Gotta admit, I'm a little offended...

[datahawk]

I'm tired of the remakes...

So, they remade Hairspray. WHY? WHY? WHY? Divine is divine and no one can replace her. Yet John Travolta tries? Bah. My love for plus size positive movies may out weight my choice to skip this.

They made Get Smart the movie. WHY? WHY? WHY? Which is what I was thinking, if I didn't actually say it when I saw the preview. I enjoyed the show when I was a kid. I haven't watched it in years. I may see it, the preview made me laugh.

They are remaking Ferris Buellers Day Off. WHY? WHY? WHY? It's a cult classic. It's not a special effects movie. There is nothing new to be brought to it. I will not see this if it makes it to completion. Much like I refused to see the remake of Miracle on 34th Street.

Hollywood needs to quit spending the money on the drugs and spend it on some writers who do something other then rehash classics.

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[tecknow.livejournal.com]

Sci-Fi is doing a science-fantasy remake of The Wizard of Oz called "Tin Man" and they appear to be doing a remake of Flash Gordon as well. BSG gives me some hope that it can be done well, they might have new freshness, topicality, and insight. A properly remade classic can be FANTASTIC. On the other hand, poorly remade classics can suck like nothing else.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[datahawk.livejournal.com]

Movies that aren't remakes so much as a different take on things don't bother me. And movies that are remakes that are tech/effects heavy don't bother me as much. I fully expect, in about 30 years to see full remakes of the Harry Potter movies. Why? cause the effects will have changed so much that they will feel the need to show 'what should really have been done'. It's the ones like Ferris that piss me off. It was the actors and what THEY put into it that made it a cult classic.

[tecknow.livejournal.com]

Yeah I can see that. Good remakes should stand on their own, bad ones just keep reminding you of the original.

Special effects remakes can be OK, but I hate when they do things like turn the guns in E.T. into walkie talkies.

[datahawk.livejournal.com]

Special effects remakes can be OK, but I hate when they do things like turn the guns in E.T. into walkie talkies.

And THATs why I refused to buy the movie when they released it. It was one of my FAVORITE movies as a child. Much the same reason I won't buy the Star Wars DVD's. I want the orginal releases on dvd, not with the special added scenes and shit