re: Someone explain wanting to remake good movies to me

the shitty remakes that earn studios money allows them to also make really good films

I love when people complain about stuff that has zero effect on their life whatsoever.

Don't want to see a remake? great! don't fricking watch it

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Bonfire Of The Vanities

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Always liked the opening sequence

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Don't some studios have to pump out a new movie for a franchise ever certain number of years to keep the rights to it?

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yea, see the shitty Fantastic 4 movie made like 20 years ago that was never released

I thought I made it clear I wasn't talking about studios wanting to make money, but clearly I failed

My question is: Why do some audience members think an "old" movie is good, yet they still want to see it remade?

My original suspicion, that this generation is obsessed with SPFX, is confirmed by several posts in this thread.

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What is the point?

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You're joking, right?

ETA: It makes what the audience found good/entertaining when they were younger relevant to their current lives, whether it's to validate what they liked then or to modernize the story, making it more relevant to today. All of the bullshite about the remake being "more true to the book" is just that. Yeah, how'd that work out for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

And some are considered the best of the story iterations, don't forget, like The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I also liked both Oceans 11 movies, but I prefer the remake.

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And some are considered the best of the story iterations, don't forget, like The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Not by me. I don't like the Thing remake and while the '78 IOTBS is good I -- and most critics that I'm aware of -- prefer the original.

And motherfricker never -- I mean NEVER -- use the word "iteration" around me again

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My question is: Why do some audience members think an "old" movie is good, yet they still want to see it remade?

My original suspicion, that this generation is obsessed with SPFX, is confirmed by several posts in this thread.

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I tend to agree with you for the most part.

And it makes zero sense to me that a masterpiece should be remade to make it more "relevant" to today. That makes almost no sense if you really analyze it.

Now there are a couple of remakes that I have gone to see out of pure curiosity. For example, I was curious to see what would be done with "Red Dragon" as a "remake" of "Manhunter". Actually, "Red Dragon" was somewhat closer to the book, but "Manhunter" is the superior film, imo.

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I'd venture to guess nostalgia

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This, and making it relevant to current tastes. I'm 27 and hate 80s movies, because I can't relate to the humor, the style, etc. I love remakes for this reason, provided they aren't a complete pile of shite.

Because younger people, on the whole, aren't going to go see an "old" movie at a theater, and a large segment of the population who saw a movie when it first came out aren't going to pay to go see it again.

Personally, I hate classics being remade, and to this point, I have refused to watch many of them (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, The Karate Kid, Red Dawn to name a few). But I also did enjoy the remake of Night of the Living Dead way back in 1989. Sometimes it works, sometimes a smart movie is turned into crap (The Jackal). I can see the reasoning some time.

It does make me wonder though why we are completely okay with different versions of great plays and musicals, but remakes of movies are taboo to many. I include myself in that latter group.

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t does make me wonder though why we are completely okay with different versions of great plays and musicals, but remakes of movies are taboo to many.

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Well, it's a little hard to see that great 1939 stage version exactly as it was...

There is nothing inherently wrong with remakes as long as they are done for the right creative reasons. The problem today is that many are done today for what is perceived as risk management. It's compounded because it seems to me that many are being done too quickly.

First impressions matter. The version you see first tends to be the one you like best. A remake, especially one done with no real creative reason, will pale next to a version that is still somewhat fresh in the minds of the majority, especially with the access people have today. That creative vision has to be significantly different to make it satisfying and that is really difficult.