Possibly snobbish IDK
Jun. 27th, 2010 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordYou know what make me ridiculously angry?
REMAKES. WHO THINKS REMAKES ARE A GOOD IDEA.
Nothing special brought this on, though a quick google certainly gave me more reasons to be angry (NOW WHAT WOULD BE THE POINT OF REMAKING A HITCHCOCK MOVIE. TELL ME.) Not just movies, but songs too. How many people think Madonna wrote 'American pie' eh? How many haven't even heard my favourite verse, the one about our generation lost in space and Satan on the podium?
Furthermore there is something implied about remakes that says "the original is rubbish and we want to improve it". Does that mean Michael Myers is considered a greater actor than Danny Kaye? Dude, The secret life of Walter Mitty already EXISTS, why spend all this money making a version that will be Kaye- and Karloff-less?
And I know I'm being a total hypocrite too, because without the new Star Trek movie I would never have gone "Hmm, interesting chara- HOLY SHIT UHURA WAS BLACK IN THE SIXTIES TOO AND THIS IS ALL AWESOME" and I'd never learn to love the original series.
But REMAKES BAH.
REMAKES. WHO THINKS REMAKES ARE A GOOD IDEA.
Nothing special brought this on, though a quick google certainly gave me more reasons to be angry (NOW WHAT WOULD BE THE POINT OF REMAKING A HITCHCOCK MOVIE. TELL ME.) Not just movies, but songs too. How many people think Madonna wrote 'American pie' eh? How many haven't even heard my favourite verse, the one about our generation lost in space and Satan on the podium?
Furthermore there is something implied about remakes that says "the original is rubbish and we want to improve it". Does that mean Michael Myers is considered a greater actor than Danny Kaye? Dude, The secret life of Walter Mitty already EXISTS, why spend all this money making a version that will be Kaye- and Karloff-less?
And I know I'm being a total hypocrite too, because without the new Star Trek movie I would never have gone "Hmm, interesting chara- HOLY SHIT UHURA WAS BLACK IN THE SIXTIES TOO AND THIS IS ALL AWESOME" and I'd never learn to love the original series.
But REMAKES BAH.
