Can't wait for us to finish remaking every film, so we can start remaking the remakes. Fucking write a new movie, bunch of actual hacks
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Freaky Friday (2018) is a remake of Freaky Friday (2003) which was a remake of Freaky Friday (1976) which was an adaptation of the book Freaky Friday (1972).
Thankfully though Freaky Friday (2018) is no longer canon as Freakier Friday (2025) is a sequel to Freaky Friday (2003).
Oh and don't forget about Disney's Freak Friday (1995) which was made for TV and premiered on ABC.
Oh god I hate it π
Hollywood has been profiting off of remakes basically from the very beginning. Here's a short list of some of the most popular. And before movies, you might be shocked to learn that stage performers regularly "remade" productions originally performed by other groups. Anyone performing Hamlet or that Scottish play after The Globe burned downed is a fucking hack apparently.
This list has Blade Runner 2049 listed as a remake??? Did I miss something when I watched it??
I found out recently that Anyone But You was just a remake of Much Ado About Nothing, which I mean... Is there anything Will Shakespeare hasn't touched!?
I was 100% unaware this was days from launching. I've seen no advertisements or trailers. The fact that they aren't marketing this should say enough.
βWhy donβt they like it when we dig up Brandon Lee and take a shit in his mouth?β /s
uhg just no. the chance this movie has anything to say, and a good way to say it is practically zero. numerous writers and directors, years in the making. no one has vision of something interesting here... this is a cash grab using the original as a springboard.
gross, and not in a good way.
ill watch it, and i will be very critical. the original is an iconic piece of artwork oozing its source material. i cant imagine this will be worth the download.
100% agree about being critical.
But I'm still gonna watch it and have high expectations AND be optimistic because of skarsgard and FKA twigs. Which if it's bad, will make the disappointment even worse.
I would love for it to be good but between this, the trailers, and the feeling that the character is deeply rooted in 90s grunge rock, I just can't imagine this living up to the original.
Skarsgard is amazing, but I don't know if this is going to work out.
Well guys, as this article states, it looks like Borderlands all over again. It'll probably be on streaming by the end of the week! π
It looks like Jared Leto's reimagination of The Crow.
Why can't people come up with original ideas?
His haircut bugs me
if you remade a clockwork orange with alex as a fan of my chemical romance instead of beethoven nobody would be convinced by your 'it's a new interpretation of the book' defence either
that said i read somewhere that the trailer music isn't the same as the actual soundtrack. so maybe it mightn't be that bad. but he still looks like an emo twink joker
So Jared Leto's joker
Can't they just write a new fucking movie? Does every god dam movie coming out need to be a remake or reboot or a movie based on a book or TV show?
I'm kinda confused. Why do so many people (including this article) treat this as a reboot of the first movie, when the creatives have said that it's another adaptation of the original graphic novel? And why is everyone suddenly so protective of the legacy of Brandon Lee, when there's already been a direct sequel to his movie and a separate TV series?
i think largely because it's called 'the crow' rather than 'the crow: straight to video' or similar colon title. none of the sequels or spinoffs or whatever they were affected the cult following of the original film/books because nobody gave a shit if they'd even heard of them in the first place, curiosities at best. this one has some real money/clout behind it and is consequentially more disruptive