Instead of having remakes...

[SpaceDog]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

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Also, keep in mind that the steep decline by Nightmare had far less to do with it's critical reception and far more to do with it being a horror movie. Lately horror movies open big and crash hard and fast.

horror films have almost always done that[/QUOTE]

Probably so, but I guess I didn't want to speak from authority when I don't have it. I will say that more creative horror entries tend to do well - Sixth Sense, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, etc.

To the topic at hand, also keep in mind that Hollywood has **ALWAYS** been doing "remakes". Some of your favorite classic films are remakes including "Wizard of Oz" and "Ben Hur". Should we not have Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet because we already had Laurence Olivier?

I do agree that a lot of remakes feel like simple cash-ins (because they are) but saying that nothing should ever be remade is kind of naive.