Oh my God! Hollywood’s creative heat is well and truly going frigid. All these bloody remakes and fillers coming out over the past several years! I know they have an agenda and propaganda to push, but I’m at a loss to understand what. What good does redoing 80s & 90s classics do for world-wise 21st century audiences?
For clarity’s sake, by fillers I mean films just pushed onto the screens with plots so overused a newborn baby can predict them*. Usually ones that haven’t been seen or done before but can (often does) include remakes and reboots.
* Guy lives normal life, some shit happens to make him become hero, he beats bad guy, gets girl, saves world. And someone’s dad dies/ goes AWOL.
Remakes & reboots:
Tarzan
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Spiderman
Star Wars
Fantastic Four
X-Men
Godzilla
King Kong
Ghostbusters
The Karate Kid
Jurassic World
Warcraft
Superman (every single one made after 1987’s Superman IV: The Quest for Peace)
Batman (every one made after 1997’s Batman & Robin)
The Peanuts Movie (why didn’t they just call it Snoopy like the comics it was based on?)
(apparently they were doing a Titanic sequel but it got scrapped)
Fillers:
Dragonball Z
Pets
The Social Network (seriously, why do we need a movie about Mark Zuckerburg when we can Google him?)
The Theory of Everything (again, we can just Google Stephen Hawking. We don’t need a film on him)
The Martian
Despicable Me
The Hateful Eight
World War Z
The Expendables
Real Steel (I usually hate any show where the protagonist is an inanimate object. The Iron Giant has been the only exception so far)
Chappie (same reason)
Big Hero 6
Zootopia (or is it called Zootropolis?)
Inside Out
Tangled
Please note I didn’t say I dislike all these films, or the actors.
As I’ve been telling my friends for time, Hollywood needs me to hurry up and become the next J.K.Rowling & Denzel Washington. Hollywood is getting raatid boring, and the entire film industry needs to be refreshed with new material!
Unless the purpose this time is to stupefy us with lack of novelty? Maybe that explains the recent upsurge in love of zombie movies…
Point taken, but the new (Christian Bale) Batman series was infinitely better than the 90s joints, and it had more depth (all scenes including Gyllenhaal, obviously, being an exception). Other than that, you’re right: none of those films needed to be made.
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LOL. I’ve never watched any of the Christian Bale Batman films. As far as I’m concerned, Batman has had its time. He needs to be put to rest.
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Especially with Batman Beyond (Terry McGinnis) around, which I personally loved!
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Great post brother! I get so damn tired of these remakes! Hollywood has NO original ideas. I definitely feel where you’re coming from.
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Yeah. It’s getting to the point where I know if I’ll like a film or not based on the actors. If I’d known before that Megan Fox would be in TMNT I wouldn’t have watched it. Luckily the CGI turtles were better actors than her.
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Yeah do we really need a another Turtle film. And you’re right about Megan. She’s a horrible actress. Extremely over rated in my opinion. But of course white actresses don’t have to be that talented to get steady work.
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