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Hollywood Rant: Enough Remakes, More Originals
Topic Started: Jul 17 2012, 08:16 PM (202 Views)
KyleSnyder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCEyiZxIF8&feature=g-upl

This video pretty much sums up what everyone feels about the huge amount of remakes and reboots that Hollywood is producing. We need more movies that aren't remakes or reboots. In this video, I also show where Hollywood needs to look for new ideas. Of course different people have different opinions on the subject. What are your thoughts?
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Drew Teague
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The sad truth is that ideas for movies are running out, 90% of possible angles have been used, and 8% of the other ideas would come off as stupid.

Remakes are necessary, it shows they can be done better than the original movie(s). A remake should wait at least 5 years before releasing a remake, and that's fine to me. Every once and a while there's that movie with something original and amazing, but it's happpening less and less lately. I feel remakes can either outshine the original and showcase characters better, or can fall flat. But so far, this string of remakes, especially in superhero films, have far outshined the predeccessors. I have no problem with remakes.
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Jessica
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Honestly though I don't care in most cases. I mean movies like aliens and predator and stuff id hate to see remade. I can honestly say I've never seen the reboot of nightmare on elm street or any reboots/remakes. Becuase those were my childhood and there was nothing wrong with them in the first place. I mean I liked the recent predators reboot. But I'm a huge predators/aliens fan. Itll be hard to not make me like them.

Same goes for superhero movies. The amazing spider-man was better than the originals to me but I hated the originals. Every other superhero movie(for the most part) I've loved. But reboots are getting out of hand. I liked the green lantern movie yet I hear its getting a reboot. I think wait already? The fuck man. And not to mention all the supes and bats reboots. Dc is really bad at this. Which is why I personally am a marvelite. They're movies are generally good. And they don't reboot if something badly fucks up. Not counting first class and tasm. I consider those the debut of their respective heroes anyway.

But yea I do hate reboots. For instance van helsing I hear is getting a reboot. I scratch my head at that because its one of the few movies starring Hugh jackman I actually enjoyed. It's still one of my favorite movies. Is micheal bay rebooting the turtles again? Sounds like yes. Bad idea. Definetly. And then there's the punisher and war zone. I don't get that one. The first movie was perfect why reboot? Nothing can be done but seriously. The problem for me is they've been rebooting movies that I thought were amazing.
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But there are cases when an old franchise gets rebooted or remade to be introduced to a new auidence. The best example I can think of off the top of my head is The Remake of The First Highlander Film that's in development right now.
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