Seriously, why?

The movies of my childhood are precious things.  Labyrinth, Ghostbusters, The Crow, Annie, The Goonies, Gremlins, IT, Dirty Dancing, Drop Dead Fred.  All of them have had an impact on my vocabulary, my outlook on life (Clowns are evil, don't feed any pets after midnight, etc).

And yet.....all of these movies are either in the process of being remade or brought back in sequels that do nothing to improve the original (I'm looking at you, Bill& Ted and Ghostbusters).

Why?  

Why do we feel the need to take the precious things of the past and ruin them?  Sure, we drag the McRib out of the bowels every year and dust it off like it's something shin, but I can't believe that there aren't any creative scripts floating around out there....ones that are blatant rip offs of the movies we loved from the past, but with subtle changes to make it less obvious that the writer just watched all 6 Star Wars and was inspired to craft a stirring saga about a wisecracking space smuggler who is unknowingly recruited to fight against an evil intergalactic empire.  

Write new things, people.

Stop destroying my childhood.  

The Shark Insanity has to Stop!

Ok, movie people, this has to stop.  At first it was cute.  I enjoyed watching Hulk Hogan's daughter try to "act" while the not-as-attractive O'Connell brother hammed it up as the salty sea captain in Two-Headed Shark Attack.  Malibu Shark Attack?  I was right there with you.  Ditto Deep Blue Sea, Shark Attacks I, II, and III, Shark Night, Mega Shark v. Crocosaurus, and Megaladon.  Sure, you suspended my belief, and there are really only so many times I'll buy the "we genetically modified the sharks to - fill in beneficial for mankind solution here- before I start wondering why people don't learn from their mistakes.

And then came Sharknado.  Like the deep fried oreo, it took a guilty pleasure and intensified it.  A former 90210 resident AND Tara Reid running from sharks that were transported trhough the sky via tornado??? It was too good to be true.  And we Blessed the Syfy gods for not ending their genuis with Sharktopus.
But then....Sharknado took off.  It started trending on twitter (I blame the genius of Wil Wheaton's live tweets for that).
And now, Ghost Shark....Sharkavalanche.....and any number of other ridiculous shark movies (ones even more incomprehensible than the Brooke Hogan-helmed "Two-Headed Shark").

....of course, none of this will stop me for rooting for Sharknado 2