A reboot of..... ALIEN! I'm fucking fed up with Hollywood. Every time you go to the theater and give some creatively bankrupt movie studio your money and reward their laziness, you are contributing to the problem. FUCK HOLLYWOOD.
I would say it's because of giving Gays the right to be show and story creators. Teh Gheys are ruining everything in Hollywood. StarTrek was on life-support but the movie brought the limelight back to StarTrek. Such is not the case for Aliens/Ripley. They could as the article suggests make a completely new story with the aliens running amok, but the Faggot Writers are uncreative and hence they want to follow the success of their normal, Straight counterparts.
That's no different than Hollywood has ever been. Movies have always been predominantly formulaic tripe with the occasional bout of actual creativity, as has pretty much all entertainment. You don't need to make a technical remake to make a movie on autopilot.
Hollywood is conservative. Not socially or morally of course. But business wise definitely. It is dominated by giant studios staffed by giant unions. Large organizations like the studios and unions are inherently conservative. They prefer not to gamble and to invest their time and funds in proven money makers.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what does Paramount's success have to do with a 20th Century Fox decision?
Success encourages imitation. Same reason Paramount followed 20th Century Fox when after seeing how big a success Star Wars was, decided on making Star Trek:The Motion Picture instead of the Star Trek Phase II series.
Oh, God. I'm cringing about that fucker in "Land of the Lost." Looks to be the first not-completely-shit movie he's done in five years, but that's hardly anything to clap about.
Yeah, I'm not interested in seeing "Land of the Lost" either. Even though it does look humorous,(especially that gigantic masquito scene!) I really have no desire to see it. The only movie I wanted to see desperately was "Star Trek". And I'm really glad I went to go see it cause it was well worth the wait and the $!!!! It also didn't seem like a really long movie either(was about 2-3 hours long) so that's always great!
What's all the fuss about? So they're re-making Alien, so what? I don't remember anyone squalling about Ridley Scott not having any original ideas when he re-made It! The Terror from Beyond Space.
Assuming that Alien was a remake of It! and not just an influence, don't you think that Scott improved on and enhanced his version of the original whereas many reboots now end up being excuses for film producers to put the latest pretty faces into a "safe-r bet"?
Y'know, I wasn't around, but I suspect that even back during the Golden Age of Hollywood or whatever, most movies were basically "filler". Nothing really special, all told; just put together and put out there without any huge price tag attached. A lot of the time when an old movie's on the TV, it seems to be a generic sort of romance or romantic comedy or drama. (Although you can bet dollars to doughnuts it's going to be much more pleasant than a lot of today's rubbish . . . but that's beside the point.) Occasionally someone reminisces about going to the dollar matinee or whatever for a "spaghetti Western" every weekend. Now, I don't have anything against Westerns, but the industry can't have been putting out a 3 1/2 - star Western, complete with innovative plot and characters and dialogue, every seven days. A lot of those movies -- and others -- were probably rather formulaic, even if they were enjoyable. And the profit Hollywood made off of them probably helped the various studios feel confident about green-lighting more ambitious or "edgy" material. So, I imagine Hollywood has always been this "uncreative". They're just being more blatant about it these days.
From the Brady Bunch movies to Starsky & Hutch to The Dukes of Hazard, the remakes have been horrible! The Star Wars prequels are unforgivable! And Sean Connery is the ONLY 007! Let's face it, the suck rolls on!
The whole reboot craze started with Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Batman. Since TCM we've seen countless horror movies remade and since Batman Begins we're starting to see the same with movie franchises. Soon we'll have reboots of Alien,Superman,Fantastic Four and Nightmare on Elm Street. And yes. I think it screams a lack of originality on the part of writers but studios only care about making money and right now the reboots are making TONS of money.
The problem is that big budget blockbusters are very risky. Lucas did "Star Wars" for something like $13 million. I think "T2", over 15 years ago, was around $100 million. What was "Star Trek"? Twice that? And then we get the marketing budget on top of that. As we edge closer to billion dollar budgets, the cost of failing keeps increasing ("Heaven's Gate" killed United Artists and "Cutthroat Island" doomed Carolco) so they look for ways to reduce the risk. The thing to remember is that Hollywood isn't in the business of making enlightening, uplifting films of artistic merit. It is in the business of making money. If quality films are the way to do that, then that is what Hollywood will make. But given the quality of our presidential contenders last year, I'd say going after the lowest common denominator is a safer bet.
