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Old 08-04-16, 01:01 PM
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Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Title says it all. Stop the remakes and the rehashing of the same story lines.
Old 08-04-16, 01:15 PM
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

same goes for Bad ____ (insert name of relative) as well.
Old 08-04-16, 01:20 PM
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by leacha
Title says it all. Stop the remakes and the rehashing of the same story lines.
How will all those people in LA stay employed just making about 7 or 8 movies a year?
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

It's only going to get worse. The producers that actually float the money for Hollywood want to invest in proven movie brands. It's safer investing in a familiar movie's name and formula.

Old Hollywood could invest in proven stars and usually get their money back, because audiences would see any movie if it had their favorite star. Modern audiences are much more fickle and rarely see a movie because of an actor.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by davidlynchfan
same goes for Bad ____ (insert name of relative) as well.
Does this mean I'm related to Santa?
Old 08-04-16, 01:35 PM
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Hollywood reads DVDTalk forums?
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by dex14
Hollywood reads DVDTalk forums?
We can dream, can't we?
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by RichC2
Does this mean I'm related to Santa?
Bad Santa was the original so it should obviously get a pass.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Asking Hollywood to stop making remakes/reboots/unnecessary sequels is asking them to stop taking easy money. It won't happen.

The problem may be that between TV and movies there is so much content out there that they need something to rise above it. Slapping the name of a proven product helps them to do that. It's a hell of a lot easier than developing a new franchise from scratch.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by Count Dooku
How will all those people in LA stay employed just making about 7 or 8 movies a year?


Exactly. Remakes and "too dark" comic book movies may be loathed by the folks in this forum, but they bring jobs and money to the local economies where they are filmed.

You always have the power to not see something that doesn't interest you.

I never have any issue with Hollywood, whether it be movies or TV, continuing to crank out content whether or not you think it's creative enough. I'd rather see hundreds/thousands of people working than having the country go through another recession and cutbacks.

Not everyone who works on a movie or TV show is some 6-7 figure actor or Hollywood suit. A lot of these lower level production people live paycheck to paycheck.

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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

I can feel the changes....I think it's working!
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Dear DVDTalk Forum,

I am writing this letter as a duly unauthorized representative of my collective clients, herein known as "Hollywood." My clients wish to start by thanking you for the support you have given us over the years -- through the evolution of movies from theaters to home video back to the reinvigoration of theaters. Thank you for purchasing Star Wars no less than 7 times each!

The thousands of workers in cinema and film take great pride in the product we put out, whether it is The Godfather or Sharknado 7: Shar7nado. That said, we did not realize our incessant remakes, reboots, requels, sequels, prequels, alternate universes, and revisits of source material were so offensive. Had leacha simply written sooner, we could have avoided the last 10 years of cinema.

Apologies,

"Hollywood"
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I for one welcome remakes, reboots, etc;

I just want well done movies, why, when provided with hundreds of millions of dollars, does this appear to not be possible?
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

If they insist on putting out remakes, could they at least make them decent? Decent remakes would be a hell of a lot easier to take than the dreck that they seem to insist on releasing.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by dex14
Hollywood reads DVDTalk forums?
Hell, the 15 members still left on DVDTalk may not read it, much less Hollywood
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Isn't this thread 50 to 60 years too late? Remakes have been a staple of Hollywood for decades. Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments anyone? Yes, I know that was a different era, but remakes are what you make (no pun intended) of them. They can be great, bad, good, or meh. It all comes down to the care of making them.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

The Wizard of Oz that we all know and love is a remake.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by Brack
Isn't this thread 50 to 60 years too late? Remakes have been a staple of Hollywood for decades. Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments anyone? Yes, I know that was a different era, but remakes are what you make (no pun intended) of them. They can be great, bad, good, or meh. It all comes down to the care of making them.
What he said. Studios would recycle scripts all the time. Shoot the same movie using the same script. "Let's remake this as a western!"
If you watch enough old movies, the "haven't I seen this before?" feeling of deja vu is common. They at least would change the title and genre.

WB remade Petrified Forest as Escape in The Desert substituting Nazis for gangsters. Some scenes have identical dialog.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

I guess the OP heard about the remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels featuring Rebel Wilson.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by Brack
Isn't this thread 50 to 60 years too late? Remakes have been a staple of Hollywood for decades. Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments anyone? Yes, I know that was a different era, but remakes are what you make (no pun intended) of them. They can be great, bad, good, or meh. It all comes down to the care of making them.
I hope you are not saying that there were just as many remakes in the past as there have been over the past 30 years or so. If you are, you need to study your history....the difference is like night & day.

Also, I would never have a problem if Hollywood remade a silent.
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It's about as bad as with Marvel going around and remaking all the superheros to fit some political social agenda based on todays current events...they just need left alone and best to create something new. Apparently the creative well is running dry in Hollywood.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

I feel the same way about Comic-book/superhero movies/shows.

That horse has been beaten, eaten and shit out and beaten all over again.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

And I was going to add "and Sequels to Movies That Don't Need Sequels" but the responses here have already stomped that out.
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Re: Attention Hollywood! Enough with the Remakes!

Originally Posted by TomOpus
The Wizard of Oz that we all know and love is a remake.
Of a lesser, slightly more obscure effort. I have no problems with remaking movies that didn't live up to their potential. Stop remaking movies that got it right the last time they were made.

Remake Dune.

Remake Land of the Lost.

Remake Green Lantern

Don't freakin' remake Ben-Hur again. You can't improve on the last one (yes, I realize that the Heston Ben-Hur is a remake...but a remake that got it right)
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Attn public at large: Stop going to see/buying this shit & it will stop.

On this very forum I see comments like 'well, I know it's going to suck but I'm going to the midnight showing' or 'I hated the movie but bought 7 copies because they had slightly different covers', etc.

Somebody is telling Hollywood this is what we want to see.

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