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:raises hand: Gen-X too please!

Can confirm. I'm 38 and I cringe every time I see a remake of some 20 or 30 year old movie or show. Come up with something original instead of going for the low hanging fruit. Also, use less CGI and more practical effects.

Uh, most reasonable people want this. Extended Universes are so early 2010's.

Right now I'd settle for shit I like not being wiped from existence to make the line go up slightly more with some convoluted Producers math bullshit.

Matt Damon explains how the lack of DVD sales changed what movie studios will greenlight

https://youtu.be/Jx8F5Imd8A8

It's probably safe to say that everyone does but when the studios are putting down a lot of cash for The Next Big Thing, they tend to want a safer bet like a sequel or remake or part of a franchise. This doesn't seem to be working as well as it was and it is increasingly looking like spending smaller amounts spread around could generate a big hit too but that does need them to be able to spot good ideas and they don't have a great track record on this.

Can we get Triplets first?

Here's what people want... Good movies and good television. Yeah, originality is great, but remakes can be good too.

I liked the remake of Infernal Affairs (The Departed), Scarface, Cape Fear, Ocean's 11, The Fly, King Kong (Peter Jackson), True Grit, Judge Dread, and The Wizard of Oz (1939) was also a remake. The Fall Guy looks good too.

For TV, there's Battlestar Galactica, Westworld, Cobra Kai, Sabrina, and Wednesday, though different, could fit in there as it's still based on another property.

What people don't want are obvious cash grabs.

Everyone says they want a fully new IP and blah blah blah

But how many people then immediately jump to say that they'll wait for season 2 (or 5, because god forbid it gets cancelled) before they watch? Or that they'll wait for it to hit netflix (who actually ARE doing a lot of new IPs).

Like, I fully admit I am part of the problem. I slept on Warrior until Season 2 had aired and then realized it was literally my dream show (a show with really good choreography, amazing action actors, gratuitous nudity, a really nuanced approach to racism against Asian Americans, and all based on the philosophies of Bruce Lee) and now have to acknowledge it is never getting a Season 4

But also? You need something REAL good to get me to give a damn about a new movie. Either a ridiculously solid actor (still gonna watch the new Gareth Edwards movie even if I hear it is mid) or for it to be tied to something I know I like.

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Have we gone through all the basic stories? It seems like a movie can't just be a movie anymore. It's needs to be everything everywhere all at once.

Not even remakes.. Remakes of remakes made 3 years before The latest remake

What the fuck is this article smokin? Is it AI?

...of these young kids,

Ok goddamnit, enough with the millennials r kids n shit. Im 45. Millennials are adults. Adults! Kiss my pucker, fucker

I wonder how many times in my life I will get to see Batman's parents die? Or James bond play poker? Or star wars get ruined?

Say it to a survey but then when the movies come out the dollars come in for the remakes and reboots

Kind of like 90% of Americans disapproving of Congress but then votes for their incumbents.

Seems like one of those things everyone would say in the abstract, particularly on a survey. Then when the studios go for safe projects and the thing they remake is among someone's personal favorites they'll watch it anyway, validating the strategy.

*Looks at Millenials and Gen-Z queuing round the block for the latest mediocre Marvel horseshit*

You can say you want one thing, but you'll cheerfully pay for whatever the adverts in your tiktoks tell you to buy.

And adaptions that adhere to pre existing lore... Witcher, Halo I am looking at you

Movie studios pay unimaginable money to learn what people want. It is a constant, year round expenditure for them. Their information and data suggests that while a vocal minority may be fed up with remakes, people still fervently buy them, have very short memories and seem to go bananas for any shred of nostalgia bait.

Remakes are as a result an incredibly safe bet, they are less expensive and less risk, which in financial terms is a green light. Until they aren't either of those things and they carry more risk, they will continue to be pedalled out.

Too bad because Boomers and X love that shit.

Edit: Wah wah boo hoo your generation is middle aged and buying stuff little old you doesn't like because you're extra special. Has no baring on reality. Gen X is America's largest consumer group. Get over it.

Are remakes ever for a new generation? Aren't they just for the original people who liked it, and they hope a new gen will like the new content,, but they never do?

I like remakes though

Well as long as profits are made there going to keep on churning out the same old.

In terms of movies the worst offenders are remakes of foreign films for the US audience. Like the Oldboy remake was completely unnecessary and it changed key parts of the story. Funny Games was just a shot-for-shot remake of the original one!

Personally I'm finding the video game remakes even more egregious than the movie/tv remakes. I think it's a side effect of the modern day development costs being so out of control but as long as people keep doube - and triple - dipping on games this is going to continue.