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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I used to say "if you're gonna remake a movie, you should remake a bad movie but do it better."

Then they remade The Crow. "Dude I said do it better. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ"

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago

You said "remake a bad movie."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Every iteration of me from 1994 to now is coming to your home to kick your ass right up and out past your teeth for calling the OG Crow a bad movie.

Yes, most of us will be in face paint. Some of us may have black trench coats on. There may even be some hammer pants, but we won't talk about that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Remakes that are better than the original:

The Thing

The Fly

The Blob

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Cat People

Hmm. I'm noticing a trend here.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The Wild Robot in theaters. Not a sequel or a remake. It is based off of a novel though.

2024 was apparently the first year where all the top-10 highest grossing movies were sequels. List doesn't include Moana 2 and Gladiator 2 which are expected to make a lot of money as well.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wild Robot really surprised me.. Score was fantastic and some scenes had me bawling

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

We took our toddler to see it and both my partner and I had multiple episodes of weeping. Lovely film.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Y2K. It was better than I expected!

Also, I remember walking out of Everything Everywhere All At Once and being angry because it probably wouldn’t do well in theaters or win any awards, despite being one of the best original movies I had ever seen.

I was happy to be wrong on that one.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Another also, I absolute hate that the video game industry is jumping on this trend. Sometimes it’s nice to play games I missed out on as a kid but it’s getting so bad now, they remaster games from a couple years ago. Enough is enough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Last solid remaster is probably Age of Mythologies Retold.

Most remasters by now are just junkware though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not against sequels/prequels, just need some more than "it's the sequel to that one you liked".

OK, but why does it need a sequel? Can you make me interested in it aside from the fact it's a sequel? Is it any good....?

Not a movie or fully original, but I watched Arcane and I loved it. It was good without knowing about the game, and those who know the game say it's better if you do. That's what a sequel/remake/adaptation should strive for.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's to the point right now that a young person 20 years of age could spend a decade just watching all the old classics from the past 80 years to enjoy great films. If they stopped making movies tomorrow, there's more than enough content now for people to watch.

My wife wants to keep watching the latest stuff but if it were up to me, I'd just take the time to watch at least all of the AFI top 100 films.... last I checked I think I've only seen about 30 of them and I thought I watched a lot of films. My last rough count of watched films that I could list was over 1,500 films. And I still have a waiting list of hundreds more I want to see.

I'm a Trek fan and I thought I watched lots but I've only seen about half of all the TV series and most of the films.

That's also not counting all the other TV series I'd like to see from the past ... MASH, All In The Family, Adam's Family, The original Batman series, The Munsters, X Files, Walking Dead, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Office ...... and on and on

If my spouse wasn't so stuck in watching the latest stuff I'd probably be happy just spending my time catching up on everything I wasn't able to see for the past 30-40 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I agree. Its the same with literature as well. One thing I enjoy about older media is not feeling so drawn to reflect on any social commentary of my own time. To me it makes it more immersive and more about the timeless aspects of the story.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

People want original without taking the risk of watching an unknown movie that might be bad

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

I just can’t afford $30 for a ticket

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

The Banshees of Inisherin

i watched it in a theater, because i've heard the movie was good. Didn't read up much on it beforehand and enjoyed watching it, albeit not fully getting it i guess.

It felt worth going to a theater for. Contrary to the last 3 or so Marvel movies i've seen in theater because friends dragged me and i ended up falling asleep every time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Movies and shows that I have watched this year in no particular order and not all released this year:

The Beekeeper

Iron Claw

Say Nothing

Altered States

The Substance

Oppenheimer

Peaky Blinders (rewatch)

Kneecap

In The Name of the Father

The Batman

Lord of the Rings (rewatch)

The Departed (rewatch)

Deep Space Nine (haven't finished)

The Devil's Own

Sicario

Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The reason I believe sequels are doing good is:

  1. movie theaters have been perverted into massive and expensive hype fests
  2. in strong opposition, past movie theaters were not expensive to go to and got you entertained in a social setting
  3. due to the rise of large chains, small and cheaper theaters have died out.
  4. assumption: the price to rent a movie for your theater will probably be horrendous by now
  5. sequels have kind of a known quality which lowers the hurdle
  6. that means new movies could be watched in smaller theaters and would have to be sustainable for those
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
  • There used to be dozens of theaters in a city, each one with a different set of contracts playing a different set of movies. Nowadays there are hundreds of movies in a city, all of them with the same set of contracts playing the same 5 movies.

