I’m legitimately so tired of the Disney remakes. Like I can’t even muster up enough energy to be mad about it, I just truly do not care. There hasn’t been one remake I felt compelled to see in theaters, and only a few that I bothered to watch on Netflix. The result is always either no better or actively worse than the original, and if you like watching them that’s fine, but I’m sick to death of the argument that we need these endless remakes so that “a new generation can enjoy the stories”. What planet are you one where you can’t watch a movie more than once? The stories are readily available. I watched plenty of movies as a kid that came out before I was born, there’s literally nothing stopping you.
Also, it used to be when they made a remake they at least had the decency to remake 40+ year old films; now they’re remaking things that came out just a few decades ago and adding practically nothing.
I guess I really don’t see what the appeal is or why they make so much money. I mean I get nostalgia but if I feel nostalgic for an old movie I’ll just… watch that movie.
It sucks cause Disney’s just going to make hundreds of millions of dollars off this remake cause everyone thinks it’s amazing animation and it’ll be called a smashing success, and any more original film ideas are never gonna see the light of day again because it might not be a “safe” option to pick for big greedy corporations.
Here’s a crazy idea: maybe there are ideas being thrown around but none of them are getting there yet. Or they could be looking at old concepts.
You wanna run that by me again?
Not pictured: live-action Mulan, Maleficent 2, 101 Dalmatians remake, Lilo & Stitch remake, LA Little Mermaid, LA Pinocchio, Snow White remake, and that’s just future releases.
We’ve already had to deal with an awful live-action Beauty and the Beast, a pointless Jungle Book remake, those weird-ass Alice in Wonderland movies, a Cinderella remake, and the first Maleficent.
There’s a reason new ideas “aren’t getting there yet”, and it’s all in the name of money. Once you slap a recognizable brand name onto something you’re working on, you’ve immediately secured a huge pre-existing fanbase that will see your movie no matter what, so that’s half their job done already. Slap together something resembling a remake and voila, let the cash flow in. They’ve been doing this for years.
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