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In general if you remake a classic movie, it will never be anywhere as good as the original. Robocop, Total Recall, Just Go with It, King Kong, Arthur, Red Dawn, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Day the Earth Stood Still, & Manchurian Candidate are all examples of subpar remakes of classic movies.

However, if a remake is based on an obscure (or foreign) movie that the audience doesn't know about, the film is usually good. Departed, Ocean's Eleven, & Vanilla Sky are all good remakes because the source material was obscure.

So, if you're going to remake a classic, you should pull out all the stops and swing for the fences. Casting should be focused on finding the funniest comedians in Hollywood: Zach Galifinakas, Charlie Day, Jonah Hill, Aziz Ansari.

Instead, this casting was driven purely by political motivations, so they got Kristen Wiig (who is very funny), Melissa McCarthy (who can be funny but has a tendency to resort to cheap fat jokes) and then a bunch of scrubs from SNL.

I could be surprised, but I expect this to be very meh.

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This is my post from the thread last summer:

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In general if you remake a classic movie, it will never be anywhere as good as the original. Robocop, Total Recall, Just Go with It, King Kong, Arthur, Red Dawn, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Day the Earth Stood Still, & Manchurian Candidate are all examples of subpar remakes of classic movies.

However, if a remake is based on an obscure (or foreign) movie that the audience doesn't know about, the film is usually good. Departed, Ocean's Eleven, & Vanilla Sky are all good remakes because the source material was obscure.

So, if you're going to remake a classic, you should pull out all the stops and swing for the fences. Casting should be focused on finding the funniest comedians in Hollywood: Zach Galifinakas, Charlie Day, Jonah Hill, Aziz Ansari.

Instead, this casting was driven purely by political motivations, so they got Kristen Wiig (who is very funny), Melissa McCarthy (who can be funny but has a tendency to resort to cheap fat jokes) and then a bunch of scrubs from SNL.

I could be surprised, but I expect this to be very meh.

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From the beginning, it appeared that the writers/producers of this film took a very lazy approach of remaking a classic but pretending that it was new/different because it included PC propoganda. Now that my initial suspicions have been born out and the jokes from the trailer are "I'm a black woman!!!", I have zero interest in this film since the writers/producers apparently half assed the entire project.

However, because my interest in this film has become non-existent, I seen meltdowns by the writers a Birth Movies Death and now TCTTS which labels me as a bigot because I think lazily made movie is going to suck (TCTTS may not live in a Hollywood bubble, but he does repeat BMD articles verbatim).

If I don't want to waste my time or money on a Hollywood crapfest, that doesn't make me a bigot (regardless of what BMD says), it just means I don't like boring movies.

The irony here is that I think Bridesmaids, which has many of the similar cast/director and PC perspective, was hilarious. The difference between the two movies isn't sexism. It's creativity. Bridesmaids has it. Ghostbuster remake doesn't.

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THANK YOU. I swear, the reading comprehension on TexAgs - or lack there of - never ceases to blow my mind. I never said you're a bigot if you think this movie will suck. For the umpteenth time... I think this movie will suck too. I was merely making the observation that A FEW statements in this thread were coming across as extremely sexist and MRA-ish. That's it.

And yes, Bobcat06... you caught me. I happened to read a well-articulated article I agree with on a site I like. Next time I'll try not to be so transparent in my attempt to help inform my own opinion.

Trust me, I will never make the mistake again of trying to call out hateful, barbaric-leaning sexism on an internet message board. And I mean that. There's a time and a place to do so, and this definitely wasn't it. Following up on what I said last night, I'm stepping off my soapbox and taking an ax to it. Back to our regularly scheduled program...

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And yes, Bobcat06... you caught me. I happened to read a well-articulated article I agree with on a site I like. Next time I'll try not to be so transparent in my attempt to help inform my own opinion.

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However, I do think the PC outrage has come out from other outlets like the media. Because if people hate something that stars a bunch of women, well then by god, it must be misogyny! ...No, people are just mad that they crapped on one of the most beloved movies ever. And they are really pissed that once again, SJW's are telling them that they should be ashamed about something that isn't actually true.

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