Howzabout you just MAKE NEW MOVIES, HOLLYWOOD?!?!?

[dameruth]

Fer crying out *loud,* I just saw that they're remaking Clash of the Titans!

And Teen Wolf.  And Footloose.  And . . . oh, hell, everything from about 1978-1985, apparently.

The deja vu, it buuuuuuurrns . . . :P

See, this is why I shouldn't logon after 11pm after being mostly logged off for a weekend.  Stuff like this is always waiting to ambush me.

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Sing it, sister. If I see one more case of filmic cabbage being chewed twice, thrice, or more by the "artists" in Hollywood, I will call Extreme Bad Borscht on the whole passle of 'em.

[dameruth]

Yeah, cattle like to chew cud, but this is pretty ridiculous. :P

[prynne12]

Because there are no new ideas?

[dameruth]

No new ideas, true enough -- new combinations and treatments of ideas, yes. What bugs me most is, they aren't even trying to put a new spin on things, just flat-out copying.

[calliopes_pen]

Don't forget the sort of rip-off that I heard about through Io9 last week--a mix of Back to the Future and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

And the remake of Bride of Frankenstein.

[dameruth]

Well, but at least the rip-off you mention is rejuggling the material a little (doesn't mean the movie's gonna be any good, but at least they're not simply copying straight across).

Ironically, though the Bride of Frankenstein remake *is* a direct copy, that one doesn't bother me as much because it's sort of drifted over into "classic trope" time, like Dracula or Hamlet or something. They're the sort of thing that can be remade and retooled for each new generation.

The remakes I mentioned above don't have that same sort of cachet . . .

Re: wtf?

[dameruth]

Eh, I'd say less lazy than "pathetically conservative" -- "Look! These made money! If we make them again, we'll make more money!"

And yeah, the movie industry has never been all that original, but at least they've usually tried mixing the tropes around before. All of the above 3 movies I mentioned being remade were variations on old'n'moldy themes, but they reworked them in ways that were memorable and became instantly recognizable in themselves as a result (note that I don't necessarily think they were all *good* reworkings, esp. "Teen Wolf," but they did march to their own drummers).

What ticks me off is that they can no longer even seem to manage the basic level of creativity needed to remix things and can only reproduce someone *else's* remix.

[danu_mactire]

Yeah. . .the only one I'm really worried about is Footloose. They've got one of the guys from Gossip Girl playing Ren (which scares me a little).

I'll probably go see it anyways. . .*sigh* (Though if they get Kevin Bacon to do a cameo roll or something I'll probably sqee a little on the inside).

I really hope they keep the movie in the eighties and not update it, if they did update it my eyes would burn (it just wouldn't be the same)

[dameruth]

Actually, I hope they *don't* try to set it in the 80s because that would just be kinda embarrassing. They won't get it right, and then there's REALLY no reason to have remade it.

Any, well, varying mileage. Me, I'm never planning on seeing it anyway, so . . .