Remake fever?

I can honestly say I am sick to the back teeth of all these proposed re-makes of recent.
They are planning on re-making Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (park chan wook), as well as countless other perfectly fine, original movies.

Now, Firstly.. WHY the hell do you need to remake a perfectly good, beautifully constructed peice of cinema?
And secondly, why in the name of all things holy do these director's think they'll make it any better by adding an airbrushed, hollywood spin on it?

I just don't get it. It's like getting a child to re-paint the mona lisa. It's just not done. It's rude, disrespectful and most of all, idiotic. Most of these movies are so brilliant and overwhelming because of the original ideas conveyed.

If they remake such a brilliant korean movie, they will do exactly the same pathetic thing they did with Ringu.

They managed to successfully dumb down the entire storyline, so you didn't need much of a brain to figure out what was going on and they made it nothing but a movie about a monster in a well who killed people mercilessly, regardless of anyones attempts to aid them. They lost the charm and quirkiness that the original held and, in my opinion, replaced a perfectly good heroine with a typical attractive blonde woman, up and coming in american movies too, how coincidental.

Ringu is an eerie, strange piece of cinema, and each element works fluidly with another. It engages you, and whilst still being a slow paced movie, it still manages to maintain your interest throughout and as the plot develops you also develop a sense of empathy for the heroine.

Another fault of all these remakes is they lose so much of the storyline and idea in translation, or in most cases just smooth right over it replacing it, again with a dummies version which requires little or no brain power to understand. The worst part? They don't even try to hide the fact that they have basically slapped the original director in the face, hard by casting their concepts aside and adding in their own, idiotic twist.

"I know, let's forget the whole idea of the little boy having the same kinetic powers and just add in a good old spirit possession, because we've NEVER seen that before"

Nice call, Gore Verbinski, ruin another great movie, thanks for that.

Because that's what we ALL need, Another ghost possession movie. So you're now not only remaking and ruining a brilliant movie, you're now going to add in other stolen ideas just to twist the knife a little bit more, Great.

As for the people who watch these god forbidden remakes and claim they are 'better'. You do realise that there wouldn't be the 'better' version without the original, right?
Yes, you may prefer Quarantine, but with your blind ignorance you are massively wide of the mark, as not only has it been changed, they've also missed bits out which were crucial to the success of Rec.

Personally, If I wanted to watch half a movie i'd simply log on to Megavideo and wait until my 72 minutes run out, thanks. I would be left equally as frustrated as I would do if I watched a remake who barely began to cover the basics of a film, so pretty much all of them.

The list continues to grow of movies that have been remade, Shutter, Dark Water, Rec, Ringu, Pulse, and more. Unfortunately, the list of movies to be remade also is increasing, as is my hatred towards them.

Thank god the remake of Oldboy was dead in the water, or so they say, Dreamworks, you've already walked away, don't turn back now.

I hope to the high heavens that 2010 brings fresh, original ideas and new innovative directors, because I don't know about you but i'm thoroughly fed up of being fed the same old tripe in a different wrapper.