These Remakes Just Need To Stop...

Just popping in long enough to make an observation:

I heard the news a few days ago that they're remaking the 1981 classic Clash of the Titans, a re-imagining of the classic tales and figures of Greek mythology.

Not that I'm surprised - Hollywood has made a living out of remaking anything and everything they've ever made at one point or another. Geez, come on; if they have the unmitigated guts to remake Psycho, they have the unmitigated guts to remake anything.

But seriously, this is it.

I have had it with Hollywood's carnivorous desire to feast within itself for more product. I know there is no more creativity in La La Land without depending on indie films or comic books (oops, I mean graphic novels. Sorry...), but this time they've gone too far.

Clash of the Titans is one of my favorite movies for a reason - it was part of my childhood, it had Laurence Olivier as Zeus, it had the stop-motion goodness of the legendary Ray Harryhausen, it was the big-screen debut of Harry Hamlin (who played Perseus and was dating this movie's Aphrodite, Ursula Andress), had the reassuring presence of Burgess Meredith and even a cutesy mechanical owl for no more of a fact than it wanted to parallel the mythos of Star Wars along with all the Greek mythos. Plus, the original poster work for it was cool, as it was also done by the Hildebrandt Brothers, who designed the original Star Wars poster.

See? Cool, ain't it? And you see the parallels in the artwork? Awesome.

The bottom line, though, is that COTT does not need to be made. It really doesn't.

And neither did My Bloody Valentine, Night of the Living Dead (twice, no less!), Dune (not that it needed made to begin with, but anyway...) and a whole slew of others I'd rather not get into, but you get the idea. Right?

So stop it, Hollywood.

Stop it.

Right.

@$#&ing.

Now.

There. That should get them to listen.

Dope out.

-TGWD