Short Circuit "Latinx" reboot announced

How long until a retard tries to push Diversity Sequel to Robot Jox.

Maybe a Last Starfighter sequel about Gamergate?
They only ever aim for big, successful and iconic movies and shows, so Robot Jox is safe.
Here's a fresh new hell for you to contemplate:
A Back to the Future Remake will happen in your lifetime.

BTTF can't be remade as long as Zemeckis lives, but it's just a matter of time, expect news of a remake being underway to hit the net within a couple months of his death.
We all know what we can expect, don't we. Doc Brown will be a proud muslim woman of color, Marty will be a mexican tranny, Biff will be a bigotted redneck wearing a MAGA hat... Imagine what crazy shit we'll see in part 2 when the protagonists end up in the future where Biff is a rich senator. Frankly, that thought alone makes me want to see this abomination.

What other remakes could there be? What other iconic movies of our past could they defile?
Labyrinth? Indiana Jones? Big Trouble in Little China? Goonies? Highlander? Willow? The Prince's Bride?

Hollywood will not stop churning out soulcrushing remakes until they have run through everything from the 80s that was good... and then they will go through the 90s and 70s. By the time they are done with that, they'll go straight back to the 80s and enter a loop of remakes.

The only thing we can do (apart from not watching this shit, of course) is laughing at their shitty attempts to remake these movies and enjoy the originals even more than before. One thing is for certain, we can't stop Hollywood, but when we see how much they fuck up their re-interpretations, we certainly can appreciate all the more, how good the originals are. They can't take that away and I mean... at some point general audiences just have to be burned out on poor remakes, right?
 
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.

Like this?

 
They only ever aim for big, successful and iconic movies and shows, so Robot Jox is safe.
Here's a fresh new hell for you to contemplate:
A Back to the Future Remake will happen in your lifetime.

BTTF can't be remade as long as Zemeckis lives, but it's just a matter of time, expect news of a remake being underway to hit the net within a couple months of his death.
We all know what we can expect, don't we. Doc Brown will be a proud muslim woman of color, Marty will be a mexican tranny, Biff will be a bigotted redneck wearing a MAGA hat... Imagine what crazy shit we'll see in part 2 when the protagonists end up in the future where Biff is a rich senator. Frankly, that thought alone makes me want to see this abomination.

What other remakes could there be? What other iconic movies of our past could they defile?
Labyrinth? Indiana Jones? Big Trouble in Little China? Goonies? Highlander? Willow? The Prince's Bride?

The problem is that I think a lot of these flops are piling up and before COVID-19, "Get Woke Go Broke" did not have that much bite to it for the Hollywood mega-corporations. But now it might hurt them more.

Keep in mind that a lot of this woke shit was greenlit within the last five or six years and it takes a fair bit of bureaucracy and red tape to cancel a major blockbuster franchise movie. With Corona-chan taking a bat to Hollywood and more or less cancelling 2020, we'll probably be burning off movies that began production in the 2010's all the way through 2021 and 2022 at the very least.

And like you said, damn near everything from the 80's is tapped out.

Indiana Jones and Labyrinth are too tied to specific actors.

David Bowie's dead and Harrison Ford is an elderly geezer. Unless they can get someone like Kanye West to play a new Goblin King, Labyrinth is never going to get a shitty remake. Indy won't get a woke reboot simply because nobody has found a proper successor to Harrison Ford and the attempt at passing the torch to Shia LeBouf backfired horribly in the long run. Crystal Skull was a financial success but damn near hated by fans and audiences alike.

Highlander's entire aesthetic is inherently problematic for the Woke Left with all the rock music, black long coats, katanas, and brooding angst. Plus the only Highlander works anyone actually likes are the first movie and the TV show from the 90's. It doesn't have the potential that a franchise like Star Wars or Marvel has.

The one big thing from the 80's that I haven't seen given the woke treatment that still has potential are the slasher movies. You had the shoddy remakes of Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th, but they were textbook "post-Recession" remakes where there wasn't a political agenda beyond playing it safe for the bean counters at the studio.

