Alright this madness must end. Hollywood has clearly run out of ideas. How do i know this? Because they are planning a remake of "Meatballs". Yes. That's right. Meatballs. The cheesy 80s summer camp comedy that evolved into a franchise. This shouldn't happen but it will. So will Poltergeist, Red Dawn, Footloose, Conan the Barbarian, Starfighter, Total Recall, The Dirty Dozen and Back to School. Wait a minute. Back to School?
You can't do that. I mean you can't! How in the hell can you remake a movie like that? The movie was essentially driven by Rodney Dangerfield. You cannot duplicate that man nor the performance. Classic fish out of water story and putting Rodney in any movie felt like a fish out of water story. My point is that some movies are sacred and frozen in time. They are incapable of being reproduced, revisioned, re-imagined or rebooted which has become the new phrase in movie making these days. For a movie freak like me, its painful like having that salad fork in your if you will. Hopefully you will accept the phrase and not my cherry but then again...never mind. It's getting late.
Now don't get me wrong. Some movies that have been remade or rebooted have been excellent. The new Batman franchise for example. Rob Zombie's vision of the Halloween franchise wasn't bad either. The A Team, I felt was a good action flick with a nice nod to the original tv series. Adaptions have done pretty well but mostly of the comic book or novel variety. The aforementioned Iron Man and series like Harry Potter, Narnia and the beloved (not by me)Twilight series. Their success is a sign of things to come though unfortunately. Just please don't touch the Goonies, the Breakfast Club, The Shining or Roadhouse. Remake something that missed its mark or took a wrong turn somewhere in its story. LOST for example!
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