Evil Dead?!?!

[Mikefrompluto]

Everything Dudecore has said is right.  Hollywood doesn't care about art anymore.  Money is the bottom line.  It pains me to see remakes of films that were originally made in my lifetime.

Money has been the bottom line since the beginning of time. Hollywood has never cared about art. Regardless, I'll still go see Evil Dead when it comes out.

[Ghetto Pass]

Hollywood actually used to care.  Production companies used to hire authors, not screenwriters, to write books that they could then turn into movies.  Mario Puzo was hired by Paramount to write The Godfather, they spent years on that project.  It wasn't until the late seventies that producers started really making sequels just to pull more money out of an already told story.  Jaws 2 was the first major example of beating this dead horse.  Since then it's ballooned to the point where we get movies like Taken 2 and Paranomal Activity 4.  It's just sad.  You have to watch Indy or foreign films to find any true creativity anymore.

[Mikefrompluto]

Hollywood actually used to care.  Production companies used to hire authors, not screenwriters, to write books that they could then turn into movies.  Mario Puzo was hired by Paramount to write The Godfather, they spent years on that project.  It wasn't until the late seventies that producers started really making sequels just to pull more money out of an already told story.  Jaws 2 was the first major example of beating this dead horse.  Since then it's ballooned to the point where we get movies like Taken 2 and Paranomal Activity 4.  It's just sad.  You have to watch Indy or foreign films to find any true creativity anymore.

From what I understand, the Evil Dead will basically be an indie movie, so....

[Mikefrompluto]

I think some people are taking this way too seriously. Art is meant to be enjoyed, and can be entertaining. If a mass of people find a big Michael Bay production, or a remake/reboot of an 80s classic, enjoyable and entertaining, then so what? If youre that passionate about real films as an art form, then make one yourself. /rant

[Ghetto Pass]

All of this is true.  Production companies aren't going to make money if no one goes out to watch the films.  Did I like Transformers 2?  No.  But just because I didn't doesn't make it bad, just bad to me.  I got my degree in filmmaking and was a film maker for a few years.  I failed.  The movies I made weren't very good, and I stopped enjoying the process.  The warned is in school that we'd become jaded and over critical of everything and that wound up true.  I don't care for most Hollywood films; it doesn't make them bad, just makes me an a-hole.

[Dudecore]

My point is basically if you want this these sequels and remakes to stop, you have to make a stand against them. The evil dead remake might be fine and dandy, but the bigger picture goes beyond an Evil Dead remake. It'd rather watch "Drag me to hell" because it's original, and made by a director I like. If you pick and choose which remakes are "good" or "bad" then youre encouraging them.

The fact that Christopher Nolan had to direct a batman movie to secure financing for "Inception" is sickening. The batman movies are great, don't get me wrong, but he needed to direct a comic book movie to secure money to direct his original films? Even David Cronenberg who has made some of the best films in the last 20+ years has to direct a "Fly" remake so they don't screw up his vision.

[Mikefrompluto]

Even David Cronenberg who has made some of the best films in the last 20+ years has to direct a "Fly" remake so they don't screw up his vision.

The Fly itself was a remake of a Vincent Price film...

[Dudecore]

The Cronenberg remake strikes me as more genuine, because he likely wanted to make that movie then being pressured into it. There is something more pure about it. But that is a good point.

But Hollywood has sunk so low as to make a "Dark Shadows" film...because they've remade so many things that they have to search the bottom of the barrel.