I don't have anything against remakes or re-boots as an idea. The problem arises when more new movies are remakes than original ideas.

But seriously, for as many terrrrible remakes as there are, some of my favorite movies are remakes. The Thing, the '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Hitchcock's second The Man Who Knew Too Much.

And there have been some great reboots, as well. Battlestar, as has been mentioned. The new Star Trek (I don't care how many "Trekkies" hated it). Batman Begins.

Then there are remakes that just get under my skin, like Quarantine (Americans don't like foreign movies, so we have to remake [REC] a year after it comes out! Right? Right?), any of the recent horror movie remakes (Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween), Clash of the Titans, Death at a Funeral (let's use the same script and the same midget actor as that British movie that came out a year ago, only let's cast a bunch of black actors and ghetto it up first!) ... the list goes on.

So, while I'm not against remakes in general, I acknowledge that the good remakes are rare, and the terrible ones I can just pretend don't exist.