Dirty dancing remake

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Just caught the last 40 mins of this film on 5 star - I think I've cringed so much I'm inside out. What on earth were whoever produced this thinking. I'm actually embarrassed for everyone involved in it.

@MarieDelaere that review is hilariously accurate! I loved the original and will always love it - and agree with a protected status for such films

I am only glad I didn't watch all 3 hours of it!

Nothing can be worse than Grease 2

Against my better judgement, I watched Grease 2 because many mnetters recommended it.

@CuthbertDibbleandGrubb

There is heritage protection for buildings. I am wondering if there should be the same for some films and theatre productions, so there cannot be cheap and nasty remakes? Not sure how you would define it and perhaps limited to only a few films a year, perhaps.

Genius idea.

Grade I: no remakes permitted, ever.
Example: Lawrence of Arabia

Grade 2: remakes only allowed if 50% of cast, writers, directors are national treasures.
Example: My Beautiful Laundrette

Grade 3: compulsory zoom session for proposed re-make producers at Turkey School.
Example: The Sound Of Music

Grade 4: knock yourself out.
Example: Queen Of The Desert

I like that idea - some films that are classics are actually dire in parts, e.g. The Wizard of Oz. Once they get to the Emerald City it's really dull.

I'd definitely let the Wizard of Oz be remade. But only if Dame Judy is in it as the cowardly lion, and Biggins as the Scarecrow, so a Cat 2 maybe.

I'm deadly serious.

With some remakes you can sort of see the point. You can dramatise Hamlet a lot of ways. Or some films really benefit from newer tech in production.

But Dirty Dancing is a real coming together of a simple but really quite good script, an interesting time period, and actors and a setting that were kind of perfect, as well as great music and dancing.

It really hasn't aged, so why remake it?

I think if it had been a reimagining of it it wouldn't have been quite so bad but they have stuck to some of the same plots and shoehorned in new ones and as a previous poster put the ending was just woeful. My mouth fell open too!