Short Circuit "Latinx" reboot announced

Once again, instead of making something new Hollywood takes something from the past and reiterates it. It seems like the future of pop culture is to be presented with the same stories and styles over and over again in the form of soulless, cynical imitations. Mark Fisher was right.
 
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Beautiful Border said:
Once again, instead of making something new Hollywood takes something from the past and reiterates it. It seems like the future of pop culture is to be presented with the same stories and styles over and over again in the form of soulless, cynical imitations. Mark Fisher was right.
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It would be better to remake movies that had a neat premise but shitty execution.

Like solar babies

or

Like Zapped!

or

Lazer blast

Etc
 
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Wow. Another woke, diverse reimagining of an 80's classic that I can't wait to miss!

I can't believe the unbelievable amount of spare time I have these days what with all of the TV I'm not watching. I made some early Christmas cookies today and knit myself a scarf. If this keeps up, I'll be able to take a second job with all of the time I'm not spending consooming media.

Thanks, Hollywood!
 
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Murmur said:
I'd go with "linguistic colonization" personally.
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Don't forget "-disguised as inclusivity".

Pokemonquistador2 said:
Wow. Another woke, diverse reimagining of an 80's classic that I can't wait to miss!

I can't believe the unbelievable amount of spare time I have these days what with all of the TV I'm not watching. I made some early Christmas cookies today and knit myself a scarf. If this keeps up, I'll be able to take a second job with all of the time I'm not spending consooming media.

Thanks, Hollywood!
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I've never thought of it that way. As a kid, I had to rely on mum to get what I want but now I can consoom whatever I want but people just bring back old things and butcher it with a modern perspective.
I'm actually able to save up money now cuz there's nothing good to spend it on. The last good film I watched was Rambo 5, one of the only 80s film franchise that stood strong in modern versions.

Companies don't want my money, they want me to validate them. Here it is: Fuck you, Hollywood. May you crash, burn and stop diddling kids.
 
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Hollywood knows no shame.
Hells... at least it'll be undoubtedly so terrible that it's going to be a lot of fun watching people tear it apart on youtube.

murdered meat bag said:
its not that sinister. films got more expensive to make, studios dont want to experiment and blow money. the directors and writers are well connected hacks that lack imagination and creativity so everything is a reboot.
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I used to believe that and I think it applied to cinema 5 years ago. After the big global economic recession of 2008, studios became more risk-averse and started rebootung, re-imagining and soft-rebooting stuff. Proven franchises with proven stories were created, nostalgia was milked for all that it was worth, cause it was a saver bet then trying to make something new, that might not sell. It's similar with how Anime are made in Japan, you barely see anything original, everything is based on a manga, cause you know it'll sell, if the manga is already a big hit and then there's stuff like the millionth iteration of Gundam or what have you.

But here's the thing: This "they just copy what was successful" was true roughly 5 years ago. Look at Ghostbusters, Star Wars, the last 3 Star Trek shows, Batwoman, Terminator (to some extend),the list goes on and on.
This isn't someone just trying to make money by making a straight reboot or rehash of some old successful stuff. It's not someone rehashing something successful from the past and adding some modern political spin to it either.

Ghostbusters very clearly went out of its way to insult the former core audience, it went out of its way to insult the former original movie, that it was based on... and it's not even the worst offender of this trend. Star Wars lead a relentless crusade against old fans and old content with a burning obsession that borders on psychotic derangement. They turned every hero of the past into failures at best. At worst, it made them unbearable, loathesome, whiny losers, who can't even blow their nose without fucking up. They even felt a need to shit out a comic in which they explain that even Palpatine needed a strong WOMYN behind him, secretly running his empire for him, otherwise it would have fallen apart within weeks (of course, she was a good person and tried to make the Empire good, but Palpy found out and killed her in his incel rage). I could write a 10 page tirade on how Disney massacred every past character and invalidated every past achievement and I wouldn't even scrape the top inch off of this massive iceberg of contempt, that Disney has for old SW... @General F-Mantoid could go into far more detail still.
Star Trek Discovery, in a similar fashion, goes out of its way to do terrible things to the established lore, both past and future, and Star Trek Picard... man. Boy oh boy. Holy fucking shit. After S1, the creators stated that their goal was to confront Picard with his white privilege and to show off how much of a sad, pathetic old man he is, who's constantly in way over his head.

