I agree that remakes have to stop, itīs just too much already, as for your gen been bad, not at all, I would say itīs more than this generation of studio exec and producers are just too lazy or stupid to try something new for their own, I now thereīs nothing "new" per se under the sun, but you get the idea, the worst part is, the end to this epidemic itīs nowhere to be found, and the writers strike will be found as an excuse soon too, i know there must be young people with great new ideas and talents (there just have to be some some, itīs balance) the problem is when big studios see that remakes start to make money and letīs face it, they make money, even the worst of them, starting for the fact that the gens of the originals will see them eventually, and that since itīs a remake selling the idea of the product to the public it a job already half done (they know and liked the original) and for that studios decide to go for less risky investment and at least some guaranteed box office income (remakes), that some "new" project that will have to earn itīs salt with little or no guarantees.
The question would be when itīs gonna end?, when independent filmmakers get into mainstream and become the rule not the exception, I know itīs wishful thinking, but via webisodes and web series something like that could happen....
Sequels are ok, Prequels I can handle...but remakes got really tired a long time ago, and I blame the Ring, the Grudge and not so much the "Psycho" remake or the "Night of the Living dead" those remakes were made with years between them, they were an exception not the rule then , or like now, the trend Right now I totally prefer to see a bad new movie than another remake, which more often than not just sucks big time, and the worst so far for me itīs the Omen, the original was just great and it didnīt have to be remade at all, MAYBE remake the Final Conflict and thatīs all...The Omen (original) itīs my favorite and i have never been so pissed of at a remake than the version that wa released on 06...