Remakes do suck 99.9% of the time but they serve a good purpose, IMO.
Remakes can cause people to go and watch the original when they may have never watched it before. Also, when a movie is remade, the DVD/Video of the original is easier to find because the interest has been sparked. So, in that regard, I like remakes.
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I hate to tell you that the people that acted in the originals more than likely did not have a percentage of the profits so probably see nothing when the movie is replayed. Not many actors knew about residuals back in the 50's which is why many of them end up broke and living in the Motion Picture Actor's Home.
Unrelated, Phyllis Kirk who played Sue Allen died yesterday, Saturday, at the Motion Picture Hospital proving my point that actors usually don't recieve recompense for pictures made so many years ago.
The two best things about the remake are:
-Jarod Padalecki's (I probably spelled it wrong) role
-Paris Hilton's death
Other than that, this one was better.
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That's the good side of replays, but the bad side, is that alo of people are going to know half the story already, that just spoils it. And also, the fact that they don't have any creativity left is very boring.
shareI can see the original poster's point, but remakes also have a habit of being so bad that they put people off seeing the superior original, writing it off as crap too.
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"I can see the original poster's point, but remakes also have a habit of being so bad that they put people off seeing the superior original, writing it off as crap too." -- iwerewolf_werewolf
I HATED the remake to the Fly. Just a lot of grotesque nastiness and Jeff Goldblum doing an abyssmal turn of acting. The Fugitive was a mive version of a Tv show, so I wouldn't call it a remake. Not the same thing.
shareon the opposite side...an effin vincent price film was redone with paris hilton in it...that is such a mockery to him and his work.
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In reply to the first comment, I find that the sparked interest is usually not as good as one would hope, at least in my opinion.
When the Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out, a few friends wanted to borrow the original from me, and they ended up saying "It's gay because it isn't scary" which destroys any remaining hope I may of still had for society.
However, that's not to say you don't have a point. When the Phantom of the Opera came out, a friend of mine went back to watch the old silent one (which we both agreed was awesome).
I agree with the topic starter. I've been looking for Black Christmas (1974) in my local stores since 2004, but as soon as the remake's trailer stated playing everyday, there were copies everywhere.
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I have a question, I know you guys are saying this is a remake, but did they just change the whole plot of the original and make a completley different movie and name it the same as the original? I haven't saw the original, but by reading the plot of it, it seems like a whole different movie concept than the new House of Wax, am I wrong? I liked the remake of this one, but I agree some remakes are just bad. I like remakes because it can modernize out dated movies so that today's generation would be interested and have a chance to see them. I mean I don't know many people that go back and watch really old movies. I recentley watched the new Hitcher and I went back and watched the original 80's version of it. I must say I liked the new one much better than the original.
shareHi,
To answer your question. Basically, they took the concept of the original movie (a maniac who creates figures by using dead bodies covered in wax and displaying them in his museum), and wrote a whole new story about a group of kids stumbling upon a town that revolved around a "House of Wax" run by not one, but two killers. Essentially, this isn't a remake per say like The Thing, Psycho '98 or Black Christmas '05 but it does give a few nods to the original movie such as when the museum is burning down and the killer's name being Vincent (after Vincent Price of course).
So did her acting.
shareI'll just note that the 1953 version of House of Wax is a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum. The DVD has both versions, in fact.
shareI honestly don't think Jarrod would've taken chihuaha-rat-faced Paris into his collection - he admired beautiful people and things, did he not?
There IS a negative side to the same coin about remakes though - though some people inevitably will watch the older originals - a good majority most likely will NOT - meaning that the old one after the remake will be forever stained and confused in the minds of many with the often oversexualed modern versions.
In the first place, 'it sucks' is NEVER objective criticism. It shows a lack of intelligence on the part of those who use it. Secondly, some films considered to be the originals are in fact remakes. Most notably, "The Maltese Falcon," which was fist made in 1931 starring Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels, yet most people think the Humphrey Bogart - Mary Astor classic is the original. "A Star is Born' is another example where the original was NOT a musical like the Judy garland version. Remakes are often inferior to th eoriginal, but hardly anything even as high as 90% of the time, let alone 99.9% of the time.
shareIn the first place, 'it sucks' is NEVER objective criticism. It shows a lack of intelligence on the part of those who use it. Secondly, some films considered to be the originals are in fact remakes. Most notably, "The Maltese Falcon," which was first made in 1931 starring Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels, yet most people think the Humphrey Bogart - Mary Astor classic is the original. "A Star is Born' is another example where the original was NOT a musical like the Judy Garland version. Remakes are often inferior to the original, but hardly anything even as high as 90% of the time, let alone 99.9% of the time.
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very true
even for me, and im a huge movie freak
I had never seen this and would probably not have seen it were it not for the remake
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