Tuesday Mumbles: Remakes

Note: The following information being written will be based on my opinion. Do not take any offense to them if you hold them to heart

Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.

There’s always the sweetness of a nostalgic reminiscent of something of my childhood, though that’s been years ago. Now there’s a new trend by the late 2010s and up to 2020s where older shows have been given a remake or reboot. Now some remakes are pretty good such as the Homeward Bound movies, the 2017 remake of Beauty and The Beast and even the 2019 Aladdin and Lady and The Tramp movies. Those are good and I enjoy those the best, but what gets me annoyed is that when people want to remake certain shows or things that don’t need to be remade.

“What do you mean we don’t need things that need to be remade?” is something you may ask. Some shows like the Powerpuff Girls remake or the not so good Disney remakes like Mulan or The Lion King which tries to go for pure memory but fails to attract that with high budget that backfires or straying too far off from the message or just plain was written by people who didn’t know the source material and heavily deviated from it. When you try to remake it, either try to be faithful to the source or try to ensure it’s close to it. Tiny deviations and some changes can be done though too much can be alienated such as a villain’s origin that didn’t have one in the original.
Though some movie remakes end up butchering everything except the title of the movie. One such example is the 2012 remake of Total Recall, which felt like it wasn’t the 1990s version I used to watch. No reference to Mars, no questioning of what is real and definitely no mutants or Arnold. It’s frustrating when they remake stuff I grew up and not even giving any possible aspects of it. It felt like it was Total Recall in name only.

As I mentioned, not every remake is bad but not everything needs a remake. In fact..i’m reminded of a quote from Pet Sematary (Ironically a movie that was remade as well). If you can’t remake a movie or series properly, don’t bother rebooting it or remaking it or whatever. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!