A lot of remakes for classic films for the last few years. Why is this you may ask? Yes, remakes are bashed the hell out of. Many people say they can’t touch the original, never better than the original. The film should have never been made, blah blah blah blah, etc. Well, you know what. This is more evidence that movie fans don’t know how the hollywood business works. Is it about the money with these remakes for box office hits? Yes, that’s part of it, but there’s a more important reason why all these remakes are happening.

The reason for these remakes is that it helps promotes the original film. Whether you like the remake or not, it’s all about helping the original getting known again. It  helps attract people to the original film. If the remake comes out and someone never heard of it or never saw the original, they think to themselves, “Gee, I better see the original”.

Just today, when getting in a conversation about movies with someone, I mentioned, I wanted to see the “Clash of the Titans” remake. Well that person never heard of it and didn’t even know it was a remake of another movie. Not a lot of people around this time, doesn’t watch classic films which is why they didn’t even know it was a remake. There’s a new generation of young kids today. I’m sure many of them never heard of “Clash of the Titans” or “A Nightmare On Elm St”, but they first hear of them when the remakes come out.

Remakes maybe silly and wrong, but this is the reason Hollywood is doing them, so people can know the classics again. Today, these classics are forgotten. I have no problem with remakes at all as they are actually helping the original films. The “Friday the 13th” remake for example, not a lot of people around today haven’t even seen the earlier films. I think you get the idea now?

Do you think people today have heard of the movies, “Citizen Kane” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”? I’m sure kids of this generation haven’t even heard of those movies, and those two movies I mentioned could get remade one day. That’s what it’s all about, folks, drawing people to the original films. Not all remakes are bad however, there are actually great ones out there.

Kev