Shouldn't remakes be better?? and why aren't they!!

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Fright night, Total recall, The Fog, Halloween, Black christmas etc etc etc etc...........

Should be better........not worse.......

Filmmakers should be learning and with higher budgets these days improving on originals...........Are filmmakers getting lazy or are we in an dumb down cheap thrill age where characterization and atmosphere are a thing of the past...........

Spielberg, Depalma, Stone etc all learned from the Hawks and Hustons............Carpenter learned from Argento and romero...........

F**k sake....Why don't current Directors get it..........

All the above films should be better.................Learn from the past..Expel the negative and accentuate the positive...

Ben-Hur was a sound-era remake of a silent classic, as was The Ten Commandments.

Could never get into Heston's old classics..........

Patience never was a strong point...

The omega man was good though...........