Does it have to be like this???

   I am all for honoring the classics....in other words watching them again. Some films even require you to see it again to gain the true effect, also to pick up something that you may have missed the first time. This time, I am referring to the growing trend it seems, of remaking an original release. Whether it is an entirely new production with cast and crew, or simply as enhancing it in high definition or 3-D. Does it really have to happen that Hollywood needs to regurgitate previous releases?
   I understand that it may be difficult to come up with new and original content, simply because with all the mainstream movies that have been made it's bound to have been done already. Let's take Disney's "The Lion King", now the original was a fantastic movie. Admired by critics and audiences worldwide, but just because the studio tries to beef it up a bit and make it into 3-D doesn't necessarily mean I am going to fork out close to $10 to watch the same film again, regardless of how good the new version may have been. Another example is the great horror classic John Carpenter's "Halloween", a title that we recommended this year at Webmoviepick. It was re-made about thirty years later by Rob Zombie. The remake was good in itself but, almost never is the remake or sequel as good as the first.
   Honoring a classic film is one thing, and quite honestly something that should occur. Preserving such films has been going on for sometime now. Let's leave the originals in their "original" form. Their are plenty of eager filmmakers out there trying to make an name for themselves, all with creative minds and fresh ideas. Original content is out there and Hollywood certainly has the capital to produce it. Let's just watch the classics again and not re-pay to watch the classics remade.

by
Joe Talmage
webmoviepick@gmail.com