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I just want to have a discussion about this. All of the remakes and reboots hollywood has done throughout its history have always been a way of just making money by putting all the money on "sure" bets, things that producers already know people like because they were successful before, but there's something exceptionally soulless about the Disney reboots.

There seems to be no true desire to introduce a new generation to stories they weren't familiar with, but instead a desire to just rewrite disneys entire catalog to be presented in a new aesthetic. It's a homogenization of film to a single set of techniques and looks. Capitalism is directly strangling creativity and it's being successful enough that it's seemingly never going to stop. I mean. They're rebooting movies that aren't even 20 years old yet at this point. There are people in college seeing promos for reboots of movies their parents took them to as kids.

It's creating this environment where we're all stuck in this moment that already passed. The media we consume now was written in response to events that happened already, have passed us by, and can no longer be addressed. Any attempts to make new media that meet our current moment are stifled by studios who just... Don't care.

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[–] fartsparkles 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve not watched any of the remakes. I’ve not watched the Marvel movies since the first Avengers. I’ve not watched a Star Wars since the catastrophe that was VII.

I vote with my wallet, my attention, and my time.

There’s so many amazing movies still happening, you just need to stop wasting your time with studios that have run out of ideas and appetite for taking a risk in something new.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed! I haven't watched a disney remake yet. Every single promo though hurts my soul though. My favorite films are consistently the weird shit. My absolute favorite movie (thus far) is Sorry to Bother You