There are movies that I thoroughly enjoy even though I know they’re pretty terribly made, and a remake of these movies done well could actually make me quite happy. Unfortunately, these b-movies are generally not what Hollywood remakes and they take good movies and use popular but unimpressive actors, directors and writers to make a flashier but worse movie. I haven’t seen the new Clash of the Titans but the original is one of these movies that I saw great potential for a remake; and if it turns out well it might be good.
In general, I just wish Hollywood would start working on their own projects again and leave books, TV shows, comic books, videogames and (pretty much) every other medium alone for awhile. Hollywood has used other people’s creativity to hide the fact that they have steadily become an uncreative marketing machine that favours style over substance; and since they’re not particularly good at making a solid movie on their own they tend to ruin the work of others when they make a movie out of them.
