Monster of the Day #1934

Updated on May 29, 2019 By Ken Begg 19 Comments

Admittedly, the producers of this remake gave themselves a harder task than, say, the Friday the 13th remake, because the actual Craven Nightmares are really good, even great. Even so, you’d think they could have done better than a film with a 15% Rotten Tomatoes score. But hey, I’m sure it had a lot more CGI.

I’m sure it’s basically because of Spielberg’s clout, but kudos to Warner’s for being smart enough to have never rebooted Jaws. Can you imagine what a disaster that would be?

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Well, one might make the case that each “Jaws” sequel was a reboot (“Let’s do the same story, but worse!”), but yeah.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, but my respect for Speilberg has really went down with the announcement of Indiana Jones V. I haven’t seen IV and I don’t intend to see this one.

    Why remake ‘Nightmare’!?! The original was practically perfect. More studios need to lose money on this type of stuff.

  • Ericb

    It’s all about “brand recognition” and “risk aversion.” A new idea may result in greater profit but also risks greater losses so why not just make something that’s already guaranteed at least some audience.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Billionaire with eyes on White House opening new seaside resort, global warming, spunky freshman congress critter, and a big hungry shark. It could be glorious.

  • I have a copy of this sitting somewhere around my desk. Just never got around to watching it. I’ve seen the Friday the 13th reboot, but not this. Not quite sure why.

    As for the idea of a Jaws remake, reboot, punting, I’m not against the idea. Every movie has an equal chance of being a classic or a disaster depending on who’s behind the wheel. I’m willing to suffer through a thousand crap flicks for one John Carpenter’s The Thing. Probably have, now that I’ve thought about it.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Please tell me you’re kidding about Indy 5.

  • Doesn’t “The Meg” count as a Jaws reboot?

  • Gamera977

    Thanks, guess I meant it as a rhetorical question but you just answered it lol!

  • Gamera977

    Well, it’s sorta different. Can you consider something 50% or so different to be a remake?

  • Gamera977

    Sorry. Seems at least it will star Harrison Ford. Beyond that who knows!?!

  • bgbear_rnh

    He can’t die so it could go on forever.

  • Ericb

    Well, I guess I was just stating the obvious but they really do need to keep the marketing departments out of the creative process and just have them focus on promoting the movies after they’ve been given the ok to start production.

  • Ericb

    I mean look at Marvel. If they had been risk averse and marketing oriented they probably would have started and centered the MCU on a more well know figure like The Hulk instead they were thinking of the stories they wanted to tell and started with Iron Man and subsequently used him and Captain America to anchor the series and it paid off handsomely. I’m not even a comic book fan and haven’t even seen any of the movies but I am still in kind of a state of awe that they were able to pull this thing off with apparently few misfires.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yeah, much more of a rip-off than a reboot.

  • Ken_Begg

    Mission accomplished! Hell, they even screwed up a Friday the 13th reboot!

  • Rock Baker

    I found INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL to be pretty entertaining, actually. I wouldn’t mind seeing a fifth film.

  • Gamera977

    And the weird thing is I’ll gleefully watch a rip-off but I avoid remakes. Yes, I’m strange…

  • Ken_Begg

    No, that makes complete sense. Bad rip-offs don’t directly bear on the model film, but bad sequels do.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Can someone tell me if it’s true that in the NoES remake they actually try and make Freddy sympathetic by showing the scene where he’s burned alive by the parents? Apparently the parents are depicted as total scum for killing a pedophilic serial killer who promised he was going to kill their children, to their faces!