The CGI argument is valid but we're at a point where it needs to be done. Effects people have to play with technology and try to pull the best results from it so as technology progresses as do special effects. CGI is a good thing, or at least it will be. I can't believe I'm going to make this statement again and those who have read this time and time again please feel free to skip it. In 1975 there were only 38 films released to theaters. Compare that with 2005, a year in which 594 film were released! The good films are still out there, there's just more dreck to wade through to get to them. Simply become a more educated viewer.
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And about the rest, they might be good remakes, but they will NEVER EVER be better than the originals.
Because of that word itself. ORIGINAL. That word in itself distinguishes it from a Remake.
An Original is an ORIGINAL. A Remake is a RE-MAKE.
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I think a few remakes have the potential to change a story and tell it in a way that does indeed make the remake more entertaining. Think about fairy tales and folklore, stories passed down from generation to generation shaped and changed to fit the current audience and honed into a better story as years passed. It's all in how the story is told...
A lot of our "original movies" are based on an older tale. In that sense, a lot of movies are simply visual representations of somebody else's story.