Everything Netflix has sent me lately has been scratched all to hell and barely plays. It's getting pretty annoying.
Read the Entertainment Weekly fall movie preview. Remakes and more remakes, why? WHY?
But I know why...no one likes old movies, so they can mine them for ideas and people are happy because they get the story without having to endure the horror of black and white. The remake/sequel thing isn't new, but pundits keep scratching their heads over why people aren't going to the movies. Uh, show me something I haven't seen before?
Like "Flight Plan," which has the same plot as "The Lady Vanishes" except it's on a plane and not a train. They don't mention this in the article, of course. "Just Like Heaven" sounds like all those "Date with an Angel/Teen Angel" dead teenager movies from the 80s. Another version of Pride and Prejudice. Remakes of The Fog; Yours, Mine and Ours; Fun with Dick and Jane; the Producers; All the King's Men; King Kong. Movie version of Aeon Flux, ugh (prefer the original). Sequel to Zorro. Sequel to Saw.
An 8-page fashion spread with the stars of Rent. WTF? They're all very pretty but can none of them speak? EW is not a fashion magazine.
According to Universal, "Serenity" has to make $80 million globally to warrant a sequel. Do they really think it won't? I can't see how it won't make $80 mil domestically. Am I just being blind because I loved Firefly so much?