Retro Movies Are Fashionable

With Generation Y'ers growing up, Hollywood is striving to please these boomers and those after them. What's their solution? It seems one solution is remakes or reboots of the movies they grew up with. Enter "Get Smart" starring Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway as Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 respectively. And soon Robocop will have it's very own remake. No, he's not the Tinman from Wizard of Oz, but a state-of-the-art android that is also part human. The last two movies were done in 1987 and 1990 respectively, but this Robocop promises to be just as "gory" as the last ones, with an R rating. Co-producer Mike Medavoy says that "it is definitely not a sequel."  Thus, Robocop (2010) will following recent reboots of series such as Batman Begins (reboot of the Val Kilmer and George Clooney Batmans), as well as Casino Royale (reboot of the Bond franchise). Will Robocop be a success now that we have all this technology and movie magic? We'll have to wait two more years to find out.

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governator, he was the Terminator. And before he was the Terminator, he was Conan, the Barbarian (1982 and 1984). But with Schwarzenegger busy with California, he doesn't have time to play T-800 in Terminator Salvation. Enter fellow weightlifter, Ronald Kickinger. You may remember him from FX's "Son of the Beach" as Chip Rommel. But who better to play Arnold as T-800 than a guy who played Arnold in "See Arnold Run" (2005) on TV. The next installment of the Terminator series also features Christian Bale ("Batman Begins," "American Psycho") as all-grown up John Conner. 

But Arnold isn't only absent in Terminator. He'll be absent in Conan. This new Conan is still in production.

Rose McGowan is the new Red Sonja. I think they chose they right actress to play the "She-Devil with a Sword." She was badass as gun-toting Cherry in "Planet Terror" (2007), and judging by these pictures, it looks like she'll be ripping hearts (literally). 

Oh yah, they're remaking "Escape to Witch Mountain" and calling it "Race to Witch Mountain" coming out in 2009.

With all these Retro Remakes, I wonder what Hollywood will think of next. As long as it's NOT "Care Bears: To Infinity and Beyond" or "My Little Ponies, The Rescue Squad" I'll be happy. I only wonder if the only reason for such trends is lack of ideas or thinking they'll make just as much money or better based on the success of their predecessors back in the 1980s.