Out with the New, In with the Old
Jun. 11th, 2003 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyOne of the things I find fairly depressing is the number of movies and TV series that are remade. Occasionally, I admit, there are good reasons. The 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice had a much bigger budget and, consequently, much more attention to accuracy and historical detail than its predecessors. The result was a far better version. Some fantasy and sci-fi stories can be better told because of the improvements in special effects and computer graphics.
However, nine times out of ten I just wish that someone would produce a new story (one that could equally benefit from big budgets and special effects) instead of re-using the same material over and over.
In a slightly different category are the series and films which suddenly reappear after a huge gap of years. Take the first Star Trek movies, made some decades after the original series finished. Plus, on a trashier note, both Dynasty and The Man From Uncle had returns made ten or twenty years after the original series ground to a halt.
And now they're making a new V film called V : The Second Generation. Cast are yet to be confirmed, but the old leads (characters : Diana, Julie, Mike and William) have all been approached. I liked V. It's sufficiently old that I didn't expect very much of it and even found the series moderately watchable. But this ? I suspect I will be looking out for it. But it will be with the fairly guilty air of having an addiction to something that I really should give up.
However, nine times out of ten I just wish that someone would produce a new story (one that could equally benefit from big budgets and special effects) instead of re-using the same material over and over.
In a slightly different category are the series and films which suddenly reappear after a huge gap of years. Take the first Star Trek movies, made some decades after the original series finished. Plus, on a trashier note, both Dynasty and The Man From Uncle had returns made ten or twenty years after the original series ground to a halt.
And now they're making a new V film called V : The Second Generation. Cast are yet to be confirmed, but the old leads (characters : Diana, Julie, Mike and William) have all been approached. I liked V. It's sufficiently old that I didn't expect very much of it and even found the series moderately watchable. But this ? I suspect I will be looking out for it. But it will be with the fairly guilty air of having an addiction to something that I really should give up.
