Found Something That Might Be Reassuring For Cinema Fans · 12:07am Nov 26th, 2020
If you're watching the new Animaniacs 2020, you'll see that they're pretty self-depracating of their own position as a reboot and playing at the rage common in social media nowadays against every remake, reboot and whatnot.
I'm actually quite interested because it seems like a show that will actually challenge not only the remaking genre of today but our own perceptions of it.
But, recently, I found a joke quite like it about how cheap it can be to do a remake...
"Michael Chaplin has announced plans to remake his father's old classic...'Easy Street.'"
That?
That was from Round the Horne, a British Radio Comedy in the 50s.
So, the whole remaking craze of today?
It's not the first time it's happened, probably won't be the last and won't last forever.
I find that reassuring and I hope others do too.
Look up how many different versions of Scooby-Doo have been made.
Hell, the Ducktales reboot?
Disney made a spin-off called Quack Pack in the 90s (Their own golden-era)
And frankly, the Ducktales we have today is much better.
Ironically, I think today's remakes are better than they ever have been. That's why there are so many. It's a trend.
And trends don't last long.
Don't get me wrong, there are some remakes, spin-offs and adaptations I certainly don't like but I don't worry much about them after they're out and predictably get a lot of people heated.
I don't see the point.
The only exception will probably be BBC America's The Watch because of how serious it seems to have bollocksed up the celebrated works of Pratchett and I'll probably do a semi-review of it at some point.
But afterward, I'm going to forget it. Not least because another Pratchett adaptation is in the works planned for 2022, a cg-animated adaptation of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents starring Hugh Laurie as the title character and, from what little we've seen looks to be a better adaptation of Pratchett than The Watch in just about every way.
Sometimes, things can work in the fan's favour like that.
But as far as I can see, most cinematic eras go very much the same way.
20% Masterpieces.
10% Monstrosities.
And about 70% Meh.
With modern advertising and video streaming, we have much greater access to the less confident or notable works than before. There's stuff from the 90s and 80s our generation will never have heard of because our sheer level of accessibility has changed so much.
And that's not always a bad thing.
I agree, Ducktales were one of the best kid shows, watched them back in the day