Is Hollywood completely devoid of imagination?

[R1Geezer]

Just seen a trailer for Arthur! made very well in he 80's. Remakes are rarely on a par with the original, apart from that it has that hopeless tw$t Russell Brand in it! Perlease there must be tons of stuff waiting to be turned into films and they keep making old stuff aaaarrrrggghhh!

[bibblebub]

They don't even go back that far - "re-imaginings" coming up for the batman, superman and spiderman franchises, as if there isn't a surfeit of comic book films already.

And Brand is moronic.

[andy-hughes]

I thought the original film was utterly unfunny - and the re-make has tanked with the critics in the U.S. - word is Russell Brand's acting career is over.

Acting ?????

Career ?????

[LeMarchand]

I don't think remakes are confined to Hollywood. But anyway, if people didn't watch them they wouldn't make them. Hated the original, so won't be watching this. Not a fan of Russell Brand, but I do have to admit he was good value in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall".