People should stop adapting 1980's properties into blockbuster movies, Yay or Nay?

[SuperBatman]

Saw this a few days ago. Only one film has not been remade/had a sequel...

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This is true but it has been in the news lately to be remade or had a sequel for the past few years now.

 

[Teelie]

How many movies have been given the PG-13 treatment from previously R-Rated franchises actually succeeded in being better? Not just financially, but critically and with a positive audience response (ie; people will admit to liking it)?

And the Terminator franchise is the perfect example of R-Rated to PG-13 diminishing quality.

 

[Wheels]

I don't agree with this at all. Some 80s properties should be rebooted/remade just like some 90s properties should as well. I'm a 90s kid but the 80s had a ton of great stuff. Have to admit, not a big fan of the 80s versions of Transformers, G.I. Joe, or He-Man; the 90s-2010s own the 80s in terms of animation.

I generally prefer 80s blockbusters to 90s ones though. I'll take Die Hard, Rambo, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, The Terminator, and E.T. over Speed, The Matrix, Men in Black, Independence Day, Twister, The Mummy, Armageddon, or Godzilla.

In terms of dramas they're about even.

 

[TX85]

Nay!

 

[Thundarr]

I don't think they should stop. After all, I'm trying to do the same damn thing right now myself. What I do think they should stop doing is just throwing any old crap onto the screen and think that people will go see it because the source material was popular. Sometimes this works (Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Scooby Doo) but more often than not, it's just s**t (Fat Albert, Dudley Do Right, Mr Magoo, Jem, etc).

 

[terry78]

We do need an Inhumanoids movie though, i don't give a **** what anyone says.

 

[jmc]

My problem with all this remaking 80's and 90's stuff, or soft rebooting franchises is that it's relying heavily on people my age to be attracted to it. There's an over reliance on nostalgia to generate success. The issue is kids these days aren't being given much of their own in terms of movies, nothing is really being generated that in 20 years time they will look back on as being 'theirs', and that's kinda sad to me.

 

[Thundarr]

My problem with all this remaking 80's and 90's stuff, or soft rebooting franchises is that it's relying heavily on people my age to be attracted to it. There's an over reliance on nostalgia to generate success. The issue is kids these days aren't being given much of their own in terms of movies, nothing is really being generated that in 20 years time they will look back on as being 'theirs', and that's kinda sad to me.

Well they did have Avatar: The Last Airbender, but then Shamalamadingdong had to go and f**k that up.

 

[smallville fan]

My problem with all this remaking 80's and 90's stuff, or soft rebooting franchises is that it's relying heavily on people my age to be attracted to it. There's an over reliance on nostalgia to generate success. The issue is kids these days aren't being given much of their own in terms of movies, nothing is really being generated that in 20 years time they will look back on as being 'theirs', and that's kinda sad to me.

It's because folk at those ages are the ones making money and in the sadness that is adulthood where we're nostalgic for our childhoods, it's a lot easier to make money off of that.

Don't kids today like stuff like Ben10? I always thought that was a property the generation below likes. There's also stuff like Frozen etc to keep kids happy.

Is Adventure Time something kids are supposed to like before accidentally catching on with the adults?

 

[Alien Anal]

What ever happened to that live action Max Steel movie?

 

[jmc]

It's because folk at those ages are the ones making money and in the sadness that is adulthood where we're nostalgic for our childhoods, it's a lot easier to make money off of that.

Don't kids today like stuff like Ben10? I always thought that was a property the generation below likes. There's also stuff like Frozen etc to keep kids happy.

Is Adventure Time something kids are supposed to like before accidentally catching on with the adults?

I'm talking specifically movies here. Even people in their early 20's don't have much outside of maybe Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean.

 

[mikeboydus]

I think it depends on a case by case basis. Remaking Robocop was a terrible idea. Some 80s films could probably do well with a remake though. There are some that were not big hits or even flops that could have been better and I wouldn't mind them being redone: The Final Countdown, Dragonslayer, The Beastmaster, Blue Thunder, The Keep, Krull, CHUD, The Last Starfighter, Red Sonja, Troll, and even Highlander.

 

[Jochimus]

I think it depends on a case by case basis. Remaking Robocop was a terrible idea.

I personally liked the movie myself, but yeah, I think what doomed it in the end was essentially the same problem that plagued the franchise previously: the modern, corporate studio system's ongoing attempts to take something that began as a dark satire and actually devolve it into everything that it was satirizing. In this case, this time they were obviously trying to remake the original movie into something that actually WOULD be more franchise-friendly, which only serves to make its failure an ironic one.

Some 80s films could probably do well with a remake though. There are some that were not big hits or even flops that could have been better and I wouldn't mind them being redone: The Final Countdown, Dragonslayer, The Beastmaster, Blue Thunder, The Keep, Krull, CHUD, The Last Starfighter, Red Sonja, Troll, and even Highlander.

Except Hollywood doesn't like remaking flops, because that would be tantamount to admitting its mistakes.

 

[smallville fan]

I'm talking specifically movies here. Even people in their early 20's don't have much outside of maybe Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Ah ok, you mean actual movie franchises not adaptations. Disregard what I said lol.

I think it depends on a case by case basis. Remaking Robocop was a terrible idea. Some 80s films could probably do well with a remake though. There are some that were not big hits or even flops that could have been better and I wouldn't mind them being redone: The Final Countdown, Dragonslayer, The Beastmaster, Blue Thunder, The Keep, Krull, CHUD, The Last Starfighter, Red Sonja, Troll, and even Highlander.

Isn't The Last Starfighter already being remade?

 

[spider-neil]

Turning R rated movies in PG13 movies sucks but it is understandable. Back in the day, CG didn't exist so film makers had to be creative with how effects were made. Now you can pretty much do anything with CG. The draw back is CG is expensive so the movie companies need to make back as much money as possible, so you need bums in seats. To ensure you get more bums on seats you lower the rating to attract a wider demographic.

This however ends up annoying everyone. The hard core fans hate the watered down version. The new younger audience don't see why the original movie was a classic and only see the new disgrace of a movie.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'm not a fan of 80's remakes but I still want a Thundercats movie and a G1 purist version of Transformers.

After that feel free to close the door to the 80's.

 

[Airwings]

^Not until He-Man has been done right

 

[spider-neil]

Basically, the cost of movies has ruined Hollywood. Movies are now so expensive to make that the margins needed to break even (never mind turn a profit) are astronomical. Movie studios now want to play it 'safe' and tick as many boxes as possible and also set up franchises.

The result is paint by numbers movies that aren't self contained.
Back in the day, film makers took chances (because they were allowed to) and the sequel was green lit off the back of it being a good movie.
World building was in service of the story not sequel bait.

It's a sorry state of affairs that isn't going to get any better as movies are simply going to get more and more expensive to make and 'design by committee' will continue.

 

[3dman27]

true unfortuneatly