Why doesn't anyone like remakes or modern films?

Question

I don't think I have heard ANYONE say something nice about a recently made film. I thought remakes brought us things that the originals couldn't bring us when the film was first made, and many directors now put emotions and feelings into films. And with that along with awsome special effects that they can now create. Ever since the first 'Big Budget Film' (Independence Day), no one has liked them...

Answer 1

Because the original movie is better than a remake. The problem with the movies these days is no one can think for themselves and come up with an original idea. When they do come up with a new idea we get something stupid like "snakes on a plane".

Answer 2

I always watch remakes. Think of them as experiments or curiosities -- even when they fail. I didn't mind Psycho, complete with a CG Hitchcock cameo. (It was one of the first films Vince Vaughan made.) The latest King Kong was cerrtainly interesting and generally an improvement on the original. Some object strongly to the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but most of the recent horror remakes (viz. Hills Have Eyes) seem to go down well.

Answer 3

Originality is what matters most to me. I dont know about anyone else. A cutting edge movie like the Wicker Man from the 70's which has stood the test of time. Does not really need to be remade with a holywood spin to it. to make it any better. Why not make a movie totaly different to the Wicker Man but equally original it just shows laziness on the part of the producers and writers.

Answer 4

Thats because people who watched the original movie remember how they felt whilst watching it ie emotions. So when they watch the remake they realise it doesnt bring that old feeling back and get annoyed thinkin 'why has a classic film been ruined'

Answer 5

The biggest problem I have with remakes is that these days there are no "real" actors. Only egos. They think they are more important than the film instead of the other way round.

Answer 6

Thinking about 'Moby Dick', the remake simply doesn't have the atmosphere of the Gregory Peck original.

Yes, techniques have moved on, and with all due respect to the actors etc. in the remake, they simply didn't make a better film.

Not to say that all remakes are inferior though.

Answer 7

My first thought about remakes is "why do they bother"?

King Kong, for example, is a movie classic. Dino de Laurentis shouldn't have remade it, but, to be fair, Peter Jackson did a very good job with his version.

The Italian Job... Why remake that?

Solaris... Give me Tarkovsky's version any day.

And so on and so on.

Remakes show a lack of imagination in the movie industry.

Answer 8

Independence day is the worst film ever. There are lots of great new films and lots of great remakes, its just the hollywood blockbuster types that are usually disappointing

Answer 9

What did you expect? Re-makes are produced because they are seen as gauranteed income, not because anyone thinks they can be made better.

Case in point: "Shall We Dance?" with Will Gere, is a re-make. The original by the same name (although adjusted for the accent as "Shall We Dansu?") is Japanese, and is in every way a superior effort: much funnier, and more intimate. (See here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117615/).

It was certain that Americans would never watch a movie that was, frankly, not American, so the plot was swiped and a B-grade movie was born. Ugh.

Answer 10

I think that it is because before special effects and fancy editing, actors were required to act. There are qualities in older movies that cannot be duplicated today. I think that the classics are classics because they portrayed realistic scenarios that were easy to relate to.