Why remake an old story?

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2013)

I haven't seen this movie yet, I want to, but was told by a friend the story is a reboot of Superman 2, with some exposition in the beginning that's an abridged version of the basic Superman story. My question is: Why? When Superman 2 was made, did the writer hack up some story from a previous Superman TV episode, or steal it from a comic book? No, I think he put together a fun story about Superman fighting 3 bad-guys (one was a semi-cute chick with sexy crooked teeth) dressed in patent leather jump- suits. Back then I don't think a writer could get away with hacking other movies or TV shows, you had to know how to write a story. It's not difficult to write a new Superman tale, so why re-use an old one? That sucks. And I don't care how awesome the battle scenes are and how much better it was then the original Superman 2, it's still a hacked up redo with nothing original going on. I'm sick of Hollywood ripping me off.