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Originally Posted by mousepod
A bad remake of a forgotten classic tends to create a negative feeling where there should be a blank slate. When friends are hanging out at my place, and I pull out a movie that I know they'll like, I don't want to have to explain that "it's much better than the one with Nicolas Cage - trust me..."
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Well said, and the example you chose may stand as the definitive illustration of this frustrating trend. The unbelieavably crappy remake of The Wicker Man, if seen first, will certainly diminish if not utterly spoil one's prospects of appreciating the classic original. I tried to get a friend of mine to watch The Wicker Man after she had suffered through the Nicholas Cage nightmare and she just plain refused.