The film only opened with $130 million worldwide, which is less than the $139 million that the box office bomb The Flash managed to earn. Furthermore, the Indiana Jones sequel is said to have cost more than $300 million to make with marketing costs, while The Flash was estimated at $250 million. Either way, both films appear to be box office bombs, with the fifth Indiana Jones film making even less at the box office so far.
I think it was Cronenburg but it was maybe Carpenter who had the quote from an interview "why would you ever want to remake a good movie?" and it's totally real. There are so many shitty movies I've seen that had a great core to them that if the execution was elevated they would be fantastic. Now that I'm over 30 I can talk about young people and the difference between how I approach a movie and how a 21 year old does is night and day, I've never had that issue talking movies with people older than me by any range, there's some generational range in taste but there's just an entirely different approach to seeing a movie there.
I could believe that either one said that. Especially Carpenter. The Thing is a perfect example of how to do it right.
It was either about The Thing with Carpenter or The Fly with Cronenburg. I'd say The Fly is a stronger example because it had the worse original, I think Carpenter did enjoy the original The Thing From Another World but I feel thats more a case of a sticking closer to the original novella as well as just a quantitative update on how alien one could make an alien in the 80s vs the 50s.