WHY OH WHY OH WHY?

Hollywood has an obsession with taking a classic and thinking it can do better because the technology has advanced and that should make the film even better, it will also introduce it to a new audience, sometimes it makes sense but sometimes you just think what planet are you on? Here is a hint, Why would you want to remake Psycho, you cannot improve on what is already there unless you remake it shot for shot, and then what is the point, if you want to bring the film to a new audience, rerelease it, clean up the print re-master the soundtrack, and show it as a classic example of film making. Lets not beat about the bush, its about money, we have it the film makers want it, and when you cant think of something original, they sometimes fail to think at all and just remake something that they know the audiences have seen and loved, now there are some great films out there that never got the recognition they deserve and some will say they deserve to be remade, but that would be doing it for the right reasons, but when I hear rumours that someone intends to remake John Carpenter's 'The Thing', which was itself a remake of the 1951 film 'The thing from another planet', I know Hollywood has run out of Ideas, now I could be wrong and they turn out a film that blows my mind, but bring me the tornado.
I can see the opportunities of remaking the 80's musical drama Footloose with the director and star of the High School Musical franchise because the story is one that could easily be updated to present day and pull in a whole new audience the will sing along and be charmed by the innocence of the story, the catchiness of the title song redone by the Jonas brothers or 'Lets hear it for the boy' being belted out by the winner of American Idol.
Very recently I read about a studio wanting to remake the Bruce Lee martial arts classic 'Enter The Dragon', and it chilled me to the bone, I love the film and think of it the same way as I do The Thing, but its a film which has much more to do the enigma that was and still is Bruce Lee, it can never be said that the film was a brilliant piece of film making, it was just a low budget James Bond style /secret agent cash in, but the near mythological status afforded to the star of the film raised it to so much more, it was seen as Bruce Lee's breakthrough film (he was the first actor to be offered a million dollars for a film role) but Bruce Lee made the film not vice versa.
There is no one out there who comes close to having the physical presence of Bruce Lee, the myth was based on the fact that this man could live up to the on screen reputation, any place, any time, any where. You know he could kick you ass and give you a spiritual explanation on why he was doing it in the same breath.
Newer is not always better, for decades I have been waiting for a film producer to update 'The Creature From The Black Lagoon' because I not only would like it to be redone with special effects that will get the audience on the edge of their seats, but its always been seen as a B move that punched above it weight. But when you take a film that is pretty much as good as it gets and you are arrogant or misguided enough to think you can do better by're-imagining' the film, then when you are left to face the press, critics and most importantly the audiences, you know what, you deserve the ass kicking you have set yourself up for.