Your Opinions On Remakes?

[R.Graves]

Remakes have a tendency to be both pointless and terrible imo. But there has been good remakes.

To drop some names:

• Peter Jackson's King Kong
• The Fly
• Brian De Palma's Scarface
• John Carpenter's the thing

If classics absolutely have to be remade I think the best bet is to take the central idea of the original and make a radically different film ala the thing or scarface.

 

[Francis H]

I would prefer that they weren´t made and film makers would just do a spiritual successor to them instead. Putting the name of a movie most people like on a new one isn´t only creatively bankrupt (on most cases) but also disrespectful to the original creators imho. But I don´t care either way, Robocop 2014 and Ghostbuster 2016 seem to be mostly forgotten, and they never hinder my appreciation of the original if I liked it before.

 

[NotAcasul]

I think that remakes vary on the writing and the actors in them.

Some remakes are okay, some aren't.

 

[.Pixote.]

Remaking films is lazy....I can't wait for authentic remakes of records.

 

[TheGM]

That poll really needed a "Depends on the movie" option.

The movies you posted were either 60 years old or a B movie playing at the drive in theater, 2 films for the price for one to play in the background as you struggled with Becky Thatcher's bra in the back of your dad's Buick Roadmaster during the summer of 57.

If somebody told you they were going to reboot the Godfather you would probably slug them. if they told you they were going to reboot Soul Man you would probably have no idea what they are talking about.

Always when discussing movies and reboots, this should be shown on principle alone.

 

[R.Graves]

That poll really needed a "Depends on the movie" option.

Done.

 

[NotAcasul]

Always when discussing movies and reboots, this should be shown on principle alone.

You know the irony of that is that The Critic was actually rebooted itself.

 

[Atomkilla]

For the most part, they are a shitty venture. Few good ones here and there.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

^^^^

Yeah I have the same feeling.
In general I am sick of reboots, there are a few very good ones that are also decent movies on their own but most of them are just terrible and seem to be made just on the basis that an original was well received so why not try to make a bit more money out of it?

But their new storylines tend to be some atrocious and devoid what made the originals so fun or smart.
I have no good feeling for example about the new Indiana Jones movie.

Speaking of, I also feel the same these days about most sequels/prequels. There have been only a handful of franchises that did that well but in most cases the new movies had almost nothing in common with the original or started to Flanderize them and sometimes also deconstruct them in order to explain everything to a mouth breathing audience.

 

[Mr Fish]

Only time you should remake something is if either the first one was a flop or a mess but the ideas behind it are great and those are what you want to polish and bring out into the spotlight or when it comes to games and a former game is either so dated it no longer works on modern systems or if it is an old console exclusive that you can't simply port over.

Any remake that doesn't fit into this criteria probably shouldn't have happened. I don't like remakes, they taint the name of the original often times.

 

[Atomkilla]

In my opinion, however, remakes/reboots are often better than sequels. Again, I hate them, I hate the principle behind them, but I'd much rather have a reboot of a sequel (so that I can give zero fucks about this new storyline at all) than have a sequel ruin a perfect film/franchise - Indiana Jones has been mentioned - 4 sucks, though admittedly I wasn't a fan of 2 either.
Anyhow, I'd rather have seen an Indiana Jones reboot earlier than 4. "I'd rather" as in "I'd rather have a pile of horseshit flung to my face than get chased by a same horse, stomped on and shat on". Both suck, but I can wash the first one off.

 

[Juza The Cloud]

Personally I'd love a Dune remake snice I felt they never have nailed it exactly. But do to recent geopolitical events I do not forsee that happening anytime soon.

 

[TheGM]

You know the irony of that is that The Critic was actually rebooted itself.

Another season made in flash and only put out on the internet isn't irony or a reboot.

It did suck pretty hard though.

 

[Atomkilla]

Personally I'd love a Dune remake snice I felt they never have nailed it exactly. But do to recent geopolitical events I do not forsee that happening anytime soon.

Nah. The only Dune film that was ever worth it was Jodorowsky's and that one never got filmed. The script still exists tho, but Alejandro won't be around much longer.