Can a do-over get a do-over?

I don't know if it's the recycling craze that is changing the way things are or not but there is a trend to take old stuff and renew it. An example of this isn't really a new thing as it is the infamous movie remake and let's face it....Hollywood has had so little new and interesting that it's no big deal. They remake stuff that worked because they know suckers like em will check them out. This weekend I got to see the remake of Halloween by Rob Zombie. Okay so he didn't refer to it as a remake but rather a "reimagining" and I'm glad he did. Th movie was not too bad as a standalone but as a part of the Halloween series it fits about as well as Halloween 3 did. While John Carpenter's original was a masterful blend of horror, suspense and drama, Zombie's version was more graphic and more in your face. This wasn't my gripe with it though. What bugged me more than anything else is that as a horror movie junkie I loved the fact that Michael Myers was just a homicidal lunatic with no clear reason for doing what he did. Zombie's insertion of a back story sort of gives Michael a reason to be the way he is and that sort of took some of the fun out of him. Yeah I said fun.....I'm weird. Let's just hope that if they ever do the Evil Dead remake that they don't screw it up too badly.

Who knows.....maybe one day in the not too distant future we'll get something fun and original out of the Hollywood movie machine, but I wouldn't hold your breath.