Thoughts on sequels / remakes.

[peteyt]

just a shame when they don't stick to storyline (changing it so much)

I think that's the big problem with remakes and why they are so hard to get right. Remakes either tend to change too much so the story is nothing like the original annoying the original fans, take Halloween II or go the complete opposite and try to make the film too much identical to the original kind of making it pointless such as the Psycho remake. It's very hard to get the balance of similarity and originality right with a remake.

Myself, I think remakes are just going to get worse and worse. The problem I have is now studio's are often not even giving the original a chance on its own. Take the 2007 Spanish film REC. It was remade into an American film titled Quarantine in 2008, only a year after the originals release. George A romero has had the first three films in his dead trilogy remade, with the original night of the living dead having multiple remakes. I wouldn't be surprised if all the other films in the series will get a remake eventually. It also appears we are getting remakes of remakes now - for example Chainsaw was basically a remaining of the texas chainsaw massacre which had already been remained years earlier. It comes down to money. audiences etc. The thing is, a lot of the fans of the original will go to see it even if to just complain later, meaning there's an audience at least. I'd like to actually see a lot more bad films remade myself, films that had a good premise but weren't executed correctly.

As for sequels it depends really if there is a story to tell. People have mentioned Harry Potter and the Hunger Games as having good sequels but that's probably because they were written as a series from the start so the films tend to make more sense. The problem is that a lot of sequels are simply created to cash in on the firsts success and sometimes feel false because they didn't really have a sequel in mind but have forced one out sometimes from nothing. I do hope that the new star wars trilogy doesn't have this issue. The worrying thing is that apparently after the new trilogy they plan to bring out a new star wars film every so many years which to me doesn't good and sounds like they will drag the franchise on and on till it dies painfully

[dbgtz]

lmao but the first spiderman films had tobey maguire so of course the amazing spiderman films were better
i seriously hated tobey as peter ughhghhghdsjkal

Can't really comment as I haven't seen Amazing Spiderman films but 5(?) years is pretty soon.

Then again, if it's good quality it doesn't really matter how long it has been.

[Reality]

Some sequels can be good but most a generally crap!

[geo]

Can't really comment as I haven't seen Amazing Spiderman films but 5(?) years is pretty soon.

Then again, if it's good quality it doesn't really matter how long it has been.

it was p soon but i guess it ties in with ALL of the superhero remakes really. superheroes are a huge thing so i understand $$$ wise it's probs a good investment to get a new spiderman going!!! also now sony are going to be making 1 amazing spiderman film per year lol so again for the money too. good job people dig andrew garfield quite a bit and audiences (not critics) but superhero fans seemed to rlly like it

[thms]

I personally can't wait for the new Fantastic Four films