Why are they remaking Poltergeist?

LikeAnOcean
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edited September 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
http://movies.ign.com/articles/906/906953p1.html


I don't think the movie is dated at all. It still freaks the fuck out of me.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    To make money.

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  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    I don't know. I hate these constant remakes but this one especially bothers me. I've seen this movie many times. Grew up with it really. The first horror movie I ever saw (I was 10) and I was fascinated and scared by it.

    It is a classic by all means and does not need to be remade.

    What's next, E.T.? Star Wars? Jaws?
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  • Yellow Ledbelly
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    g under p wrote:
    To make money.

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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    they still seem to think with modern movie making technologies and what not they can make movies better but really they cant, soon comes the day when they start remaking hitchcock movies.

    Plus theyre not remaking it, theyre "reinventing" it, new hollywood "it" word, "re-invention".
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  • writersu
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    they lost the first TV?
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  • harrymanback
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    "you moved the cemetery but you left the bodies ... you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!! YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!!! "

    had to do it.
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  • riffrandall
    riffrandall Posts: 685
    Apparently, there are starlets in Hollywood who need to be made famous because they meet untimely deaths... as the 2 female leads of Poltergeist did.
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  • know1
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    g under p wrote:
    To make money.

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    Exactly. And there are millions of people who will throw away millions of dollars to see it.
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  • angie76
    angie76 Posts: 646
    They should leave it alone...The first one still gives me the creeps.
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  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    harrymanback wrote:
    "you moved the cemetery but you left the bodies ... you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!! YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!!! "

    had to do it.


    HA !!! fuckin' A !


    idk though, it could be good. still love the original.
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  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    Nooo!!! one of the best supernatural horrors/thrillers EVER!!! this movie actually scared the bejesus out of me, and they're never going to be able to find anybody as scary as that little old lady! :eek:

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  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    Flagg wrote:
    I don't know. I hate these constant remakes but this one especially bothers me. I've seen this movie many times. Grew up with it really. The first horror movie I ever saw (I was 10) and I was fascinated and scared by it.

    It is a classic by all means and does not need to be remade.

    What's next, E.T.? Star Wars? Jaws?
    my first horror movie, too! scared the hell out of me....but watched it over and over. and now i wonder where my parents were and why i was watching that kind of movie when i was so young. :p
  • ilovesinging
    ilovesinging Posts: 255
    :eek: Oh my god,that is going to be a HORRIBLE remake,as all "horror" movies are these days.

    (A "horror" movie these days are movies with tons of violence,a bunch of dumb and drunk college kids screaming and being idiots. :rolleyes: )
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  • NCBRI
    NCBRI Posts: 1,902
    They are remaking it because Hollywood enjoys raping our childhood memories.
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  • westsidepie
    westsidepie Posts: 627
    Most remakes just suck. Some schmuck thinks they have to make the movie contemporary, so they can milk more money out of it. I really like John Carpenter films, and I was really surprised he allowed a remake of The Fog. As usual they tried to make it scarier by having more blood and gore. It was awful. I even heard someone was considering remaking The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. How do you remake The Birds?
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  • ilovesinging
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    NCBRI wrote:
    They are remaking it because Hollywood enjoys raping our childhood memories.
    That is also true.
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  • Pearls&Stones
    Pearls&Stones Posts: 585
    NCBRI wrote:
    They are remaking it because Hollywood enjoys raping our childhood memories.


    Not just that, what the f*ck was with that Manchurian Candidate remake a few years ago? That was the one that really pissed me off.
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  • gobrowns19
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    ilovesinging wrote:
    :eek: Oh my god,that is going to be a HORRIBLE remake,as all "horror" movies are these days.

    (A "horror" movie these days are movies with tons of violence,a bunch of dumb and drunk college kids screaming and being idiots. :rolleyes: )

    Lol, that is so true.

    Yeah, some are good, but soooo many remakes. Please come up with something new.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    i do not leave lights on in closets....EVER!


    hollywood no longer cares about making movies....they're interested in making profits.....they're assumption is a remake has a built-in audience and is relatively inexpensive to make and market....it's a product :(
  • acoustic guy
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    God...is in his hooooly Temmmmm..ple!
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    Fucking Classic.
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