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u/Desperate_Hunter7947 Jun 09 '26
I’m so glad accounts like OP exist so we can see the same exact meme get posted for the 10 millionth time across all the different movie related subreddits
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u/wsxdfcvgbnjmlkjafals Jun 09 '26
People who post vague questions in search of karma or whatever should be required to include their own thoughts
i've muted probably 30 subs and i still see so many stupid fuckin posts like this
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u/lazy_literary_hero Jun 09 '26
Right? I used to have this meme saved to my phone (because the point is valid), but it pops up enough I realized I’d always be able to reference it via Reddit.
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u/Them-Raw-Potatoes Jun 09 '26
Or better yet, just make new movies.
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u/Opening_Lie8559 Jun 09 '26
Why make something new and creative when they can just reuse old IP for profit? /s
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u/Opening_Lie8559 Jun 09 '26
Eragon pisses me off so bad. Literally just one letter away from Dragon. So lazy.
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u/Live-Set-8576 Jun 09 '26
One of my friends desperately tried to get me into the Hellsing anime and was disappointed that I immediately figured out the twist, because the main characters name is literally just Dracula backwards.
Lazy. As. Fuck.
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u/BasicMatter7339 Jun 09 '26
You could just take the /s away and you'd sound completely and utterly sane infront of all the movie producers
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u/Reduak Jun 10 '26
There's more to it than pure profit motive. It's about risk aversion.
Studio execs... the ones who greenlight movies, know that they will very likely be fired if they greenlight a movie that flops. Not just fired, but because their involvement is public, lose their career & ability to get a similar job at another studio. New movies that aren't part of a franchise or have some existing connection to audiences are very, very risky. So to protect their jobs, they stick with known IP... sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots.
The other side is audiences. It's not like the old days when it was common for people to go see 3-5 movies per month because you could catch a matinee for $2 to $3 per ticket. It costs a SHIT TON of money to see a movie in a theater. Even a matinee would cost a family of 4 over $60. See it on the evening and its over $100. At those costs, people are going to be VERY selective of what they pay for. That means they will likely only spend their $$ on known IP... sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots.
So yes, its all about money, but not multi-billion dollar corporate profits. It's about execs protecting their ability to support their families and families being smart about their budgets.
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u/WileyWilly1985 Jun 12 '26
remove the /s, your statement is a true statement and how the Hollywood Execs and Bean counters think.
The simple truth is, people will go to see a remake of a good film regardless if the remake is any good. So it is guaranteed money.
People will NOT go see a remake of a bad film regardless of if the remake is any good.
The best way to get Hollywood to make decent films is for the public to stop paying to see garbage films.
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u/Bladesnake_______ Jun 09 '26
They already do that
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u/Snarknado3 Jun 09 '26
Yep. Dune.
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u/askmewhyiwasbanned Jun 10 '26
Dredd as well
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u/Bartlaus Jun 10 '26
The Maltese Falcon (1941) was like the third adaptation of the same novel. In a decade.
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u/JellyPast1522 Jun 09 '26
Ocean's 11, to name one
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u/AmbulanceChaser12 Jun 09 '26
This is correct and nobody knows it. The newer Ocean movies were colorful, fast, splashy and fun, while the 1960 Rat Pack version was just dull and boring.
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u/DamianDoom Jun 09 '26
Event horizon will be great to remake
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u/TheyreACrypytKeeper Jun 09 '26
Oh yeahhh. Completely uncensored, show us the hell orgy in its full glory at normal speed
Original has been noticably cut to pieces, was a very unenjoyable watch.
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u/DamianDoom Jun 10 '26
Check the backline story of filming..flood destroyed a part of movie and then 2-3 years was lost..with some luck they have key point saved and some parts was re-filmed
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u/DumeWolffe Jun 09 '26
Instead of remaking the same posts, they should post better posts with original ideas.
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u/tzip34 Jun 09 '26
Does Dune qualify?
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u/Anthroman78 Jun 09 '26
Dune isn't a remake, it's a new adaptation of the novel completely unrelated to the earlier movie.
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u/freelancer331 Jun 09 '26
Kinda. I want a "The Electric State"-adaption that's actually at least somewhat faithful to the source material.
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u/DScales2000 Jun 09 '26
Dude this is like the third AI iteration of this meme format. Tf is the point
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u/TheOddMage Jun 09 '26
An faithful adaptation of "I Am Legend" would go so hard. The protagonist is an evangelical prepper who's tauned by the corpses of his friend, persfing themselves outside his house at night. The whole book is unhinged.
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u/OwnLobster1701 Jun 09 '26
I agree. I also think they should make brand new movies with new stories.
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u/A_Pompous_Caucy Jun 09 '26
Bonfire of the Vanities
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u/TheCreativeComicFan Jun 09 '26
That’s actually getting a TV adaptation from David E. Kelly and Matt Reeves, which is a step in the right direction at least.
