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I just don't get it! Don't people in Hollywood have any imagination anymore? :lookingup:

Usually I don't mind remakes but some movies shouldn't be remade, and this is one of them.
That said, this is already the second Carrie remake, plus there was a sequel.

In related news: The infamous Carrie: The Musical, the most expensive Broadway musical flop ever, was recently revived Off-Broadway!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfwuyA_rcHA

It was a big expensive flop, too.

I hate most remakes... however, I still wanna see what they do with that Evil Dead-remake...

They have as much imagination as they ever did, it's just that you can't bank imagination. People will pay money to see remakes of stuff they're already familiar with instead of taking a chance on something new. If people stopped buying tickets to remakes Hollywood would stop making them.

Only reason remakes happen is money.

Younger people likely haven't seen the originals, and hear about a remake, so they rent the original and see the remake.

Fans of the originals KNOW it won't be as good, but their curiousity is piqued, so they watch and laugh at how horrible the new one is.

They better not mess up the infamous pig's blood scene!
(http://www.virginmedia.com/images/carrie_blood-431.jpg)

I've heard of the musical.... :lookingup:

Name recognition sells tickets.  It's the same with video games these days, perpetual sequels of franchises that should have died years ago. 

I wish that the Crash Bandicoot franchise hadn't died.  If only the PS2 games were good....

Wait?  What were we talking about?  A Carrie remake?  I can understand why they remake movies; they want to make money, and they know the earlier version made money.  That doesn't mean remakes are good, but it also doesn't mean remakes are bad.  It's hard to make a good movie.  It's harder still to be successful twice, to impress new audiences and the fans of the original, so most remakes fail.  That doesn't meant they should stop. It just means that they should be very careful when considering remaking something.  Note that this does not mean that I'm in favor of remakes, unless the movie was bad to begin with, and a new director/producer/writer/whoever thinks he/she can improve it.

Also, I'm not sure if Hollywood ever had a lot of imagination.  Weren't most classic films were based off successful books or plays?

They've already remade Carrie, haven't they? Anyways I'd predict no one remembers the remake in short order if it's unremarkable and people will continue to still think first of the original film when they hear the title.

Others have mentioned this, but I find it totally pointless to remake a movie that's already been remade (even though it was a "sequel" in name only).  :lookingup:

this looks terrible. I hope it comes to the West End.

Our culture these days only recycles fashions from the 20th century, and movies and music too... As in remakes off the acctuall songs and movies. And Recycles the worst parts off fashions... Most are from the 80's still being worn by teenage girls to this day.

I hate this time!! Being a 90's kid was only a set up for disapointment... as a kid I saw teenagers with differents trends, fads and cultural changes that made their decade awesome for teenagers. Like the decade before, and the decade before that. I wondered what my teenage years would be like. Only to find people kept repating s**t, and the only new thing they came up with was terroist attacks, predicting when the world is going to end... And constantly getting it wrong again and again.  So instead off progressing in the world with womans rights (we could be using this time for gay rights for example) we keep sitting here deciding when we are all going to die and which religion goes to heaven and is there for right... which it seems is the greatest reward off all. It is all just Cultural suicide, with MTV No longer having Heavy Metal and Beavis and Butthead but instead Reality TV... No wonder I got so bored I kept dying my hair different colours like purple and blue every week... My generation was just boring. Rap videos and skate boarding pop punk bands... I want to kill myself. And the Teenagers have it even worse now and do not even realize it could be better!!!!


So yes ... A Carrie Remake does not surprise me at all.

LOL....you're cool! :teddyr:

I saw the original and thought it was pretty average.  So I don't mind the remake.

Remakes are ok if it's done entirely different.
DRACULA (1931) and FRANKENSTEIN (1931) had both been done as silent films,and even Chaneys HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) had been made in 1905,1911,and 1917.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOclcQDRSUo&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL3463C3E16CB7E4B5

And the 1939 version,I thought,was the best.

Christopher Lee's DRACULA was good,and Carpenter's the THING was excellant.

But of course you get lotsa crap-such as the PSYCHO,the DAY the EARTH STOOD STILL,INVADERS FROM MARS,GODZILLA.....

I agree with everything you said (er, stammered...) except I thought the INVADERS FROM MARS remake was pretty good... but I haven't seen it in a long time. 

Yeah I thought the Invaders From Mars remake was half-decent too. Yeah half-decent that's what I think of it. The original remains far superior. Technically Godzilla has been remade several times - 1984, 2000 aside from the 1998 Americanized Zilla version. Carrie was technically remade already in its sequel which is pretty bad. I have my doubts about this remake but you never know. Still I'd be very surprised if it measures up to De Palma.

The other side of this same coin is the reaction film makers get when someone DOES do something original.  It's rarely successful and often hated, derided and ridiculed.

So, I'd go so far as to say it's not enough for people to stop buying tickets to crappy, unimaginative movies, but we have the added criterion of people need to start buying tickets to riskier movies by unknown film makers and small/independent studios.

That is, of course, only if people really want imaginative, original movies.  I doubt this to be true.  Art is weird this way - look also at music.  What sells is what sounds or looks like everything else.  Once in a while something comes along that is truly different that catches on, but it's soon copied and the same-soup continues just with different ingredients.

I LIKE watching independent films that were artistic risks.  That means I watch a few that don't work for me.  Generally, I don't complain about those; I can still admire what the makers were trying to do as it's own merit.  But, I've observed over the years that "the masses" are not like this at all, not one single bit.

They want, and pay for, same-same.  Day in and day out.  Pop music, pop movies, tv, books, photographic art, etc.  "Same" sells, or at least "same to the current fad" sells.

Bringing it back to remakes in particular, if it's a new, creative, imaginative adaptation it's fine with me.  If it is the same movie as 20 others currently on the rental shop shelves but with a recognizable name, I've got no use for it at all.

I vote with my dollars, which also means 'rewarding' the little guys when I can, even if for technical reasons their movies are not as "good."

I tell you what, I rented this last night and watched it and was pleasantly surprised by just how good it was!
Julianne Moore chews up the landscape as Carrie's twisted, psychotic mother, and Chloe Grace Moretz, better know as Hit Girl in the KICK ASS franchise, is perfectly cast as the lonely, lovely young outcast with a gift for moving things with her mind.
The plot was believable, the characters well fleshed out, and the effects amazing!
I think the haters will be amazed at how faithful to the original it is, and yet how original it is at the same time.  HIGHLY recommended!

I'm a big fan of the Hit Girl character, which made the Kick-Ass (2010) movie the awesome film that it was, because she actually made Nicolas Cage look good as her dad in the movie because you could see the bond between the two. Well, that and how she slaughtered all the bad guys in the movie! I might give this one a shot.

She is even more BA in Kick Ass 2!!!!!