Remakes

For the first entry in the Movies category that isn't a review, I'm going to write about remakes.

Hollywood has been no stranger to the remake in recent years and have brought us movies such as The Dukes of Hazzard, Bad News Bears and The Longest Yard -- to name a few in my DVD collection. All three of the originals were from the 1970s, before my time.

But now they're going too far. They're screwing around with things from my childhood. On top of these idiots remaking classics like Back to the Future, 2007 will bring us movies like Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

If you ask me the '80s weren't long enough ago to start redoing the best movies of that decade. The Hollywood execs aren't allowing these films (referring to BTTF) time to become true classics. By releasing a remake so quickly (I know twenty-plus years isn't really quick, but you get my point) you are robbing the film of any chance to cement itself in the mind of those who saw it when it was somewhat new.

That being said, I still want to see Miami Vice and am really looking forward to seeing the new Transformers and TMNT movies. I dunno, I'm just pissed that they're remaking Back to the Future.