More '80s Movie Remakes Coming - Can We Please Stop This?
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Island Dog | Discussion: Life, the Universe and Everything
I read a list of more '80s movies being remade, and I just need to make it clear that this needs to stop. So many of these are great movies that just need to be left alone, and not remade with some mediocre actors.
https://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/yahoo-movies/80s-movie-remakes-214713917.html
Couple of examples:
- Escape from New York
- Fletch
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- Wargames
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Reply #2 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 10:44 AM
They remake them because they make money. If people didn't pay to see the remakes, they would stop making them. Games industry is the same way. Do we really need COD 8 (or whatever) and so on? Well, yes apparently because people keep buying them.
Reply #3 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 10:48 AM
I'm still holding out for Buckaroo Banzai against the World Crime League though...
But only if they can keep the flurry of one liners and quirkiness of the original!
http://scixual.tumblr.com/post/3363395167/declaration-of-war-the-short-form-for-use-in
Reply #4 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:09 AM
There's really only one way to stop it...by making it unprofitable.
Good luck. 
Reply #5 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:29 AM
Almost all of these are dead in development according to the blogspam "article". There's really no reason to get worked up over this outdated nonsense. 
Reply #6 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:37 AM
To some of us it seems that the world today is hard pressed to come up with an original idea, which goes right along with memory recall and attention span. Unfortunately it's been this way for a very, very long time.
Now you would expect that folks would realize this but for two things.........can't remember the first and.......I'm sorry, what were you saying.
Reply #7 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:06 PM
None of those 4 is a literary masterpiece...so it doesn't matter.
There's plenty of others I can think of that'd be a real issue.....
Am I the only person who finds the TV series 'Elementary' an abomination on ALL counts?
Anything that makes its way across the 'pond' [for re-invention] usually ends up in utter disaster.
Reply #8 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:53 PM
Fletch was awesome, including it's soundtrack. Wargames had a remake in 2008…
Reply #9 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 1:47 PM
Every movie from the 80s is being remade or remade already.
They are even rebooting the reboot of the 2009 Friday the 13th.
Reply #10 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 1:59 PM
I agree with I.D. The 80's sucked as it was, no need to bring all those pink Skisuits & legwarmer memories back Lol 
Reply #11 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 2:39 PM
I agree with I.D. The 80's sucked as it was, no need to bring all those pink Skisuits & legwarmer memories back Lol
You wore those? 
Reply #12 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 3:10 PM
Quoting neone6, reply 10
I agree with I.D. The 80's sucked as it was, no need to bring all those pink Skisuits & legwarmer memories back Lol
You wore those?
Now there's a mental image I could have lived without...
Reply #14 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 3:31 PM
I drank until I just didn't give a shit......by then it was the 80's so nobody noticed.If Holywood can sucker everybody into paying for poorly remade half-assed reproductions then shame on y'all.
Yeah right, every day 
Reply #16 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 5:02 PM
Am I the only person who finds the TV series 'Elementary' an abomination on ALL counts?
I puked a little in my mouth thinking about it. And after the british Sherlock tv series was such a huge success, they didn't learn from that though.
Reply #17 Thursday, May 8, 2014 10:55 AM
Agreed!
They do remakes because there is no creativity or original thinking left in the movie industry, and all they care about is making money. I mean come on now, how many times has Godzilla been remade! Enough already!
True! (sadly). Most of the really good stories are now in smaller niche markets - cable TV, etc - smaller, more focused audience. However, also consider that new generations are coming of age. They don't want to watch an old fuddy movie like their parents watched. They want their own generation's version! Oh, and the producers do want to make money.
Reply #18 Thursday, May 8, 2014 10:58 AM
Quoting Jafo, reply 7
Am I the only person who finds the TV series 'Elementary' an abomination on ALL counts?
I puked a little in my mouth thinking about it. And after the british Sherlock tv series was such a huge success, they didn't learn from that though.
I watch elementary via the web. But this less a reflection on my tastes and more a reflection of whats on the TV menu (-ie almost nothing!). I actually like the Brit Sherlock, too bad the actors are tied up in middle earth.
Reply #19 Thursday, May 8, 2014 5:03 PM
If Holywood can sucker everybody into paying for poorly remade half-assed reproductions then shame on y'all.
I hear Amazing Spiderman 2 is doing amazingly well in theaters
Reply #20 Friday, May 9, 2014 9:20 AM
Quoting Wizard1956, reply 14
If Holywood can sucker everybody into paying for poorly remade half-assed reproductions then shame on y'all.
I hear Amazing Spiderman 2 is doing amazingly well in theaters
Not a fan of spider man. They filmed one of the scenes in downtown <my city>, snarled traffic horribly,etc. But the wonder and amazement is gone from spidey. Sad....
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Reply #1 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 9:31 AM
Agreed!
They do remakes because there is no creativity or original thinking left in the movie industry, and all they care about is making money. I mean come on now, how many times has Godzilla been remade! Enough already!