Please Hollywood, stop remaking/rebooting movies ALREADY!!!!!

I still have hope that we will never see the long rumored Magnum P.I. movie. Leave it alone!

I'm glad The Equalizer movie was so different from the TV show. The remakes tend to be poorer when the try to capture the spirit of the original.

I've still got my eye on you, upcoming Death Wish reboot! What's with the hoodie?!? Don't let Charlie down!

 

Do what the Japanese sometimes do, and that's to make the series either continuous (Dragon Ball), or ongoing across different times and places (Gundam). Then there will be less talk of remakes and more talk of "When is this freaking show going to end?!"

 

It's one of my favorite shows of all time.

 

We'll see how it goes. I am cautiously optimistic for a change. The first had Lauren Bacall. That is huge for me. On top of that, it also featured Bergman, Redgrave and Bisset. It will be different for sure, but I am willing to give it a chance, which is surprising even to me. Maybe it's the ensemble cast. Nobody really has time to screw it up, as long as they don't deviate too much. The only one who can really screw it up is Branagh, who is both the starring role (Poirot) and director.

Past history says I'll be wrong here. We'll see in a few weeks.

 

Due to piracy and the onslaught of entertainment competition by the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime, people just aren't going to movies as often. Why would a family of four spend $80 on tickets and snacks when they can get a movie on their 60-inch at the press of a button?

It's sad to think that a movie like Back to the Future probably wouldn't get made today. And The Breakfast Club? Forget about it.

Generally speaking, my rule is that if more than 1/2 of the shots in a film are VFX shots, I'd rather not go.

Speaking of great movies with minimal effects ... did you guys see Green Room? Badass movie.

 

Generally speaking, they wouldn't get made because there isn't a built-in fan base to guarantee a big opening weekend. That's generally the reason studios have relied more and more on sequels, reboots, and adaptations to fill their production slates. When a movie like Twilight already has several million hardcore fans of the book who are guaranteed to hit the movie opening weekend, the studio is much less anxious about box office returns.

The studios are just under a lot of pressure to maximize their profits. All other things being equal, a studio will greenlight a film with a built-in fan base over a completely new, original screenplay almost every single time.

When you look at the top-grossing movies of the 80s, then the 90s, and then the 2000s, you see the trend heavily skew toward sequels and remakes.

So I'll revise my comment--I suppose the movies I mentioned could get made, but they'd be less likely to get made, and it would require a particularly ballsy executive to give the greenlight.

Case in point:

 

I don't mind reboots,though I likely won't watch them. The biggest issue I'd have id rebooting them too soon. Not that it'll be much of a concern to me. I see myself watching TV and movies less and less as the years go on. There's just so much out there and I've already indulged deeply.

 

its called the media blurring effect

 

That's why I loved breaking bad. When they pitched the series they said their would only be 5 seasons. Sopranos had 6 good seasons, but since it's a little older people forget about it.