Like fashion, trends come back in again over time. The latest trend in movies to come back is remakes. That's right it is remake and reboot season again in Hollywood. It seems that this summer we have been receiving a ton of remakes happening and being announced.
We have just gotten news that there will be a remake of the classic Big Trouble in Little China with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and not too long ago we just heard there's gonna be a remake of Stephen King's It. We also heard that there will be remakes of movies like Ghostbusters, The Craft, Gremlins, and many others. We just gotten movies not to long ago like Poltergeist and Mad Max. The remake reboot machine is fully running in Hollywood. But is that a good thing?
Remakes and reboots get a flack from moviegoers and it seems rightly so. Most people write them off as lazily made with little to no originality in order to bank off of nostalgia and never could be better or is nowhere near as good as the original. And at times they are right. The Amityville Horror remake is a prime example. The original scared us while the remake was just an big overabundance of lame CGI that wasn't. The only good thing about the remake was all the good shirtless Ryan Reynolds scenes. But is it true that any remake or reboot that comes out is marked with the curse of it being bad?
It is true that a lot of these movies do end up being bad, but a some of them are not. Scream 4 is a good example. Scream 4, even though it is a sequel director Wes Craven set 4 to be a reboot with a completely new trilogy. 4 was almost as good as the other Scream movies as it was nearly in the same vein. Just as the original trilogy parodies horror movies, Scream 4 parodied the remakes and reboots of horror films. But Scream 4 is just one example.The truth is that remakes and reboots suck just as any other movie. Like any movie, you have to work with a certain, script, image, and direction.
As for the demand of originality, some remakes do in a way try to be original when remaking a film. People who make these remakes were inspired, or at least they should, by the bar the original has set. Whether they set themselves near that bar varies. They can be very damn near it or miles below. Just like The Amityville Horror the director and the CGI probably tried to be original adding CGI effects to the movie and trying to make things and probably scare moments from the original scarier, but ultimately they failed.
It seems that people don't really complain about remakes about them being unoriginal, but mainly because we want to see something new. We want to see something we've never seen before. We already know what happens in Poltergeist and Big Trouble in Little China, so seeing a remake of it does seems to be a burden unless to see what small changes have they made to the script, only to compare to the original and decide to complain about how it isn't like the original. What are your thoughts on remakes and reboots?
As for the demand of originality, some remakes do in a way try to be original when remaking a film. People who make these remakes were inspired, or at least they should, by the bar the original has set. Whether they set themselves near that bar varies. They can be very damn near it or miles below. Just like The Amityville Horror the director and the CGI probably tried to be original adding CGI effects to the movie and trying to make things and probably scare moments from the original scarier, but ultimately they failed.
It seems that people don't really complain about remakes about them being unoriginal, but mainly because we want to see something new. We want to see something we've never seen before. We already know what happens in Poltergeist and Big Trouble in Little China, so seeing a remake of it does seems to be a burden unless to see what small changes have they made to the script, only to compare to the original and decide to complain about how it isn't like the original. What are your thoughts on remakes and reboots?
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