Jaws Remake, I can't believe what I just Read

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antog86

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I was hoping that I read the article wrong or something because are Hollywood really that out of Ideas that they have to ruin what is an absolute Classic. :eek:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a202152/universal-planning-3d-jaws-remake.html

With all the remakes that are currently happening, is it Just me that is fed up with them. They aren't a patch on the originals, apart from Dawn of the Dead.

I personally think that the studios are using these as cash cows and are looking for the safe bets all the time.

With this, the Short Circuit, Karate Kid, Nightmare on Elm Street and Neverending story remakes all coming soon its like they can't be bothered and take the movie going public as fools. Theres even talk of a new brewsters Millions film which has been made at least 3 times before.

I wonder if i'm the only one who thinks that this is just getting silly or if others love the remakes. On past remakes/reboots, in most parts, they are just poor films.
 
Err no. I had to sit down and steady myself with the shock.

Madness.

No amount of 3D technology will improve on what is already perfection.

I thought some movies where sacrosanct and therefore immune from remakesville (ie Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, ET, Star Wars etc) and would have thought Jaws was amongst them.

Sad.
 
A remake with Tracy Morgan? I'll believe it when I'm watching it, but in all seriousness, why not remake them? There's no money in a Godfather remake because modern filmmaking techniques wouldn't substantially benefit a period film, and its audience is not the teen demographic so earnestly pursued by studios. Ditto for Kane. Oz has had a couple of updates that stunk. Star Wars is effectively remade every time technology improves. ET won't be remade while Spielberg is alive, but you can bet the first opportunity Universal gets, that'll be a go. But a Jaws for this generation? In 3d? That's an easy sell, and a lazy profit.
 
I can't believe what I just read.
How on earth do they think they can improve on perfection? That movie should be left alone because it's fantastic the way it is.

Next we'll be hearing about an "E.T" or "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" remake. You mark my worRAB.
 
I understand what your saying but I was under the impression that this was to be a new Jaws film, not the original with enhanced effects (as has been done to Star Wars as you point out). I could deal with that.
 
It doesn't surprise me,but I don't care - the original will always be intact,no matter what.Not that I'd go to see it or anything,but I would be interested in what the critics have to say (worth a laugh).

The sequels to Jaws have to be amongst the most pointless and obvious cashcows in the history of cinema.

I don't think a Jaws remake would be anywhere near as successful as you would think.There is too much affection for the original and the critics would rip it apart.It could be another bomb like Psycho (1998).
 
I think a Jaws sequel would have been a lot better. Unless they wanted to make the Jaws film again now that they've got this new 3D technology!
 
It is a new version, and I say why not? We don't have to watch it and I personally think a re-make a better idea than updating the original.
 
Absolutely no lingering affection for it in the majority of people under 25, but a Saturday-night at a 3d killer shark movie fresh out of the camera? Money licence.
 
Someone will have to start an online petition to put an end to this, and any other remakes of already perfect films they may wanna try...... RAB, what next a remake of The Ladykillers?...... Doh!
 
What's wrong with the original for this generation?

Have I missed something whereby films, books, tv, theatre now have a sell by date like sausages?
Why not go the whole hog, lets rewrite Shakespeare, re compose Mozart?

This generation are not brainless morons on the whole.

But some are and are easily persuaded to part with their cash.
Because all this remaking allows them to carry on believing that they need to know nothing and understand even less of anything outside their very, very narrow experience.
 
Wait a minute i thought JAWS was one of them films that is under some protected thing that means it cant be remade for a number of years, i am sure its the National Film Registry
 
I agree with you, but you don't have to be a moron to have no interest in the pop culture of twenty years before you were born. I certainly wasn't interested, as a teen, in post-war cinema. It came later, as it will for this current mob. There's also a lot more media now, why watch stuffy old Jaws with its creaky rubber shark?
 
Rumour or not, I think I may have to get angry for a while.


Well it's on my 'protection' registry that's for certain. I guess I'm going to have to pay those dead eyed Hollywood money men a visit and threaten them with Quint's machete.
 
sometimes remakes can be great, for example, Hills Have Eyes or Dawn of the Dead. But to remake Jaws!!! one of the most perfect films ever made....seriously!!!!

what next, Citizen K@ne 3D starring Jack Black as Charles Foster Kane. the Godfather starring Ashton Kutcher as Michael Corleone.
 
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