I believe it has something to do with all of the new technology available and people's mindsets.
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1) The New Technology Available
Now, I'm not going to sit here and lie and say that technology hasn't jumped tremendously in the past 10 years. It has leaped and bounded to an incredible height and made itself one of the absolute necessities of an American lifestyle.
This new technology makes us look at some of our old movies, video games, and TV shows and ask ourselves, what can we do with this new technology? I KNOW, let's remake good things we remember with it and try to make them better. However, the better part is usually only reserved for the video game department...
In movies, people clamor to watch remakes of old movies like "Nightmare on Elm Street" or "Friday the 13th," just to see how these new people re-imagine and/or remake a classic tale. In the end, about 99% of the time, people just end up walking out and saying, "Wow, the original was better, I can't believe I wasted money on that piece of garbage." People, I know that this is the case, but AT LEAST GIVE THE MOVIE MAKERS SOME CREDIT. They weren't trying to part the Red Seas with this movie. They were trying to let people fall back in love with the characters or ideas that had them at the edge of their seats when they first saw the cinematic wonder.
A lot of people hate on Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," because mainly they thought it was a remake of the original Disney movie. However, people don't realize that it is actually a sequel, not a remake. Now, you can argue how bad it was until the cows come home, but I still thought it was a good movie. It was funny, charming, and cute, even though the Tim Burton thing made it look a tad demented I guess... BUT ANYWAYS.
We just need to learn that remakes of movies are going to be inevitable in the movie business, and people are going to be clamoring and hating them all at the same time. I'm not saying we have to like every remake ever, just give the movie makers some credit.
With Video Games...
Oh goodness. You have no idea how many message boards I scurry across to find people clamoring for "HD re-releases" of their favorite games. Some people opt for just straight up remakes, and that's what some are hell-bent on getting.
Take for instance my favorite video game of all time: Final Fantasy VII.
People have been praying, hoping, wishing, chanting, striking, arguing, and everything else in the book about a FFVII remake for a while now. The original has been released on the PlayStation Network Store for a very modest price to try to stop the hubbub. However, people want to see Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret, Sephiroth, and the others fighting in new character models that are shiny, new, and up to date with the current graphical capabilities.
However, I somewhat believe that a remake won't happen. After replaying the game, all of that content could only be gotten away with on the PS1. Overworld maps, Chocobo Racing, and let's not forget the big "A's" death sequence, *tear,* could NOT be gotten away with on the PS3 without some MAJOR technical overhaul that could take YEARS. So, I think a FFVII remake may never come, even with all of this technology.
But, this brings me to my next point about why we always want remakes...
2) The Human Mindset
We are always wanting these new things to satisfy us rather than the old things, so these re-imaginations are able to bring us back to the old times that we were happy with. To make us reconnect with our past joy of video games is the company's biggest draw. They don't want to take any risks because like the Pokemon franchise... "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
We need to realize that sometimes, the original is just enough. I mean think about it. Do we get any REMAKES in life?
Sure, we might be able to retake a test, or do a paper again, but do friendships get REMAKES? Do we end up with the same friendships that we had before?? No, they are new experiences every time. You can't just wish for the same good times that you've had before with a new person, that's just not logical. If you tried to control it and make that person just like the last person you were in a relationship with, that would be very very weird.
Let me use as an example my best friend of all time: Tyler Wynne.
If I for some odd reason unknown to man stop being friends with Tyler, (which I hope never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever happens), and I tried to go out and remake that friendship that I had with Tyler with another person, it wouldn't work. The feelings wouldn't be the same. It would be weird. We must try to live with the great things we already had, and accept the faults that they have and not try to push and push for better things with the same face that we associated it with before.
You can't just keep making a good thing better in some cases. There is a stopping point.
My feelings for Tyler, (((The ones that he is the best person I have ever met in my life, I love him like a REALLY CLOSE FRIEND so much, and I hope I never lose him as a best friend ever, because I would be sad, and distraught, and cry and feel more alone than ever, BUT that's besides the point.))), cannot be given or tried to make fit on another friendship. It just won't work.
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All I'm saying is, we just need to learn that remakes may be fun and all, but sometimes we just need to be happy with what we have now, and love the things that we loved first. We shouldn't try to push our feelings on someone else that we had with another, we shouldn't try to have what we had with one person the same way with another. We should treat everything in our lives as new experiences, and look back at those things that showed us our loves and favorites with fond memories.
~This is Deej, signing off.
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