I really didn't mind the Freaky Friday remake, the parent trap remake wasn't horrible, but the rest of the Lohan/disney remakes have been really bad.
I also dislike sequels of movies that are basically reiterating the first movie, and to top it off, its usually 20-30 years later that the "sequel" is...that's a hint that you shouldn't pay to see the movie.

Wow- I thought the "Plan 9 From Outer Space" remake comment was a joke.... but there really is a remake in the works! Who is John Johnson, though???

I love the original. They should leave it alone.

Phillip wrote: "i've never seen robocop...(i know, i KNOW!). it's in my netflix queue."

The director's depiction of Detroit is WAY off. Not grim enough...

The remakes are necessary because the profit margins on whatever Mickey Mouse Club cast-off the evil Disney empire is pushing this week on the pre-pube set just aren't enough.

OMG How do you know for sure it's won? Hell it hasn't even came out yet. Not where i live. If it wins, then that just proves my point that all Awards are rigged! How can a movie win an award when it doesn't even come out till the 25th of December? There's got to be better deserving movies out there! I can't be the only person who thinks Daniel Day Lewis SUCKS! The rest of the cast deserve all the applause you want to give, but to win an award without even opening all across the USA for at least 2 or 3 weeks is just mind blowing to me.

I think Disney remakes it's movies to try to appeal to the younger generation. Really, do you think your son, or any child knows who Haley Mills is? How about Dean Jones, Ken Berry, or Helen Hayes, they all did Herbie, no i don't think they know any of those people either. But I bet they know who Lindsay Lohan is. Sure they make money, but do you think that kids today would sit down and watch any of our classics? I don't think so. The cloths, cars, hair, the vocabulary, shoes, music all of it's out of style to this generation of childern. I watch the Disney animation with my grandchildern it seems to never go out of style.

"Can't wait for the Plan 9 remake!"

It was directed by Rob Marshall, and won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Jim wrote: "The same reason every studio in the world is remaking every movie ever made. Can't wait for the Plan 9 remake!"

I can't wait for that one, either, Jim!!!

Now Svanjmayer doing PINOCCHIO -- that I'd see.

I'd say not to be in any rush about ROBOCOP.

i've never seen robocop...(i know, i KNOW!). it's in my netflix queue.

Esoteric quote from ROBOCOP.

LITTEL OTIK meets Steamboat Willie...or is that "eats"?

right?

I'll buy THAT for a dollar!!

c'mon, we're due for a remake of steamboat willie! (by jan swankmeyer)

The underlying problem is that you're watching the Disney channell at all;)

The same reason every studio in the world is remaking every movie ever made. Can't wait for the Plan 9 remake!

Becky wrote: "I'm watching the Disney channel with my son today and suddenly Parent Trap comes on. Not my favorite classic with Haley Mills, no some random remake with Lindsey Lohan. Then it hits me, the have ..."

The sub-par remake is just part of the life force that keeps The People's Republic of Disney alive. They mass produce the garbage, but cringe in denial that The Song of the South was ever made. Takes the zip out of my zip a dee doo dah, that is for sure.

Yet.

Some of the remakes aren't that bad. I like to watch the original and remake back-to-back. What I dislike is whenever the remake is doubly cheesy.

And let's face it Lohan is this generation's Haley Mills (cept more bad girl). THANKFULLY they haven't touched Pollyana or Summer Magic :)

Becky, it's true. The "common wisdom" is that mainstream American audiences will not WATCH foreign films -- films from other countries are for the highbrow, the intelligentsia, the elitists, the hip and wannabe types. To bring them to the US, they must be remade (I'm really surprised that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon wasn't done over with Keanu Reeve as Li Mu Bai, but maybe that was the magic of Ang Lee, and Chinese actors who could do their own English dubbing)

I'll admit I don't watch a LOT of foreign films (I'm a Miyazaki addict) often because I feel like I need to do research to really 'get' the film and I don't always feel up to it. But I know and love quite a few and I am not usually pleased with "USification" of them.

Its a sad commentary on our society. Though I have heard the joke several times about hou many Jane Eyre movies there are! The fact US movie makers must shock their audiences to get them to watch films, rather than people wanting to enjoy good cinema makes me crave the forgien laungage section of my movie collection. At least these tend to be the originals that the US rips off!

On the nose, Tom. On the nose.

Also, they are remaking them to appeal to more contemporary audiences (so they can make money again). Many many MANY people -- not just kids -- have no interest in puzzling out the meaning of movies that don't contain familiar ideas, viewpoints, and actions. Face it -- in a world where young starlets step out of cars and give paparazzi crotch shots, cutting the back of a skirt off to expose a young girl's white cotton granny panties isn't really anything that gets a reaction.

Why, after all, do they keep remaking Jane Austen movies? And I think Jane Eyre may be one of the most made/remade movies of all time -- I counted 20 English language versions on IMDB.

Yeah, it's for money, to keep those movie properties bringing in the bucks.

Why must Disney remake all of their classics?

Why, to make money, of course.

It's not just Disney movies. They just remade FAME, for Pete's sake, a perfectly good 80s movie. You can't tell me there aren't any great scripts being written out there that they feel the need to constantly remake what didn't need fixing.

Yeah big bills.......

c'mon, lindsey's livelihood depends on those worthless remakes at this point! they just don't giveaway those rehab visits. that girl's got bills to pay...

I'm watching the Disney channel with my son today and suddenly Parent Trap comes on. Not my favorite classic with Haley Mills, no some random remake with Lindsey Lohan. Then it hits me, the have redone Herbie, Freaky Friday, Escape to Witch Mountian, etc. (Most of them have Lindsey Lohen, which doesn't help the cause either) Why? I LOVED all of those classic movies, what was wrong with them. Why the need to re-do them all, with sub par acting, and bad screen shot by screen shot remakes, with not so subtle modernization. Is our society so far removed from the good classics, that this is what we are doomed to live with?