We need someone to do to the Crow what Heath Ledger did to the Joker. In fact, if Heath Ledger was alive, he’d be a great choice (RIP)

Could you really go on? How many other great remakes are there?

I will agree with alll the ones you listed, although I still consider Star Trek to be part of the traditional cannon, almost like a mirror universe episode.

Does anyone seriously think remaking The Crow is a good idea?

And I saw Hayden Christiansen’s name mentioned, in all fairness thats not a terrible idea, as he is a decent actor. I love Jumper, where’s the sequel to that???

While I might have been a little extreme in agreeing with DrSamBeckett,I think your post pretty much captures the exact same feelings that I have.

I will concede that there are some remakes that have been good and have actually given us something more that just existing as a pure money grab,but those seem to be too few and too far between these days.

Like I said before,where’s a Grendel,X-O Man Of War,or even Bone movies?There’s so much material to choose from,but the Hollywood elite choose to overlook “originality” because,for lack of any other reason,they know that they can recycle and rehash the same old crap,and everyone is gonna eat it up.We might complain about it,but we’ll be grousing with every bite.

Until we as an audience decide that we don’t want to see the same old same old,by not giving them our money,they will just keep on giving us the same old same old.

It’s obvious that in Hollywood,dollars speak louder than anyone.

Some remakes are very good (invariably of much older or foreign films) some are terrible, of the examples you gave; Star Trek needed new cast members and was always about the Star Trek universe rather than any single character (i.e. Draven), The Thing and the Fly were from much, much older movies and The (American) Ring was crap!

For me re-making ~The Crow~ is a pointless exercise artistically speaking. The Brandon Lee movie was as close as dammit to the graphic novel (drug-use aside) that any re-make is setting itself up as a very, very big target. That target is drawn even larger by wanting to take the movie in a ‘new, less gothic direction’…

What is left then of the original story? An engaged man watches as the love of his life is murdered and swears revenge even from beyond the grave? That’s the Crow without the Gothic stylings, its also the plot to about 1000 other films. Why tarnish the reputation of The Crow (not the ’sequels’ which were poor, much as I like Dacascos and that guy from Ugly Betty whose name escapes me) with a terrible, ill-conceived film?

There are literally thousands and thousands of books that deserve to be made into movies (good or bad, preferably good) before the industry needs to cannibalise itself like it seems hell-bent on. It seems that in the last few months (years?) there have been more re-makes than at any other time.

Sorry for the massive post everyone, the ‘making of DVD’ of this rant is available from http://www.givemeanoriginalmovieyousoulsuckingleeches.con

I’m not the biggest fan of remakes, believe me.

Vic

You guys should collaborate to make the moon rise at dawn and the sun rise at midnight.

Seriously though, You’re laying down a really stringent absolute “Never Remake/Reboot ANYTHING!!!” Those strains of “logic” usually don’t hold up to close examination.

“Only a Sith Deals in Absolutes.”

If not for remakes/reboots there would be no:

New Star Trek
The Ring American version
John Carpenter’s The Thing
David Cronenberg’s The Fly

I could go on…

You don’t like THIS PARTICULAR remake, that’s cool. But the whole dramatic “kill studio execs” thing is a bit over the top I think.

And yes, people enjoy speculation pieces. They also like list posts and news posts detailing every, single, little, development, regarding a movie. People like what they like…