Poltergeist remake (Post-release)

[JoMamma_Smurf]

You know why Poltergeist doesn't have a pop culture following?? Because if I showed my 8 year old this movie she would never sleep again..lmao. The original holds up EXTREMELY well. Kids now a day are too soft. They would be scared for life if you let them watch it the way we did.

 

[Goonie]

What they should've done was remake the second one.

 

[CessnaDriver]

I think it was Ebert that said something like stop remaking good films and remake the bad ones and get them right.

 

[Trooper_trent]

You know why Poltergeist doesn't have a pop culture following?? Because if I showed my 8 year old this movie she would never sleep again..lmao. The original holds up EXTREMELY well. Kids now a day are too soft. They would be scared for life if you let them watch it the way we did.

I remember having horrible thoughts and nightmares for months after watching that dude pull his face off into the sink. lol

 

[Riceball]

I think it was Ebert that said something like stop remaking good films and remake the bad ones and get them right.

That makes sense except from the standpoint of why would you try to polish a turd, so to speak. Who's going to want to see a remake of a bad film, most people are going to remember the original as a stinker and won't want to see the remake because of that. Studios wouldn't want to greenlight it for the same reason and being a remake of a flop there's no built in appeal.

As for remakes in general, that's been done forever in Hollywood. When the first "talkies" came out I'm sure that tons of silent films got remade into "talkies" and with the advent of color old B&W films got remade in color. Even in more recent times there's been any number of so-called classic films that are actually remakes of older films, just look it up and you'll be surprised at how many are and it will show that this trend is nothing new.

 

[Wes R]

You know why Poltergeist doesn't have a pop culture following?? Because if I showed my 8 year old this movie she would never sleep again..lmao. The original holds up EXTREMELY well. Kids now a day are too soft. They would be scared for life if you let them watch it the way we did.

You aren't kidding, i'm 35 and this movie still gives me the creeps.

 

[The Terminator]

Re: Poltergeist remake

Maybe the reason for a remake is because Hollywood is in business to make money.

Any old movie that is unknown to the current young audience, no matter how good it is, is valid remake material. Deal.

OR instead of wasting money remaking something that's already been made - do a re-release

 

[Father]

Re: Poltergeist remake

Watching this now.
Pretty awful. On par with most re-boot garbage. Some improved visual effects, a few cool fright gags, but not even close to the original. The drone footage thought the portal was neat. The boy was weird.

OR instead of wasting money remaking something that's already been made - do a re-release

I'm sure that trend isn't far behind.

 

[The Mad Professor]

Re: Poltergeist remake

I suddenly have this vision of the ghost of Billy Mays with a Joker-like rictus grin saying "Why settle for just one regular haunting when you can get an entire Indian burial ground of pissed off spirits for the low low cost of housing developer greed! You get the flying objects. You get the chair stacking. You get the whispers, static electricity, evil toys, and interdimensional doorways. But wait! There's more! Call a séance in the next five minutes and I'll even throw in possessed, carnivorous tree ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! What are you waiting for? Act now!"

...aaaaaand I only wish the movie had been this good.

One thing that bugged me was the open ended thing about the father going on that shopping spree. If they were in such desparate financial straits, how did he afford all that? A new cellphone cost a couple of hundred, as did the drone, and there's no telling how much the jewelry cost. So where did he get it? I feel like this was a dropped plot point.

 

[The Terminator]

Re: Poltergeist remake

I'm sure that trend isn't far behind.

That would at least be a better trend I really, really like that they are doing a re-release of the whole Back to the Future trilogy though it is rather limited

 

[Lear60man]

I thought it was good.......because I saw it for free. Red box would be a net gain...but entertaining. Then again I like Sam Rockwell.

 

[Probe Droid]

One thing that bugged me was the open ended thing about the father going on that shopping spree. If they were in such desparate financial straits, how did he afford all that? A new cellphone cost a couple of hundred, as did the drone, and there's no telling how much the jewelry cost. So where did he get it? I feel like this was a dropped plot point.

Not to mention at the end they're shopping for another house! What, did someone give them a nice price for their destroyed haunted hell hole? The whole emphasis on the dad being unemployed didn't really have anything to do with the supernatural elements of the story, so why push it? That was the least of this film's problems. I liked the cast and the first 30 minutes or so was decent, but after that it was downhill fast. The climax with the van in the driveway was laughable. I had my fingers crossed for this one, but, alas, it was just another mindless remake with little originality.

Hit that EJECT button and onto the next one.

 

[Wes R]

Re: Poltergeist remake

Fine, let's just remake 2001, Star Wars, Gone with the Wind, Close Encounters, Jaws, Godfather, Matrix, Apocalypse Now, etc. Hell, let's just remake every single movie that is over 10 years old. Who cares anyway, it's all just about money.

Sadly the vapid teenage and 20 something audience would go see them since anything older than them isn't hip or cool. Hollywood getting away with that is the fault of every parent who has failed to install a sense of the importance of history in their kids and showed them the movies they grew up with and enjoyed.