Hollywood Continues to Unnecessarily Re-make Movies – Point Break

The new trailer is out for the Point Break re-make, and I'm asking the same question now as when I heard that this was going to happen...Why?

Released in 1991 "Point Break" was what it was; a fun movie. It had a nice amount of extreme sports action, which is abundant in movies now, but was fairly new back then. It starred the now deceased Patrick Swayze, who played a Zen surfing thrill seeker who robbed banks to finance his gangs surfing trips, and Keanu Reeves. A rookie FBI agent who infiltrates the gang to bring them down.

Like I said at the beginning. It is what it is. It's just a fun movie. It doesn't take itself too

seriously. It makes fun of Keanu's Bill & Ted vocal delivery, plus it has Gary Busey as a veteran FBI agent, who's death, like the rug in "the Big Lebowski", brings the movie together. It was a surprise hit at the box office, but became cult-like in video and DVD release.

The new one keeps the names, but changes the plot line. The gang of bad guys goes from robbing banks to redistributing wealth to the poor. "The only law that counts is gravity". Somehow giving money to poor people in 2015 is the same as robbing banks in 1991. I smell a uprising on the horizon. Watch out rich people, we be coming.

Revolution aside, from the look of the first trailer, this movie could've been made original if they just changed the names of the characters. But then the movie wouldn't have the built in press. I guess Hollywood doesn't trust us to accept anything new. It's this distrust that has lead to the fact that I haven't paid to see a movie in the theaters since "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in 2003. Pick a finger Hollywood.