When it comes to remakes and "reimaginings", which seem to be all the rage these days, I am not nearly as militant about it as some people are. For example, the remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is not, in any way, going to change my opinion of the original, which I still think is a horror classic. Having said that, I don't see any reason to even do a remake, other than to appeal to the 15 year-old dunderheads who probably know the title, but are not familiar with the original, and therefore do not know any better. I just see these remakes as a waste of time. One remake that I do have particular venom for is Rob Zombie's "Halloween" and "Halloween 2". I know some people worship at the feet of Rob Zombie, and I don't understand that. He made a couple of decent movies with "House of 1,000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects", but I'm not quite ready to label him a horror icon yet. But I digress....
I simply did not see the point of trying to explain why Michael Myers was what we was. OK, big deal, he had a shitty childhood. So fucking what? I didn't need to know that. Michael was a force of pure evil as far as I was concerned, and I had no burning desire to know "why".
I could go on and on about why so many of these remakes are inferior, and most of them are, but I don't see what that has to do with the originals. No shitty remake of "Planet of the Apes" is going to diminish my love of the original, and that's that.
I simply did not see the point of trying to explain why Michael Myers was what we was. OK, big deal, he had a shitty childhood. So fucking what? I didn't need to know that. Michael was a force of pure evil as far as I was concerned, and I had no burning desire to know "why".
I could go on and on about why so many of these remakes are inferior, and most of them are, but I don't see what that has to do with the originals. No shitty remake of "Planet of the Apes" is going to diminish my love of the original, and that's that.
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