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?
Depends. There are good reboots occasionally, e.g. Dune.
But most, primarily Disney IP stretching and recycling is usually not worth watching. Regardless if it a “real life version” of a classic animation or the twentieth Star Wars movie or series.
I wouldn’t really count dune as a reboot. The original dune was a complete mess and the technology wasn’t really there and no one gave enough of a shit. It’s not like a good movie was remade because they wanted to grab some cash.
OK. Yes, back then, cinematic technology was far from capable of delivering a Dune in the grandeur the story demands. I still file it under “reboot”, as the same book has been (attempted to) filmed before.
I’m going to politely disagree.
Star wars managed to show that cinema can handle grandeur. 1984 Dune can’t blame the technology of the time.
Star Wars was dreamed up by a director using the tools of the time for his filming. And there is not that much grandeur in it. Have you read Dune? That is in a whole different league than Star Wars.
I read it, And I still think it was possible, yhea, it would look more like Star Wars, but still.
My point is that it is stupid to say 1984 was a failure because of the technology of the time, while the return of the jedi looks way better (like comparing a made for TV movie with the the yearly summer blockbuster) and were made at the same year.
Yhea, there will always be better tech in the future. but that is besides the point
Controversial opinion which my dad and I share but the new Dune movies lack a level of artistry and creativity that Lynch did far better on with his. They are good movies, great even, but they just seem flat and soulless like any other Hollywood epic lately.
Dune was good? Hard disagree. Like, the FX were very nice and all, but I feel like we are past the point where good FX is a selling point. A movie like Dune needs good FX as a baseline.
But the acting? The dialogue? The plot? All very mid. And that’s what makes a movie good. I didn’t feel like I was watching pivotal moments in the history of far-flung peoples with cultures very different from my own, which simultaneously displayed the great possibilities for diversity among humanity as well as the immutible laws all societies follow. I felt like I was watching a poorly written american teen romance with fancy costumes.