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Originally Posted by Jake.Ashworth
Its not to terribly difficult. How many people do you think, young people, say 15-25 years old, saw the new NOES but had not seen the original? Odds are give or take 30% of the people who saw it had not seen the original. That 30% are a younger, much different crowd. After they see the new one maybe they are intrigued about the original and seek it out. You have to understand that an original slasher from the 80's will eventually fizzle and fade into oblivion as the people our age start to grow old and the movie is all but forgotten. To stretch that a little further and give you a feel for what I mean, there was a surge is sales for Bella Lugosi's Dracula following the release of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992. Why? Because a lot of the people who saw the new one became newly interested in seeing older ones.
Despite what we believe, movies have a shelf life if they are not watched, and in order to keep them being watched, newer, younger, and in some cases dumber audiences have to be pulled in and shown where to find them. We are not a huge army, we cannot show the world movies we grew up loving, but a remake can reintroduce a character to a new audience that might not have ever seen them before.
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In some cases it works, if a reboot is thought out with even a LITTLE consideration. But then you get shit Tim Burton raping Dark Shadows and people get the wrong impression about the show and thing the show's terrible when it's really the movie that was absolute crap. I guess I should have rephrased that reboots are fine if the writer/director doesn't have their head(s) up their ass.
But there are channels and people dedicated to getting classics out there and opening the minds of people who will give something made with care a chance. If someone's too stupid to follow the story or appreciate the cinematography, then oh well they don't deserve it. You're weeding out bad fans then.
And I think you underestimate our army my friend, I knew much of horror before watching it and getting involved with the fandom. A classic doesn't die out, remakes or not. Names like Freddy, Micheal, and Jason's are not so easily forgotten.