Why There Are So Many Remakes As Explained By PBS' Idea Channel

by **bankska22** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:53 am

Remakes, remakes, and more remakes! It's the Hollywood way. As much as people complain about remakes, they sure do like to fork over the money to watch them! That's one of the main reasons why Hollywood will never stop remaking movies.

PBS Digital Studios has released a video from their Idea Channel on YouTube, and it goes into further depth on why we see so many remakes getting made these days. Reasons that don't include the money aspect and do includes all reinventions even outside of movies. Here's a description that came along with the video:

Fantastic Four, Jurassic World, The Hulk, Star Trek, Spiderman… is it just me or does it seem like remakes are EVERYWHERE? And not only that, but it seems like some movies are just sequel bait, deliberately leaving their ends open to ensure we return to the theaters a year from now to catch the second half of a story we thought we were getting the whole version of. What’s up with that? Besides financial reasons, why are there so many remakes? Does Simon Pegg have the answer? Or maybe our grumpy friend Jean Baudrillard! Watch this week’s episode of PBS Idea Channel with Mike Rugnetta to find out!

Watch the video and let us know about what you think they had to say!