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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.

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.

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

:raises hand: Gen-X too please!

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?

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.

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.

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?

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

Same for Gen X. No one wants remakes. Why the fuck do people watch them?

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

https://youtu.be/Jx8F5Imd8A8

American audiences are no longer the sole demographic for Hollywood. The audience is global, and high budget films are planned with that in mind. The lowest common denominator is the result.

During his Academy Award speech, Cord Jefferson (who won for the American Fiction screenplay) argued for more low-budget films at the cost of a single big-budget mess. More movies means more types of stories, allowing more niches to be filled. It also creates more industry jobs, and deepens the bench with talent development.

The best way to come up with good ideas is to figure out how to have a lot of ideas in the first place.

GenX wants original shows, too.

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

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

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.

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.

And genX are tired of the regurgitation

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.

Bruh im so sick of these remakes.

*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.

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.

With that though, I'm happy with good sequels to old movies, franchises or shows. Not many actually do that, but a few gems IMHO include Rogue One and Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Really though, if they're going to regurgitate old stuff why not take a movie/series that had a good premise and bad execution. It at least stands a chance of being better the second round.

Hell, you could even poke fun at the reasons the original sucked and/or make it a twist in the remake.

I enjoyed the last Ghostbusters movie, it was a good follow up to the originals.

I won't talk about any other good awful version though. There are three Ghostbusters movies. THREE!

Gen-X here, we do too