What about these remakes?

[tecnowraith]

Ok with all these remakes coming out of the woodwork I noticed it all horror films. So what doing some scifi remakes to balance the universe? Alien is more horror than scifi but come on let's som scifi ones.

 

[WarBlade]

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Well, someone was going to post it. I figured I might as well get it out of the way early.

 

[Armored Avenger]

No more remakes. Please. You know it's going out of control when Cronenberg has announced he is to do a remake of his own remake of The Fly.
The only Science Fiction remake I would like to see is Forbidden Planet, but handled well and by a director who knows Sci-Fi and what they are doing. It would be terrible if it was just churned out by some studio executives. I would also like to see a new Dune film. Not a remake, but a new adaptation of the book.

 

[That-Guy]

Well, we have seen some sci-fi remakes and re-imaginings... There have been good ones (Star Trek) and bad ones (Planet of the Apes, The Day the Earth Stood Still). But overall, yeah, it does seem like horror is dominating the remake genre (if you can call it a genre).

I guess the reason is that a lot of these horror films, especially the slasher ones, became "classics" despite being anything that resembled a good movie. The plots are frequently non-existant. The characters are paper-thin. The actors are usually terrible. The only place where many of these films are(occasionally) inventive is in the death sequences.

Logic would tell you that if all you needed to get asses into the seats in the 70's was a poorly made film with some gore and violence, it probably still works today.

 

[terry78]

The only remakes I would really like to see are some of the older B-movie types from the 50s and 60s that are somewhat cult, but are honestly bad movies. Plan 9 from Outer Space, maybe. HG Wells' Food of the Gods needs a serious update, and make it a period piece to boot.

 

[Nivek]

I find people complaining about remakes to be generally more annoying and disappointing than the remakes themselves.

Especially when talking about Horror films. Not that I expect everyone to be a film student and know the remake thing has been going since movies became popular, but at least understand this is ffffffaaaaarrrrrrr from being a recent thing.

 

[Nivek]

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[Armored Avenger]

I find people complaining about remakes to be generally more annoying and disappointing than the remakes themselves.

Especially when talking about Horror films. Not that I expect everyone to be a film student and know the remake thing has been going since movies became popular, but at least understand this is ffffffaaaaarrrrrrr from being a recent thing.

It's not the fact that films are being remade, it's the amount of useless remakes that are happening at the moment. Classic good quality films are being remade, when there is no need for it at all. Remaking old forgotten films, or bad quality films and bringing them into the public eye and in good quality is a decent thing. But the wave of recent remakes have 90% of the time been bad and are nothing compared to the original films.

 

[nite-owl]

The only remakes I would really like to see are some of the older B-movie types from the 50s and 60s that are somewhat cult, but are honestly bad movies. Plan 9 from Outer Space, maybe. HG Wells' Food of the Gods needs a serious update, and make it a period piece to boot.

There's already a remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space.

 

[8wid]

The only remake I see fit is Farenheit 451, ones that actually have a story for society to appreciate, otherwise nope!

 

[Octoberist]

maybe....Westworld. I love the original but yes, I think that it's one of those films where a remake is okay.

 

[Nivek]

It's not the fact that films are being remade, it's the amount of useless remakes that are happening at the moment. Classic good quality films are being remade, when there is no need for it at all. Remaking old forgotten films, or bad quality films and bringing them into the public eye and in good quality is a decent thing. But the wave of recent remakes have 90% of the time been bad and are nothing compared to the original films.

But again, there are always remakes. You just notice it more in the last 30 years because of cable replays. But a lot of films from the 50's and 60's were remakes of older films from the 30's and 40's. And there has always been a huge amount of crap releases.