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Originally Posted by Crimson_Hero
This isn't anything new, but this recent surge of remakes has been quite annoying. I blame Peter Jackson and his rendition of King Kong. It pretty much opened the floodgates to all this crap.
Personally, I'm loathing the decisions for Conan, Akira and 1984, the original films already did their novels justice.
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You're right saying it's nothing new, but it's been going on way before King Kong. I think the one that really set things off was The Ring. A large amount of horror movies out in the past few years have all been remakes of Asian horror films (From The Grudge, to Eye and Shutter, as well as Pulse, One Missed Call and more).
Mainstream Hollywood is just out of ideas. There are tonnes of amazing films still being made - they just aren't making it to the big screen.