Hollywood remakes

[Batz Kage]

That's something that's been annoying me for some time now. Why is it that Hollywood keeps remaking foreign movies? It does indeed seem like they've completely run out of ideas. It also leads me to believe that it's the public's fault. Most likely the American public doesn't watch foreign movies all that much and so when Hollywood sees the potential of such movies as The Ring or Oldboy they think it will be much more profitable to remake them using American actors. Sounds to me like a cultural problem.

there's one thing I want to know about them remaking Japanese movies; do they take out parts of them or something? I know they have before in video games, so I was wondering about the movies.

Like with The Ring, I thought it was decent, but left a lot unexplained & to be desired. Then I read the comics & they helpped me to understand the story a bit more & I actually liked it a bit more.

The Grudge on the other hand just seemed stupid; it went for 'something suddenly pops out' kind of horror & just ended up be lame. And there was sooo much about it that felt left out, but seeing as how I've never watched the original I have don't know if there was, & was wondering if someone could enlighten me on this.
I've had one guy tell me both movies were better in japanese format, but he was just trying to sound like an elitest.