What’s with all the remakes??
Everything seems to be a reboot these days (music, broadway, art that borrows images from other works, movies, tv).
Most of it passes me by. I don’t buy the daily paper, I haven’t had a tv in 5 years, and I haven’t been to a commercial movie theater in over a year (a friend had free passes, it’d be another year or two before that for me). I don’t listen to music on commercial radio and have no idea what movies, tv shows, stars, or songs/bands are “top 10” or even “top 100”.
I still watch movies from Netflix and buy new albums and see concerts by bands touring new material. I just don’t buy into the rest of it. The only time I’m assaulted with hype for other films is when I watch the trailers on a DVD.
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Investors won’t fork over the big bucks unless creators can show them some sort of hook. Remakes, so the thinking goes, have a built-in audience that will boost numbers the opening weekend.
Of course, like anything else, sometimes it works and sometimes it flops.