What Do You Think of Reboots and Remakes ?

In general, No. It strikes me as having a certain lack of originality and creativity and it smells of money rather than love for film.
markpud said:
For me i don't mind a good reboot/remake, but the emphasis has to be on "good". Too many times the heart of a film is lost when it's dragged into the 21st Century with a boatload of CGI effects rather than strong characters and a well thought out plot.
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I agree, but then as others have pointed out here, among all the really awful remakes, there is The Thing and The Fly.

One thing I never thought could ever be remade would be Dad's Army. And then I read this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ilm-remake-revealed-one-notable-addition.html

If a cast can make a film, then this must have 10 stars. If the script is even half as good then I think it is a winner. On the other hand, it could still be The Day the Earth Stood Still or Rollerball.
 
BAYLOR said:
Do You Think Hollywood should make fewer of them of those made which o you like and which do you dislike ?
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Hi. I'm new here, just joined, and this is my second posting.

I can see that most people have a love-hate relationship with remakes and reboots, some think it's great, others thinks it's bad idea. Everyone got their own likes and dislikes. Of course, sometimes remakes using modern filming, modern technology, and so on, helps to make the remake look better than the original. An example would be a classic 1950s got a cheesy sets, cheesy props, men seen as brave and women seen as those who put their hands in front of their mouths and scream, then a remade 2010s movie got more realist looking background using on location or CGI sets, real weapons made to look like future weapons, and women are now seen as being more equals to men. Starships will look better in the remake that when it was in the original. And all that.

But...

It just feels like Hollywood is scared of making new movies on grounds that they are worried the new ones will flop, so they decided to recycle originals which were box office hits into remakes, on the understanding that if the original is good enough, then the remake would be a box hit. It just feels to me, like someone decided to rewrite a novel just by changing some character names, or change little plots, and I feel like I have to read the same book again because there were some changes to the original novel.

I don't mind some remakes and reboots, of course for me, the reimagined Battlestar Galactica do look much more serious than the original, but then again, some rebooted movies like the 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man do meant I feel like I have to forget the 2002 Spider-Man movie, well, it's kinda hard for me to try to explain what I meant.

I just think that there must be many more new ideas that could be interesting, but Hollywood is kind of holding back by remaking and rebooting originals rather than to try to make new ones. They should try to ease off with remakes and try fresh ideas, otherwise, we'll start seeing remakes of the remades.

How would you feel if there was the 1984 The Terminator, then a 1994 remade of the original, then there's a 2004 remade of the 2004 remade The Terminator and after that, yet another 2014 remake, instead of some new Sci-Fi movie that we would like to see what Hollywood could come up with?

That's just my option.
 
I don't mind when it's a remake of something that's really old, but remaking something that's only a few years old is daft. I refuse to watch the 2010 Death at a Funeral because it's a remake of the 2007 UK film Death at a Funeral. Both films star Peter Dinklage.
 
Yep, the remakes of very recent shows/films in a different market smacks of unoriginality. The Office, Being Human, Life on Mars, Utopia (coming soon in a US version) - they love to rehash British shows stateside!

Is the next Terminator film a reboot or continuation - I lose track?! I hear Arnie is involved, inevitably....
 
Reboots/remakes have been going on for donkey's years, and will continue to do so for years to come.

Some will be good, some will be average. And I would hazard a guess the majority will be bloody awful!

However, one is not compelled to watch these films, even if they're really quite good after all. For those that have watched the "original" they might not want to spoil those happy memories watching a remake even if it lives up to expectation.
 
I don't have an issued with it, really. It's important for some very good, but dated movies to be redone for newer audiences.

I'd like to see movies that i grew up with remade for modern audiences like Logan's Run and Silent Running.
 
For the most part I avoid the reboots/remakes. The new 'twist' or sometimes the director/producer of the new film thinking they can do it better, just doesn't work.

It might be okay for a new audience, but having seen the old, I am jaded when this happens, and it impacts on the viewing experience in a negative fashion for me.
 
Nosferatu the Vampire directed by Werner Herzog (1979) is a slower, more philosophical movie than the silent movie (Nosferatu, 1929) it's based on, but the combination of Herzog's grasp of imagery and Klaus Kinski's acting made a strong impression on me at the time I watched it.

The idea of a remake doesn't bother me as long as some imagination and creativity are spent in the effort. For instance, The Maltese Falcon (1941) directed by John Huston was the third film version of the novel, and from all accounts by far the best.


Randy M.
 
The 1978 Remake of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers was as good if not better then the original.:)
 
There are a few good remakes, however, far too many bad ones taint the field.

Solaris with George Clooney is a great remake IMO. The recent remake of Fahrenheit 451 seemed mechanical and irrelevant.
 
The Omen was remade shot by shot, too. I really enjoyed that one.

I also really enjoyed the remake of Dawn of the Dead. (I have to confess to not seeing the original though, so i had nothing to compare it against.)
 
Droflet said:
Let's not forget the reboot of Psycho. A shot-by-shot copy of the brilliant original. Why? Well, money of course. Hideous waste of time.
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It disappeared very quickly at the box office

Id like to see A remake of On Golden Pond directed and produced by Michal Bay .:D
 
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