I think there should be a rule at this point an IP can only get one reboot every 15 years and it has to be won in a director competition because this is ridiculous! It feels surreal how many reboots and remakes they make and they are usually always for the worst.
So are you tired of them to?
Reboots and remakes are the oldest complaints in Hollywood. I’m way more sick of seeing this ancient criticism rebooted every week as if there was ever a point in history in which Hollywood was full of original ideas.
Hint: it wasn’t. Even the early days of movie making were absolutely dominated by movies made from books. Everything is a remake, rehash, retelling of some kind. That fact has no bearing on the quality of the media created. There are just as many shitty original films as there are shitty remakes, and plenty of sequels, remakes, reboots, and reimaginings that surpass the original inspiration.
True, but I’ll cut early Hollywood some slack because some of the reboots were from silent to talkies or from black and white to colour. I like the talkie version of Gunga Din better than the silent version, but I like the black and white Philadelphia Story more than the remake, High Society. The color 1942 version of Jungle Book was really good, but Disney’s cartoon version with songs and all was better childhood entertainment. I think I watched a more modern reboot at some point? That was one interation too many.