Don't Judge A Movie Based On The Studio Making It

Well I knew Robocop was gonna stink and shouldn't of been made...it did and the remake should not exist!

Pretty much like this FF movie reboot.

But apart from that, I'll give all and any cbm a change no matter how big or small it is.

Gave Webb's Spider-Man a chance, X-Men from Fox etc etc.

You right, we should be happy at the quality CBMs being produced.


Thumbs up.

I concur. There's an amazing amount of kneejerk nose thumbing. The remake thing always bothered me. Can a retelling not be good? Can they not have learned from the original, and perhaps present it in a new and more entertaining way? Is something automatically lousy because it's a story that's already been told? Is this the case for something like Star Wars, which owes much to Kurosawa and Flash Gordon? Or Kurosawa's films like Ran or Throne of Blood?

I see remakes (and reboots) as the modern version of oral tradition. As someone who holds storytelling very dear, I'm always appalled when people automatically spit venom at something for no reason other than it being a retelling. And yeah, a lot of times remakes don't measure up, but sometimes they're pretty damned good. Especially when done by someone who has passion for the original story.

One of my favorite movies is Arsenic & Old Lace. I've sat down to attempt an updated version many times, just for fun as a writing exercise. But I'm never able to come up with any way of improving it. My affection for the movie is too large a hurdle. That's not to say someone else couldn't do it, and do it well. And I'd definitely watch it. And every time I watch a film, I do so in hopes of enjoying it. I don't devote as much time lately to films, particularly because I feel I've gotten pretty good at knowing my own taste, and trailers these days show you far too much so it makes it easy to know if you will like the movie or not.

The last point I'll make is about how bizarre it is to me how many people were talking about ASM 2 (and probably other movies, but this just happened so it's fresh in my memory) and how it was going to be completely bad. And a lot of these people would go on to lament having to go see it. Are these professional film critics? Why do they HAVE to see a movie when they've already made up their mind to not like it? Like Nick56 said, it's fine if you're indulging in prejudice, but why then subject yourself to a waste of 2+ hours and what ever tickets cost in your area? I can only assume these are young people, and I'm not casting aspersions on teens or whatnot, but I just cannot remember any other time in my life where I had that sort of time to waste.

It's completely justified to judge a movie on it's studio and it's promotional material even though I don't. The point of trailer and stuff like that is to give you an idea of what the movie will be and the studio are responsible for the quality of the movie. They choose the director and the writer and they supervise everything.

I agree with this article not fully but i agree with some of your points. The studio has a major factor into the film and same can be said with the production behind the film. For example, i was hyped for TASM 2 but apparently upon viewing the film i was disappointed and i blame the screen play and the people responsible for the screen play where Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci who have written poor film scrips before and i'm calling them out because i'm tired of these two screen writers getting work. So it's not just the studio's it can attribute towards the director, producer or screen writers.

X-Men fans are afraid of what Fox are doing to DOFP based on past performance.

DC fans either love/despise the sound and believe/doubt it will be good Superman/Batman based on the past performance

The only thing we should be worried about for DOFP is the director. Singer is on his downside and that's why we should he worried. Not because fox is making it. Fox making it has nothing to do with it. Ppl want to use the studio argument cause they have bias. They think one studio can do no wrong. But of course we all know they can. So who cares. Marvel studios made bad films, Fox made bad films, sony made bad films.

Marvel-Iron Man, Cap 2, Avengers
Fox-X-Men 1, 2 and FC
Sony-Spider-Man 1 and 2
WB-Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Red, History of Violence, Road to Perdition, TDK trilogy, MoS

Unless Marvel replicates Cap 2, I doubt I'll enjoy their movies. TASM was completely underwhelming. X-Men looks promising, even F4 to me. WB must continue to make movies in the vein of those prior to MoS.

Marvel fanboys hate any non disney movie. You get a thumbs up cuz