Remakes Lazy Film-making?

[Animal Boything]

I think it's a weird sign of the times that you and your friend think "remix" before "cover" since the latter is a lot more appropriate, but I digress...

I don't mind remakes at all. In the case of anything that was based on other source material to begin with, it's not even an issue. Filmmakers have every right to re-adapt. (War of the Worlds is an example.) Even if it's just a movie based on a movie, I don't mind. If it turns out shitty, so what? The original still exists. There are a few movies I wouldn't mind remaking myself, given the opportunity.

I voted "sometimes" because obviously some remakes do suck. But there's nothing wrong with them as an idea.

A lot of people come at me with the "waste of money" angle, but that's stupid, there are much worse wastes of money in the world, plus it's not like there aren't plenty of bad original movies coming out every week. A remake has about the same chances of being good as anything else.