PG-13 remake trend

[slayrrr666]

One of the current trends coming out is to remake films (I'm specifically counting the horror films here) is to turn them into the PG-13 crowd with their ratings. What is everyone's feelings towards this current trend? Mine after a few responses.

[frankenjohn]

I wish there was a "mixed feelings" option. Basically, some are enjoyable (The Ring) and others are just abysmal (many choices). Personally, directors shouldn't be remaking these movies, unless the originals suck. And many times that's not the case. I just think most remakes are bad, even The Hills Have Eyes which was R. As long as the remake is done tastefully, go ahead.

[slayrrr666]

The mixed feelings one is "I could care less about the rating," meaning you don't care about the rating of the film, and it's not a factor towards whether or not you'll see it. So, I take it you'll vote for that one, then?

[Bartwald]

I voted like frank - generally, I don't exactly love this trend, but the rating itself hardly ever discourages me from seeing a remake.

How's the new Prom Night, by the way? Heard it's pretty bad?

[Heineken Skywalker]

Apr 23, 2008 10:52:39 GMT -5 Bartwald said:

I voted like frank - generally, I don't exactly love this trend, but the rating itself hardly ever discourages me from seeing a remake.

How's the new Prom Night, by the way? Heard it's pretty bad?

I'd agree with that. I'm not crazy about every freakin' film, horror or not, being remade in general. The PG-13 rating bothers me only in the sense that it's an obvious way to lure younger kids in to see these movies, where the originals were R-rated and seemed to be aimed at adults.
Isn't the original Prom Night kind of crappy anyway? They can keep remaking it until they get it right as far as I'm concerned.

[Bartwald]

Yeah, Prom Night was bad to start with - but at least it had Leslie Nielsen!

Personally, I thought that Prom Night was a movie that could actually get better when remade, but the first reviews say the opposite is true...

[slayrrr666]

Yeah, I kinda thought the original was kinda bad as well, Nielson or not. Not sure how people can like that one when there's a ton that came out at the same time eons better (The Burning, Madman, Terror Train, Hell Night, The Prowler) over something like the original.

[LivingDeadGirl]

I don't really care much about the rating, just how good (or bad) the movie is. But it IS annoying that most of the ones coming out are PG-13 and aimed more toward teens.

[Quorthon]

I voted that I hate remakes in general. Especially in the last decade or so. The only time I thought remakes were worth a damn was in the 80's when the stories were re-tooled to be generally more logical and the special effects were nearly perfected. Like Cronenberg's The Fly, Carpenter's The Thing, and the '88 version of The Blob.


Granted, I loathe the PG-13 rating on this stuff because they water it down so they can sell tickets to the kiddies, but I'd much rather they just make new movies all around. There are just too damn many remakes these days and they're never any better than the original films. Often times, they're much, much worse.


Remakes in video games, remakes in horror fims, remakes in regular movies, remakes just plain suck. Saw isn't brilliant in any sense of the word, but at least they went out and wrote something that was more original than just vomiting up another remake. Worse, we have remakes of sequels or sequels to remakes now, like Hills Have Eyes 2. And that movie was just terrible.

[slayrrr666]

Well, there was a few, so mine is that:

I'm not all that impressed with what's coming out, remake or otherwise, so I'm pretty much not caring about the whole thing either way. A remake is rated R, PG-13, doesn't matter to me. I'm glad that they're making the genre popular and I'll support it, but the fact that there's so many of them that are specifically PG-13 makes me still employ the theatrical remake ban that I started back in 2005 after the release of King Kong. I haven't gone to one since, and choose to watch them for the first time on DVD or on cable when they premier there.

[Quorthon]

Kong is when I swore off theatrical viewings of remakes. There'd need to be some extremely special circumstances for me to give a shit.

[slayrrr666]

I know, I followed your lead in that. You inspired me to do something with my life.

[Heineken Skywalker]

May 27, 2008 9:57:11 GMT -5 slayrrr666 said:

I know, I followed your lead in that. You inspired me to do something with my life.

Well, it's good to have goals. ;D

[Quorthon]

May 27, 2008 9:57:11 GMT -5 slayrrr666 said:

I know, I followed your lead in that. You inspired me to do something with my life.

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Ha ha, it's about damn time I touched a life!!

[slayrrr666]

I would, Q, except for one small thing: when I was born, I came out feet-first rather than head-first, and I ended up getting tangled up along the way, breaking both of my ankles. No one knew it, though, for about three or four years when my parents started to notice that I could never wear shoes right. They took me to a doctor and found out about the break and I had appearently re-healed myself, but it never did right and I have incredibly weak feet as a result. I can barely support my frame now (or at least I used to before I got that chest condition which is mostly over-now) but back then, I could barely move my 280-pound frame very vigoriously for more than a few minutes before getting winded because my feet were killing me. It's a reason why I've adopted a more sedentary life-style, my feet can't support huge amount of weight very long because they were broken at birth.

I talked to a friend when I got out of high school about it and said that it was enough to get me out of service, I don't know if they've changed criteria since then but I know that it was enough at one point to hold me out.