Why movie remakes are bad




















They give them a first full life. For example, it can occur with Hollywood remakes of Eastern films. Features of marketing in Hollywood move on the promotion of films. The scheme could attract the attention of the public all over the world as a really worthwhile and interesting film.

All these actions are used for the promotion of remakes that enables many ideas to find a new breath. The most recent example being the remake of The Lion King.

The original Lion King released in had such a great societal impact that remaking it was a mistake and ratings of the movie show the same. A similar canyon can be seen with Aladdin and its remake, and although the remake of Beauty and the Beast came off a little better, it still lost 20 percentage points to its source material. I also dislike it when a studio or company remakes an animated movie in live-action. The reason a lot of animated movies were special in the first place is that there are just some things that can not be done as well with CGI.

Animation is meant to give the creator or artist more creativity with character designs and to be able to show things that are too surreal to be transferred into real life. When horror movies are remade, movie studios never try to have a new and interesting take on the movie, they just try to take half of the old script with a technology upgrade and call it a new beginning.

There are remakes that take a source material that has been out of the public eye enough to deserve attention or ones that add enough to the original to have a story to tell.

Little Shop of Horrors is a big-screen adaptation of the musical of the same name, which was itself taken from the movie. It also added to the original movie in adding the musical element, it is all around made well. Remakes are not always bad movies.

But many of the recent movies to hit the big screen have not lived up to their predecessors, and are most obviously made just to take advantage of nostalgia, and are not made to make a good movie. Whether it be remaking classic movies without any of the charm or effort that was put into the original, or trying to bring back a dead franchise for that sweet cash money.

Disney has always been way too willing to cannibalize itself. These films take that unappealing tendency to a new low. At least the version knew and acknowledged some of what it was arguing, even if it made you want to punch every one of the oblivious, privileged white jackasses who made those arguments.

Bronson never even found a lead on the crazed, cartoonish lunatics who hurt them, one of whom was a very young Jeff Goldblum chewing up the scenery in the few minutes he spent on-screen. His daughter is never more than a damsel in distress, all her self-defense training coming to nothing, since apparently all she needs is a strong man to man up and do his manly duty.

In a hoodie. Given the depressing frequency of American mass shootings, the timing of the release was always going to be awkward, to say the least.

But it was especially tone deaf due to the Parkland shootings taking place less than a month before, which left 17 teenagers dead, and inspired others to become passionate gun control activists. The film even references the AR, the same gun used in the Parkland shootings.

But some actually make the world worse for existing , updating the aesthetics of their source material without responsibly updating their politics accordingly.

A revamp of the Charles Bronson original itself a slightly more haunting take on grief and urban decay than its gleefully violent sequels , Roth and co.

Being from Chicago, I can tell you that the city has its fair share of problems, to be sure, and gun violence is an ongoing issue. Magazine , Bonjour Paris. The film scored an abysmal 4 percent on the Tomatometer, with its Critics Consensus' saying that the film is a "needless remake that quickly loses sight of the themes that elevated the original, this is a Jacob's Ladder that leads straight to nowhere.

Swept Away is a remake of a film of the same name. The remake stars Madonna, the pop icon, who plays a rich 'self-centered' woman, who eventually falls in love with a young soldier in her employ.

The original scored 64 percent on the Tomatometer, but the remake scores barely a tenth of the original's rating. The Rotten Tomatoes Critics' Consensus says of the film: "Muddled and lacking the political context of the original, Swept Away offers further proof that Madonna can't act. The Fog is the story of the founding fathers of the town Antonio Bay, who gained their fortunes by murdering a colony of lepers.

One hundred years later, a memorial to them is unveiled - and a mysterious, supernatural fog begins to cover the town. The film only scored 4 percent on Rotten Tomatoes with its Critics' Consensus stating: " The Fog is a so-so remake of a so-so movie, lacking scares, suspense or originality.

Flatliners tracks the journey of five medical students as they seek to discover what happens after death. They stop their hearts for increasing periods of time, causing each to confront their pasts and face some paranormal consequences. However, the film doesn't live up to that potential. The Rotten Tomatoes Critics' Consensus states: " Flatliners falls flat as a horror movie and fails to improve upon its source material, rendering this reboot dead on arrival. Rollerball is a reimagining of the film of the same name.

The film transports the viewers into the then-futuristic year , where corporations have replaced countries. However, the remake removes a lot of the social commentary present in the original, with the cast simply playing the fast-paced game, Rollerball.

Rotten Tomatoes Critics' Consensus says of the film: "Removing the social critique of the original, this updated version of Rollerball is violent, confusing, and choppy. Klein makes for a bland hero. One of the few films to score no points on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, Kite follows an orphaned teen on her journey to find her parent's murderers.

The film is a remake of a Japanese video animation, released in



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