Hollywood is
really trying my patience. Can we get Original movies of Quality, please? If I
look up and see another Remake, I’m going to scream. What is the purpose to Re-tell
great stories? It’s like Hollywood never heard the statement, “If it Ain’t Broke
Don’t Fix It”.
Weird Science is
one of my favorite John Hughes movies (Sixteen Candles is my other fave). Now someone wants to remake it. They
claim it needs to be edgier. Weird Science was edgy by 1980’s standards. What
they meant to say is “We want to make a millennial, Pop Cultured defined version of “Weird Science”
because we are too lazy to make an original screenplay about the awkward, geeky, and
nerdy”. Yes, I said it. Lazy!!!
Many Writers are
Lazy. They have to be. No other explanation for why one would just go obtain
the rights of a perfectly good movie and rewrite some of the script. Some don’t
even let it be known except in the opening “credits” that the film is a remake.
Who know the movie “What a Girl Wants” is a remake of “The Reluctant Debutante”
made in 1958. Yep I had to go back and watch the opening of the movie. Where
are the writers of original scripts? Oh I know they are making Independent films
because many of them can’t get the big dollars to get their new idea on the big
screen.
Big Budget
Entertainment Companies are lazy. Why crunch that many numbers of a film that
the fans may or may not accept? Here is a perfectly good storyline that has
made millions of dollars before. The fans looked that film then they should
love this “current generational”, “other cultural based”, or “based off the
stage” version of this story.
Movie fans are
lazy. Fans hear about a popular story and no matter how many times it is said
it is a remake, the fans will flood the theaters. Do sales of the original
story go up as well? Ask Pop Culture for the answer. For example, how many people
have seen “Dreamgirls”, the movie then went to see as a musical or bought the music of
the 1982 original soundtrack? I won’t wait for the answer. The numbers tell the
story quite well. Yes, I saw the musical as a revival years before the movie
was released. And yes, I like the musical better.
I’m not a Hypocrite
because I am a Hypocrite. Some of my favorite movies (“Polly” (“Pollyanna”)
& “Annie” (A Broadway Hit) are remakes. I also saw both in the original forms also and I like them both. And in my defense, they would be on my favorites list
had no one remade them. So thanks Pop Culture for ruining my taste in cinema
also.
One would think
the “Remakes” would've slow down after the debacles or “Fame”, “Footloose”, and “The
Bad News Bears”. These remakes and others convoluted the storyline of the
originals in horrible ways. And Why??? Just to make it “relevant” to whatever
populations it was geared towards. Movie fans are lazy but not
dumb. Take a page out of part of Disney’s book, Re-release the Originals. It
introduces the story to the populations that are unfamiliar with it. It also
will bring the original admirers out to see it for the memories or just for
another look see.
But who am I? Just
a hypocritical movie goer that just want to see some New & Fresh ideas on
the Big Screen and not in the 5 for 20, Straight to Cable DVD or Made for Cable or TV bin in stores.
I will say one
thing. I will be protesting the remake of “Weird Science”. John Hughes probably
rolled over in his grave when this news broke. The rise of the awareness of
Nerd, Geeks, and the Awkward is part of pop culture now. I know there is an innovative screenplay (at least some ideas or
backstories) out there that is “Big Screen” worthy. Stop being lazy and go find
it. Don’t Touch This Classic Piece
called “Weird Science”.
As Always, Talking
to You in Adult Terms
