Has Hollywood run out of ideas???????

[hoosierelvisfan]

We ended up going to see Bewitched last night and while we were there looking at what was playing I noticed the following bits of info:

At the movie theatre where we went two of the movies were remakes of old TV shows---Bewitched and the Honeymooners. A third movie playing there, i.e., the Longest Yard, is a remake of a movie from the 1970's. After we purchased our tix and walked into the theatre we saw posters advertising upcoming releases-----first, a movie remake of the Pink Panther starring Steve Martin and another poster advertising a remake of the Bad News Bears, another movie from the 1970's. :crazy: It just struck me how many remakes there are in films these days.

Signed,
Respectfully,
Dutch

[Munsters#1]

Because Hollywood has given up on creating new things, so they have been making remakes of everything lately. Pretty lame, if you ask me.

[hoosierelvisfan]

Yes, I think many in Hollywood are lazy because they figure it's easier just to remake a project and hope it sells to the fans of the original project. Let's see, if we just stuck to TV series alone and not movies that have been remade, look at all the TV series that have been done into remakes. This is my list of ones that I can think of off the top of my head:

(In no particular order)

McHale's Navy
Leave it to Beaver
Beverly Hillbillies
Adams Family
Starsky and Hutch
Charlie's Angels
Bewitched
Honeymooners
My Favorite Martian
Dukes of Hazzard (coming out)
SWAT


That's eleven movie remakes of old TV shows off the top of my head. How many others have there been???

Signed,
Respectfully,
Dutch

[hoosierelvisfan]

Two more that I just now thought about:

Wild Wild West
Maverick

[dlemond]

Though most remakes are awful and most TV show adaptions are terrible, you have to remember that Hollywood has remade movies for years. I mean there would be a picture made in 1931 that would be remade 10 years later.
Even a lot of old Hollywood musicals are remakes of other movies.

[Munsters#1]

Yeah, but all of a sudden, there's these tons and tons of remakes lately. The Munsters has been remade 5 times! 5 times!

[Brian Damage]

The Mod Squad

The Avengers

Car 54 Where are You?

I, Spy

Mr. Magoo

Miami Vice (coming out)

The Brady Bunch

Lost in Space

Charlie's Angels

Dragnet

[Czas na Zywiec]

The Brady Bunch

Though, in this case (As well as the sequel), these were the funnist movies I've ever seen. I've seen each one so many times and it never fails to make me laugh.

[Brian Damage]

Though, in this case (As well as the sequel), these were the funnist movies I've ever seen. I've seen each one so many times and it never fails to make me laugh.

I'll agree, the Brady movies were well done.

[Stuck In The '70's]

The Fugitive and Mission Impossible although they were good remakes. Its to bad most of them aren't.

[Mikado]

Hollywood has stopped caring about storytelling and now just wants "Asses in the seats", so, anything goes, and the first thing to go, is the quality...kinda like whats happened to pro sports :(

[Mikado]

ps, when Hollywood remakes " My Mother the Car", civilisation as we know it will collapse entirely...its coming faster tha you think ! :lol:

[catlover79]

Hollywood ran out of ideas years ago. :lol: