Why are most modern remakes of movies so bad?
- Thread starter Koba St
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This. I watched The Golden Child about a year ago and it was one of the most boring movies I've seen.
The issue is when they try to remake cult classics. You can’t win playing that game.
Nobody says a word when they remake old shytty movies because there’s no following behind them.
Nobody says a word when they remake old shytty movies because there’s no following behind them.
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I’m watching candyman remake and it’s just bad. Most of them are soulless, bad writing and basicallly bad everything. That remake of total recall was an example. Great first movie with Arnold but the remake with Colin Farrell, I stopped after 10mins. Robocop is another example
I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s clearly not the same. Maybe I’m getting old and I grew up on those movies but still
it works the other way sometimes
dune
TNMT
cinderella
the departed
nutty professor
westworld
casino royale
scream
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Roger king
Superstar
Its all about making money not about the products they prioritize the bottom line over the quality.
FukkaPaidEmail
Retired Hoodrat whisperer
Most modern movies in general are bad . 
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
I only saw it on HBO. They gave that out in the theaters?Books were fire though. I agree.
Some good remakes
- Scarface 80s
- The Fly 80s
- The Blob 80s
- The Thing 80s
- Dawn of The Dead 2000s
- Evil Dead 2010s
- The Nutty Professor 90s
The Departed
True Grit
Ocean’s 11
War of the Worlds
rabbitfood
Ancillary Character
Regardless of how people feel about the movie, it's wild how so many people can't seem to grasp this and it feels like they didn't pay attention to either movie. The main character is the baby from the first movie. His mother is in both movies playing the same character. The first movie is referenced throughout. The cutesy industry term is "requel" where's it's a sequel to the original film and pretends everything else never happened. The Candyman requel does have the same issue as the Halloween requel from a few years back, where both movies have the same title as the original when both are essentially new part twos.
Oh, and the Texas Chainsaw remake from 03 is one of the best of that trash franchise and arguably better than the first. It's also more in tone with what people think the original is actually like.
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
You’re gonna have to give some examples
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Hollywood doesn’t respect the intelligence of its general audience. It’s almost like they don’t want to pay for top notch writing and story telling
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Golden child was trash when it initially dropped
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
Superstar
Think about it like this:I’m watching candyman remake and it’s just bad. Most of them are soulless, bad writing and basicallly bad everything. That remake of total recall was an example. Great first movie with Arnold but the remake with Colin Farrell, I stopped after 10mins. Robocop is another example
I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s clearly not the same. Maybe I’m getting old and I grew up on those movies but still
Why are they doing a remake? Because the writers lack creativity and the studio wants an easy pay day.
So you get current writers that are less creative than their peers from 30+ years ago....and have them rewrite an already good movie.
Take Michael Jordan's whole life. It's basically the American Dream x 10. Now try to re-write his whole life + playing career and somehow make it both different and better.........good luck.
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
The writing sucks. Writing is subjective, but I think it's incongruent with what audiences want to see.