Modern movies seem to simple be a regurgitation of yester-decades masterpieces. Sure, we fall in love as children to movies like E.T. and various comics, but it comes to the point these new movie producers and directors want to recapture what they remembered. Herein lies the problem, you can never recapture the first time you watched “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” or the first time your mother read you “Little Red Riding Hood.” The point should be to do these one better, to fix every little mistake and every little flubbed line or extra who glared into the camera.
Also, don’t act like this is new, look how many Dracula movies were made, or Frankenstein or any ghoul! You’ll find over and over, nothing but hashed out movies, redone with a blown out budget which just falls short of the original. One example of originality is Twilight... don’t think I am pulling your leg or enjoy that piece of dreck for one second. Twilight reinvisions vampires and werewolves, they made something new, and the mass response to that was quite mixed. Youth, primarily young females were heavily drawn into the books and movies while just about everyone else saw it as a slap in the face to what they’ve grown up fearing...
I’ll ask you a simple question, if you saw 30 Days of Night, how afraid would you be of taking out the trash at arse-o-clock midnight in a snow flurry? Now, how about after seeing Twilight? They reinvented a nightmarish ghoul into a love story... it is new, but it isn’t good. But it’s new!
What I am getting at is this, we want new, we laugh in the face of new, we get the regurgitations of what we enjoyed 30 years ago and we complain how it’s just a rehashing, but we eat that sandwich and smile.
Also, don’t act like this is new, look how many Dracula movies were made, or Frankenstein or any ghoul! You’ll find over and over, nothing but hashed out movies, redone with a blown out budget which just falls short of the original. One example of originality is Twilight... don’t think I am pulling your leg or enjoy that piece of dreck for one second. Twilight reinvisions vampires and werewolves, they made something new, and the mass response to that was quite mixed. Youth, primarily young females were heavily drawn into the books and movies while just about everyone else saw it as a slap in the face to what they’ve grown up fearing...
I’ll ask you a simple question, if you saw 30 Days of Night, how afraid would you be of taking out the trash at arse-o-clock midnight in a snow flurry? Now, how about after seeing Twilight? They reinvented a nightmarish ghoul into a love story... it is new, but it isn’t good. But it’s new!
What I am getting at is this, we want new, we laugh in the face of new, we get the regurgitations of what we enjoyed 30 years ago and we complain how it’s just a rehashing, but we eat that sandwich and smile.
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