joker-scar
Well-Known Member
Obviously the younger members on this site may not be as annoyed as the older members but here it goes...we all know Hollywood recycles its past and always has. Sequels have become a way of life in the past 30 years and we expect it now. :darnkids We expect a few remakes once in awhile but enough is enough. Anyone who is on this site knows the remakes that are either coming out or are in production at this moment. In the past 10 or 20 years remakes have been made not only from older films but they have to drag out old TV shows and beat the fly swarming dead horse to a pulpy mush. :sick
The last 2 times I have gone to the movie theatre I feel like I am re-living the 1980’s. I go to see RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, basically a re-make, a re-working, whatever words you prefer to use of CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. Good movie, but that aside, before the movie starts I am shown a trailer for FOOTLOOSE, another 1980’s remake and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, yet another 1980’s remake. Last weekend I go to see the CONAN flick, I needed an action fix, and I am exposed to the trailers for the THING prequel, FOOTLOOSE (again) THE KILLER ELITE (I’m guessing a remake of the James Cann 1975 flick(never saw it), Jason Statham just remade Bronson’s THE MECHANIC last year, is Eastwood’s career next on his tough guy remake list?) and FRIGHTNIGHT trailer a remake this time from the 1990’s. Are original stories that risky that the studies would rather bank a ton of money on rehashed story lines rather than present an original story. I know there will be someone out there who will respond with the devil advocate stance of Hollywood can do what it wants, money rules, if you don’t like it don’t see it...yadda, yadda, yadda. Yeah, we all know those come back lines, but in the past at least there was some sort of a balance between movies that are made strictly to make a buck and others that while they want to make a buck they are providing a fresh movie to watch. I guess the road we are heading down is one we can’t come back from. Movies are getting SO expensive to make, they will become safer and safer for the studios to bank on. There have always been times when change has come, the film noir genre that came after World War 2, the late 1960’s and early 1970’s influx of new talent in Hollywood as the old guard saw they had lost touch with the audiences taste. The last great change in Hollywood was the Independent film movement in the 1990’s. I am waiting for the next change but feel that the buck vs. movie making costs might hamper that coming. I hope I am wrong cause I am watching older movies now more than I’m going to the theatre to watch new releases, which pisses me off cause like many people I love sitting in a dark theatre and watching a good movie with a group of strangers and sharing the experience. Is the web our only saving grace to the future? Is Hollywood a write –off? :cry
The last 2 times I have gone to the movie theatre I feel like I am re-living the 1980’s. I go to see RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, basically a re-make, a re-working, whatever words you prefer to use of CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. Good movie, but that aside, before the movie starts I am shown a trailer for FOOTLOOSE, another 1980’s remake and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, yet another 1980’s remake. Last weekend I go to see the CONAN flick, I needed an action fix, and I am exposed to the trailers for the THING prequel, FOOTLOOSE (again) THE KILLER ELITE (I’m guessing a remake of the James Cann 1975 flick(never saw it), Jason Statham just remade Bronson’s THE MECHANIC last year, is Eastwood’s career next on his tough guy remake list?) and FRIGHTNIGHT trailer a remake this time from the 1990’s. Are original stories that risky that the studies would rather bank a ton of money on rehashed story lines rather than present an original story. I know there will be someone out there who will respond with the devil advocate stance of Hollywood can do what it wants, money rules, if you don’t like it don’t see it...yadda, yadda, yadda. Yeah, we all know those come back lines, but in the past at least there was some sort of a balance between movies that are made strictly to make a buck and others that while they want to make a buck they are providing a fresh movie to watch. I guess the road we are heading down is one we can’t come back from. Movies are getting SO expensive to make, they will become safer and safer for the studios to bank on. There have always been times when change has come, the film noir genre that came after World War 2, the late 1960’s and early 1970’s influx of new talent in Hollywood as the old guard saw they had lost touch with the audiences taste. The last great change in Hollywood was the Independent film movement in the 1990’s. I am waiting for the next change but feel that the buck vs. movie making costs might hamper that coming. I hope I am wrong cause I am watching older movies now more than I’m going to the theatre to watch new releases, which pisses me off cause like many people I love sitting in a dark theatre and watching a good movie with a group of strangers and sharing the experience. Is the web our only saving grace to the future? Is Hollywood a write –off? :cry
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