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Remakes Come Too Soon
Today's audience is always looking for the next message to guide them through the cinema experience so they can walk away slightly more aware. Granted, many of these were popcorn flicks back in their day but when todays writers and directors get together, their visions collide and rather than deliver the deep, compelling film they were shooting for [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the audience laughs in the face of our protagonists. And then there's Freddy. Director Samuel Bayer like Marcus Nispel had only directed music videos and rockumentaries before signing on to direct the remake of Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm St. Of course with Michael Bay producing the film, any integrity intended from Bayer goes out the window and is blown to dust by Bay's ego boosting budgeting.
Slasher Films like Halloween Get Remade - Poorly
Who knows where this trend is coming from but it's an awful tragedy and it will take strong willed, creative writers and open minded, risk taking producers to get Hollywood out of this rut. Making a remake is a cop out. It's like taking the kids to McDonald's when they're hungry because it will shut them up and you'll get what you want because the kids wa
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Another issue with remakes is that they are being made only 20-25 years after the original first hit the theaters. Child's Play is set to hit the big screen sometime next year. The original film was released only 22 years ago. Like with anything else [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you don't tamper with the sacred. It's bad enough audiences are forced to watch young actors styled to look like something from 1983 and the soundtracks for the films are full of Europe and Whitesnake but now film makers are trying to bring a new flare to old films. Hollywood is even buzzing with talk about the newest Spiderman revamp. Not a remake, a revamp. A franchise that started only eight years ago is getting a face lift.
The question is, are screenwriters just running out of original ideas, or is it just that much easier to remake a sub par film? Over the past few years we've seen remakes of just about everything from 80's slasher films to 1950's classic sci-fi movies. The alarming trend in all of these remakes are all terrible. The Day the Earth Stood Still flopped in 2008; who would have thought to cast Keanu Reeve's as the alien ambassador once so highly regarded in Robert Wise's poignant 1951 film? While the messages and themes of the film are still relevant today, if not more so, the remake lacks all of the key ingridients needed to make a compelling film that grips an audience.
Slasher films are on the rise as we've seen Rob Zombie absolutely destroy John Carpenter's masterpiece with his own take on Halloween; an overly violent [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], depraved film with no sense of direction, only self perpetuating mayhem that drags on for nearly two hours. Last year, the director of 2003's remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel) brings us another remake with his version of Friday the 13th. While the film has many similar elements to chainsaw, it lacks the little bit of depth Nispel's first film had. Of course Sean Cunningham didn't exactly bring us a theme driven film with the first Friday film; however, today's audience seeks patho's, direction and messages.
If the retro trend wasn't bad enough, now we have to deal with over-zealous film makers; both newbie's and seasoned veterans generating these cookie cutter remakes. All of which lack subtext, convincing acting and direction. Most film makers are relying on nostalgia to suck audiences into seeing a film they remember seeing when they were X years old.