10 Movie Trends That Have Been Killing Cinema For Longer That You Think

5. Remakes

The 'Modern' Problem: Urgh, remakes. Take a great film and turn into a piece of mainstream tat because studios think audiences are afraid of subtitles and movies made before the year 2000. They're absolutely everywhere and even though the number of genuinely good ones can be counted on our hands they still keep getting churned out thanks to gullible people paying to see something that was done better years before. Worse of all, so often film-makers try to cover up the true nature of these films by claiming some artistic goal. 2013's Carrie was allegedly going back to Steven King's source novel with an added modern twist, but was as predicted just a retread of Brian De Palma brilliant original horror. But Actually: Remakes are as old as the hills and in the past the justification for making them was even flimsier than it is now. Hitchcock remade his own The Man Who Knew Too Much to fulfill a contractual obligation, while The Maltese Falcon was existed purely because the original had too much smut (or hints of it) to pass by the increasingly restrictive censors.