The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

[Captaindemotion]

A lament on the omniscience of remakes, sequels and reboots here

'Freakier Friday' Is Humiliating to Everyone Involved

And it's just the latest in a heap of summer sequels and remakes that seem to exist to turn audiences into nostalgia zombies.

time.com

 

[Aragorn]

Studios are afraid of spending a lot of money on movies so there's an emphasis on sequels, prequels, spinoffs, remakes and movies based on existing brands. The other alternative would be to spend less on movies, but for some reason that's not an option.

 

[Jayson1]

I think the reason why so many movies fail these days is they don't make movies anymore that were proven monkey makers of even the recent past. Edgy comedies done with low budgets. Mid size and sometimes big scope, character dramas aimed at American audiences by capturing something unique and specific about American culture. Something like Forrest Gump or Fargo. About any movie set in a small American town.

Lots of movies now seem to avoid anything doing with middle America settings and people. The big bloated action movies had appeal across the globe and art films and independent movies were for cinephile's with some having crossover success with mainstream audiences such as Tarantino movies. Basically the studios understood who the audiences were for each type of movie they made and made sure those movies would appeal especially to that target audience. Their was very few four-quadrant movies. So they pulled in money from everyone through several different types of movies instead of trying to get all the money from a small handful of movies.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein hasn’t yet been released but director Rada Jude is planning to follow his own version of Dracula with a retelling of Shelley’s story.

‘Frankenstein in Romania’: Sebastian Stan Set to Star in Film That Radu Jude Is Writing

The free-spirited iconoclast also plans to next shoot a movie "about immigration and about Romanians working abroad."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Aragorn]

The most inexplicable legacy sequel has to be Backdraft 2. It was just another lower budget Universal DTV where they take a known movie from their library and add a 2 to the title -- usually without any relation to the original -- like Kindergarten Cop, Jarhead, Hard Target, R.I.P.D., Inside Man or Doom. Then somehow Billy Baldwin and Donald Sutherland agreed to return. And thus you had a Backdraft sequel without a budget for fires.

They're probably upset that Oliver Stone and Tom Cruise wield too much power, otherwise we would've gotten Born on the Fourth of July 2: The Standoff and Born on the Fourth of July 3: The Escape by now.

 

[Set Harth]

The most inexplicable legacy sequel has to be Backdraft 2. It was just another lower budget Universal DTV where they take a known movie from their library and add a 2 to the title -- usually without any relation to the original -- like Kindergarten Cop, Jarhead, Hard Target, R.I.P.D., Inside Man or Doom. Then somehow Billy Baldwin and Donald Sutherland agreed to return. And thus you had a Backdraft sequel without a budget for fires.

I never even heard of it.

 

[Aragorn]

I never even heard of it.

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Filmed in Toronto and Romania.

Jarhead having three DTV sequels is the bigger WTF. The first one is a true story about being trained for war and then not seeing any combat. The sequels are all gung go action movies.