Sunday, March 24, 2013

Why people will always hate Remakes and Sequels of Classic Films

     There is one thing that is really kind of messed up about somebody making a remake or sequel to a classic movie. Example: the Wizard of Oz and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It's the fact that people will ALWAYS compare it to the original film, and not the source material itself. Believe me, the newer Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,  you know, the one starring Johnny Depp? It's much closer to the book than the classic version was, yet there was so many people who complained that the movie was so different from the older film. If we were to take the classic film out of the equation, people would say, "What a great adaption to the book! That was the point of Tim Burton's version, to serve as a better adaption to the book, and not a remake to the old movie, which was based off of a book. It got beef because of that. I haven't seen the new Oz movie either, but I hear a lot of complaints that it's not as good as the original Wizard of Oz film, even though that wasn't the point to begin with anyway., since Oz was a book series before it was a film as well. My point is, be open-minded, and stop shutting yourself off to a good experience just because you want to constantly compare. Another example is the Psycho remake. That did TERRIBLE, because it was JUST LIKE the old movie. As far as I can tell, a remake it not allowed to be just like the original, and it's not allowed to be different, at the same time. Geez. People are harsh. When I watch a remake, I try to watch it as its own thing, and I judge it based off of if it's a good movie while still being somewhat true to the original. People are just closed-minded about things, and I get tired of hearing "purists" because that word really just means "biased" and "won't accept change" in my book.

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