The A-Team or Karate Kid: Which 80s remake is worth your box office admission?

There is a HUGE difference in using myths and archetypes like the Heroes Journey that uses those generic themes and motivations over since the ideas are ingrained in the psyche.

And being so trite as use the same TITLE, characters and plot over again because they are safe with a proven track record that the studios can bank on for their investments because they have a built-in audience. It's only about money, since they don't want to risk any more of it on anything original

It's the way those ideas are used that makes the difference. Even in Enchanted that had all the standard ideas for fairy tales did something different with them in an original way by taking them from flat 2D animation and adding another dimension to the easy motivations and predictable "happily ever after" endings to show that it was more complex than that.

Yes, ideas, if you can think it up there is something out there addressing or referencing it. Topics are different than replicas.

...but there is a BIG difference between using a similar topic and redoing something that was classic and didn't need a makeover.

Plagiarist.

that should be in the movie!

hell yeah.. that kid is only there because of Will Smith... weren't there other black kids to use for this films?? what's next? Jaden Smith in spider man? boooooo!

With the way they are running out, they're catching up faster. Expect a remake of "He's just not that into you" anytime now

Like you're not excited about the return of zubaz pants.

Who what now?

I agree. Why can't Hollywood realize remakes are not the way to go? We need more originality in movies nowadays.. There should be less of these series, remakes, and movies that largely consist of nothing but their bad soundtracks that are made just for the money and not the actual movie part of the movie, and we should lose the large amount of CGI in movies lets get some real action on there and not just a bunch of fake images that ruin most movies.

Don't hold your breath while waiting

That is the point that most of the people that invest in movies haven't had the strength to risk an original movie, especially in the last decade.

That is the reason why there have been so many remakes, because they want to make a safe return on their money