2008 Woodie Awards
It's Not MY fault
by Adam Perillo
Issue date: 1/28/08 Section: Connections
While I was sitting in the movie Cineplex this past weekend, I thought to myself, "What is happening to Hollywood?!" They have been recycling the same plots, the same characters. The only thing that has changed is the price. On average it costs me, a student, $9 to view a movie. I understand transforming certain comic book characters into movies, and hey, I'm very supportive of good books becoming movies. It would have made book reports in elementary school much easier, so lets give kids less of a reason to read. Awesome!
This brings me to my gear-grinding pet peeve of movie re-makes. It's a movie we have already seen, we know what is going to happen, we have seen all this before. Horror genre movies are the worst offenders. Hey, lets remake everything that was scary in the last 40 years instead of thinking of new ideas; its brilliant. People are dumb and there is most likely a huge demographic that thinks the remake will end differently than the original, bravo Hollywood on your underestimation. The upcoming remake of The Prom in April proves that it was a bad movie then and it's doomed to suck now. Prolong the franchise. Sell t-shirts and action figures despite the lack of effort or heart in these money whore remakes.
On that note, sequels are just as bad as some of the remakes. Sequels have the impeccable ability to destroy timeless characters and ruin an entire series of movies. Why even bother making Spiderman 3 if you're going to do it wrong. Venom was the most awesome villain ever and they found the one way to make him suck. Disappointment knows no bounds with the recent slew of sequels. Save us some money and release them straight to DVD because it almost costs me the same to buy the movie as it is to see the movie once with people I don't know.
This brings me to my gear-grinding pet peeve of movie re-makes. It's a movie we have already seen, we know what is going to happen, we have seen all this before. Horror genre movies are the worst offenders. Hey, lets remake everything that was scary in the last 40 years instead of thinking of new ideas; its brilliant. People are dumb and there is most likely a huge demographic that thinks the remake will end differently than the original, bravo Hollywood on your underestimation. The upcoming remake of The Prom in April proves that it was a bad movie then and it's doomed to suck now. Prolong the franchise. Sell t-shirts and action figures despite the lack of effort or heart in these money whore remakes.
On that note, sequels are just as bad as some of the remakes. Sequels have the impeccable ability to destroy timeless characters and ruin an entire series of movies. Why even bother making Spiderman 3 if you're going to do it wrong. Venom was the most awesome villain ever and they found the one way to make him suck. Disappointment knows no bounds with the recent slew of sequels. Save us some money and release them straight to DVD because it almost costs me the same to buy the movie as it is to see the movie once with people I don't know.
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