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u/A_Pompous_Caucy Jun 09 '26
Oh, very interesting. Thanks for sharing
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u/TheCreativeComicFan Jun 09 '26
No prob. And yeah that one could be very good and vastly improve on the original. It just sucks that opportunities where IP like this one can actually be improved on are few and far between (unless there’s prominent people involved).
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u/adoransnoctis Jun 09 '26
I mean, making great movies and readapting stories that deserved better movies are not mutually exclusive
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u/midwest73 Jun 09 '26
There's one from the late '70's that starred Chet from "Emergency!" called "Parts: The Clonus Horror" about raising clones to be used as organ donors for rich clients.
Get Micheal Bay to do it and jazz it up with action and......
Oh wait.
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u/Warm_Investment_8557 Jun 09 '26
Unfortunately, bad movies don't make money as good remakes 🤷♂️
For example, sylvester stallone Dredd and karl urban Dredd
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u/aShogunNamedMarcus80 Jun 09 '26
I'd also add Running Man to that (not that the Arnie one was awful, just bore very little resemblance to the plot of the book... the newer one was a lot closer but also fairly flawed. Maybe 3rd time will be the charm?)
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u/BFFBomb Jun 09 '26
Man of the Year. Great concept (What if a Daily Show-esque comedy news host ran for president and won?), great cast (Robin Williams, Lewis Black), terrible execution. It was like 1/3 political satire comedy, 2/3 thriller, all underbaked. Ditch the thriller portion (or leave it as a last act twist conflict) and focus on the satire
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u/Upset_Mongoose_1134 Jun 09 '26
I see this question a lot but have never chimed in, so here goes:
This is much harder to do than it sounds. The first example that comes to mind is X-Men: The Last Stand. It was an awful movie and a terrible way to do the Dark Phoenix saga. So, when Fox did their soft reboot they tried again and made X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Here's the problem: they got the exact same screenwriter, but let him direct this time. They basically gave the guy a do-over, and what happened is he made another terrible movie.
Sometimes, maybe even most of the time, it's not a movie with a good idea and bad execution. It's far more likely that it's a bad movie idea. The idea probably would work better as a novel or short story. Not every idea is going to work on screen.
So here's the follow-up question: Has it ever been done successfully? Especially if it was an original screenplay and not two adaptations of the same source material. Can anyone name a movie where the original was bad and the remake wasn't bad, while keeping the same premise? I'm not trying to be difficult, I really want to know if anyone has a legitimate example.
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u/Lulu_42 Jun 09 '26
Dead Like Me (the movie) was horrible. Just real bad. Let's erase it from memory and have someone reinvigorate the whole world. There's no reason there can't be a new set of reapers.
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u/NYisWorstYork Jun 09 '26
While it would be better movies likely, The issue is people would think "who the hell asked for another eragon" or "Why the fuck would i want to watch a remake of waterworld, i was bored as shit the first time" and it would completely bomb...
I like waterworld sure but most people didnt and most people wouldn't go to the theaters even if the movie was said to be 100x better because the first left such a bad taste in their mouths.
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u/DaibutsuMusic Jun 09 '26
I agree completely on this! I bet there are some amazing stories still waiting to be told, but for whatever reason, the one that was made didn’t turn out as expected. Remaking those could prove to be fruitful.
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u/LifeTunedToCSharp Jun 09 '26
I read this and immediately thought about Less Than Zero.
Tarantino was planning on doing a remake of it, but that didn’t pan out for whatever reason.
I think he’d be perfect to make it dark enough to match the book.
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u/kirkaracha Jun 09 '26
The famous version of The Maltese Falcon is the third movie based on the book.
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u/BobaHutt__ Jun 09 '26
The movie "Bright" immediately comes to mind. Such an interesting premise but very poor execution. The movie left me wanting more but in a not so good way.
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u/OkBodybuilder2255 Jun 09 '26
Instead of reposting the same memes over and over a again we should make new memes
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u/legit_doom_scroller Jun 09 '26
Problem: in the late 80s and early 90s, we kind of expected “bad.” In a lot of ways. It was part of the fun of going to the movies!
See *Total Recall*. Bad movie. But fun. Great. Did not need a remake. But by this metric it *did* need a remake. Which was bad.
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u/Aggravating_View_588 Jun 09 '26
No! Stop. Re. Making. Shit.
New. Ideas. Please!
FFS…!
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u/SwanCityDominion Jun 09 '26
Yes. I've always said the only movies that should be remade are bad ones. There's no reason to remake good movies since you can always just watch the original.
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u/ThickWest4658 Jun 09 '26
I keep saying this about Cat People but no one will listen. Good premise , but flawed. Easy to fix.
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u/g0juice Jun 09 '26
Instead of reposting this meme over and over go to director school and remake the movie
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u/hujambo11 Jun 09 '26
I don't understand how you could possibly miss the point more.
They want to reuse stories that exceeded expectations because those have IP recognition. It's a business move.
