You could also say that about Adam Sandler

I have to agree with you though. The fact that I do enjoy many 'older' movies exempts me from being offended by that.

You know, I'm not really bashing on the younger audience at all--at least I don't think so. What really gets me is the way they sell this remake crap so aggressively, and so much of it is utterly devoid of value, just absolute crap.

Hell, just the fact that they make it is irritating. I'm not even against the idea of remakes, if they're done well; but most of the time they aren't...there's been a lot of times when I've looked forward to a remake or re-envisioning of something I liked in its original form--"Ooo, they're gonna do it all big!"--but when I sit down to see it, I generally find that the soul has been sucked out of it and the backbone of the story has been lost, polluted, or confused.

Here's a property they brought back in Japan that I thought was done really well--1995's "Gamera the Guardian of the Universe"...they took a cheesy but endearing kid's film staple, pumped it up with good story and characters and special effects and horror, and made basically a modern classic with tongue-in-cheek nuances. The original product was improved upon. But this is one in a hundred remakes. I wish it was maybe one in ten...

i know i'm chiming in a little late in the thread (i don't usually come up here), but as far as i'm concerned posting should have started and ended w/ this movie... it just goes to show if you market the hell out of a piece of shit people will buy.....it......and......even......like......it.

I liked The Blair Witch Project. I thought it worked, and its marketing was lots of fun!

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I liked The Blair Witch Project. I thought it worked, and its marketing was lots of fun! [/QUOT

did i detect a hint of sarcasm? we'll, yours is opinion and mine is fact :o

oooh, I'm gonna have a hissy fit because of your eville comments!

hissy fit hissy fit! eeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyYYYYYAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

wow, that's a lonnnnnnngggggggggg cat.

Yeah, isn't that messed up? That cat has been through some rolfing sessions or something.

Bash away on those young whippersnappers because they need the wake-up call. The following illustrates my reasons for thinking this.

I'm the newspaper advisor at the school where I teach, and a couple of years ago I figured out why the remake sensation has exploded big time.

We were putting together the October issue of the paper, and the staff wanted to do a poll of students to see what the scariest horror movie they'd ever seen was. (All of this took place in the weeks leading up to the release of the TCM remake.) The staffer in charge of conducting the poll brought the results to me and informed me that the winning movie, TCM, would have to be thrown out. I was mystified and asked why. She said (and I swear this is true), "It hasn't even come out yet. How could they vote for it?":eek:

Now, I can't kick kids off the newspaper staff, but I can make them feel dumb. I looked at her and said as gently as possible, "Please tell me you're kidding!?!" I informed her that the original was the movie these kids were talking about and that it came out in the 70's and had already seen its share of sequels. The one she was talking about was a REMAKE. She just said, "Oh. Didn't know that."

In all fairness, a couple of the other staffers told her she was an idiot. They at least knew there was an original TCM.

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