With the Little Mermaid abortion I ran across an interesting trend for films that is probably going to accelerate quickly: "Reimagining" a film.
For an example I'm going to use Malum (2023)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9472334/
Vs Last Shift (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2965466/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
This is the exact same director, 9 years after making Last Shift he just 'reimagined' it with a black lead instead of the white lead. Basically the same film except a few minor changes, basically all of them for the worse but pushing modern social 'narrative' points.
This is a bizarre trend, especially when it is the exact same person doing both projects. Financing your original film except now blacker should be impossible, at this point it is clear Hollywood is financing special interests and not actual quality. There's no excuse for funding shit like this.
There's a lot of other examples of works being 'reimagined' recently but this one stands out quite a bit, and people are even cheering the 'reimagining' as some sort of progressive stance on their original films.
Who is excited for Cameron to 'reimagine' some of his classics? We may be seeing just the tip of the iceberg for this bullshit. I wonder when they'll just begin removing the originals from streaming options and only keeping the 'reimagined' versions.
Hollywood is effectively artistically bankrupt that a chatbot can make better scripts, seriously. Any talent is now overseas in Asia, India or hell even Russia if I took a look.
This is the entertainment version of recycling your waste water to be drinking water only they've done it so many times you may as well drink your own piss because it's virtually the same thing.
Hollywood has been ripping off Asia for the better part of 30 years now and every remake has been atrocious but lauded by woke retards who somehow think Spike Lees Old Boy tragedy was “deeper”.
Well that's because Spike Lee is the token black director who they all bow to. Look at how they actually respect his pretentious "its not a film, its a 'Spike Lee Joint'" labelling.
Every film he ever releases is a profound voice of a generation somehow despite being the most boring, moral grandstanding shit ever.
What is interesting is that I liked the one Spike Lee movie that the critics hated: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_HvcviA45Sw
(The ending 'battle' was a weak point, where our heavily outnumbered group of guys trapped behind enemy lines gets to mow down lots of Germs in the end while being heroically dropped one by one until only one or few survives in a relatively over the top action movie manner, while the rest of the film is pretty realistic.)
And Lucas was heavily inspired by Hidden Fortress. One of my favorite westerns (Magnificent 7) is based on a Japanese story.
Let's not try to pretend the Azns aren't ripping off the West too. Like I thought Taegukgi (https://imdb.com/title/tt0386064/) was a really cool over-the-top war flick (not much realism but also not entirely absurd) and was excited for the writer-director's next film (https://imdb.com/title/tt1606384/), and found it to be a very inept collection of scenes from various American movies AND GAMES.
And when I'm saying "not much realism", I mean stuff like this lol:
That is true. I also know classic American animation inspired Japanese artists
It is interesting that instead of being open about it they are being so subversive.
The only reason I knew Malum was not an original film was because I saw Last Shift years ago, I recognized it pretty fast. They don't mention the original film at all, or the fact that this is a 'reimagining' anywhere on the marketing for it.
I guess after a decade they can just slap a black person in the lead, pretend it is a 'reimagining' and forget to mention they've already made the movie before.
It is like putting a new cover on an old book and selling it again as new. Scummy as shit.
Well they can't get away with any asian films as they quickly call it out and the original is always better.
They done this many times before with foriegn films as I remember they did it with the Swedish film Let the Right one in just 2 years later did an American version, though that might be more Americans too lazy to read subtitles and was more or less 1:1 just switched locations from Stockholm to New Mexico.
Yeah, except now it is 'Malum' and much more diverse with added lines about how strong she is.
It's overall much worse despite the higher budget and the director getting a 2nd shot at his own film.
Malum, meaning evil, but from what I can recall from my 1st form Latin lessons the end of the word changes depending on who or what is evil, by no means an expert though so quite probably incorrect in my assumptions
Indeed. I've been randomly picking unknown films that look or sound interesting on Roku streaming for example and have... occasionally been coming across largely unknown stuff that far surpasses any of the big "blockbuster" garbage being produced in Hollywood. Stuff that's filmed in any number of other locations and/or produced by other countries.
All you just said to me is we’re going to get Titanic with Lizzo being drawn like one of those French girls.
"It's literally just a picture of Jabba The Hut"
The year is 2022, a luxury liner full of evil rich HUWYTE MEN wearing MAGA CAPS is crossing the FIRST PEOPLE owned ocean in a
inky black nightnight of color. Suddenly, the torch-wielding VIOLENT RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST in the rigging sees something and picks up the PHONE."DARKIE, RIGHT AHEAD!"
Rose: I know what you must be thinking. "Poor little white girl. What does she know about misery?"
Jaquille: DAS RITE
They could strap her to the side so she could act like a cushion when it does hit the iceberg.
And look at the requirements to win an oscar. So expect more of this. I used to love bbc (still watch older bbc content) but they’ve been on the crazy train too. I guess Asia is still making quality content. I hear Russian content is worth checking out
Indeed. Currently watching a Ukranian-based film called The Rising Hawk. Only a bit of the way through so it's maybe a little early to give it high marks, but I like what I've seen so far. I've meant to check into more Russian films in the past too.
Edit: Aside from some mild pacing issues, rest of the film holds okay overall imo. Not bad for a budget of only $5 million, and retains a low level of wokeness. Not exactly a "brilliant" piece of work mind you, but it's at least good enough to not make you cringe all the way through.
Gaming Companies are the ones that started that Scam. The "remake vs reimagining vs rerelease" thing has been ongoing since at least the PS3 era when porting games to a new console became the biggest money maker.
Which then used those new labels to excuse doing less work or massively changing things when the "new" game came out.
Gameboy Advance had a ton of ports. From Doom to Breath of Fire 1 & 2. Link's Awakening had a fucking port from Gameboy to Gameboy Color for christ's sake. This isn't remotely new.
Laughs in Roald Dahl…
It's that sweet ESG funding