Remakes of old movies.

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I was looking around on imdb.com earlier, and noticed some guy having made a list of upcoming remakes. upcoming being the key-word here.
And all on the list are just the horror-movies. check the list out. Its amazing. Trouble with coming up with new ideas over there in Hollywood maybe?

uspiria
Friday The 13th
A Nightmare On Elm Street
The Last House On The Left
Child's Play
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes!
Hellraiser
The Changeling
Scanners
The Birds
Near Dark
Motel Hell
The Thing (yet another re-make)
Silent Night, Deadly Night
The Crazies
Rosemary's Baby
The Wolfman
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Battle Royale
The Blob
People Under The Stairs
Pirahana
The Orphanage (YES a re-make of the the Spanish film just released but this time in English. Guillermo del Toro is said to be producing. Sad that this movie just came out and now it's being re-made)
Faces Of Death
The Bad Seed
My Bloody Valentine
Alice, Sweet Alice
Don't Look Now
The Stepfather
When A Stranger Returns
Dead Daughters
The Fury
The Witches
Isle Of The Dead
Night Of The Demons
The Tingler
The House On Soriority Row
It's Alive
See No Evil
Death Line
The Entity
Mirrors
Quarantine
Night Of The Living Dorks
At The End Of The Spectra
Apt
Anguish
I Saw What You Did
Don't Look Up
A Tale Of Two Sisters (re-named The Uninvited)
Let The Right One In
Don't Look In The Basement
Infection
The Echo
Long Weekend
In The Playground
Urban Decay


Quite alot of movies there, isn`t it?

The guy also made a list of some of the movies that had allready been remade.

The Invasion (re-make of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers)
I Am Legend (based off book of same name and already made into a movie twice before as The Last Man On Earth and The Omega Man)
Night Of The Living Dead 3D
Dawn Of The Dead
Day Of The Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Omen
Halloween
Prom Night
Toolbox Murders
The Wicker Man
Psycho
The Wizard Of Gore
Black Christmas
The Hitcher
King Kong
House Of Wax
When A Stranger Calls
The Haunting
Thirteen Ghosts
Willard
House On Haunted Hill
The Fog
The Amityville Horror
The Hills Have Eyes
The Hills Have Eyes 2
One Missed Call
The Stepford Wives
April Fool's Day
Village Of The Damned
The Eye
The Ring
The Grudge
Pulse
Shutter


So if this keeps up: Every one of us will, by the time we are old, be watching a second or thrid remake of The lord of The Rings, for example. Or remakes of Jaws, Star Wars, Terminator, and so on. Frightening isn`t it?

 

Remaking old and (usually) successful movies is hardly anything new. Most people fondly remember Jack Nicholson in The Postman Always Rings Twice or Marlon Brando in Mutiny on the Bounty and consider both movies to be classics. Fewer people remember that both of these movies are remakes of older classics. However there has been a significant shift in trend towards remaking (or "rebooting", as Hollywood loves to call it nowadays) old horror movies. Then again every time I look at new releases in cinemas about half of them turn out to be horror movies, so I'm wondering if it's not simply the market oversaturating with those kinds of movies (a few years ago superheroes and comics got the same treatment). It is still curious that there isn't a single non-horror movie on that list. Then again, Hollywood has been having originality issues for a while now.

 

There are only hooror-movies on the list because the forum I found it on was about horror-movies.

 

Get Larry the Cable Guy to do the piolitically correct versions of these remakes!

Once upon a time, a village of vertically challenged persons gathered to honour a chronologically advanced, but highly yet equally valued member of the village, in an annual celebration of his chronological advancement. After a meal, this chronologically advanced, vertically challenged person was called on to address the gathered members of society. During the address, it was obvious that he had spent the day becoming sobriety deprived, and he expressed a desire to leave the village, but not due to the fault of any of the persons in attendance. The then slipped on a circular metal band of magical enhancement which rendered him visibility challenged...

 

I would contend that better SPFX technology tempts people to re-make some movies so as to remove the cheesiness factor that comes when watching, say, an old Harryhausen film. A modern Sinbad story could be highly cool!

 

Actually the guys at Robot Chicken would do a great job with some of the classics too.

A Claymation classic where Don Corleone makes Dracula an offer he can't refuse...

 

Some stories are so powerful that some directors and writers cannot resist the opportunity to tell the story "their way." Many Shakespearean stories are like this, though there are others. I can't blame them, really -- I myself would love to be involved in a really bloody version of Macbeth! I'd also like to be in a really good version of something like "Ghandi"