Remakes are a good thing ... REALLY here is my reasoning

Yes, and in the meantime they are wasting a ton of money making something completely unoriginal and usually making it ten times worse than the original. I agree with the other person that said why doesn't this generation dedicate their time and money to making new classics. I will never understand remakes, especially when they are done poorly.

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For the people who has grown up on the oringinal films......Remakes ruins the classics....Leave the great films along...please

In the eighties I could see a lot of old movies in TV including black and white movies so I loved movies. I loved The Fly, Body Snatchers, The Thing of Another World... all the old versions... and when I could see the remakes i loved too because they were good and diferents movies. Nowday remakes are not giving us any new thing... only are worse copies... so... what is the reason to remake a good movie? I have not idea? Some people says it allows the new generations discover that movies... what about if they seen the original ones? I saw a lot of old movies so why they cant?

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Then we have to clone you.

Getting back to Footloose, I have no choice but to agree.

My wife and I rented the remake (she liked the idea of it, I'd always heard about it but had never seen it). After I saw it, I decided I'd like to see the original sometime.

But, for those folks who say remakes can be un-good, again no choice but to agree. Because my wife went to choose a movie, months later, and came back with this remake. "But-" I said, and she beat me to it -- "What? Did we already see this?"

Apparently, this movie is easily forgettable. (She's halfway through it, this second time, and really isn't saying that she remembers much from the first time.)

I personally got into this movie, and still want to see the original. But a third person who saw this with us absolutely hated it. He'd grown up in Georgia and really really didn't like seeing this. Oh well.

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Now, movies in general ... First of all, Hollywood is a business. If they want to keep the studios and the actors and actresses and movie critics and everyone busy by rehashing old stories, fine. Every one that has a job there is one less competing for the job YOU are trying to get.

Second of all, sometimes remakes correct the mistakes that were the originals. Two I immediately thought of were "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "The King and I", both of which originally were pretty negative about a real person they were down on, and which, in the most recent version, gave a much better depiction. (Captain Bligh actually was much more decent than the average captain back then, and the people in Thailand would point out that that particular king really wasn't as clownish as the original movie showed.)

Thirdly, yes remakes push some people into watching the originals. And Fourthly there's not too much harm in having them -- if someone tried to remake "A Charlie Brown Christmas", you'd realize that the government doesn't say that you have to watch it.

I think your second reason is flawed. I've known many people who've seen remakes and have no interest in seeing the original because:

1. If the remake is bad, they automatically think the original is just as bad, hence not worth seeing.

2. Think the remake is enough, so they don't NEED to watch the original.

Unless a person shows massive interest for the concept of the movie(or just loves movies altogether) and has an open-mind and adventurous spirit to seek out older movies, they aren't going to make an effort to track down original movies if a remake comes out. Especially in our era of low attention spans. Most people are just seeking for the quick fix.

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