10 Times Hollywood Learned The Wrong Lesson From Movies

Back when Disney first announced a live-action remake of Alice in Wonderland - and that's using the term "live-action" rather lightly - audiences couldn't conceive just how much was hinging on its success or failure.

The movie's billion-dollar box office haul prompted Disney to quickly smash the "in case of emergency, remake everything!" glass, hurriedly greenlighting redos of almost every single one of their most beloved animated classics.

And so, the last decade-plus has seen Disney industriously serve up a glut of remakes of wildly varying quality, with only Cinderella and The Jungle Book managing to stand out much at all. Though Disney has now remade most of their Renaissance-era classics for a new generation, they're far from done, with remakes of Snow White, Bambi, Hercules, and even more recent CGI animations like Tangled and Moana in various stages of development.

Sure, you can argue these remakes aren't "for us", and that their existence doesn't harm the original, but it does nevertheless indicate how utterly creatively bankrupt Disney is, so keenly dining out on its prior glories rather than coming up with new characters and stories.

Given Disney's ongoing financial struggles, it shouldn't be remotely surprising they're leveraging their legacy content for every last drop, but for those interested in original storytelling rather than simply having their childhoods sold back to them in soulless new packaging, it's seriously alarming.