Remakes are lazy money grabs. If you get a budget, make a NEW classic. Something that is actually GOOD ENOUGH to live on its own, and not coat tailing.
1000s of new scripts available every year. With every REMAKE, some new, fun, ORIGINAL ideas are getting ignored. Maybe something as good, but way cooler out there waiting to be MADE. Not REmade.
I agree 104%.
As to Forbidden Planet in particular, the film was made about 60 years ago with the mores and values of the time. Remaking it today with today's viewpoints would damage or destroy what made this film unique and endearing.
Remakes are also unnecessary in today's market of home video and video on demand. It's very simple to expose new generations to these classics, so you don't have to remake just to keep the story in the public eye.
I could accept remakes if the original was done poorly yet had lots of potential. Movies like Forbidden Planet, however, were nearly perfect in their original release, so there's no need for improvements.
We need to push filmmakers towards new innovations. Hopefully if we start rejecting the countless sequels and remakes and focus on new stories, maybe Hollywood will get the message.
if original done poorly. so true, and yet so ignored. they just jump on the "this name is known, so let's capitalize on it". but, that makes sense: this IS a business first and foremost. :(
they keep churning out sequals because people like them. understandalbe, I guess. I'd prefer that over remaking classics. (even though I rarely watch sequals)
How about instead of a REMAKE of FP, there was a true sequal: 60 years after the first, but still in THAT universe 60 years later. The kids of the FP crew and go on a related adventure in deep space when they find the Krell are still out there...
If it was a remake, they would have the captain a black guy with the white girl and some type of gay crap thrown in.
shareWell, black people pioneered rockets. They called them spears.
shareFor fuck sake. I get a little annoyed when people complain about actual movies being made, or are done being made, that have blacks, gays, trans, or whatever it is that sets cunts like you off. But a hypothetical movie, that won't get made, based of a sci fi flick from the fiftys. Chill out cuz. Fictional characters. Even if you're just trying to be funny, the jokes dead, even four months ago.
shareI am annoyed that you are annoyed. Since black people themselves spent years whining about cultural appropriation. And they are the absolute masters of that today. Just as they are the masters of segregation. Something they used to be against.
And they WILL remake this movie and it will have a black captain. And they will call it Forbidden Planet. Because that's the limitation of their creative thinking.
Agreed. Flat out remakes of old films shouldn't happen. Even though I DO like some remakes.
What I don't have a problem with, is new adaptations of source material, when done WELL.
What I DO have a problem with, is the idea of remaking Escape From New York, or Big Trouble in Little China, or Forbidden Planet, or Flight of the Navigator, etc. You're absolutely right. It IS lazy as fuck, uncreative as hell, and frankly, those films need to be left alone. There is not a single instance where they want to remake old classics, where the remake is in any way going to be "better". There's zero call for it to be made, except to try and make money off of the name/reputation of the original film, which is the one people should be seeing anyway.
Instead of doing crappy remakes, how about just re-releasing some of these great old movies into theaters? It'd cost a hell of a lot less money.