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Originally Posted by KSig RC
There's an easy answer:
Hollywood executives (those in charge of green-lighting production) know that they can make more money, on a per-dollar basis, in a safer fashion using tried-and-true genre movies, sequels, and remakes.
Seriously - it sounds facile, but it's the truth.
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
And they think it will make money.
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This is on point, and pretty much the bottom line why there are remakes. It's all about those dead presidents.
The thing with me and remakes, I won't know it's a remake until after I've seen the movie. I generally won't go see a remake, at least not on the big screen, if I know it's a remake. It has to be something I'm really feeling in order for me to go check it out. Otherwise, I'll wait for DVD or Netflix. If I do see a remake, I won't like it if it's an "exact" remake of the original. Usually, they'll flip the script on some of them to make it more interesting. Karate Kid for example with Will Smith's kid was sorry as hell. I didn't like it because there wasn't much that was done differently than what was in the first one. A few different travelling places, but mostly the same shit, with a different time period, different actors and directors.
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