WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:00 pm Post subject: Rebooting |
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There seems to be their industry urge to reboot everything. I am not sure if it is due to young business people in the industry that think movies +20 years old are OLD, or if the during between original and desired remake (ahem, reboot) has been grossly shortened like today's youths' attention span.
While I would fully agree that if an original movie, or even a near term remake were bad enough that maybe another effort might be appropriate, how do you convince producers to ante up the monies when the viewing audiences might not be ready to hand over viewing cash after such a recently deemed bad version already bit their wallets (and or purses).
For instance, I can see remaking a good film from the 1950's and 1960's. I can see remaking a 15-20 year film that was simply done in a god awful original manner, but when some start talking about reboot American Pie (example) I have to wonder if the future of movies is left in watched foreign films.
And for the life of me I cannot seem to understand if the industry in North America is more bent of making films more suitable for the highest public cinema demographics (teenagers) than anything else. Trying to make a profitable movie, let alone a remake, and expecting to target a broader demographic than just teenagers seems to entwine much larger budgets.
But like a friend in the company (where I work) always kept saying, "I don't see how we are making money". And this makes me wonder how some seemingly bad movies are even financed let alone released into the wild. But, with this in mind, I cannot stop but wonder if it is me that is getting old (and thus the time lapse between original release and remake seems to be getting shorter), or that that the industry's attention span is one of AHAD.
By the time I am 50 (only a half decade away) I am going to expect an original film being made and then a remake three years later. Why? Not because the original was bad, but that three years will seems like ages to the AHAD industry at large.
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