Discuss: Which Remake/Reboot Are You Looking Forward to The Least

NONE! Make a NEW/ORIGINAL movie already and stop ruining everyones childhood memeories already, Hollywood!

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All of them.

This is just laziness on the part of Hollywood. Half of the remakes in production or under "serious" consideration weren't that good to begin with. If you remake a bad film, you'll probably end up with a bad remake.

The other half, the actually "good" ones, shouldn't be remade because they've already been done. Why remake a film considered to be a "classic"?

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Dreading the Scream reboot/remake.

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I couldn't care less about any of these. Now and then something will come along that kind of gets me interested (I think a "Highlander" remake might be sorta cool, 'cause it's a great concept that's never really been done correctly), or I'll see a trailer that will win me over ("Last House on the Left"), but for the most part, forget it. I'm going to say right now that I will not be seeing any of the above-mentioned remakes in a movie theater. If people stop supporting this bullshit, the studios will be forced to try something else.

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Reboot: The Movie- from the Wayans Brothers (or their cousins or distant relatives).

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I have to admit, I'm particularly unhappy about Alien and Total Recall, but with few exception, a lot of these ideas drive me wild. I might be in the minority on this opinion, but things like Wolfman don't irk me as much, because that, to me, is a legitamate story that can be re-told in a new, interesting, and updated way--and has the talent to back it up. Similarly, if we shunned them completely, we may never have gotten Batman Begins or Star Trek, but it's murky territory. The problem becomes, once you open that door, where do you stop? Something Hollywood has become incredibly enamored with finding out and pissing a lot of us off in the process. On one hand though, I wish they would just stay away from re-makes altogether, and just make new goddamn movies. We didn't get the classics because they were trying to imitate the films that preceded them. Where has all the creativity gone?

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The problem with this is that Hollywood can't seem to reboot or remake the proper projects. I can't say that I look forward to a Buffy, Scream, or Nightmare On Elm Street reboot for different reasons. The producers want a Whedon-less Buffy and that is insane. As far as Scream, how is it a reboot with the same people? And Nightmare is just another example of far Wes Craven has fallen. Meanwhile, there is talk of a Superman reboot. Didn't they just do that? How many different Punishers am I going to have choke down? Why not a Daredevil reboot? I, personally, didn't have a problem with Affleck, Favreau, and Garner in the casting aspect. But Mark Steven Johnson should step aside...off a cliff and let Frank Miller take a crack at it. Yeah, Johnson, thanks for Elektra as well. Why would you let this guy continue?

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I really don't want to see Total Recall's remake. I'm 23 years all and remaking movies from after my birth makes me feel old, damn it!

I actually expect Buffy to be better than the original, though crushed by the hype of the of the T.V. series. Frankly, I never could get into that a lot so...yay for average expectations!

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The only remakes I'm possibly looking forward to are Nightmare on Elm Street and They Live. Nightmare on Elm Street because really only Dream Warriors and the first one are any good, and I think there's potential to solidify the mythology they cooked up over 8 movies and have it there from the beginning instead of making it up as they went along. Plus they have Jackie Earle Haley playing Freddy Kruger and they're playing up the pedophile aspect of it which was only hinted at in the original films.

And They Live, while I fucking love that movie and especially Keith David, I think Carpenter screwed up when he split the budget he was given in half so he could make Prince of Darkness, which was a terrible fucking movie. While they'll more than likely fuck it up, I think, like Nightmare, there's room for streamlining of the concept.

I think the remake that most infuriates me is Videodrome, because Cronenberg's original has got to be one of the craziest movies, that really hit me on a physical level when I first saw it, and there is just no way that it could be re processed for the mainstream without completely destroying it.

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There is no reason to remake any of these movies! Alien is perfect, Buffy without Joss is ridiculous, etc., etc., etc. There are plenty of great ideas out there. If they can't think of an entirely original idea, why not try adapting a scary, interesting book (like World War Z), or an amazing graphic novel (Y The Last Man). There are plenty of great books out there! God forbid we stretch our ideas of viable, intelligent material.

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Remaking Alien is the most disappointing to me by far.

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Short Circuit without Steve Guttenberg or Fisher Stevens? What is the world coming to? Yes, Hollywood needs to stop bastardizing these movies and come out with something that is new and not just new to the younger crowd.

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The remake of Straw Dogs comes to mind. I am hoping that the fact that this article didn't mentioned means it has been abandoned. Politically correct morons like Rod Lurie have no business even touching a film like this.

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The remake of Straw Dogs comes to mind. I am hoping that the fact that this article didn't mention it means it has been abandoned. Politically correct morons like Rod Lurie have no business even touching a film like this.

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On the one hand, Short Circuit was so syrupy I loathed it; I dread a new one. On the other hand - Alien was so good, why?!?! Buffy ... simply doesn't compute.

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Eregon needs a remake or reboot. The story is great. It would make a great movie. The movie that WAS made however sucked and did NO justice to the story (and it left out parts of the story that are critical to the sequels....).

Most of these remakes are trash being recycled - and are still trash.

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they all look stupid. but id have to say karate kid seems the most useless. I haven't seen all of the below

Short Circuit, Barbarella, Flight of the Navigator, Footloose, Mona Lisa, The Mechanic, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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Remaking Scream seems wrong somehow, not because of the quality of the film but because the original came out just over 10 years ago. The majority of the target audience for the remake were alive when the original came out, and probably half remember seeing the damn thing in the theater. Can't you at least wait 20 or 30 years before remaking something, Hollywood?

The one that hurts me the most (although it's still only in the rumor stages) is The Neverending Story. There's no way that won't end in tears.

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Its The Warriors remake that bothers me the most. The horror genre has always been plagued by horrible remakes, so while its disappointing its nothing new. But The Warriors in all its cheesy glory should be left alone. Can you dig it!!?

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