Remake. Just hearing the word is enough to turn the stomach of any discerning film watcher. It wasn’t always like that, but at some point in the last fifteen or so years, Hollywood decided that actually trying to have an original thought wasn’t really worth it anymore. Thus began it’s effort to regurgitate trite and borderline disgusting cash grabs as quick as producers could cut checks and pretend they actually do any work.

Even now that public sentiment has begun to turn against these horrible things, they still churn them out. Not a month goes by without a remake being announced that sends the internet into a blind rage. In 2012, it is estimated that nearly 60% of all movies released are remakes, sequels, or adapted from other material while only 40% are original ideas.