Quote Originally Posted by Chris N.
It seems that a big chunk of the movie industry is making remakes of movies that don't need to be remade in the first place. Some can pull it off, most are just aweful...
The actor Michael caine said something unusually interesting recently - he said that the trend was to remake great films in the hope that this would make punters come and watch them. Unfortunately, these then suffer in comparison with the original, as the director is on a bit of a hiding to nothing. He said that what they sould do is remake poor or mediocre films that happen to have a good script.

I thought that was quite observant?