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Hell yes. Remaking movies that are less than three years old is truly pathetic. Legolas Send a noteboard - 03/10/2010 02:48:12 PM
We know the stories. Hollywood is just lazy. I'm sick of them regurgitating stuff and expecting us to watch. I'll go see new ideas and concepts but I'm not going to movies that obviously copy existing movies, including ones that remake foreign movies in English (like that idiotic Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie).

After they did it with the Larsson movies, they also did it now with that Swedish child-vampire movie. The NYT review for that remake was good, but I was disappointed that they didn't comment on how ridiculous the practice is in the first place.

And don't get me started on that "let's reboot the Spiderman series after three movies" nonsense, either.

Though, like Jen, I'm willing to make some exceptions, if the re-make is really better or somehow more relevant than the original version. To give an obvious example, Disney's Beauty and the Beast was a superb movie within its category, and not made any less so by the fact there were a number of older movies of that story, including Cocteau's marvelous version.
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I am officially refusing to see any "re-boots" of movies ever again. - 03/10/2010 02:14:43 PM 949 Views
I technically agree with you, but I'm leaving myself an out. - 03/10/2010 02:25:11 PM 574 Views
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo one is really stupid - 03/10/2010 02:44:26 PM 604 Views
seen Sherlock Holmes yet? *NM* - 03/10/2010 02:51:47 PM 356 Views
No! *NM* - 03/10/2010 02:54:34 PM 208 Views
Hell yes. Remaking movies that are less than three years old is truly pathetic. - 03/10/2010 02:48:12 PM 586 Views
I already don't watch Hollywood remakes of Foreign Films - 03/10/2010 03:07:49 PM 637 Views
Yes - 03/10/2010 04:55:56 PM 661 Views
... - 03/10/2010 10:38:04 PM 516 Views
With you? I'm far ahead of you. *NM* - 03/10/2010 05:36:32 PM 205 Views
Amen.* - 03/10/2010 10:36:51 PM 515 Views
Ever is a long time. But I agree, this trend is annoying - 04/10/2010 09:31:18 AM 555 Views
Oh? - 04/10/2010 11:30:56 AM 618 Views
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Re: Oh? - 04/10/2010 12:15:03 PM 624 Views
No argument. - 05/10/2010 12:55:41 PM 634 Views
I tend to agree, but exceptions have to be made... - 06/10/2010 12:18:05 AM 523 Views

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