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Hey there. Welcome aboard.
I don't hate remakes per se. If they are intelligently done, and add something to the story that they are remaking, then they are worthwile additions to the genre.
However, this turns out to rarely be the case. Often, as I think you guys are alluding to, they merely rehash the old story, and often lose some of the subtlety and meaning of the original, in exchange for updated special effects.
To make matters worse, because Hollywood likes to make money for the sake of it (good movies are a secondary consideration it seems), most of the movies that are remade were good films to start with, and probably those that least needed to be remade.
If they picked up movies with a good premise, but that were poorly executed, then the situation may be very different.
Anyway, that's my view on it.
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