You've read the headline, and we suspect we're echoing your thoughts. Hollywood's penchant for remakes and three dimensions is swallowing up damn near everything destined for the big screen these days, and it's getting tiresome. So is reporting about it. The CinemaSpy staff has joked over the past year that almost every movie story we cover is about a remake of one kind or another. More recently, it's about turning everything — remakes and original projects — into 3-D. It's sad, frankly.

But not as sad as this story.

CinemaBlend is reporting that Universal Pictures is strongly considering a remake of the original Jaws in 3-D in the hopes of dazzling younger audiences with new special effects. (Universal actually did release a 3-D version of the shark with 1983’s Jaws 3-D; an abysmal mess of a film, it should be noted.) Avatar's success is stoking the fever for such a project, with the feeling that today's 3-D tech could make for an impressive event.

If you think that's bad, that's not the half of it.

According to CinemaBlend's source, at one point Tracy Morgan (Cop Out) was in-talks for the part of Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss in the original film. In other words, get ready for a campy good time.

Memo to Hollywood: That $3B that Fox just made with Avatar was with an original tale, originally told, using state of the art technology. A cheesy 3-D remake of an iconic film — one of the greatest in cinema history — will be lucky to make fish food at the box office by comparison.

I'd like to imagine that somewhere, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw are having a cold one, laughing their assess off at the insanity.

Recently, I might have euphemistically said, "What's next, a 3-D remake of Jaws?" to condemn the 3-D/remake obsession in Hollywood when referring to the latest resurrected property.

Today, this is the latest resurrected property. And that makes today a very sad day, indeed.

What's next, a 3-D remake of Gone with the Wind?

Wait for it...