For example, I don’t really think we need another Karate Kid (who could replace Pat Morita, anyway?), Short Circuit (I always preferred 2 to the original), Red Dawn, or He-Man. In those cases, I agree that I’d much rather see Hollywood use new, original ideas, or at least go back to adapting book rather than old movies, theme park rides, and action figures.

On the other hand, I was really enthusiastic about the much malligned 2006 “Pink Panther”, because I knew nothing could hurt the genius of the Peter Sellers originals, so Steve Martin’s take could only add to the mythos. I always loved anything to do with “Gremlins”, and I’d be one of the first to buy a ticket to a new Gremlins movie.

Ashley Tisdale shouldn’t be wasting her time with a “Teen Witch” remake, but after seeing her in the Gremlin-esque “Aliens in the Attic”, I have utmost faith that if “Gremlins” were to be remade, she could really pull of that “Why I hate Christmas” speech with those puppy eyes and that quivering lip thing she does.

And if the remake’s really terrible (I’ve seen my fair share of those), there’s always the original to fall back on for comfort.

if the younger generation already don’t know about the originals, then the remakes will bring more attention to them. Face it, not doing anything with them isn’t going to get the younger set to notice the originals any more.

And remakes can be creative if done right. Look at how John Carpenter remade the The Thing and gave us a better film. Or look at how he remade Rio Bravo as Assault on Precinct 13. Thank god for those remakes. Look at Ocean’s 11, that remake was better than the original. Or Hitchcock remaking his own The Man Who Knew Too Much, with greater success.

Sure, there are more bad remakes than good, but the ratio’s about the same for original films as well.

They can always rerelease Gremlins but it probably wouldn’t even make enough money to justify the rerelease. A remake would. It’s a business.

My major problem with remaking so many films from the 80′s is the younger generation starts to think the newer version of the film is the only version of the film. They hate teh remake and never bother to see the original and therefore miss out on the whole experience.

Also, it shows a complete lack of creativity on the part of the Hollywood writers and that is just sad.

If you don’t wanna watch the remake, then don’t. No one’s forcing you.

But why get mad when others that do are being given that option? You should skip it, but others should be able to watch it if they want without you getting upset about it.

While I agree with your take about just watching the original if the remake is bad, I would have to think we are missing out on a lot of truly unique and interesting stories being made into film because of the remakes being done.

It wouldn’t matter to me if those films were remade….its not gonna affect the original ANYWAY, and even they turn out to be complete crap then I’ll just go watch the original again. For example I HATE the Godzilla remake, but I don’t watch it…I just watch the original over.

I’ve no problem with remaking dodgy or bad movies, but no idea to touch a lot of these ones. Maybe a Krull remake, that I’d like to see, if will always love the original.
Just fed up with inferior directors and actors getting to redo movies I love.

Granted, I wasn’t a huge fan of the first two Gremlins movies by any measure of the imagination. Still, I can easily see an upgrade of the franchise be a little more successful, and we have generations of both children and teens who have probably never seen these movies, who could still probably appreciate the concept if modernized a bit more.

See, I’m reminded of when Terminator 2 came out. It was sleek, impressive, up to date, and very well-liked, of course. Some neighboring teen boys were at my place (sons of my mom’s friend) who had never seen the first movie, of course loved the second, and was curious about it. I warned them about the gore, but let them watch em. They didn’t even finish the movie. Wasn’t because of the gore. They called it BORING. Geez. Philistines.

But in this case, Gremlins 1 and 2 would probably get the same reaction. I feel old.

How do you get Columbus saying CGI not puppets from that?

I do not want to see it again 20 years later just because CGI has been invented. I like what they are doing with the Clash of the Titans remake, because I was so little when the movie came out that I never saw it in the theater. There are so many more movies that deserve a fresh and updated look from the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s and they are skipping them because the writers they have in Hollywood are my age, 27 – 37, and all those writers can think about is how “cool” it would be to work on a sitcom/video game/cartoon they grew up watching and how they could make it look great on the big screen. Great idea but ultimately they’ve all failed.

Think it’s ok for them to remake everything after only 25 years? OK, here’s a list of movies from the 80′s that they could remake *cringe*: The Terminator, Die Hard, The Abyss, Action Jackson, Beetlejuice, Better Off Dead, Beverly Hills Cop, Big, Caddyshack, E.T., Cobra, The Color of Money – I’ve only gotten through the C’s and I’m sure I named a few films that no one wants to be remade but they fall within your timeframe to qualify so I hope they get made just to prove my point.