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I guess this applies more to the amount of remakes and "reimaginings" that are getting thrown at us. The Top Gun thread got me thinking about this yet again and I was surprised at how many people seemed pumped to see this in the theater. We also have the Cobra Kai show being popular, the live action Disney movies, on and on... This isn't a movie snob thing that I sometimes get accused of - I watch some of these too (mostly get sucked into the horror genre), so we don't need to bother with that stuff. When I am thinking about this stuff, I am mostly thinking about what you are spending your money at the theater, since that's what drives the studios to pump these out. General discussion applies, but I would think that if we didn't pay for them as much in the theater we wouldn't have as many. The big studios don't care what they are making, they just want to turn a profit.
Here were some questions that were popping into my head:
1. What types of remakes are you most likely to see? (certain genre, time period?)
2. Are there types that you won't see?
3. What is driving you to see it? Is it just a fun blast from the past, the kids won't watch the old version and this is a sneaky way of getting to watch something, there was something you didn't like from the original that you are hoping it improves on?
4. Are you seeing these in the theater? If so, what types and how many/year?
5. IF more theaters showed older movies, would you still see the remakes? Again talking about the Top Gun example - if theaters were showing the original for a time, would you see that instead of the remake?
6. Do you think this seeming ramping up of remakes is tied to people moving away from physical medium with movies and not buying as many?
Here were some questions that were popping into my head:
1. What types of remakes are you most likely to see? (certain genre, time period?)
2. Are there types that you won't see?
3. What is driving you to see it? Is it just a fun blast from the past, the kids won't watch the old version and this is a sneaky way of getting to watch something, there was something you didn't like from the original that you are hoping it improves on?
4. Are you seeing these in the theater? If so, what types and how many/year?
5. IF more theaters showed older movies, would you still see the remakes? Again talking about the Top Gun example - if theaters were showing the original for a time, would you see that instead of the remake?
6. Do you think this seeming ramping up of remakes is tied to people moving away from physical medium with movies and not buying as many?
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