Damn your Lupine Eyes, Mitok

[akerin]

You're Kidding Me...

2008 Remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still...With Keanu ReevesNothing is Sacred. I get it. A Unicorn I know always says that. Being in the field of performing arts (arts in general), I know that nothing is sacred. Variations, and different concepts on the same theme can be a very very good thing. Take "updated" Shakespeare

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[staindfan244]

It's not a "get rich quick" scheme, at least not from my point of view, it's the death of creativity. Let's face it, when was the last time you went to see a movie that wasn't a remake, or a sequel or prequel, or based on something else already hailing from pre-existing cinematic or artistic roots that wowed you? Best I can do is Jarhead and that was a good two years ago. Hollywood's bemoaning their plummeting revenues and blaming the pirates but quite frankly, I think piracy is only raping the hell out of DVD sales. People aren't going to the theaters anymore because quite frankly, everything in the theaters these days suck more dick that Tug at the Mister Universe competition. Walking out of the Dark Knight, Bunnah and I took a look at the movie posters they had up... out of the fifteen or so posters we saw THREE that we agreed would be tolerable. Not that were excited about... or wanted to see... or would even see. Oh no, I meant "tolerable" in the fact that it might be rented someday if the stars align perfectly on some random fluke years down the road.

I'm not necessarily hating on "re-imagining" or dabbling in a pre-existing universe (case in point: the Dark Knight was quite good!) I'm just saying that if you want to catch people's attention try coming up with a new franchise that you can milk for the next twenty years. Harrison Ford's only got a good ten years left in him before Indiana Jones is going to be hobbling around in a walker after all.