Ok I went with my daughter to see Limony Snickett (sp?) and the first four trailers went like this:

War of the Worlds
The Pink PAnther
Bewitched
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

All remakes, nothing original. So are they just desperately out of original ideas or not willing to take a chance. Probably the latter, oh well I just thought I would share.

Yeah I was suprised to see that Burton and spielberg were doing a remake.

I watched the new Pink Panther trailer the other day...and it's absolutely horrible. It's a disgrace really, not to the old films, but to everyone that has anything to do with it.

i dont think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a remake. It's more of a reinvisioning. Burton is making the movie from a new script, written by a guy who never watched the original and only read the book before writing his own script.

I know everyone is saying its a remake, but its more like me taking one of my favorite pieces from Stephen King, The Dark Half, writing a script from it, and then shooting it. Sure, a movie was already made, and I'm sure it's good (Romero was behind it, I've never seen it), but mine would be different.

Pink Panther will probably suck.

Bewitched... I could see that being amusing.

War of the Worlds might be good as well. It'll probably be similar to John Carpenter's remake of the Thing in how it compares to the original. Speilberg is usually pretty good when he's playing with aliens. ET and Close Encounters were both decent enough, and I think War of the Worlds will be the same. On a side note, they were filming in Newark, NJ, where I work. My girlfriend's family owns a nail shop that was used during filming, so they met and got photographed with Tom Cruise and Steven Speilberg. I'm not a big fan of either guy, but I was somewhat excited for them.

Wow, sorry, I wrote too much. I hope you all had a great holiday (which ever one you may celebrate)

I admit, I am sick of all these remakes they are doing. Hollywood is running out of original ideas and now they are sucking up all the crap they can get. But I am honestly looking forward to see War of the Worlds, hopefully Spielberg will break the streak of the trite he has made.

6 of the top 10 grossing films in Australia for 2004 were either remakes or sequels. (Shrek 2, Harry Potter, Spiderman 2, Lord of The Rings, The Born Sepremecy, etc) Maybe Hollywood does have writers block. Or maybe it is just making what it thinks will get it the most money. The trend will stop soon.....maybe.
I am looking forward to Burton and Spielberg's new films though.

Yeah, Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, despite not being horrible remakes, didn't need to be re-done. Manchurian Candidate, another one that didn't need the remake treatment. Some remakes I can see being done, like 50's sci-fi movies modernized much like The Thing or more recently War of the Worlds. I hope the trend stops. I'm sick of this remake ****. They're remaking Evil Dead, a whole slew of Asian horror films (most of which made with in the past 10 years,) and a bunch of other crap. I don't understand why we don't just show the Asian films theatrically and be done with it. This remake stuff is just getting out of hand.

I just found out a few days ago that one of my friends is in War Of The Worlds. He is an extra, but the camera is on a close up on him. He is a refugee in a orange vest. Look for him!

wow - thats cool ^

Sorry...made a mistake..he is wearing yellow and green flanel. STILL AWESOME!

Its not that there arent more original good ideas coming in .... over 50,000 scripts are regestered with the WGA (including two of mine!) every year. 90% of them are crap, but that still leaves a lot of good films. The problem is the big studios try to minimize risk and if it made money before, they figure it will again.

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Originally posted by filmmakerfromwv:
Sorry...made a mistake..he is wearing yellow and green flanel. STILL AWESOME!

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yeah. still awesome.

War of the Worlds didn't look so good. And the fact that they used the word "envious" in the trailer makes it seem like it's going to turn into a "this film is patriotic, they hate us because of our freedom" metaphor, much like the original was just a big Red Scare.

Movies aren't making much money. The industry isn't growing at a rate at which studioes are willing to take risks, so they minimize risk by trying the same story with new actors. And for the majority of people out there that see movies as a form of cheap entertainment like staring at a television, that's good enough. And those are the people the studio wants money from.