My God is there anything NOT being remade from the eighties?????
And coming next year: "Batteries Not Included..... which will be renamed... USB Cord Not Included"
My God is there anything NOT being remade from the eighties?????
There are such things as good remakes.
I'm not saying remaking everything is getting tired, or that this one will be good-- just saying that the attitude of saying remake = childhood raped = bad movie is pretty negative.
I mean, sure, the odds are in favor of that, but it's not a foregone conclusion.
Doesn't it get exhausting hating everything though?
You're a writer, yeah? In Hollywood, as I recall? Or am I mixing you up with someone else?
Anyway, if you're a writer -- assuming you are -- I would think this **** would infuriate you.
Think of all of the original ideas that people have. All the cool concepts for a story to tell, and no one is telling them because the suits are too busy greenlighting this kind of bull****.
At best, you get an IP wrapper on an original idea that has been massaged beyond recognition to fit the wrapper. Which in turn, just makes the IP pointless except for branding alone. The whole thing is this awful feedback loop where you want your movie to be original and different, but you want to option a brand so that it's familiar and recognizable.
You cannot do both. Or at least, it's very, very difficult to effectively do both, to the point where you're better off just taking a ****ing risk for a change and greenlighting something new and interesting.
A couple of years ago, the Wachowskis came out with Jupiter Rising. It was...nuts. Completely out there. Also kind of boring and dumb. But you know what? I appreciated that at least it wasn't just some branded property dug up from the 80s graveyard and jolted to life with a CGI budget and "modern sensibilities" in the writing. It took a risk. It took a big, bold risk and fell flat on its face, but dammit we should have been better off for that.
We need more people taking risks, not microwaved 80s TV dinners and 4 ******* Avatar sequels.
I love me some Marvel and Star Wars, but there needs to be more than just that.
Doesn't this stuff just burn you up? Or do you have to numb that part of yourself lest you descend into madness and nihilism?
Tired of prequels, tired of reboots/remakes. Do sequels, continue the story if you can't be bothered to come up with something original.
There are such things as good remakes.
I'm not saying remaking everything is getting tired, or that this one will be good-- just saying that the attitude of saying remake = childhood raped = bad movie is pretty negative.