There's a lot of stuff from the 70's and 90's that could be tapped into, but the only real attempts at it were the Jurassic World movies and that sequel to Independence Day. IIRC, both of these were more in the vein of early/mid-2010's "betting on a known entity" post-Recession movies than the woke reboots of the mid/late 2010's.

With the 70's, the big ones are Star Wars (which has already been derailed) and Rocky, which hasn't gone full woke thanks to Sylvester Stallone being somewhat of a low-key anti-SJW. Plus having a black lead as the new protagonist of the Rocky franchise actually makes perfect sense in that series since he's the son of Apollo Creed.

The only other 1970's franchises that haven't been remade or rebooted that I could see having potential to get the Hollywood screwjob would be Jaws, The Godfather, and maybe Smoky & The Bandit.

Even then, I don't see The Godfather getting a woke modern reboot anytime soon. Aside from the fact it'd be damn near impossible to even attempt, there's the fact that Millennials hate The Godfather series and view it as too highbrow compared to capeshit or the woke reboots. Also, I'm pretty sure both Coppola and the Puzo estate would raise hell over any attempts at making a woke Godfather movie.
 
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Ten bucks say this is Eugenio Derbez latest attempt to enter into hollywood...otra vez....

Minor off-topic but the day I saw Robert Rodriguez and El rey networks (social media as far as I know) supported the use of latinx a part of me was really upset.
 
A big part of this sudden push to Reboot properties isn't just the obvious spectres of risk aversion and general retardation; it's the Race to the Bottom amongst staff in Hollywood. I've covered it a few times in the past on this board, but for the uninitiated, it goes down like this: the previous generation of writers and producers have gradually, over time, retired, moved onto other projects, been bought out, or died. As new ones filtered in, they were chosen not because of legitimate talent or skill, but political affiliation and willingness to kiss the ass of the higher-ups. Over time, this has caused legitimate talent in Hollywood to bleed out quickly, and made it borderline-impossible for newcomers to get a foothold without bending a knee to the establishment. This is why human scab-wounds like Chuck Wendig were able to get a career despite not being able to write worth the hole in a chicken's ass.

As the same shit has spread outward to infest the likes of big television networks and online content networks, it's been the same caliber of people who got in - ass-kissers and sycophants who believe the same shit as opposed to people with actual writing, producing, and editing chops. They don't care that you hate their content, and in fact, they believe you have the moral obligation to think like they do because, after all, it's what they do.

Naturally the correct response is to not consoom their product, so they don't get picked over for next products.
 
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Great, time to go watch the scene where they try to axe Jonny to death in the second movie on loop for a bit.

First prediction for this remake is that Juanito Cinquo (which I actually don't hate how it sounds) was never designed as a military robot, wah wah evil military taking the scientist's beautiful vision and twisting it.

Also thank goodness Instructions Not Included did not turn out to be a remake of Batteries Not Included. I worried when I saw that title.
 
I think I've asked this before but I can't remember. How are you supposed to pronounce "Latinx"? Is it, la-tinks, latin-ecks, faggot, beaner, spic, or what?
 
So since no one else pointed out the elephant in the room, you just know the reboot will be using shitty CGI instead of an actual robot because that's "cheaper". Short Circuit I don't think would've been remembered as well these days had it not been for the amazing animatronics the team put together on what was practically a shoestring budget. Johnny 5 is absolutely a marvel, like they were stunned they could even get a robot to hop.
 
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They need to bring back Fisher Stevens in pajeetface. He was best Indian actor in the history of American cinema.

Surely its going to be all CGI no matter what designs they go with. Very lame stuff.
 
Ten bucks say this is Eugenio Derbez latest attempt to enter into hollywood...otra vez....

Minor off-topic but the day I saw Robert Rodriguez and El rey networks (social media as far as I know) supported the use of latinx a part of me was really upset.

