10 Things Movies Need To Stop Doing IMMEDIATELY

10. Retelling Stories That Have Already Been Told Pretty Damn Well

News of the Dwayne Johnson-starring Moana being remade into a live-action flick just seven years on from being released feels like simply the latest example of the House of Mouse looking at a highly marketable property with a ready-made audience and seeing the potential to make even more hundreds of millions.

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And it's not exactly hard to see why Disney were in a rush to capitalise on one of their biggest animated smash hits of the last decade, with the likes of The Lion King, Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and Aladdin live-action remakes all absolutely killing it commercially in recent times.

That being said, their most recent live-action reimagining in Pinnochio absolutely flopping with critics and not exactly being celebrated by the average fan upon making its debut on Disney+ last year may sit as one of the first signs that fans are finally growing tired of simply watching yet another unnecessary rehashing of a Disney story they've already seen.

The same goes for other tales that have already been successfully told on the big-screen over the years only to be plainly remade in a bid to make some extra cash off a well-known property, with everything from Total Recall to Ben-Hur foolishly being remade and not exactly doing much to justify their existence in the end.

Perhaps it’s time to spend exactly that thinking of a new story to be told rather than obsessing over recapturing lightning in a movie bottle.

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