I still point blank refuse to watch 99% of remakes. Older films like The Philadephia Story / High Society I love but modern films no.

I'm also trying to avoid the super hero and 'let's make a naff version of a cartoon' films. Garfield??? Noooo that wasn't Garfield! Yogi Bear?

*stomps off*

You didn’t see the Top Cat movie then?

I'm sure commercial reasons are the driving factor behind the decision to do all these remakes.
Take the very original spin on an old tale The Cabin in the Woods. That languished at the studio for three years because funding wasn't available to complete it, and in that time how many remakes and reboots came to bear?
The film cost a reported $30 million to make and more than doubled it's budget on worldwide box office takings, and then there's the John Carter's of the world that get lavished with money but simply fail (in monetary terms) at the box office.
It's not a nice business, the film business, but I guess it's called a business for a reason.

Mark

Simple idea for the studios, stop paying stupid money to actors/actresses and giving away large chunks of the profits to them. That should shave 50-$100 mill of the budgets from the so called big blockbusters. How many people actually go to a film only because of the actor or actress? As for animated films, why on god/gods/donuts green earth do you need celbrity voices. I must be so different from the target audience as if im constantley reminded that actor A is the voice of a character it means they have done a very bad job of the story.

Or stop making crap films

Or people start going to see the good ones instead of the types of film you're all talking about.

You can't quantify this for a mass market. If you could, everything would be the same old blandness. As it is, at least there's diversity.

Mark

Crap is unfortunately too general a term to use. I consider the majority of romances to be crap and won't watch them because of that. The Core is a crap film, no doubt about that, but I get more pleasure watching it than even the most well made romances.

They should all take a look at their trailers budgets to save money

I only ever, like most I suspect, go to see 'blockbusters' at the cinema. Anything else I might as well watch at home. The amount of content in my home I haven't even watched never mind what's new... But it's obviously still profitable for thrillers and horror movies and so on. Christ, even documentaries. Actually, I'm starting to wonder what a 'flop' is these days

Agreed



Everyone's taste is different and I am in the minority on here as I'm female so probably have different tastes to the rest of you. I do appreciate all genres of films. I used to buy a lot on video and DVD but I find these days the only ones I buy are very old films which I know I will get repeated pleasure from. The last blue ray I bought was Drive for the bloke's birthday. I thought it was OK but he was not impressed *shrugs*