  • Yes, everything is too expensive, what means nobody can afford to take a risk. Not the public, not the theaters, not the studios. (You can see people on this thread commenting that they won't.)

  • There are what? 3 movie studios nowadays? Or are those 2? Either way, you can't expect diversity from that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

~~Millions~~ Hundreds of beavers.

On a projector at home.

A silent film. From 2022.

Bizarre. Stupid. Funny. Silly. Stupid. Cute. Bizarre. And stupid.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hundreds of Beavers? Can confirm. It's a masterpiece.

imdb

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I stopped watching almost all franchise and remakes. Horror seems be the only genre worth watching. I had the highest hopes for the creator so much wasted potential.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Horror has been exceedingly formulaic for long while, which cabin in the woods masterfully satirized by flopping, but there have been many innovations recently. Love that practical effects have made a comeback.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bullshit. The box office speaks for itself. Maybe YOU want to see new movies. Regular people want the newest superhero shit movie and remakes

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Check the meme again

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Poor marketing and limited theater releases is why and studios can blame themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just get Nick Cage to be in your movie, that seems to be the secret ingredient

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

The price of movies is too damn high to go out and watch them. My system at home is far more comfortable and costs barely anything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

How original we talking?

I have seen The Substance (good) in theaters and I saw the TV glow (hated it). I also watched Megalopolis (weird) in theaters and if we want something really original I even last year watched the Onyx the Fortuitous movie in theaters (enjoyed the heck out of it)

I will likely watch Nosferatu in theaters and any smaller movie that puts the effort in and deserves my money.

But I am not paying for the movies that they make just to make money. I don't reward that kind of bad behavior and that afront to art and story telling.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a theory somewhere that this is about power play. If you produce Spiderman 245, power shifts away from the director and towards the production company. Less artistic freedom, more money management. If you let the director create their own movie, they are mostly in charge of how things go, movies become more artistic and less focused on money (alone).

I have nothing to confirm this and don't remember the source I have that from except "the internet"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Substance was a wild ride

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

What makes money is recognition.

Sequels are one way to do that. Another is a big name actor. Another is a big name director. What was the last thing you watched that fulfilled none of those?

Mine is probably Oddity, and I watched it on Jellyfin. It's honestly tricky to find things like that that aren't Β£2 DVD bargain bin trash from the depths of Netflix.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Does Barbenheimer count?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hundreds of Beavers.

And I watched it by just sort of holding my eyes open while the video file played on my computer screen.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Edge of Tomorrow. It was fun. Drag didn't give any money to Tom Cruise, though.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The last one I saw, by release date, was Late Night with the Devil, and I pirated it. I'm glad I pirated it, because I didn't know it had AI slop in it. If I did, I wouldn't have watched it. It's a shame, too, cause otherwise, it wasn't bad.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wild Robot - Piracy

Hundreds of Beavers - Piracy

Chocolate - Tubi

Don’t remember the last sequel I watched but movies are too long to watch in one sitting

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

People want to watch good movies. With remakes people want to see the original but with different actors and usually studios fuck them up by trying to fix what wasn’t broke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In theaters: Heretic, and before that The Substance

Recently at home:

Saturday Night

Man on the Moon

I saw the TV Glow

Edit: for line breaks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I watched A League of Their Own last week. Very watchable, not at all flashy, and refreshingly earnest. I hate that so many modern movies are so wised up and meta, and I find myself watching older movies more and more.

Recently it's been Ghost, Bull Durham, Forrest Gump, and Field of Dreams. (I don't even like baseball, no idea why so many of these are baseball movies!)

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

The adjective "good" needs to proceed "movies".

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

Beau is afraid. I found a stream of it online (yar matey). It was strange but good.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wild robot at home, My last theater movie? Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse.

The theaters used to pack everybody in for every show. And they just crank the prices up and up. I'm sure that they think home streaming and piracy is what killed them. But you can buy a TV the price of taking a family afford to the movies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, it's the customers who decide the market. That's how it works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People have been making original movies for over a century, many of which have profoundly stood the test of time. I'll watch any of those before I will watch a modern remake or sequel.

To the answer the question I just now watched Things Change on my friend's Plex server. Four stars.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw Megalopolis in theatres

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The Substance. I streamed it using the free trial to MUBI.

I used to go to the movies weekly as a matter of course and never missed opening weekends. I only saw Dune 2 in the theater this year, and between the IMAX ticket for just myself, a popcorn and a coke it was $60. Plus, I don’t like being in public anymore.

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