dfektive: Talking remakes here not sequels. I do agree there, Aliens was just too many awesomes 8D
JDelekto: Ah, sorry about the confusion. I tend to think that many re-makes don't do too well, however, I do think that "The Lost World" saw a few good re-makes over time.
The problem comes from the fact that many visionaries tend to out-lap the creative artists in the movie industry (or the technology used therein).
I've seen on many forums that people accused "Avatar" of being a remake of "Ferngully" (which admittedly I never did see); however, I do recall reading in one of the industry magazines that James Cameron had waited for years before filming this in order for the technology to be ripe. (A cursory look on [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)] Wikipedia seems to concur[/url].)
What I dont like about many remakes is a new director destroying everything the original stood for/ build. (Rec. for example, an original zombie movie, was butchered by its remake - forgot the name)
But some remakes are better than the original
leon30: So you -repped the thread and then reported it as spam too, by accident? I think you can't undo all that. That being said -rep could be undone by just clicking the + button and +repping the post, unfortunately there is no option for removing your rep contribution, so once clicked its either + or -.
Yeah, Im not the most patient person so I tend to click a couple of times instead of one time, + I was pretty sleepy.
cant change the rep, because I deleted the thread, after having tried revisiting the thread a 404 error message came up.