Right there with you buddy. I get the antipathy with which remakes are treated nowadays, but this isn’t yet another rehash of Spiderman or Batman. It’s been 70 years since the og film. A sizable chunk of the population will never watch it simply because of its age, either due to their bias against “old” movies or due to plain ignorance. I might even say most people fall into that camp.

Plus, it’s not like there’s all that much that is sacrosanct about the original picture. In cultural memory, the og film is basically just the title, the suit design, and maybe the image of the creature holding a lady in his arms. As long as the remake hits those beats, it basically has free reign to go anywhere else in terms of story. Furthermore, new tech is going to allow for different approaches to filming, especially the underwater sequences, that should serve to make the movie actually frightening to a modern audience. The OG is an impressive technical achievement (I’m not sure how common underwater photography was at the time, but I can’t imagine it was a widespread practice), but I would not classify it as scary.

Idk, I just think this is an example of a “flawed” film getting a second chance with the benefit of modern filmmaking techniques, or the exact sort of project people always cite as an appropriate use of the remake format (as opposed to someone remaking a movie which holds up).

I’m not holding my breath that this announcement will go anywhere, it seems like they e been trying to get a remake off the ground since the 80s, but while everything is speculative, I’d rather focus on the opportunities a remake offers than fixate on the myriad ways they could fuck it up.