Movie Remakes--Good or bad?

Batman: POS.
The new batman doesn't live up to the comics, so to be favourably compared to anything it has to be compared to the old movies. In the new movies he's not an inventor, detective or even much of a fighter. He has his gimmicks and one martial art style. At least in the old movies, there was some flash to the character and the gadgets were cooler.

 

I almost always hate remakes, I'll try to share some examples later. I absolutely hated the Friday the 13th remake (frankly I saw it as 'porn with a horror theme to it') but then I also didn't care for the originals.

But man am I eager to see the new Tron ^_^

 

I think re-makes have their value. Sometimes I feel that some original movies would be so much better had they had the technology we have today. Other times the concept of an older film is really great, but in the re-make sometimes they're able to translate it better to the screen. Other times they're abysmal.

 

Depends mostly on the movie and how it's remade. "The Taking of Pellham 123" was a good remake of a 70's movie. The new Star Wars(es) suck compared to the originals (Yes, I know they're prequels but that doesn't excuse them)

Tron is my wet-dream come true... but I can't help but think Hollywood will fuck it up somehow.

Honestly, what made the first one was a combination of the hours I spent in the arcade playing the game and the special effects. I haven't played Tron in 20+ years though and with movies like Avatar hogging all of the effects, I seriously doubt Tron will have anything original to offer in that department.

 

the star wars originals sucked balls.

 

So did the last batch.

 

I liked the Friday the 13th score, pretty intense.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSXM-QwAV0"]YouTube- Friday The 13th 2009 Score "Sleeping Ke-Bag" By Steve Jablonsky[/ame]

 

Thought the kiwi would like the prequels.

 

I would've if they had called them The Phantom Maori, Attack of the Hori and The Revenge of the Muss.

 

now, every single mandalorian sounds like jake the muss.

You ever played KotOR2?

 

Im my mind, remakes are never as good as the original.

It is only shows that Hollywood is out of ideas, and it's an easier buck to make a copy than to actually be creative.

 

And don't forget nostalgia - people want to go "back" to that time when the movie first came out, to relive their experience. Unfortunately the copy can never create that time. The good remakes (those who are so few and far between) actually transcend the original, and bring new depth to the story.

Those are the ones I like. I think I can count on one hand the ones I've seen like this, though.

 

Oh no you didn't!

 

The new Star Wars rely too much on special CGI effects for my tastes. Give me old fashioned scale models blowing up any day of the week!

Then you have The Force powers; they were nice and subtle, almost believable in the first movies. Yoda even needed to concentrate to lift the ship out of the pond. In the new ones though, even the padawan's can throw a robot a few hundred feet and not flinch.

When the Emperor shot lightning bolts out of his hands, THAT was an impressive show of the Dark Side that made people's jaws drop. In the new ones, people just shrug it off as normal - "Phht, even I can do that!"

 

The only good thing about the newer ones was that proper people made proper use of lightsabers. However, the story lines did not make a lick of sense.

 

All remakes are good.


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Oh Pleaseeeeee, a slow cyborg, a crippled old man and a young boy who is using the force to guide him rather than lifelong saber training in various forms AND the force. That's not good lightsaber fighting, and lightsabers are important in a movie that was unique for its lightswords.

Bobba had nothing on Jango.

 

Phantom of the Opera, with Gerard Butler.
I realize this is a very big female comment, but I really cannot stand all of the synthesizing and editing they did to the lead characters' voices.
This is why musicals should be left to Broadway.