I should have watched the original version of The Blob (1958 – Steve McQueen) before watching this version. It seems, to me, that if a movie is a remake, you have to see the original film first to see that movie. That is if you plan on watching either movie. At the same time, the original is often so much better than the remake that it might make you appreciate the newer version even less. And if you are a big fan of the movie, you might also go a step further and read the book (if the film was based upon a book). No matter how much we, at times, don’t want them to, Hollywood is going to keep remaking movies. Whether Hollywood is out of original ideas or they know that a newer version of a film is a fortune waiting to be happy, we don’t know. We understand that some remakes will be good, some will be bad, and some we will shake our heads and ask ourselves, “What were these movie studios thinking?”