I know it's common talkback fodder, but the persistence and thoroughness of this remake fever when it comes to movies, music, and TV is starting to get really disturbing.

It's as though a whole generation doesn't have any unqiue experience of their own to draw from, but only regurgitated second-hand experience of someone else's earlier creativity.

It almost seems like there are just too many hungry channels of media distribution to feed. There's so much good original work going on, but the number of noise-producing media outlets is like the shelves of some ungodly Super Wal-Mart: so vast that the only way to fill them is with mountains of cheap junk food.

remakes show lack of originality and are fuled by marketing types who want a built-in audience. It's annoying.

To Harry, et. al: sometimes fewer, quality articles is better than posting movie news for the sake of posting (especially news about a FUCKING-WHO-GIVES-A-FLYING-FUC K-FAME-FUCKING-REMAKE... (FUCK!)

Theater, like live music, is a living, breathing art that evolves and mutates in the hands of every new performer--its very basis for existence is the ongoing present moment, its vitality in movement, not stasis and presevration.

These cheap, knocked-off remade movies seem more like re-painted paintings--kind of pointless. It'd be like re-recording a jazz musician's improvisation, note for note. All the pieces would be there, but the spark of what made it great in the first place would be missing.

Of course, some film remakes are not only good, but brilliant and vital, even with a great original (Ben Hur, anyone?) My beef is primarily with all the cash-in projects that have nothing to do with deepening the art or experience, just making a quick buck the easy way. The difference is usually clear.

and tell me what you see

You ain't seen the worst of it yet

give me time I'll make you forget the best

I got nothin' see?

no cre-a-ti-vah-tee!

I can't think or write worth a damn

Don't you know what I am?

Remember my name!

LAME!

I;m gonna live forevah!

Watch creativity die

DIE!

It's just a big ol' whatevah

people will see me and cry

LAME!

...that's it...that's all I got. Hey, I'm bored.

For fuck's sake, this is yet again either proof positive that Hollywood suits are utterly brain dead and creatively bankrupt or that the Mayan calendar-predicted end of the world is actually approaching fast.

Great, just what the world needs -- a movie, like the original, that will focus on teens who have had NO real life experiences, yet they will have sooooo fucking much to say about life and love and how things should be in the world and blah, blah, blah, because we adults just don't "get it" or aren't as artistically insightful as them.

Fuck you, Hollywood and, fuck you, whoever is financing/making/starring in this. The ONLY bright spot to come out of this completely whore-driven endeavor is that it will give some future CW star his first big break. Other than that it's like flushing money down the toilet that SHOULD be used on a NEW screenplay...a NEW idea...even if you want to roll the dice and make a musical or something.

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, HOLLYWOOD, STOP RAPING YOUR OLD FILM CATALOGUES WHEN THERE ARE NEW SCRIPTS OUT THERE THAT YOU SHOULD BANKROLL. Ever stop to think that maybe a "new idea" will be the next STAR WARS or next LOTR that will bring you in a zillion dollars? No, you didn't because you have your heads up your asses and you DON'T have a single creative idea in your fucking bodies!

sorry but you need to be thinned from the herd.