Either CEOs want something more focus grouped, or nepo babies behind the scenes need to add their own “flair” to it.
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Eh, I'd rather the remake makes some changes, otherwise what's the point of just doing the same thing again. Generally speaking the closer the remake is to the original the less value it adds. Sometimes these changes work and sometimes they don't but I'd rather they take a swing. Like Psycho or Funny Games or Oldboy or anything Disney has done in the last decade are exactly like the original and feel completely pointless. Even when they're done well like the Ikiru remake Living they just feel a little hollow.
All this being said, I think the most successful ones are where they have a completely new take from the ground up. Compare the new Planet of the Apes remakes to the 2001 Tim Burton one. The new ones go in a whole new direction and feel like they matter whereas the Burton one was a complete failure. Scarface and Oceans 11 also come to mind as successful remakes because the director got to put their on flair on the story.
I feel like there's a difference between remakes of old movies and remakes of very recent movies that just weren't American
Yes to both.
didn't even know this "new" movie was another remake of a foreign film. had no interest in watching it but now this makes me wanna see the foreign original, which is always better.
Americans are optimists and having an ending where the heroes die, unable to change their fate, is inherently hard for Americans to agree with. Most Americans will point at parts of the movie and try to find some way they would have done it differently, using the hind sight of knowing the outcome of some decisions, to avoid the Danish ending. It's a deeply rooted cultural experience and why the people who put multiple millions and a few years into making a movie want to appeal to the audience they are making it for. The same effect can be seen with food - make the food the customers want, not the food that represents a culture few understand.
Americans are fucking stupid.
Commodified art sells better
I don’t watch horror movies, but this article got me curious and I checked out the plot summary and then the snippets of the 2022 movie. Can confirm, I’m an American.
Probably the same reason why they think they can pump as much shit into the atmosphere as possible for decades and President Rambo will rappel down from a helicopter with a machinegun and blow up Climate Change at the last possible second.