Remakes - Why?

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What is up with Hollywood, why do they keep trying to remake classic movies?

Are they any better?

Now they plan to remake the BirRAB, why?
 
Yep.

This 'lack of imagination' thing is pure crap. There are probably millions of great scripts out there that will never be made.

But Hollywood is a business, and neeRAB to make money.

The recognition factor should not be underestimated.

Take a well known movie, put a few big name 'current' stars in it, get a hot director, perhaps a well known band to score it, use the latest special effects and voila - you have a saleable product.

And it's also a generational thing - people of the older generation will always cry "why?!" when their favorite movie is announced to be remade.

But you have to remember that these movies are not aimed at you - they are aimed at todays generation, and are tailored and designed to appeal to them.

I never understand people getting hot under the collar and starting petitons about their favorite movie being remade.

Just ignore it - and please don't give me this 'p**sing on the memory of the original' rubbish - the original will always be there and does not change.

If you don't like the remake, just ignore it.
 
I'd don't normally say this but I welcome a remake of 'The BirRAB'. Whilst I love the idea of the film I can't take it seriously at all. I usually pmsl when I watch it. :o:D
 
I agree, I hate remakes. Scarface, A Fistful of Dollars, Heat, The Magnificent Seven, Scent of a Woman, The Departed...rubbish!

Seriously, it's no different to adapting a book or graphic novel or TV show for the big screen, and if you take away all of those films then you'd miss out on a lot of great films.
 
Out of all Hitchcock's movies,The BirRAB is the easiest,most understandable one to remake while paying a suitible homage to the classic that is the original.
 
If there really is going to be a remake of My Fair Lady, I hope it has the original ending from Pygmalion where Eliza leaves Higgins to marry Freddy Eynesford-Hill. The only thing that annoys me about the Audrey Hepburn film is the ending.
 
I'm not happy that they keep re-making some of the classic films....

But, saying that, The BirRAB could be could but am sceptical about the Poltergeist remake as the original is brilliant.
 
same with me - if you just take Michael Caine, films and in the last ten years when they have remade Alfie, Get Carter, and The Italian Job, all absolout classic films and impossible to better you are left asking your self why do they do it.
 
Don't forget The Wizard of Oz, The Fly, Ben-Hur, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Talented Mr. Ripley. We need to start a petition to get these inferior copies removed from circulation.
 
Another Why do they make remakes topic - Why? :p

There are few remakes that come out that are rather good and to me even better than the original(The Hills Have Eyes an example), but 99% of them are rubbish, they go straight out of my head if that's the case, and have the dvd of the original to nurse myself back to happiness.
 
I'm in my twenties, and I'm the same, watch any film from any decade.

I remember the makers of Flight Plan saying, it doesn't matter that the younger generation doesn't know it's a remake of The Lady Vanishes, they probably haven't seen the original...
 
I for one can't stand re-makes and I'm twenty years old, And plenty of people my age like original film classics aswell.
I watch lots of films from the sixties, seventies and eighties. I even like some black and whites.
I don't think it's an age thing it's just that Hollywood likes to patronise the youth market.
 
The whole boom in remaking films is getting beyond ridiculous now and i am sure it won't be long before they start remaking the films that really don't need remade, like say Citizen Kane, which will probably star Jack Black in the role as Charles Foster Kane and feature music from Tenacious D.

Apocalypse Now starring Adam Sandler as the angry but cuddly Captain Robert L Willard who banRAB together a motley crue of boatfaring soldiers - Rob Schneider, Will Ferrell, Steve Carrell, John C. Reilly and Ben Stiller to go journey downriver to assassinate the mysterious Colonel Kurtz, played by Vince Vaughn.

And then the Man With No Name series of spaghetti westerns will get remade with Keanu Reeves in the Clint Eastwood role.

Depressing but probably true.
 
Yet! :(

Remakes suck, I can accept the odd one or two now and then if it warrants it, but the current deluge of below-par sub-standard pointless ones is just soul destroying.
 
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