Wait…They’re Making ANOTHER One?!
Has anyone else noticed the new trend in movie making? Or, should I say, movie remaking? For starters, some movies just don’t set themselves up for another sequel, take “Pirates of the Caribbean 3″ for example: That ending seemed pretty final, yet, whoop-di-doo, “Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides” is being produced. They are remaking the Freddy Krouger movie, and “Shrek 4″ is going to be coming out in 3D as well– the first two Shrek movies were pretty funny, but the third? Uh-uh, honey.
This is only because the producers want to bleed as much money from this as humanly possible, and if that means drafting a script from a seemingly closed ending, then so be it! They will find a way. It doesn’t matter if the movie sucks, if it insults our intelligence; as long as they can make a buck or two off it, who cares? Now, some movies need to be remade, because while they were good and had potential (or if they were based off a book) the movies themselves were awful. Has anyone else seen the original Narnia movie? Loved the guy in the beaver suit. The remake for that was more than descent!
I’m going to be hypocritical on this issue because, yes, I will be going to the theaters and watching my beloved “Alice in Wonderland” be acted out by Johnny Depp (anyone here see SciFi’s Alice? For some reason, I really liked it. Oh wait, that’s right– Andrew Lee Potts was in it, duh) and pray that it doesn’t stink to high heaven. I will probably go and see Shrek, and Pirates of the Caribbean, even though I am already prepared to accept that they both will [most likely] turn out to be disappointing and unimaginative: because I’m curious, and…well everyone else is going.
In fact, the only movie that I was completely unable, and unwilling to go see was “Where the Wild Things Are”. I loved that book when I was little, and I don’t want to have the images that I have had built up in my head for the past 10 years, dashed by some computer generated man with glued on fur and plastic claws. No thank you.
Am I the only one who is terrified to go see the final movies of the Harry Potter series? Most of the movies so far have been an insult to the books, which so many of us have built childhoods out of; if the last movie[s] are awful, I think I’ll burst.
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InkMatters Says:
I’m not terrified to see the movies because they’re a completely separate entity from the books. The authors (unless they take special measures) have no power over how the movie is made, so I don’t get mad about crappy movie adaptations of books. However, I do get annoyed when Hollywood remakes movies or just sequels something to death. They’re making a second Cars movie and I have no idea why. The movie was just fine as it was. It didn’t need another installment.
Posted on March 2nd, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Clover Says:
I don’t really see a problem with books being turned into movies, because they’re so separate from each other. But I get where you’re coming from on the other remakes.
I was reading an article about it a few months ago that blamed the shitty remakes of movies on the declining economy. Film studios are mainly looking to invest in franchises or whatever that already have established fanbases. Like The Karate Kid and Footloose and Nightmare on Elm Street. I understand that, but I also die a little inside at the same time.
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 at 3:55 am
Film Geek Says:
Let me play Devil’s Advocate for a minute. Studios have one goal in mind when making a movie: profit. They don’t care about artistic integrity and they don’t care if the story is even interesting (TRANSFORMERS is a perfect example of that). It doesn’t even matter how much of a profit. It it earns the studio $1, they are happy. People tend to call this type of business “greedy”, but they are forgetting that it is, in fact, a business. Revenue from the big movies is what gives the studio the ability to make smaller movies. Without the big blockbuster movies, their sequels and the remakes, each studio could probably only afford to put out 2-3 flicks a year. And they would be small budget flicks. With sub par acting.
If the remakes, the sequels and the built-in frachises bother you then you have one very powerful option: vote with your wallet. Don’t go see those movies in the theater. Don’t buy them on DVD. Don’t rent them. Don’t watch them on TV. And don’t support any other businesses who tie in with those movies (ie McDonalds, Pepsi, etc). Those movies make money and that is the only reason they are made.
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm
BethanRose Says:
I remember the original Narnia movie! Damn, that dude in the beaver suit was my imaginary friend for two years after I saw that (I was like five, not fifteen – I’m not that weird).
Posted on March 5th, 2010 at 5:02 pm