Studios playing it safe explains why they make reboots of old stuff. It does not explain why these reboots are so filled with hate, contempt and the blatantly obvious wish to destroy and smash the iconic past of said franchise. Quite the contrary, this trend of destroying classic franchises is the polar opposite of "playing it safe" by remaking stuff. It's not even just that they add modern identity politics and far left ideologies to the mix of a reboot, they always, always go out of their way to invalidate the old stuff. So much so, that invalidating the old stuff seems more of a key focus than creating something new (doesn't help, that these new shows barely ever create, they just mimick, restructure and repeat what came before).

Many franchises are now run by people who have a chip on their shoulder against said franchises, who think these franchises are "bad wrong fun", who want to twist and turn them to follow their vision of what "good right fun" is. And of course, they want to flip off any old fan of the bad wrong stuff, just to spite them. I think many of the show-runners and movie makers involved with ST and SW are people who would like to make something new, but deep down know that no one would watch it, which makes them hate the old, established stuff and its fans. They have some vague idea for a show/setting/characters that they'd love to make, but they can't sell it on its own, so they push it into whatever established franchise they can get their grubby fingers on.

I guess that's the takeaway here. Studios want reboots, cause they sell on nostalgia alone (as can be seen by the success of the terrible SW sequels), but the studios hand over the keys to these franchises to people who genuinely want to ruin the franchise's past out of spite and replace it with their vision for a product - but to make that fit the old lore, they also have to break the old lore beforehand.

Replace Stan Lee with a dangerhair and you'll have a perfect representation of what I mean.
Beautiful Border said:
Once again, instead of making something new Hollywood takes something from the past and reiterates it. It seems like the future of pop culture is to be presented with the same stories and styles over and over again in the form of soulless, cynical imitations. Mark Fisher was right.
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I really wonder, won't audiences ever be starved for something decent, new and original? I just hope so. But chances are, people will be perfect little consoomers, watch every soulless, half-baked SJW-arized remake, and if they want something new... well... there's always Marvel shitting out formulaic turd after formulaic turd (but it's not a remake, strictly speaking and "that whedonesque quipping is soooooo funneh!".

FFS I hope that audiences wake up to how shit this is.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
and Star Trek Picard... man. Boy oh boy. Holy fucking shit. After S1, the creators stated that their goal was to confront Picard with his white privilege and to show off how much of a sad, pathetic old man he is, who's constantly in way over his head.
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I still can't believe that they had the balls to publish an article/opinion piece on the official Star Trek website titled: The Humbling of Admiral Picard. To me, ST Picard and that article were the final nails on the coffin. Star Trek is dead.
 
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Miller said:
I still can't believe that they had the balls to publish an article/opinion piece on the official Star Trek website titled: The Humbling of Admiral Picard. To me, ST Picard and that article were the final nails on the coffin. Star Trek is dead.
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It's utterly surreal. People were arguing back and forth about what the creators intended, so people who saw through this hatefilled character assassination called it what it was, while the braindead, seal-clapping mongoloids, that enjoy this shit, went "nah man, they didn't want to ruin Picard, they showed us another side to this character, they love him just as much as we do!" and suddenly the creators pop up and go "Yeah, so we wanted to ruin this character and did our best to assassinate him as thoroughly as possible."

Be that as it may... what exactly is "a latinx reboot"? Will Gutenberg be replaced with a latinx womyn who don't need no man? Will the robot go missing in Mexico and get across the border?
I swear to fucking god, the ideas behind these reboots are just producers having two piles with slips of papers. The first pile contains names of old franchises and the second contains minorities and they just draw one slip of paper from each pile before they ask around the office amongst their diversity hires, if they know a writer and then proceed to contract the cheapest to make them a movie.
 
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Lone MacReady said:
Cultural Marxism. On another note, why are spics who did not invent Latin, called Latinos? Why are so many south Americans, many of whom have no connection to Hispania, called Hispanics?
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The Spaniards used to own them?

I cant find the image showing it but in the new world the spaniards had a system you were native, afro, spanish, if you had spanard with afro you got a mulato, if you had spanish with native you got a lantino and if the native mixed it was metizmo (sp?)

Anyway the problem with this system is that after a generation or two have to use some mid level algebra to fixure out where your suppose to be,
 
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