Remakes

Whenever I watch a film remake, I keep kind of hoping/expecting the characters to point out the previous film version.

Like, for instance, John Carpenter recently remade Children of the Damned, where there's this weird gaseous thing in this little village and everyone passes out, and all the women get pregnant, and the kids turn out to be geniuses who learn really quickly and are evil (of course) and are VERY fast learners. So, halfway through the remake I'm really wanting Chris Reeve or Kirstie Alley to bust out with the: "Wait a minute! This is just like in this movie called Children of the Damned! It's crazy! All we have to do is this..."

Or like Scorcese's remake of Cape Fear. At some point Nick Nolte or Jessica Lange should say, "Hey did you ever see that movie 'Cape Fear' with Bob Mitchum and Greg Peck?' This is just like that movie!"

I mean in the remake, films exist, right? So how can say Robert DeNiro's character and Nolte's and Lange's deny the existence of say a major actor like Greg Peck who was in Spellbound and Twelve O'Clock High and To Kill a Mockingbird? And in which case, all of Peck's films exist, so how come no one points out to Nolte and Lange that what's happening to them is just like what happened to these characters in this old movie?

You know what I mean?