To be annoyed at repeated crap remakes of beloved films?

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Just watching "overboard" on tv. Not a huge film but just a lovely gentle romcom. I do tend to wiki what I watch as I like finding out bits of trivia.

Now apparently there's a "reboot" being released next month with Anna Farris doing the kurt Russell part and someone I've never heard of goldie hawns.

Why is Hollywood so LAZY!

Upcoming remakes apparently include

The craft
The crow
Cube
Dirty rotten scoundrels (NOBODY will be as delightful as the late Glenne Headley)
Adventures in babysitting
Fame
Flatliners

Why???

I'm guessing they're hoping to capitalise on the original films success/name but they flop anyway! Waste of money that could be spent developing new talent in my opinion.

Tim Burton? What an odd choice.

Never forgiven him for the abomination that was Planet of the Apes.

One of the worst remakes for me is The Time Machine. I loved the original and this was beyond awful.

I though the Jumanji remake was fantastic. Hated Flatliners though.

True Grit is an amazing remake, yes.

Weezol

The Heathers was adapted into a TV show, I say was because they only aired one episode and then the school shooting happened in Florida and they haven’t aired another one since.

I did watch the first episode and it’s not a direct remake, instead of the Heathers been a group of the stereotypical popular girls they are now what one would label “Social Justice Warriors”. There is a fat Heather, a black lesbian Heather and there is a boy Heather who identifies as either a girl or non-binary. The Heathers use shame and social media to ruin people’s lives if they go out of line or make a mistake. It’s actually quite a good social commentary on what is happening at the moment, it didn’t soften what it was trying to say so as you can imagine many people weren’t happy with it.

Yes Skinny. The one I hate at the mo is the rehash of En Vogue's Don't let go. They've just made it faster and it completely detroys it. No emotion at all.
Even worse when they just take one or two lines from the chorus of an old song and repeat it over and over again with a drum beat over it. So lazy.

YANBU the live action a Disney remakes are giving me the rage especially when they turn out to be good

I get the thinking behind Tim Burton doing Dumbo but still haven’t got over the pure shite that was Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass especially.

I agree with all of the above but would say that I really enjoyed the Jumanji remake & the Karate Kid remake. I think what was good about them though was that they weren't a direct remake but took the original story as their premise but then took them in their own direction.

I thought the jumangi remake was better than the original, didn't want to watch it at first as expected it to be awful but very happily surprised by it.

Oh, forgot the even bigger travesty of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Johnny Depp ffs.

Point break was already done - it came out a couple of years ago!

They made it about various extreme sports and clearly chose people that could do the sports, over actual actors.

We made it 20 minutes in and couldn't stand it any longer!!

Robocop! Fuckers. They'd better keep their sticky mitts off Repo Man.

YANBU. I hate it when they redo songs too. They get a 12 year old to sing it with no soul and add a drum beat

They did this with Tracey Chapman's "Car" song recently. Just why.

There are v occasionally classic songs that do bear singing by different artists e.g. "Something" sung by the Beatles, Shirley Bassey, and others.

I could understand why they might make a remake of something that failed miserably the first time but why do they remake films that everyone loved and were huge successes.

A couple of Michael Caine classics spring to mind: Alfie, which make you cringe because the character was so ghastly; the remake was just ghastly and made you cringe for entirely different reasons. And the Italian Job remake. Why would anyone bother to remake a film when the original was so successful, what were they trying to achieve?

And what is this awful thing of taking films, remaking them badly and recasting them all as women? All female casts in shite remakes is not going to help - create some decent new stories, don't give the misogynists more ammunition (Ghostbusters is a perfect example - people associate its awfulness with the fact it's all women, when actually it is just plain awful!!)

Jumanji wasn't a remake. It was a sequel which is just as well because no one could play Robin Williams.

Worst remake ever - Wicker Man. Nicholas Cage is supremely shite in most things anyway.

The Craft ..............was just before TV series Charmed. Could be where they got the idea from.

Funnily enough they both used How Soon is Now by the Smiths on their soundtrack. I suppose the lyrics are a bit witchy - 'I am the sun, I am the air' (The fact that it's actually 'son' and 'heir' is by the by).

I didn't know The Craft was being remade. I loved it growing up. I'm secretly a bit excited to see it but I suspect it will be dreadful.

Oh, fuck me, yes, the Wickerman remake was AWFUL. I'd blocked that from my memory. Horribly misogyistic undertones as well:

I thought the new Ghostbuters was good. I saw it as a version rather than a remake

Same here

Most literal remakes are dross though...

I couldn’t watch the first 5 minutes of the original Dumbo - so racist and just plain mean - so I would be interested in any update to it.

I get the thinking behind Tim Burton doing Dumbo

What now????

@MissionItsPossible nooo not Labyrinth!!! Please tell me you made this up to scare us all?

@NorahJones

There have been rumours for the last few years now. It’s apparently not happening so try to stay calm. But I am prepared to protest if it goes ahead, especially considering talks were proposing CGI rather than puppetry

The Incredible Journey was vastly superior to Homeward Bound.

Not that many will care about that one

If they remake Labyrinth I’ll lose my mind.

I don’t think it will be allowed though....surely....

Rufustheconstantreindeer

The original Dumbo was such a dark film, it was almost not Disney at all. Tim Burton is Hollywood’s go-to for anything ‘dark’ which I personally think is a bit crap.