Possessed said:

I bet you and impscum would hit it off great.

Sorry Possessed, but actually he’d be best buds with twooffour.

MaximRecoil said:

Your mere assertion holds no water.

twooffour said:

Um, seriously, no.

This sentiment is completely arbitrary, and it holds no water.
What is a musical arrangement? A remake of a musical piece… into another musical piece.

I don’t need my Hamelin Campanella rearrangement as some film score to a SpongeBob cartoon for it to be valid, or pass for “respectful”, thank you very much.

Remakes can be done in different ways, you can attempt to copy it shot for shot (which, I think, went horribly wrong with Psycho, even though I’ve only seen bits of the remake), or, you can take the plot and ideas, and remake as something new.
Put it in another setting (like, maybe one more suited for the modern day, or something else), tweak around the details, and essentially make a movie that “could’ve turned out, had they made different decisions”. And that form of “imitation” has all the justification you need.

So no, dismissed.
This thread would make more sense as a “good remakes vs. bad remakes”, to which I’d reply, I don’t vividly remember any original / remake right now 😄