Too Many Remakes!!!!!!!!

Is this why box office receipts are down?

The remakes listed int eh parent posts can be separated 3 ways:

REMAKES of POP CULTURE ICONS
Depend on nostalgia. Conceived by Hollywood focus group miners who probably do these Rorscach Tests of brand names to determine what will get the next greenlight. (Would you like to see a movie based on any of the following: DUKES OF HAZZARD, SCOOBY DOO, HONEYMOONERS?) Theoretically appeal most to fanboy movie casters who dig stuffing big, familiar names into familiar roles.

see: Dukes of Hazzard, Scooby Doo, Honeymooners

REMAKES of STORIES PEOPLE LIKE
Star vehicles over the road well-traveled, soldiering over the backs of giants.

see: Dwayne Johnson's Walking Tall, Vin Diesel's The Pacifier (compared to Schwartzenegger's Kindergarten Cop)


REMAKES of FOREIGN FILMS
Young people don't read, so rather than save money and dub foreign films, reshoot and Angelicize them with tons more money and more familiar-looking actors and repackage them.

see: The Ring, The Grudge

Jam it back in, in the dark.