Stop Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes from Desecrating Classic Horror Films
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Michael Bay is the director of seven feature films, with one currently in production. As of 2003, he and two others, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, have been the masterminds behind several commercially successful remakes of popular horror films from the 1970s. These have all been done under Bay's production company Platinum Dunes.
Despite the overall success of his remakes (and one original film) they are viewed as critical disappoints. As of September 4th, 2008, the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from professional film critics and movie fans alike, has given the four movies Platinum Dunes has released to date the following average scores:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 34\%
The Amityville Horror 24\%
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (original production) 13\%
The Hitcher 19\%
Upcoming remakes include Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Birds, with talk of remaking Near Dark and Rosemarys Baby, the latter of which is one of the only horror films to win an Oscar (Ruth Gordon Best Supporting Actress).
These films have served to not only detract from the appeal and magic of the originals, but to debase the genre as a whole. Platinum Dunes is nothing more than a money-making machine with absolutely no respect for the horror genre, and for he and his team to call themselves horror fans is a slap in the face to all the original horror writers and directors who have yet to receive their due recognition.
We call upon Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes to stop the desecration of classic horror films and to prevent the absolute debasement of the horror genre as a whole. As horror fans, we feel it is our duty to do all we can to prevent this monstrous vehicle from destroying the genre we love so dearly.
Despite the overall success of his remakes (and one original film) they are viewed as critical disappoints. As of September 4th, 2008, the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from professional film critics and movie fans alike, has given the four movies Platinum Dunes has released to date the following average scores:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 34\%
The Amityville Horror 24\%
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (original production) 13\%
The Hitcher 19\%
Upcoming remakes include Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Birds, with talk of remaking Near Dark and Rosemarys Baby, the latter of which is one of the only horror films to win an Oscar (Ruth Gordon Best Supporting Actress).
These films have served to not only detract from the appeal and magic of the originals, but to debase the genre as a whole. Platinum Dunes is nothing more than a money-making machine with absolutely no respect for the horror genre, and for he and his team to call themselves horror fans is a slap in the face to all the original horror writers and directors who have yet to receive their due recognition.
We call upon Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes to stop the desecration of classic horror films and to prevent the absolute debasement of the horror genre as a whole. As horror fans, we feel it is our duty to do all we can to prevent this monstrous vehicle from destroying the genre we love so dearly.
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Marta
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Simone Lockhart
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- NO
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Natalie W.
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- STOP THIS MAN!!!!!
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Mikey Rotella
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- This is a travesty!
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Alex Sidoti
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- These remakes are disgraceful.THIS NEEDS TO STOP!!!
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Aaron Eiermann
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- write your own damn movie!!!
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Derek Reynolds
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- My only regret is that i can only sign this thing once.
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Aleah Kraft
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- remakes are proving hollywood has no more imagination to make NEW stories
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Jani Long
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- Finally, someone trying to put a stop to the madness!
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Jason Barnett www.impfx.com
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- They keep remaking because you keep paying. Remember that.
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Timmy Estes
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- Suck it Michael Bay!!
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Tiffanie R.
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- What, have the movie makers of this day and age ran out of ideas for good horror movies? Leave the classics alone damn money grubbers!
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William Johnson
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- What an embarassment
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Samuel Henley
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- Please stop making movies.
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brandon elfrink
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- Stop killing the classics
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James
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- Yes, please--stop the madness of Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes. Did you see that Friday remake? Jeez-US!!
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Jenny
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- What's the point in remaking Nightmare on Elm Street? It was a perfectly good film to start with! Bay, stick with your historical innaccuracies, kay?!!
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ashley
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Jordon Green
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- Stop this film!!! I will help all I can. I made a myspace for this petion as well. Sincerely yours!
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Michael
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- It's a disturbing trend in todays film making. It needs to stop
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Jerry Cauley
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- I would rather suffer the horror of watching the Lifetime network forever vs. one minute of another butchered MB film.
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Mike
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- They are awful. 100\% cashing in on other people's ideas. They have no talent, and they are destroying classic horror movies.
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Will Martin
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Steve
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- I'm not saying that Michael Bay doesn't deserve to make a living or anything but he really should stay away from horror and anything 80s related.
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Joe Kufel
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Michael
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- Elm Street was a disaster!
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Steve
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- Look at this...just such a shame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5thNqfuOq6w
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Natalie Turner
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- Please stop remaking films that don't NEED to be remade. NOES 2010 was just awful, leave the classics alone!
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Tyler Parker
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- Why can Michael Bay not come up with his own ideas? Stop ruining good movies... Stop taking credit for a story written by someone else, no one wants to see your horrible movies. Please stop, you are the worst human being to ever live.
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