I used to say “if you’re gonna remake a movie, you should remake a bad movie but do it better.”
Then they remade The Crow. “Dude I said do it better. 🤦♂️”
Every iteration of me from 1994 to now is coming to your home to kick your ass right up and out past your teeth for calling the OG Crow a bad movie.
Yes, most of us will be in face paint. Some of us may have black trench coats on. There may even be some hammer pants, but we won’t talk about that.
Seriously, there’s nothing inherently wrong with remakes but why do it if you’re not trying to make it BETTER? Or at least substantially different? Do a different take on the material, don’t just swap the CG animated boy for a real life actor while leaving everything including the CG animated dragon as it was, for fuck’s sake.
The Wild Robot in theaters. Not a sequel or a remake. It is based off of a novel though.
2024 was apparently the first year where all the top-10 highest grossing movies were sequels. List doesn’t include Moana 2 and Gladiator 2 which are expected to make a lot of money as well.
Wild Robot really surprised me… Score was fantastic and some scenes had me bawling
Also, for those interested in more mature movies: Juror #2. I had good expectations and was not disappointed. At least, not by the movie. There were only a handful of people in an already small cinema room, only a week after release. Meanwhile, Gladiator II is drawing a lot of public.
While I love shitting on CEOs and business people as much as the next left-oriented person, this trend in the movie industry is very much, at least partially, at fault due to many of the consumers.
Juror #2
Thought provoking in that everyone who wants to convict is “because he’s a piece of shit, whether or not it is unlikely he did it”. How do you tell people they are pieces of shit themselves, without them reactively thinking you are? Is the big thought experiment this film provokes.
Y2K. It was better than I expected!
Also, I remember walking out of Everything Everywhere All At Once and being angry because it probably wouldn’t do well in theaters or win any awards, despite being one of the best original movies I had ever seen.
I was happy to be wrong on that one.
Another also, I absolute hate that the video game industry is jumping on this trend. Sometimes it’s nice to play games I missed out on as a kid but it’s getting so bad now, they remaster games from a couple years ago. Enough is enough.
I’m not against sequels/prequels, just need some more than “it’s the sequel to that one you liked”.
OK, but why does it need a sequel? Can you make me interested in it aside from the fact it’s a sequel? Is it any good…?
Not a movie or fully original, but I watched Arcane and I loved it. It was good without knowing about the game, and those who know the game say it’s better if you do. That’s what a sequel/remake/adaptation should strive for.
It’s to the point right now that a young person 20 years of age could spend a decade just watching all the old classics from the past 80 years to enjoy great films. If they stopped making movies tomorrow, there’s more than enough content now for people to watch.
My wife wants to keep watching the latest stuff but if it were up to me, I’d just take the time to watch at least all of the AFI top 100 films… last I checked I think I’ve only seen about 30 of them and I thought I watched a lot of films. My last rough count of watched films that I could list was over 1,500 films. And I still have a waiting list of hundreds more I want to see.
I’m a Trek fan and I thought I watched lots but I’ve only seen about half of all the TV series and most of the films.
That’s also not counting all the other TV series I’d like to see from the past … MASH, All In The Family, Adam’s Family, The original Batman series, The Munsters, X Files, Walking Dead, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Office … and on and on
If my spouse wasn’t so stuck in watching the latest stuff I’d probably be happy just spending my time catching up on everything I wasn’t able to see for the past 30-40 years.
I’m exactly that young person. I won’t be even able to consume every work of art I’m interested in. That’s both sad and amazing.
