All Remakes All The Time

[bryant]

Stop hurting America!

Michael Bay’s production company is working on remakes of:

• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Friday the 13th
• Near Dark
• The Birds

Near Dark was just fine the way it was. Grrr. Who the hell is Samuel Bayer? I suppose I’m upset about Hitchcock remakes too.

I’m not really upset about Friday the 13th, though.Variationen von poker.

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

Considering that Hollywood has been running out of new ideas for the past 10-20 years, plus the writer's strike... I'm not that surprised that a bunch of new remakes are coming out.

[bryant]

I want to remake Teen Wolf.

[michele-blue.livejournal.com]

...no you don't!

noooo.

[michele-blue.livejournal.com]

The Birds is the one that appalls me, not that I think it was one of Hitchcock's strongest. I just...meh. CGI eye-plucking will abound.

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

Yeah, The Birds didn't do much for me either. Probably my least favorite Hitchcock I've seen (mind you, I've only seen about half his movies). It didn't seem to have much of a plot... or at least one that flowed well.

[michele-blue.livejournal.com]

I thought it really captured a sense of tension, and a sense of isolation. The birds and the soundtrack were creepy, and I like the ambiguous ending. I just think it was one of his more heavy-handed movies.

[touchofwinter.livejournal.com]

Heh, when I was a kid and saw that movie for the first time I was infuriated by the ambiguous ending. I totally felt cheated. Looking at it later as an adult I think I like it more.

[michele-blue.livejournal.com]

Haha, when I was a kid, I felt the same way. "They're not going to go back and BEAT UP the BIRDS?" My child-self would have wanted to go all Ripley in Aliens on them.

Near Dark

[amberley.livejournal.com]

Near Dark has lots of sunsets so I can see the attraction for Michael Bay, but I don't see how slow motion helicopters will improve it.

This quote was originally about comics but could apply here too:
"Incapable of creating Superman or The Shadow or Sherlock Holmes, they steal the dream and turn it to their own ends, debasing it in the process."
"We chew up and spit out our past."

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Has Bay done horror before? I can't imagine him doing a movie without lots of big explosions. And granted, while some horror movies can have big explosions, most of the good ones don't...

I can't say I've got any attachment to Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, but Bay making horror movies just rubs me the wrong way. Particularly Hitchcock...Bay is sort of like...the Anti-Hitchcock.

[bryant]

I don't think he's attached to direct any of these -- it's just his production company.

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Hm. I feel marginally better about that. Not much, though.

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

I heard about the Near Dark remake a few months back, and wailed and gnashed my teeth at the news. So, so unnecessary.

I hadn't even heard about the others, which also seem pointless and stupid to redo, but whatever. They won't be getting my money, let them waste it!