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Originally posted by filmmaker2
You know, I'm not really bashing on the younger audience at all--at least I don't think so. What really gets me is the way they sell this remake crap so aggressively, and so much of it is utterly devoid of value, just absolute crap.
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Bash away on those young whippersnappers because they need the wake-up call. The following illustrates my reasons for thinking this.
I'm the newspaper advisor at the school where I teach, and a couple of years ago I figured out why the remake sensation has exploded big time.
We were putting together the October issue of the paper, and the staff wanted to do a poll of students to see what the scariest horror movie they'd ever seen was. (All of this took place in the weeks leading up to the release of the TCM remake.) The staffer in charge of conducting the poll brought the results to me and informed me that the winning movie, TCM, would have to be thrown out. I was mystified and asked why. She said (and I swear this is true), "It hasn't even come out yet. How could they vote for it?":eek:
Now, I can't kick kids off the newspaper staff, but I can make them feel dumb. I looked at her and said as gently as possible, "Please tell me you're kidding!?!" I informed her that the original was the movie these kids were talking about and that it came out in the 70's and had already seen its share of sequels. The one she was talking about was a REMAKE. She just said, "Oh. Didn't know that."
In all fairness, a couple of the other staffers told her she was an idiot. They at least knew there was an original TCM.