Every year the movie industry spends millions of dollars resurrecting movies that were just fine to begin with and never truly dead. Why? So they can make more money off of the same idea with brand-new amateur "actors" and the stupidity of the current generation; who wouldn't know what a good movie was if it jumped up and slapped them. Hard! Classics and timeless films are being ruined because the now-crowd can't be appreciative of actors who actually knew how to act back then.
A few recent examples would be Fright Night, Poltergeist, Pumpkinhead, War Games, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, and Planet of the Apes. All of which are extremely good movies in their own right and in their own day when movies were really appreciated because of the plot and occasional cheesy-ness. For those of us who thoroughly enjoyed the slow "going to get you" slasher nature of Jason, there's a new version available for the technologically savvy pussies who can't handle the imagination that went into the originals. Everything has gone digital and horror movie remakes have become anything but frightening.
I don't know what possesses someone to say, "I don't have any ideas for a new movie! So, instead of thinking harder, I'm going to steal this one from the 80s!" Sure, add new overly-tanned fake tits to gawk at, more idiotic teenagers with no concept of acting, and a few cheesy lines to make a monster seem human. Tada! You've created today's version of the block buster. To be honest, you could put a pile of dog-shit on a pizza box, call it a movie, and this generation would flock to the theaters. Audience and director creativity has died!!
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