Knowing Rodriguez, there's a good chance that he was basically paying lip service since Universal NBC pretty much owns his ass and El Rey's like at the lowest tier of the NBC Universal hierarchy. His personal pet passion project channel exists solely due to that studio's graces.

Robert Rodriguez is the kind of guy who'd be against "Latinx" but he's also been in the game long enough to know how fucked up Hollywood politics are. So if he wants to keep the lights on at El Rey, he probably has to kiss the brass ring and spout the woke party line if asked to.

Chances are, if it's from the El Rey Social Media pages, he might not even been the one who greenlit the use of the word and this was just some intern.

Rodriguez is very proud of his Mexican heritage but he's also a family man who'd be willing to pay the lip service to keep providing for his family. Yeah, he's a Hollywood filmmaker but when was the last movie of his that was truly a hit at the box office? Machete? One of the Spy Kids sequels? IIRC, Alita didn't flop but it did underperform domestically.

This is probably wild conjecture on my part, but if he's still in debt because of El Rey Network or the Alita movie, he's probably in a position where if the SJW's at Universal ask him to jump, he says "How high?" and if they ask him to cheat at golf, he's on the green in two.
 
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Did the studio use the term "Latinx" or is this a case of IGN trying to pander and/or get outrage clicks?
I'm not giving IGN any ad revenue to find out.

Also, Short Circuit? Really?
You're that desperate for brand recognition, Hollywood?
This will be as successful as that remake of CHiPs, also with a Latino lead.
 
How long until a retard tries to push Diversity Sequel to Robot Jox.

Maybe a Last Starfighter sequel about Gamergate?
Robot Jox already had a brown lady in it (and her bare ass)

Highlander's entire aesthetic is inherently problematic for the Woke Left with all the rock music, black long coats, katanas, and brooding angst. Plus the only Highlander works anyone actually likes are the first movie and the TV show from the 90's. It doesn't have the potential that a franchise like Star Wars or Marvel has.
Isn't the John Wick creator actually working on a Highlander reboot?

I actually find it amazing that the last Jaws movie was in 1987 and Universal has never even considered making a new movie.

So since no one else pointed out the elephant in the room, you just know the reboot will be using shitty CGI instead of an actual robot because that's "cheaper". Short Circuit I don't think would've been remembered as well these days had it not been for the amazing animatronics the team put together on what was practically a shoestring budget. Johnny 5 is absolutely a marvel, like they were stunned they could even get a robot to hop.
The first movie is meh, I don't remember too much about it, but I really liked the sequel as a kid, it's one of the rare instances where the sequel is better than the original movie.

You can't beat the whole finale of Short Circuit 2, it's amazing.
 
Actually one thing that I'm really glad for is that there is absolutely nothing that can fuck up the Highlander franchise further than it already has been. There's been exactly one good movie in the series out of like eight, the 90s TV series which was generally believed to be all right by fans, and that cartoon in the early 2000s that tried to establish the backstory and had no idea what the fuck it was doing.

Oh, Social Justice wants to play with it? Go ahead. We've already experienced Zeist and The Source, motherfuckers, you have no idea how entertaining your failure will be in contrast for us.
 
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Is there a plot yet? I'm guessing the Border Patrol/ICE designs the robots to patrol the border/hunt illegals. Number Five is struck by lightning and, carrying out his last instructions, he locates an illegal family but has no idea what to do next. They name him Juan and hijinks ensue, including the best quinceanera ever. When BP/ICE contractors track down Juan he is forced to fight off the other robots. The contractor admits Juan is alive and it's wrong to deport illegal aliens, so they shut down the project. The end.
 
How long until a retard tries to push Diversity Sequel to Robot Jox.

Maybe a Last Starfighter sequel about Gamergate?
For the love of God please don't put that image in my brain. I love the last starfighter too much and that's like one of the few remaining graves of 80s culture current year has dug up and pissed on the corpse.
 
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