A_Random_Idiot 37 points 2 years ago

took me to long to realize they were talking about franchise rebooting

and not ReBoot the groundbreaking computer animated series from 1994

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Krackalot 15 points 2 years ago

When they eventually reboot ReBoot, do you think they'll stick with ReBoot, use ReBooted or go with ReReBoot?

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A_Random_Idiot 6 points 2 years ago

Probably call it Reboot, but add a : and put a bunch of stupid words afterwards, and make it a horrible live action hybrid thing thats incomprehensibly stupid.

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GuerillaGorillas 8 points 2 years ago

I don’t know if you’re referring to this or don’t know but that’s pretty much exactly what they did a few years ago: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6849940/

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homesweethomeMrL 5 points 2 years ago

The snark kinda writes itself at this point yknow

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A_Random_Idiot 2 points 2 years ago

I had no idea that thing i was specificly and explicitly referencing existed 💩

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GraniteM 5 points 2 years ago

The made a sort-of sequel called ReBoot: The Guardian Code, and from what heard it was terrible, so I exercised my limitless not-watching-that potential.

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Mastengwe 4 points 2 years ago

I’ve never seen it before, so to me- it’s just …. Boot.

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modifier 3 points 2 years ago

I don't know, but I intend to find out.

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noseatbelt 2 points 2 years ago

Alphanumeric!

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TheBat 18 points 2 years ago

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Stern 12 points 2 years ago

When I first heard that I was like... why? The "live" action Lion King got dogshit reviews and continuoisly clowned on.

Then I found out it made 1.5 billion on a ~250 million budget and understood.

Fuck the mouse tho

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NoSpiritAnimal 8 points 2 years ago

One important note about the mouse shitting out live action remakes, they want to hold the copyright for as long as possible.

They don't care if Aladdin with Will Smith only makes a 10% return (Hollywood accounting), because they've renewed their claim on the IP and merchandising the blue corpse of Robin Williams Genie far exceeds any film profits. They make more than $5 billion per year just on licensing fees.

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ninja 2 points 2 years ago

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NoSpiritAnimal 0 points 2 years ago

Winnie the Pooh isn't an original Disney IP either. Yet if you put Pooh in a recognizably Disney style Pooh costume they'll sue you. You can sell merch of shirtless Pooh all you like.

It's still protecting the Disney version of the IP. It's why the live action remakes still share a visual language with the animated originals.

You can make an Aladdin movie if you like. But god help you if there is a Blue Genie with characteristics recognizable to an objective observer as being similar to Genie®.

Steamboat Willie is public domain, but Mickey Mouse® is not.

That doesn't mean Steamboat Willie is fair game either, Disney can still argue it's a trademark, and likely will, since they've made it the new intro clip to every Disney IP.

Here's an writeup covering it in more depth, from The Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins:

https://carey.jhu.edu/...

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UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 2 years ago

They make more than $5 billion per year just on licensing fees.

Disney is the single largest grossing ip licenser, at $61.7B in 2023.. This, from a company that grossed $89B total.

Nothing they sell is original anymore. Its all regurgitated slop.

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RealFunAtParties 14 points 2 years ago

I feel like this is more true the better a given thing is. The better the original, the slimmer the chance there is that the remake will top it.

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EdibleFriend 26 points 2 years ago

Yeah....lets get reboots of flops that had promise like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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djsoren19 5 points 2 years ago

This is the thing that kills me most, especially when it comes to video game remakes. I don't want to go back and replay a good game from my childhood with slightly better graphics. I want to go back to a game that I loved, which had a ton of flaws and weird issues, and see it get the final release it deserves. So far the closest we've come to that has been Dragon's Dogma 2, but I'd kill for something like an Arcanum remake, or the original Vampire: The Masquerade game, or Timesplitters.

I think the issue is that suits see art as a product to sell and get rid of, whereas creatives see a process that could use 2-3 more iterations. In our minds, it makes more sense to go back, give it a few more iterations, but suits just call it a profit failure and move on.

