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       80s Remakes
       By: Neumatic Date: November 11, 2016, 8:21 pm
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       I thought for sure that we had an appropriate thread for this...
       we talk about bad remakes all the time, but a quick search
       proved me wrong.  We don't have a space for talking about
       remakes in general, and given their persistence, we probably
       should.
       Anyway, I came here to post this article from Inverse, asking
       Are Any 1980s Movie Remakes Actually Good?
  HTML https://www.inverse.com/article/19248-ghostbusters-1980s-movies-remakes-fail-bad-original<br
       /> Definitely worth a read.  I will contest their inclusion of t
       he
       remake of Footloose, I enjoyed that but it wasn't really a
       remake or a re-imagining, to me it was just a re-skin.  Like
       when they re-release an old video game on a new console and
       spruce up the polys and pixels.
       And they raise a point that everyone brings up... so often that
       I doubt it will ever be acted on: why don't they remake bad
       movies with good premises?  The stuff we barely remember,
       instead of the ones we remember so well that it will only invite
       unfair comparisons?
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       Re: 80s Remakes
       By: Mac Date: November 12, 2016, 6:22 am
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       I've been saying that for years. If ya have to do a remake, make
       it from a badly done flick, with a kernel of great concept,
       throw in some contemporary, if need be and 'create' something
       bigger than it was.
       The reasons I heard they do remakes of iconic films is strictly
       kids today won't see something with age. And I guess they are
       leaving it to the generation that recalls the original when it
       was memorable, to get out and see the remake? For nostalgia?
       I didn't quite understand the point about The Thing. John
       Carpenters version was the quintessential remake from a terrible
       50's flick. The recent remake of Carpenters perfect film, was a
       lost cause from the moment it was conceived.
       Good article.
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