Evakian
07-30-2005, 02:58 PM
This year: Dukes of Hazzard, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, King Kong, The Longest Yard, Bewitched, War of the Worlds, Bad News Bears, the Ring 2 and more. What do all these have in common? They are remakes of movies of the same name or tv shows of the same name.
Why the remakes? A lack of ideas in the industry is leading to many remakes. they are losing money and so are betting their money on past successes, which leaves less room for original stories. Sometimes remakes are very subjective, fans of the old may hate it, others unaware of the old love it. It all depends.
Even books are being ripped up to account for movies now more than ever. LOTR, sister of the traveling pants, the hours, the da vinci code (soon), Choc./Factory, War of the Worlds. Dozens of titles are being converted into book form very quickly: prime example is Harry Potter.
More prevalent than books is COMIC BOOKS. Spider man, X men, Hulk, Daredevil, Catwoman, FAntastic Four, Hellboy, Punisher, Constantine,. Sin City, Batman and superman are coming out with more titles also.
Now, not to say that these remakes are bad or good, some are some aren't. It is just that they cannot think of new ideas that are fresh and that bothers me, i can only eat so many of the same thing before i cannot eat it anymore.
When the Matrix came out, breathtaking visuals, elaborate, original plot. Great lines, cool characters, caused you to think.
In my book the Wachowski Brothers were the fresh faces of hollywood that would resurrect it. Wrong. They disproved me.
Aside from rehashing the matrix two more times (which was unecessary, we can tell Neo was going to go out and kill em all, not too much needed to see it aside from action and little philosophical bits in both that were intriguing) they have done nothing. aside from their new project, coming out this novemeber.
V for Vendetta, but guess what: Thats a comic book.
Richard Kelly, creator of Donnie Darko. Is the fallback hope for hollywood. Donnie Darko was sublime and genius, my favorite film of all time, but now Kelly has been hired away by studios to do action films. This seems below him after his first moive, Donnie Darko.
Quentin Tarantino is a true renegade, he dishes out fresh stuff every time he walks into the kitchen and throws it out on the table. His movies are bizarre, and only one man is not enough to redeem hollywood. We need more
Hollywood is like a virus that corrupts, sure we get to see original pieces here and there, but those people or stories get hijacked by Hollywood and throw crap on us when we ask for a meal.
In closing, if you visited my What Is Wrong??? thread you would see how hollywood is dying out and i ask why. But now after thinking i suppose this could be partly to blame- lack of new stuff.
visit What is Wrong??? if you would like
So what do you think about all this?
Why the remakes? A lack of ideas in the industry is leading to many remakes. they are losing money and so are betting their money on past successes, which leaves less room for original stories. Sometimes remakes are very subjective, fans of the old may hate it, others unaware of the old love it. It all depends.
Even books are being ripped up to account for movies now more than ever. LOTR, sister of the traveling pants, the hours, the da vinci code (soon), Choc./Factory, War of the Worlds. Dozens of titles are being converted into book form very quickly: prime example is Harry Potter.
More prevalent than books is COMIC BOOKS. Spider man, X men, Hulk, Daredevil, Catwoman, FAntastic Four, Hellboy, Punisher, Constantine,. Sin City, Batman and superman are coming out with more titles also.
Now, not to say that these remakes are bad or good, some are some aren't. It is just that they cannot think of new ideas that are fresh and that bothers me, i can only eat so many of the same thing before i cannot eat it anymore.
When the Matrix came out, breathtaking visuals, elaborate, original plot. Great lines, cool characters, caused you to think.
In my book the Wachowski Brothers were the fresh faces of hollywood that would resurrect it. Wrong. They disproved me.
Aside from rehashing the matrix two more times (which was unecessary, we can tell Neo was going to go out and kill em all, not too much needed to see it aside from action and little philosophical bits in both that were intriguing) they have done nothing. aside from their new project, coming out this novemeber.
V for Vendetta, but guess what: Thats a comic book.
Richard Kelly, creator of Donnie Darko. Is the fallback hope for hollywood. Donnie Darko was sublime and genius, my favorite film of all time, but now Kelly has been hired away by studios to do action films. This seems below him after his first moive, Donnie Darko.
Quentin Tarantino is a true renegade, he dishes out fresh stuff every time he walks into the kitchen and throws it out on the table. His movies are bizarre, and only one man is not enough to redeem hollywood. We need more
Hollywood is like a virus that corrupts, sure we get to see original pieces here and there, but those people or stories get hijacked by Hollywood and throw crap on us when we ask for a meal.
In closing, if you visited my What Is Wrong??? thread you would see how hollywood is dying out and i ask why. But now after thinking i suppose this could be partly to blame- lack of new stuff.
visit What is Wrong??? if you would like
So what do you think about all this?