• Movie Remake/Reboot - A good or a bad thing?
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I recently see a lot of remakes or reboot of a series or movies. First was the reboot of the Spider man movie franchise, and then a remake of Total Recall and Judge Dredd and now very recent, we are seeing an upcoming remake of Robocop in 2014. I normally welcome remakes if [B]The original was terrible but had potential to be a good movie. B[/B]ut when you start seeing Hollywood prefering to reboot or remake a movie franchise, People will think Hollywood has become too lazy to create a new IP or a better sequels. Some remakes are good like the Nutty Professor by Eddie Murphy or Batman Begins( Dark knight series by Christopher Nolan) but other movie remakes might end up looking even worse than the original. I say a remake of a classic movie that does not need a remake or a reboot is a bad thing because it will cause people to forget the classic version IF the remake was more inferior than the original. Remakes can also be bad as newer audience might be misled by the newer material shown in the new movie. Any Remakes can ruins the classic version. It corrupts the history and story of the original. The youth of tomorrow will end up thinking the newer movie is better. You can say remakes gives people the option to improve the original story but let me tell you this. If the original movie was already good, why would you need a reboot or a remake? How would you feel if 30 years from now, Warner Brothers suddenly decided to reboot the entire Harry Potter movie franchise? Won't you feel angry? Or how about Pixar suddenly decided to remake the movie, Toy Story or Disney remakes Aladdin in 3D? (Fortunately, it is rare for animated cartoons to be remake but it could be possible) A classic movie is better off without a remake. We need to keep classics, [B]CLASSICS[/B] without our future generations looking at their remakes instead.
Hollywood wouldn't keep making them if people didn't pay money to see them. The blame is just as much on the consumer than it is the producer. While I agree that some movies should be left alone money talks and right now money says that remakes/reboots are the way to go.
Good in some cases, terrible in most. The number of well done remakes is far outweighed by the number of shitty ones. Things seem to be getting better however....
Depends on the final product. I don't see why we should stifle our creativity but limiting ourselves to avoid old franchises when there still can be many angles and directions a revisit can explore. The bottom line, a remake/reboot of a movie is fine as long as it stands on its own merits. And movies that only exist to make an easy buck are alright as long as they help fund the movies with more heart and sincerity in them.
Only acceptable if the original is a great concept, with poor or constrained execution. Eg: If there's a movie from like the 60's that has a great storyline, but just wasn't what everyone had hoped, then I don't see any problem in remaking it. As long as it's a decent remake. It's remaking good movies that confuses me. Like 'Total Recall' from this year. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, it was unnecessary because the original was great.
I think a good example of a decent reboot is the Chris Nolan Batman trilogy. Batman '89 was good, but 'Begins' was alot better in my opinion. Some remakes can also be terrible like 'Dukes of Hazard' 2005 , 'Planet Of The Apes' 2001 and 'The Italian Job' 2003 to name a few. I personally I think it depends on the connection the writers, actors and director have with the original and how good they are at bringing classic characters into the modern world. I would limit remakes to only those capable of understanding the intentions of the original and who have a good reputation. [editline]23rd October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=darcy010;38144938]It's remaking good movies that confuses me. Like 'Total Recall' from this year. .[/QUOTE] Yeah Recall 2012 wasn't great and they didn't do much to improve it. Although I thought Kate Beckinsale switching accent's was funny.
The only remake that I think was well done was The Karate Kid. Pretty decent movie and it stands out in it's own ways while keeping the same formula the original had. 21 Jump Street was also springily great but it was so different i could barely call it a remake.
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