06-11-2006, 12:21 PM
Oh I don't want art- I'm not one of those 'Hollywood is a sellout' people- I LOVE B-grade space operas :lol: I just don't want remakes of movies that can't be improved on. Ben Hur, Cleopatra and Quo Vadis were all SPECTACULAR improvements on the originals, just as John Carpenter's The Thing, and many other remakes have been- it's the volume and choice of late that I'm unhappy with. Here and there when they can definitely improve on the original, then great, I'm all for remakes and even re-tellings like Battlestar Galactica is now (although I'm sure there are some die-hard original fans who will disagree), but when the originals or even previous remakes are just excellent or are classics like the Pink Panther is, remakes are just ridiculous. I'll be forever disappointed in Steve Martin for doing Clouseau- he should have realized that no one will ever even match Peter Sellers and refused to even try.
Of course I do understand that the remake is probably one of the easiest and cheapest ways to potentially make a buck- don't have to pay for a new story because they already own the rights, they already have name/ story recognition, etc.- and I don't doubt that's the main reason for the rash of them lately. Sure, a few are intentional attempts at improvement or Peter Jackson's 'homage', King Kong (although I'd consider re-doing a classic to be saying 'I can do better' so isn't all that much of a tribute :lol: ), but most are just money-saving cheap cash-ins. Certainly that qualifies them for the 'don't like to take chances' aspect of Hollywood too- I know that... it just bugs me :lol:
I guess I have to remember that one will just go nuts trying to understand the 'logic' (word used VERY loosely) of Hollywood- afterall, with some series moving near double digits when the first one or two were barely good enough to deserve to be made, and the fact that they invented the absolutely RIDICULOUS idea of 'suspension of disbelief' (which is basically 'we're too lazy to do realism or rationality'), it's kind of silly to expect more from them.
And, of course, I admit I do suffer from the 'I could do SO much better's as well :lol: :wink:
Of course I do understand that the remake is probably one of the easiest and cheapest ways to potentially make a buck- don't have to pay for a new story because they already own the rights, they already have name/ story recognition, etc.- and I don't doubt that's the main reason for the rash of them lately. Sure, a few are intentional attempts at improvement or Peter Jackson's 'homage', King Kong (although I'd consider re-doing a classic to be saying 'I can do better' so isn't all that much of a tribute :lol: ), but most are just money-saving cheap cash-ins. Certainly that qualifies them for the 'don't like to take chances' aspect of Hollywood too- I know that... it just bugs me :lol:
I guess I have to remember that one will just go nuts trying to understand the 'logic' (word used VERY loosely) of Hollywood- afterall, with some series moving near double digits when the first one or two were barely good enough to deserve to be made, and the fact that they invented the absolutely RIDICULOUS idea of 'suspension of disbelief' (which is basically 'we're too lazy to do realism or rationality'), it's kind of silly to expect more from them.
And, of course, I admit I do suffer from the 'I could do SO much better's as well :lol: :wink:
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