Somewhere in Los Angeles is a little, tiny video store. It is filled to the ceiling with great popcorn movies but goes little noticed in the everyday world of large video stores and rental boxes... Until now.
This tiny video store has been discovered by the desperate young Hollywood producers and they plan on remaking pretty much every movie from the 1970s and 80s as they can find.
The latest example was found on the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), a game I have played religiously since 2000. The initial public offering for the day is a movie called "Red Dawn." You remember that movie, right? High schoolers try to stave off an invasion of the Soviets? Funny thing is that it worked mostly because of the Cold War and the fear of communism. Now how would that work?
To me, it isn't the idea of a remake that kills me... Okay, yes it it. Usually a remake is less entertaining and forgets the original charm that made us like the movie or song in the first place. Yes, I don't limit my distain for remakes to movies. At work they play a long-play CD and there are some remakes of songs that need not be remade for any reason ever. The reason you remake something is to add to it, right? If you add nothing then you are just using nostalgia to make some money. Bastards!
Yes, this summer we were treated to some remakes and some bastardizations of our childhood (Transformers, anyone?) that will essentially make us loath our childhoods (G.I. Joe movie, Robotech movie). It's just a shame that Hollywood thinks only that we want to have our past retooled for today's audience. We don't. We want our memories. We just want this generation to make their own. (Oh crap, I forgot about Miley Cyrus. My bad).
Peace.
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