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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...
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