Saturday Night "mare" Fever !

[Borderstone]

Just came from Billboard.com and discovered some hideous news....someone in Hollywood (I didn't stop to read who)has gotten the misguided idea that there should be a "remake" of Saturday Night Fever!

Which leads me to ask,what in the name of "anything " would anybody want to do that for? S.N. Fever is a time capsule,a classic and basically the voice of that age group!

What possible good could come from re-doing it? No one,and I mean "no one" could out do John Travolta's performance. Acting or dancing! Anything else would be
a faint copy at best!:rolleyes

To put it like a John Travolta character would: "What?" "Where"? "When?" last but not least "WHY??!!" [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[charlene]

it's the horrible fad of re-makes that never stops....re-makes of movies and old t.v. shows. they are all crap and make work projects for overblown celebrities who rake in the bucks to make sub-par shlock.
that's just my opinion...i may be wrong.

[Auburn Annie]

Nope ... you nailed it, Char. The major studio honchos funding movies today wouldn't know an original idea if it up and bit 'em in the butt. If it's not a remake, it the umpteenth sequel (Halloween 47 - Jason Runs Out of Victims and Chases Himself Around the FunHouse.)

The idea of a remake is that the 'product' already has name recognition, which requires less selling (translation: fewer marketing dollars spent) and that will automatically generate interest - if for no other reason than to see how badly they screwed it up, at least until word of mouth kills it and sends it to overseas/video. Nobody wants to spend $300 million on shooting a project that looks good on script, has a boffo cast, and flops on opening.

[DJ in MJ]

Valid point, AA, but it may also be a lacking of fresh ideas and creative thinking. This may be twofold - one is that Hollyweird frowns on new and innovative ideas for fear of it not selling. And the other is that there may not be enough creative minds doing enough creative thinking to begin with.

[Borderstone]

Annie,wonderful Jason joke!! :D :D :D LOL

I'm not at all surprised that Hollywood may be out of ideas. They have done so many things in Movies & TV that it really is almost impossible to do something fresh. For my $$$,all the fresh ideas were done from the mid '60s through the early 1980's.

After that,I believe any film was either based on true facts or a revamp of something done already. Heck,even the "great" Titanic was done twice before Leo D's version. (Although of the the three that one was the most realistic and least laughable).

All I have to say now is Hollywood,leave S.N.F in it's era. The people in it actually "lived" those things and were a part of that era,leave well enough alone.