Re-makes are a long-standing Hollywood tradition, dating back to early talkies. It’s a concept I’ve never approved of - taking an old idea, an old script, an old movie and suddenly re-shooting it to call it new again. Wrap it up in pretty promotions and tie it with a bow, nothing will make a re-made movie brand-new again. But the success rate of some re-makes is astounding, enough so that Hollywood will continue to dip into its own vault. Now, Michael Bay (of Transformers fame, which was itself an adaptation and not at all an original idea) will redo the horror/slasher classic Friday the 13th. The Jason story will be very much changed, and the censored original version will continue to run on cable TV into perpetuity. I say let’s take a stand and refuse to go to the theaters for movies we’ve all seen before. If audiences demand original stories, we’ll -finally- get them. Who’s with me?