years later and its ridiculous.

On the subject of remakes, to me these trends remind me alot of the phenomenon of reality shows that infest our TV screens. Execs have figured out that safe and unimaginative will rake in big bucks so why change.. Maybe we have just run out of new ideas.

Worst remakes ever? lets see...

1. Psycho
2. The Pink Panther
3 Planet Of The Apes



Best remake ever? The Departed or Cape Fear
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yeah i'm starting to get there. Hollywood is a copycat business though, so when some of these types of movies started to sell big - well everyone tries to jump on it thinking that the guaranteed money is in the type of movie, not how good the actual movie is itself.

Worth note are:
all the numerous space-related movies that came out near Independence Day & the redone star wars;
how after spider-man 1/2 did so very well, so many comic book movies started getting made b/c execs thought that was what's popular and not how good the movies actually were;
and more recently, the soon-to-be wave of "dark" movies coming after the dark knight - hollywood feels that it was the dark aspect was what sold it so well so we're going to (at least) see a darker superman movie (writer calls him an "angry god") and a dark fantastic four movie.....not sure how that second one will work.

But the movies are a copycat biz, and they really discredit the viewer: they think we will flock to movies just b/c of the topic, not actually how good the movie is





Also, the brady bunch movie wasn't good of course. But when I watched both later, it seems the point of the movies were more to make fun of the brady bunch, in the sense of if they were around today real world they wouldn't survive in the real world or that they'd be the most annoying people that you would ever possibly meet.
 
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Well this one ain't a remake...(it was already posted in the Pub)

YouTube - [Trailer] Robogeisha

There is no writing anymore. Not in movies, not in TV. It's either special effects on steroids or reality crap.

Oh and a bad remake was King Kong - an endless string of ridiculous action sequences.
 
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I love Samuel L, but you can't remake a cult film like Shaft. The appeal of the orginial goes beyond anything that can really be written or cast.

Another obvious one is Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Why remake such a trippy classic? What's next, The Wall 2010 starring Zack Elfron as Pink?
 
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Shaft wasn't really a remake, as (I believe) it turned out he was the real Shaft's nephew or something. Still a bad movie, though,
 
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dickens821 said:
Shaft wasn't really a remake, as (I believe) it turned out he was the real Shaft's nephew or something. Still a bad movie, though,
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It was marketed as a remake and they certainly made the characters carbon copies. Most remakes do slightly change some aspects, but the characters are generally the same.

I don't think the new one is a bad movie, just think they shouldn't have titled it Shaft. It often bastardizes the original when the do that.
 
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The Dude said:
I love Samuel L, but you can't remake a cult film like Shaft. The appeal of the orginial goes beyond anything that can really be written or cast.

Another obvious one is Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Why remake such a trippy classic? What's next, The Wall 2010 starring Zack Elfron as Pink?
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"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Jonny Depp is more faithful to the book than the first one. I think both stand pretty well on their own.

Just like the first "Batman" move and "Batman Begins", two great versions of the comic book legend.

I wouldn't mind seeing a remake of Disney's "The Black Hole". It was pretty dark, but it was a Disney movie at heart. Perhaps Luc Besson could take it on.
 
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