There seems to be a lot of these about these days, whether its a reboot, a re-imagining, a re-make, a prequel a side-quel or a sequel the list just seems to go on for the names of the continuation for films and for the most part of it people seem to HATE them!
"How dare they make a different version of this that and the other" they say, "when the first ones were perfectly good as they were!" full of self important rage and indignity its almost as if these people think that once the "remake" (for that's what I'm gonna refer to it from now on) has been completed the original copy of the film will cease to exist any more except only in their memories, and that any hard copies of the film they may have will suddenly have been stealth deleted or over written with the new version.
C'mon people! get a grip! yes I know you feel passionate about the version of the film you know and love, it might hold some dear memories of precious moments lost in time that only that film will bring alive again or you might just love it for the sake of it being a great film. But no matter what, that film will still and always will exist, even if they make a billion remakes!
Theses remakes serve to make you remember how great the story is, and to introduce new people to the story and characters who may even want to see the old version one day. To me remakes are like seeing other peoples photo collections of you and your family, familiar yet new, sometimes odd, but always intriguing. and like with photos you've never seen before, just like films, you don't always have to like them.
But you need to have SEEN them first to make that decision don't dismiss these films out of hand just cos you like the original, if you did that with everything in life you would only ever try anything once just in case if wasn't as good the next time, (where would that leave all you second borns huh?)
sometimes things CAN be made better with new version, have you ever added more to a recipe and liked it better than before? ok, maybe you dont cook...
let me put it this way....
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| which everybody knows is fricking awesome |
Do I really need to say any more?
