What are your thoughts on movie remakes, Sequels?

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I wouldn't even put that in my bottom 100 remakes. Granted, I wouldn't put it in my top 100 remakes either, but I can at least give Snyder and Gunn credit for a unique re-interpretation of the source material. I'm more offended by remakes such as, to name just two, "Black Christmas" or "Prom Night", which pretty much just capitalize upon what little name recognition the originals have to turn out a barely-related, formulaic, by-the-numbers teen horror film completely indistinguishable from the other 90% of teen horror films from the same era. The worst thing a movie can be is bland and boring, and that's doubly true when it's a remake.

Another example, I personally greatly dislike Rob Zombie's "Halloween" series but at the very least I understood what new direction he was trying to take it in, and with his own style to boot, and I respect that, artistically. Compare it to the 2008 "Day of the Dead" remake, which is essentially just a bad, uninspired and unrelated zombie film with the "Day of the Dead" title slapped onto it as a shallow attempt to sell DVDs. That's something I hate.

This (at least for remakes)

Besides the missing Big Boss part 2 (starring imitator Bruce Le and Lo Lieh) there havent been other versions of Big Boss.......If they do remake it they could go deeper into Cheng and Chow Meis chemistry. The lead star must be able to fight (no CGI , please) and a little charisma , of course it will never be the same as Bruce Lee but it doesnt have to be bad.

Same with Jaws , have it more based on the book.......at least then it tries something new instead of straight rehash.

Most remakes are usually inferior to the original. However, there are some remakes that are genuinely good movies like the 1986 version of The Fly, the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the 1983 version of Scarface. Aside from those three and a few others, I always prefer the original over a remake.

Hollywood is not "out of ideas," well no more than they have been throughout history. What hollywood is doing is cashing in on existing fanbases. It's much easier to turn out an existing fanbase than it is to grow a new one.

My thoughts on sequels and remakes is the same for each: Offer something new or why bother?

I watched the new Lion King and thought: why even recast? Just use the old dialogue and update the visuals if you're going to change barely anything else.

I think the best kind of 'remakes' tend to be those that are more loosely based upon the previous work, rather than a blatant remake. For example, Disturbia (2007) is quite obviously heavily inspired by Rear Window (1954), but it has a different title and fairly different characters. Remakes that have exactly the same title and same named characters are opening themselves up to allegations of unoriginality.