Christine CaruanaMovie Remakes
April 4th 2010 09:11
It seems that they are making money of ideas of the past, movies they have made money on before. Fooling us all with better special effects, fancier props and better images.
I am aware that it is not just an exact retelling of Alice In Wonderland, but you can't disagree when I say it isn't really anything new. Tim's movie may look nicer. Have a more gothic, surreal nature, highlighting the oddity that is "Wonderland". But once again, all in all, it is an old story.
Now, some of you may be aware of American McGee's Alice which was a dark game adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. A film adaptation is still in the works, switching from studio to studio and may never be released. But, while that would still simply be the premise of an old story, it would be more of something different and new than what Tim Burton has done, He did try to make a dark Alice In Wonderland, but I just don't think it is as good as it could have been. If American McGee's Alice ever becomes a film, that would be the film to see. It would defintiely be a lot darker and more interesting and at least a little new and different.
Now, I'm not just Tim Burton bashing here. I did say there were two movies that came to mind, and that second movie is Clash of the Titans directed by Louis Leterrier. Clash of the Titans was originally released in 1981 and was the 11th highest grossing film of the year, so why wouldn't they want to do a remake? If it can do that well in 1981, think of how well it can do in 2010 with all the new techonolgy we have!
Clash of the Titans is a fantasy film based on the myth of Perseus, but the remake is only loosely based on this myth. I know I was saying that they should change the movies up a bit, make them different so they aren't just carbon copies of the old film, but if the plot of the movie is based on a myth, don't you think it should be more than just loosely based on that myth?
The thing with Clash of the Titansis, although the monsters and creatures were, I guess, crude in their form when compared to what they can do now, but that's what made it interesting and fun to watch. Adding all these bells and whistles to the movie, just takes the magic away.
The truly sad thing is, so many people I have spoken to about this film were completely unaware that there was ever a movie made in 1981. Oblivious to the fact that it's a remake. The film makers can so easily get away with remaking a movie and claiming it as new and most of the audience would be nonethewiser of the fact, that it is not new at all.
There are so many remakes out there, or sequals that just happen to come out 10 years after the fact. I obviously can't list them all because I'd be here forever, I just spoke about these two films because they have both just come out to the cinema. It just seems a little tiresome that these remakes keep coming out, instead of making new films.
Surely, writers and directors have new ideas and don't have to keep profiting off ideas of the past.
So put your thinking caps on and show us something new!
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