What the hell is up with the re-imaginings of movies?

Halloween, Friday the 13th, nightmare on elm street (being made), Prom Night (which was nothing like the original ).

Are they really out of ideas? So much so, that they have to remake movies and not even remake them correctly?

thank you .thats what i was saying also

I liked the Halloween remake, but such is a rarity.

As a rule I don't watch these "re-imaginings" because they will always suck. Its just movie makers wanting to make a quick buck while keeping the quality of the movie as low as possible.

I hate it when they do it but change it horribly, and the movie ends like a completely different movie.

How do you remake a movie correctly? My only complaint about some of the current remakes is when they explain everything, where the original kept things unexplained. Like with the Black Christmas remake, what made the original work was we had no idea of who Billy was, but the remake tells us everything. Same with Halloween, Michael was creepy when he was a mysterious shape. But Zombie had to come in and give him a long drawn out back story, and because it's Zombie- Michael was given the "white trash" treatment.

As for Friday the 13th- I liked it, and it was a far cry better than parts 6 through Jason X. The remake got Jason back to where he belonged- in the woods! Though technically it's a remake of part 2(with a bit of 3 and 4 thrown in).
And I liked the Dawn of the Dead remake, I was glad that they did go a different direction than trying to copy what Romero had already done. Don't get me wrong, it's nowhere near the original, but it is a fun zombie romp.

One good thing that can come from remakes- is the release or re release of the original on DVD. A better version of My Bloody Valentine was released to coincide with it's remake. Plus all of the Friday the 13ths getting better DVD re releases. I do hope with the release of the Happy Birthday To Me remake we'll get a proper DVD release for the original with the original film score intact(and not the awful score that was put on the other DVD release)

Here's some remakes coming(and this isn't counting the numerous remakes of current foreign films)-

Sorority Row
Happy Birthday To Me in 3D
Piranha in 3D
The Birds
An American Werewolf in London
It's Alive
Anguish
The Crazies
Creepshow
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Fright Night
The Fury
Hellraiser
The Funhouse
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Monster Squad
Scanners
Escape From New York
Little Shop of Horrors
Long Weekend
Motel Hell
Mother's Day
Near Dark
Night of the Demons
Poltergeist
Predator
Re-Animator in 3D
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rosemary's Baby
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Faces of Death
Child's Play
The Wolfman
Scream(a reboot of the franchise is planned)
The Stepfather
Shocker
People Under The Stairs
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
The Gate
Total Recall
They Live

i just want you to know.. this post made me cry a lil.

thanks dude.

Apparently they're remaking Final Destination. Already? It hasn't even been ten years! Who knew the aftermath of the writer's strike would be so tragic. You know this most of this stuff entered production during that period.

A remake of "The Gate" would be cool if they kept to the story and added better effects than what they used back then. Even tho the eyeball in the kid's hand was creepy as hell back then.

It's less about being "out of ideas" as it is a combination of outright laziness and abject greed on the part of corporate Hollywood.

For ya see, instead of actually taking a chance on an untested, original film property, the studios have taken the easy way out by constantly re-hashing the same already-tired-as-all-heck movies of lore.

Why? A part of is has to do with the fact that the studio producing the movie often doesn't have to shell out moolah for the rights to the movie, as they already own it. Since movie licensing and rights acquisition is rather expensive nowadays, most studios would rather take the cheap way out and go with what they already have.

Not only that, the studio can essentially bank on the potential success of the already-proven property (most of the time), as they'll be tapping into an already-established audience. You already have a built-in crowd that will go see an umpteen-millionth "Friday The 13th" movie, as they've probably already seen the other previous ones, for example.

So there'd be no incentive for the studios to take their chances on an IP that might be a hit or not, as that would result in them taking a gamble with their money- the chance of a totally-original movie tanking at the box office would be much greater than that of a "reimagined" movie, at least in the eyes of the suits who run Hollywood.

And corporate Hollywood just CAN'T be taking gambles with their productions, right?

I however think that the film biz should just STOP with the reimagined movies. They aren't doing anything fresh or exciting, and a lot of them just don't really translate very well in modern society, as was the case with "Pelham 123" with the train-related snafus that simply wouldn't happen in today's world.

They can't remake Poltergeist. That was probably the best Spielberg film ever. That movie so scared me when I was a kid. It gave me nightmares: the clown, the tree, tweety.

That movie still scares me

The effects in The Gate were excellent. Randy Cook did some of his best work there- those little creatures would be a lot less effective if they were done today with CGI.

Actually it was Tobe Hooper's film, Spielberg produced- but, it definitely feels like a Spielberg film.
That movie had the parent's smoking pot, I doubt they would put that in the remake, which is too bad because it's the touches like that that makes the film so good.