10 Ways 2017 Movies Definitely Made Us Dumber
4. We Watched Some Pointless Reboots & Remakes
In 2017, us moviegoers were subjected to an onslaught of
pointless remakes and reboots. We had Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast
remake with Emma Watson’s subpar singing skills and a supposedly progressive
gay subplot which only really amounted to LeFou looking longingly at Gaston a
handful of times.
We had the Flatliners remake which wasn’t even that good a movie to start with and Ghost in the Shell which wasn’t only inferior to the 1995 anime but also had the audacity to cast a white actress in an Asian role.
Then there was Tom Cruise’s boring box office bomb The Mummy, yet another Murder on the Orient Express movie and Amityville: The Awakening which called itself a ‘meta film’ but was really just a crappy reboot about as scary as a Labrador puppy.
It’s not that remakes or reboots are inherently a bad thing. In fact, on rare occasions they can turn out better than the original movie like in the case of The Thing or True Grit. But when they’re as inane and pointless as 2017’s remakes and reboots were and fail to bring anything new or improved to the table, then we’re essentially being spoon-fed badly recycled old ideas.
With even more remakes and reboots headed our way in 2018 including Scarface, Mulan and Tom Raider it looks like a trend that refuses to end too. And they say originality is dead, eh?