Hollywood's Biggest Crime: Remakes

I just want to ask one simple question. If a movie is good enough to be a classic, why is it then remade it to something so bad that it shouldn't even be shown at 3 in the morning on basic cable? It seems like every movie I have ever liked has now been remade, or is going to be remade.


Here is a list of the crimes against humanity:

• Halloween- The original was a classic. It was suspenseful, and had a perfect amount of violence and terror to make it a great horror movie.

The Rob Zombie remake was just the opposite. All he did was add more violence, take out the suspense, and basically ruin the original for me.

• The Day the Earth Stood Still- The original is masterpiece. For being made in 1951, it is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time.

The Keanu Reeves remake is just, just...just bad.

• High Noon- A great western that had suspense and had a great shootout ending.

The made for TV remake made me sit there and just think...why!?!

• Psycho- The Alfred Hitchcock original was full of mystery and for it's time was very edgy.

The remake was more like a shot for shot redo which begs the question, if your going to watch Psycho, why not just watch the original?

These are just a few but there are hundreds of remakes out there, with most of them being signifigantly worse than the original.

-Matt