If this one thing that is nearly always constant when the news breaks of a studio remaking a classic movie, it’s the response in the comments section from those who complain about Hollywood’s lack of originality and how insulting remakes are.
You’ve all done it. I do it all the bloody time. The Day The Earth Stood Still remake as recently as Monday for example.
We bitch, we moan, we cry, we want to kill those responsible for taking something we love from our childhood and re-packaging it in the Hollywood ‘quick buck’ way.
You guys did well not seeing The Omen last year, which I eventually caught on DVD… a remake that added nothing new to the great original flick and whenever it did deviate, it was not for the film’s benefit. The Omen opened to $16 million which sadly was just enough for a sequel which we believe has just had it’s script turned in to Fox.
You guys did even better not seeing The Wicker Man which bombed and is still $2 million in the red at the time of writing. Again, I saw it on DVD and I can honestly say without a shadow of a doubt it is one of the worst films I have ever seen in my entire life.
So that brings us to Halloween, a movie that I place at a higher stature than the two above. This is a call out from Obsessed With Film (although I can’t speak out for the rest of my writers, I’m sure they all agree too) that we are sick to death of movies we consider classics being raped by studio hacks and those looking for an easy directing ride.
If you see Halloween this weekend after bitching and moaning about the remake so much and help it make $20 million plus then you really only have yourselves to blame when more remakes like this are greenlit. If you go and see them on their first few days of release, you have no right to moan and are a big fucking hypocrite, whose words don’t mean a thing.
If you really have to see it and I’m sure you will have a little of the curiosity factor (how can you not it’s Halloween, which of course is just what Dimension want you to feel) then maybe wait two weeks until you see it, when the film has already bombed and the decision not to make any more has been made. Better yet, catch it on DVD…. that way you can always switch it off after the 40th death scene, 25 minutes into this frantic and gory slasher film nonsense.
Bottom line… you can’t moan if you are the one’s funding these decisions.
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Amen, my brother!!!
It’ll still make $20 million this weekend. You know it. I know it. Dimension knows it. Zombie knows it.
Frankly, I don’t think it will be an audience boycott that will set things right. Instead, we need to start making better films. If there is another year like 1994 (Pulp Fiction, Clerks) or 1999 (Being John Malkovich, Matrix, American Beauty), then the scales will be set right.
It’s just that there is nothing on the horizon like that …
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Well, I’m only one person out of a whole shit-load of people…but I’m definitely NOT going to see this movie when it comes to theaters. I’ll just have to wait until it hits HBO or something. I don’t wanna provoke this little bitch and give idiot movie-hashing producers the wrong idea that remakes are ok, BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT. not for the ones that are classic and well-done. I won’t say Carpenter’s Halloween was a masterpiece, but it was an awesome film during its time and because of its budget. And because it wasnt relying on silly gore and violence and more psychilogical and scare tactics. I really hope nobody sees this when it opens. I hate Rob Zombie..
@ ALK – What on earth do you mean Halloween wasn’t a great movie? A great movie for its time??
If you put the original Halloween in theaters today, it would scare the hell out of people. Some movies are timeless, and this is definitely one of them.
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“If you see Halloween this weekend after bitching and moaning about the remake so much and help it make $20 million plus then you really only have yourselves to blame when more remakes like this are greenlit… you have no right to moan and are a big fucking hypocrite, whose words don’t mean a thing.”
Amen and LOL! I felt much the same way before Transformers debuted. The avalanche of arrogant Hollywood franchise-rape for profit is about to kick into high gear! And just wait to you see what they’re going to do with G.I. Joe! An “international” anti-terrorist group based out of Brussels? I wonder what makes the studios think they can get away with this kind of arrogant abuse of properties? Oh yeah, the people who drool on themselves and go see it anyway.