I am merely posting this due to its relevance in regards to this thread.
I personally thought each one of the remakes listed herein sucked and were pointless exercises that needn’t have been made.
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Several years ago I eventually broke down and watched the remake of Point Break.

Fooled me once, so won’t be making the same mistake in regards to Road House.

The original RH is just a great...

Mondo just released a Jeff Healey double album containing all of the songs from the original Road House…

https://mondoshop.com/products/road-house-the-lost-soundtrack-2xlp

“The great thing about genre directors in the 80s, they were thinking ‘What can we make?,’ not ‘What can we remake?’
We’re in a degenerate era today where all they think about is ‘What can we...

Technically, it was a loose adaptation…

Then it wouldn’t really be a remake would it? :D
(You’ve just defined “reboot”, btw…)
:D

But I could also make the argument that you can have a remake that’s a reboot and vice/versa (a reboot...

In regards to The Thing From Another World (1951) and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), I’mma be a pedantic putz and point out that, like the Fletch films, they are both based on a piece of...

Prequel or Reboot???

https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/prequel-reboot-which-drives-more-interest-in-franchises-1235385877/

RS giving high praise to Confess, Fletch and lamenting the current state of cinema:

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/confess-fletch-jon-hamm-1234599812/

On the Fletch tip, I watched the trailer for that new Jon Hamm starring one and found it lackluster and uninspired.
I was also surprised to see that it got a theatrical release (it’s playing at...

Beverly Hills Cop #4 is in production.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/beverly-hills-cop-cast-netflix-sequel-1235379225/

Why?

I never saw 3 (and I don’t think a lot of people did; it only...

The original The Strangers wasn’t that good.
And neither was the unnecessary 10-years later sequel The Strangers: Prey At Night.
Yet, somehow, Hollywood is now producing a reboot and projected...

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P.S.

I am largely against franchises, too.

(although I am one of those idiots Toast alluded to above who keeps going to see sequels and remakes/reboots...) :eek:
:D

Y'all are aware that Fletch is a character from a long-running and celebrated series of novels, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(novel)

Kevin Smith had long been rumored to be making...