Are Americans getting lazy with all these movie remakes?

Terry Morris41 said:The issue is they keep remaking absolute masterpieces. Instead, they should hunt down the most mindless, idiotic old movies that actually had a decent concept or potential, and then just make them right for once.

True, but look at where the money is. Is it more profitable to remake a classic or some totally obscure flick?
It’s interesting because they have definitely done remakes of lesser-known films, but those haven't received nearly as much hype...

Christian Taylor3 said:That’s all fair, but saying only Americans are clueless about this is a stretch. Just to recap—since you love throwing your own words back at me like a boomerang regarding how people fail to recognize an unrecyclable masterpiece: look at what the Chinese did with recycling Coen's work; the French with http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280990/ (recycling Carpenter); the Italians with http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374358/ ('Groundhog Day'); the Japanese with http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236373/ ('Sideways'); the Indians with http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456413/ (the nerve, right? recycling Fincher's 'Fight Club', then churning out stuff like 'Man on Fire', 'Memento', 'Weekend at Bernie's', 'Mrs. Doubtfire'... the list goes on); the Britons with http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291341/ ('The Longest Yard'); the Koreans with http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399650/ ('Phone Booth'); the Mexicans with http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461336/ ('Private Ryan'); and even those Turkish 'Star Wars' versions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3uAUp6FjgM

We could go on forever.

Honestly, I haven't even heard of most of these. Sure, anyone can make mistakes, but when it comes to the Chinese or the French, this habit of recycling things that shouldn't be recycled will probably just end up being a one-off fluke.

With Americans, it's a full-blown mania, totally mainstream. It's how the Butchers butcher their cinematic legacy—everything that makes Hollywood what it is today.

As for those Turkish 'Star Wars' movies, I've heard they're pure garbage that only the typical soap opera audience would swallow. It's almost a parody...

Laura Palmer25 said:Setting horror aside for a second, you really have to wonder what kind of absolute moron thinks it's a good idea to mess with Straw Dogs, Arthur, or Conan... I mean, hellooo? 😠

True, though honestly, you'd have to be a special kind of idiot to go poking around in Coen's 'Blood Simple', Carpenter's precinct 13, or Fincher's 'Fight Club'...

And yet, here we are, stuck in neutral. The whole topic was just framed the wrong way to begin with.

I’m locking this thread before I have to start handing out bans for hate speech.—not worth the headache.