Remakes, Remakes Everywhere

The LA Times puts its finger on the reason I won't blow my tiny wad of disposable cash on movies that much this summer:

"CNN did an online poll Friday, asking what movie people were most likely to see over the weekend. The new films 'Herbie,' 'Bewitched' and 'Land of the Dead' received 27% of the vote. The landslide winner, with 73%, was 'None, I'd rather rent a DVD of something good.'
"Isn't it wonderful when a business has so many satisfied customers?"

True, online polls aren't scientific, but let's face it. Why should we watch remakes, particularly remakes of bad movies by undistinguished filmmakers, when we can rent or buy something worthwhile? If we want to have mediocre product with a shitload of commercials shoved down our throats, we don't have to leave home. That's what TV is all about.

Producers of the world, listen up. We want new movies. We want good movies. We want movies worth the trouble of parking, standing in line, paying $10 and enduring sticky floors and slack-jawed nimrods for. We want you to shut down the movie-making committees because the pictures they greenlight bore and insult us. The play testing, market research garbage is making bad movies, and, surprise-surprise, losing you dinks money. If movies ain't new, they're through. "Herbie: Fully Loaded" and "The Island" ain't new, and if you guys keep making this shit, you're through.