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TheBat 2 points 2 years ago

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EdibleFriend 3 points 2 years ago

Fuck the car was beautiful.

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Dagwood222 4 points 2 years ago

Look at Batman. 85 years of reboots and there's still life in the old boy yet.

I didn't think they could top Batman-The Animated Series, and then Nolan and Heath Ledger [RIP] prove me wrong.

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OpenHammer6677 2 points 2 years ago

Agreed. The latest Batman movie with Pattinson is pretty good tho

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gedaliyah 6 points 2 years ago

How do I learn this mystical skill?

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stembolts 7 points 2 years ago

You gotta watch this animated show called One Piece, once you've seen all of the episodes the ancestors will imbue you with the knowledge.

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djsoren19 4 points 2 years ago

Which one? The original, the live-action remake? or the anime remake planned for later?

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the_post_of_tom_joad 2 points 2 years ago

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stembolts 2 points 2 years ago

Yea my friend said the same, it's on my to-watch list.

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stembolts 2 points 2 years ago

I was just joking cuz it has infinite episodes.

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gedaliyah 2 points 2 years ago

Instructions unclear. Watching the live action version.

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stembolts 2 points 2 years ago

Rest in Pieces, Shamalamadingdong Tsung claims another soul.

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plumbercraic 4 points 2 years ago

Find something you love then watch a sequel/reboot/adaptation written by a different team with contempt for the source material. For me it started with ghost busters 2016, but tlou part 2 and the witcher Netflix really helped too.

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brey1013 1 point 2 years ago

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UnderpantsWeevil 4 points 2 years ago

The weird thing about the live action Last Airbender is that it felt like an abridged cartoon Airbender. If you hadn't watched the original, so much would just fly straight over your head.

Like, at that point, why even do the original story? Just make an actual sequel / spin-off / whatever. There's tons of additional Avatar material in comic books they've been putting out since... what? 2011?

Same thing with Star Wars. LucasArts and Disney churned out crap for so long. The stubborn refusal to license the Timmothy Zhan novels and make them into a show/movie is baffling.

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Gradually_Adjusting 8 points 2 years ago

New = risky, gross

Old = bankable, yey

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stembolts 3 points 2 years ago

Boop beep I got delete.

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Skua 9 points 2 years ago

I'm a bit confused about what it's for. Are they intending on expanding anything from the original series? If not, what does it offer over the original?

To be clear here I'm not saying it's bad. I have no idea. I haven't watched it and don't care all that much for the original either (which, to clarify again, does not mean I think the original is bad, it was just never special to me personally). I just don't understand the intention.

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Baggie 5 points 2 years ago

The cynic in me says money.

More specifically though, there's this sense of media hierarchy where some mediums are considered superior/more digestible/mainstream than others. Think back to the 2000s, everyone wanted that live action cowboy bebop remake with Keanu reeves, same kind of thing.

I couldn't tell you why this exists, very often the original media was good because of the medium it was presented in. I'd argue avatar is one of those cases, but that's me.

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stembolts 1 point 2 years ago

Boop beep I got delete. .

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blargerer 6 points 2 years ago

I'm happy you liked it, but its really quite bad. It ruins character arcs, has bad acting and terrible dialogue, and it apparently never heard of the show don't tell rule.

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stembolts 2 points 2 years ago

Well we can hope they take some of these lessons to heart in the upcoming seasons.

I love the source material so much that it seems like I may be taste-blind to the flaws. I'm pretty thankful for that.

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criitz 5 points 2 years ago

That's a hot take. I couldn't make it through the trailer when they mispronounced the main character's name. How could they have respected any of the rest of the material? I'll still pass on watching it.

EDIT: OH this is about the live action TV Series not the Movie! ...Still pass

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stembolts 1 point 2 years ago

Boop beep I got delete.

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TexasDrunk 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think I liked it as much as you, but I definitely enjoyed it. It was fun.

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