Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

I really don't think there's anything wrong with reimagining an original film, adapting it....if there's good reason, a new spin, etc.

I don't disagree with that, and I'm don't have a blanket "no remakes" policy. But it certainly seems like the movie world is relying way too heavily on remakes, and remakes with little creative value, recently and I think it's damaging the value of the classic film canon.

Actually, I view remade films as not unlike song covers. You'd better have a good reason and good creative addition to the substance of the original to be doing it, otherwise, stop wasting my time. Therefore, even when I wasn't a fan and didn't like the style of Marilyn Manson's music, I actually respected his cover of "Sweet Dreams" because it wasn't just a resinging of the same song, he reinvented it. The Beatles and Hendrix and many more did a LOT of covers, but they added something that was their own and creatively itneresting to them. Compare that to, say, the Presidents of the USA's cover of Video Killed the Radio star which is so drab an uninspired that it practically makes me want to kill babies. More of that, we don't need. And were the radio waves flooded with covers of that "quality", I'd certainly be hoping for a moratorium on covers altogether just to clear the musical pallet.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I don't disagree with that, and I'm don't have a blanket "no remakes" policy. But it certainly seems like the movie world is relying way too heavily on remakes, and remakes with little creative value, recently and I think it's damaging the value of the classic film canon.

I agree with everything you've said.