Why I Hate... Sequels And Remakes

im surprised no one has mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man\'s chest (clearly avoiding the \"2\"): two and a half hours (?) of repeated jokes from the first film. Uhh Breaking a candle holder? Elizabeth replacing the dog in the cell? fainting to attract attention? it all seemed a little too familiar...

I am so happy Sly made another rocky. the movies today suck!!!!! I have not beeen to the theater in 2 years because nothing looks good. how could you dog this movie and use cuss words. thank god Sly said f y\'all and made this movie. you must be a lazy bitch!

I wouldn\'t say sequels were a negative thing in general but only when they destroy the memories of the original film - The Matrix trilogy being the first one to mind.

What really angers me about remakes is that everyone knows the story already and so it\'s never going to better. It\'s easy money for all concerned whilst there must be lots of great original independent screenplays that will never see the light of day.

Aye, there\'s many, many exceptions ... personally Goaty I think LA wasn\'t a patch on New York but then I suppose it is head and shoulders above so much crap these days.

Sequels that were still good and in some cases better than the originals : Terminator 2, Aliens, Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back, Lethal Weapon 2, Die Hard 2 ... there are more but I can\'t be arsed. They\'re still worth a watch if you enjoyed the original ... if you constantly expect them to get exponentially better with each sequel, you\'re going to be disappointed.

As for remakes, I\'ve seen a few good ones - the thing is indeed a remake and I think that\'s a great film. If the original was pants and a decent director/producer thinks he can make a better job of it, why not?

Well, there are very few remakes or sequels that are better than the originals. Very few. In practical terms, \"The Thing\", \"Twelve Monkeys\", \"Scarface\", and er, that\'s about it that I can think of right now. I\'m only treating the franchises with the same respect the makers treat the source material....

Ooh ooh, and apparently they\'re remaking The Hitcher & Near Dark. I will personally go to each and every cinema with a copy of the original on DVD and smash people in the balls with it (even the women) as they pay to watch these remakes.

Don\'t diss Escape From LA. Russell working with Carpenter is way, way above anything else I\'d rather watch. Also, it had Steve Buscemi and Clutch on the soundtrack. But yeah, Planet of The Apes remake was bad. Marky Marky & Mr Orange do not a monkey film make.

The article is a little tongue-in-cheek (I\'m guessing, I didn\'t write it) and obviously there are exceptions to the rule, in regards to sequels and remakes. Scarface, The Thing, Ocean\'s Eleven, The Departed (more on that later)... there\'s more than a handful. But the point remains.

And yeah, I don\'t see the point in remaking a film and then not changing it at all, what the hell\'s the point? Same with Poseidon: not only did it not need to be remade, it was just an excuse to have big CGI stunts and to cash in on that post-Titanic wave. What\'s to gain artistically from remaking a film about an upside down boat?

I only partially agree. Most remakes (particularly the horror ones we\'ve seen a spew of recently) seem utterly pointless. I watch The Hills Have Eyes, and it was pretty much the same film, not necessarily worse, but not better either. Same with Amityville - I haven\'t seen The Omen remake, but apparently it\'s close to the original - when they first talked about making it I heard they were htinking of twisting it around, so that the kid was pretty much normal, but the father a nut-job who was convinced he was the devil. That would have been worth remaking, not the same movie, but with Liev fucking Schreiber in it.

But that said, isn\'t \'The Thing\' a remake of \'The Thing From Another World\'? Or you could argue that they\'ve gone back to the original story - \'Who Goes There\' and \'re-imagined\' it, creating sometihng different from the 1951 version. The Thing is a cracking horror movie, one of the finest I\'ve seen. What\'s more the film I\'m looking forward to most next year, at the moment would have to be Spider-Man 3. And I have a morbid curiousity over Rocky VI. And Jason X took the franchise to new places (in space!!) it hadn\'t been before, and was great fun. (But Halloween Ressurection was shit).

Worst sequel I\'ve ever seen was American Psycho 2. It had the Shat in it.

So I wouldn\'t want to say goodbye to all sequels and remakes, sometimes there\'s more of the story to tell - other times none of the original cast return and it goes straight to video, and you\'re best to steer well clear.