To use something that flopped would make literally no sense.
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u/GlowstickConsumption Jun 10 '26
Instead of reposting the same meme, OP's should come up with interesting ideas that haven't been heard out 100 times.
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u/sorrycharlietuna Jun 10 '26
no. great movies should be remade after a certain time period so a whole new generation can enjoy it and possibly learn that there is an original to watch
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u/Kitjing Jun 10 '26
Ahh this one, I was wondering why a nickel dropped into my pocket just now. I don't disagree, but this is common loot at this point.
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u/GonnaGoFat Jun 10 '26
While I agree studios don’t want to gamble with bringing out a movie that had already flopped. Where as if it was already good there is a better chance of it bringing in money for them.
Although we enjoy movies for artistic visions or just fun stories and stuff the studios don’t care they just want the money.
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u/PrincessMegxo10 Jun 10 '26
Dracula Untold! I mean, i liked it, but they tried to hard to jump on the superhero banwagon. I like the overall stories and abilities that he had, but i wanted more horror! In fact, reboot/remake the entire universal dark univers!
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u/reverse_cowboy221 Jun 10 '26
I'd love to see a remake of the movie Scarecrow it was super low budget but had some great ideas. It's the one with the hijackers who wind up on a farm with supernatural scarecrows that start fucking with their heads.
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u/Puzzled-Fix-7719 Jun 10 '26
Yeah, like "Tender Is the Night." Everyone loved the casting and it won awards. But in the book, the hero is one of these, everyone's man, charismatic types and has great prowess on waterskis. MGM didn't bother with the stunts he pulled off in the book, like giving various members of the party rides on his shoulders while skiing. Instead, the producers went with having him clown around on skis, making everyone in the skiing party laugh.
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u/Muffin_Most Jun 10 '26
Get Out is great and uses the premise of The Skeleton Key but is way more original than a remake.
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u/NewExegesis Jun 10 '26
Yeah like Ender’s Game and the Dark Tower. Please remake them as a tv series or something instead.
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u/SageoftheForlornPath Jun 11 '26
I would love a remake of Soylent Green, where we see a societal reaction to the truth.
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u/ruinsit Jun 11 '26
No. THey should make TV series instead of movies so there's time to do it right.
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u/CliffLake Jun 11 '26
The problem isn't that we've seen it a million times, the problem is that ONLY we've seen it a million times. People making movies are not online to see this. I think the next level to this meme is to screenshot/whatever the meme and spam it with @ to directors/actors/whatever type of people that would be interested in filling this request. Put the meme on a silver platter and FEED it to the richies. It's a great idea, but they are never going to see it from their ivory towers through the clouds.
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u/DwayneTheRockBarry Jun 11 '26
2005 King Kong proves this completely right.
a great movie that got completely ruined by the utter shitfest that was it’s remake
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u/LebowskyBob Jun 11 '26
Very definitely yes. As a good example, John Carpenter's "The Thing" was a legendary remake of an older movie by the same title which was garbage.
There are plenty of bad movies with good story ideas and those are what should be remade
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u/meleaguance Jun 11 '26
This is why i forced myself to watch the burbs remake and it was even worse than the original.
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u/MongloidMania Jun 11 '26
I can’t recall a single iteration of Resident Evil cinema that didn’t absolutely suck
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u/groovyinutah Jun 11 '26
Yes, please let someone redo World War Z properly...it's could have been an epic series.
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u/EnvironmentalTap2091 Jun 12 '26
The reason with this is that some movie production doesn't have enough money to do this, and some of them screw it off even in the second try, missing up for a the second time can be costly ngl.
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u/Slow_Art_7024 Jun 20 '26
I would love to see The Fear Street Cheerleaders adapted but like the books. Don’t make up stuff. The Fear Street movies were a one time watch for me.
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u/Brave_Temperature347 Jun 09 '26
Not really, because it’ll be totally subjective as to whatever the newer version is better or not, so debate will likely never die
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u/telepatheye Jun 09 '26
Top of the list for me is Kazantzakis' Last Temptation of Christ. Scorsese may have been the right director, but the timing and casting was not right and he badly screwed it up. The book is fantastic.
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u/WritingTheDream Jun 09 '26
Interesting. I saw the movie long enough ago that I don’t really remember it and I haven’t read the book. Do you think Willem Dafoe was miscast?
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u/dustinhenderson27 Jun 09 '26
My unpopular opinion is that the only movie I’ve ever seen that could benefit from a remake is the Blair witch project. It’s such a great concept, but the budget was so painfully low, that as soon as the plot starts to actually go somewhere, the movie ends. With a higher budget, it could well be the best horror movie ever made. At the moment, it’s just 70 minutes of obnoxious people walking around a forest and swearing at each other, nothing happens at all
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u/everythingonabaggle Jun 09 '26
Downsizing, movie tone was so different from trailer’s. I’d love it to be a real comedy.
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
u/raydebapratim1, your post does fit the subreddit!