What's wrong with Hollywood today??

[GMTruckGuy74]

First there was Red Dawn and Footloose, now Mr. Mom, RoboCop, and WarGames???

http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/797-wargames-remake-coming-from-king-of-kong-director

Has Hollywood run out of creative writers? Or is it that '80s movies are coming up on being 30 years old now and that's the magic age for remaking them???

[Intrepidation]

Hollywood has very little imagination and originality left these days.

[SAmadei]

First there was Red Dawn and Footloose, now Mr. Mom, RoboCop, and WarGames???

http://blog.games.ya...f-kong-director

Has Hollywood run out of creative writers? Or is it that '80s movies are coming up on being 30 years old now and that's the magic age for remaking them???

I agree Hollywood is out of ideas... but keep in mind, a lot of '80s movies were remakes, too... we were just too young to realize it, and it was less obvious, in some cases were they would change the title or intended audience.

I wish they would reboot Mad Max.

[ocnblu]

Cool... rat rodded Falcons and Commodores flying down a post-apocolyptic Aussie hwy....

[SAmadei]

I wish we would have gotten a remake at some point of Logan's Run or Soylent Green, done properly. I've heard Cabin Boy might get a remake.

[ocnblu]

"Cabin Boy" omg what's that about? 8-o

[Robert Hall]

I've also heard rumors about a Back to the Future remake.

[FAPTurbo]

I wish they would reboot Mad Max.

Actually... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/

I tend to feel these 80's 'reboots' are being done to appeal to two crowds. The thirty-somethings who fondly remember the originals, and the early twenty-somethings who 'ironically' love the originals.

[§carlet §wordfish]

Mr. Mom? NOOOOOOOO!

"Daaaad, you're doing it wrong!"

[Robert Hall]

I wish they would reboot Mad Max.

Actually... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/

I tend to feel these 80's 'reboots' are being done to appeal to two crowds. The thirty-somethings who fondly remember the originals, and the early twenty-somethings who 'ironically' love the originals.

Yeah, I think there is truth to that...as a forty-something (still feels weird saying that), I fondly remember lots of '80s movies and usually watch the remakes (rarely like them, though). Too bad there was never a sequel to Buckaroo Banzai back in the day (one of my favorites) and I really wouldn't want to see my favorite John Hughes movies remade..

[PurdueGuy]

Remakes are fairly easy to crank out (especially if they don't bother to do a good job at it), and they're pretty much guaranteed to get a decent number of sales just from peoples' curiosity.

[frogger]

Logan's Run is coming too

[SAmadei]

I wish they would reboot Mad Max.

Actually... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/

I'll believe it when its in theaters. Its not a reboot, though... its "Mad Max 4". Thats the first time I've seen people casted for it, but this has been on and off since 2003 or so.

[GMTruckGuy74]

Logan's Run is coming too

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/

I didn't realize that it was back "on". The original is one of my favorite sci-fi movies from the '70s... I even remember the TV series that was launched a year after the movie's debut. I read somewhere long ago that the supposedly 2000 remake was cancelled and Michael Bay made "The Island" based off of Logan's Run instead (however this is not stated at IMDB.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/ )

Edited June 29, 2011 by GMTruckGuy74

[SAmadei]

Logan's Run is coming too

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/

I didn't realize that it was back "on". The original is one of my favorite sci-fi movies from the '70s... I even remember the TV series that was launched a year after the movie's debut.

I like the last day age of 30 better than 21, even if the original book used 21.

I saw Logans Run on TV and we thought it was the coolest thing ever in school the next day (this was before Star Wars)... it then took me 25 years to figure out the name of the movie. LOL! Nobody I described it to remembered any SciFi before Star Wars.

Wonder what will be next... Stroker Ace? Crazy Larry, Dirty Mary? Ice Pirates?

[Robert Hall]

How about a Trancers franchise reboot? Great cheesy '80s sci-fi.

Besides Battlestar Galactica, another 1979 sci-fi show I remember from childhood was Project UFO, which kind of had a similar premise to X-Files, about an Air Force group investigating UFO sightings...lots of dark blue '75-78 Ford LTDs IIRC. Another one towards the high-cheese end of the TV spectrum I remember from then was Quark, w/ Richard Benjamin about space trash collectors..

Westworld is getting remade also I've read...

I hope they don't do a reboot of Rockford Files, probably my favorite '70s show from childhood..

[§carlet §wordfish]

I've been watching the Max Headroom sci-fi series lately. I think it deserves a reboot. It was just so ill-conceived, poorly written, and lacking in any internal logic or consistency, not to mention using ridiculously outdated concepts of mass media and cyberspace. It might make a good alternate history piece nowadays.

[regfootball]

Hollywood has very little imagination and originality left these days.

exactly

[SAmadei]

Anyone remember "The Final Countdown"? That would make for an interesting remake.

[Robert Hall]

Anyone remember "The Final Countdown"? That would make for an interesting remake.

That was a fun movie...another one I liked that had a similar premise was 'The Philadelphia Experiment'..

[balthazar]

hollywood, much like most of autodom, is out of ideas.

[OhioTom76]

They've been ruining a bunch of my beloved horror films from the 70's and 80's as well. The Evil Dead remake was beyond awful. The Nightmare On Elm Street remake was terrible, and so were the Black Christmas and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes. I heard they are also supposed to be remaking The Last Dragon. At one point there were talks of remaking Suspiria.