What is up with the remakes?

Growing up in the 70s and 80s there was great TV programs and movies. I guess they were so great that in today's society they are being remade. Why I have no idea. Why ruin a masterpiece? Why try to take a classic and redo it? Why are have you stopped using your own ideas for movies? Have people become so desperate for a time when things seemed so good, so easy, so clean, so innocent that they want to bring it back. The following is a link to a list of 50 (YES 50!!) movies that have been remade or are being considered. Some of which just blow me away because you really do have to ask why again and again and again. http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/upcoming-movie-remakes/

Then there is the TV shows that are being made into movies which isn't something new but it will be interesting to see how they go. There was some good ones in the past that have been done with taste compared to those ones that were not done right at all. My example is Dukes of Hazzard, it was a great TV show, but the movie bite the bullet and stunk. The only decent part was Willie Nelson playing Uncle Jesse Daisy Duke will always be a brunette not Jessica Simpson. If they had really wanted this movie to be done the right way then they should have picked the Wilson brothers (Owen and Luke) to play Bo and Luke Duke. Then for Daisy maybe someone like Courtenay Cox would have been so much better. I would have watched it then.

Would you like to know I wrote about this subject today? That is because while watching TV with the kids in one of the new shows Victorious on Nickelodeon there was spoof of the Breakfast Club called the Breakfast Bunch. There was so many things in it I had to admit I laughed so hard at times. They took it in the way it could be done, quick 30 minute show that used their talents including the remake of the song.

But sometimes things are better off left alone, not remade, not re-released with other things in it, just left the way it was done the first time and age with grace....a classic. Which is what you can be after you turn 40, not remade, not "re-released", just aging with grace becoming a classic.