Tell me you’re a creatively bankrupt fuck without telling me you’re a creatively bankrupt fuck.
… And to choose this of all movies to reboot (again). The first one was such a cultural phenomenon due to its original use of the concept of found footage and the way it allowed them to market the film. You can’t recreate that again with that sub-genre having become so pervasive since the first film essentially launched it. (At least to my knowledge.)
Agreed. It was unique to the time in which it was made.
Christ alive, take a chance on a new story. There’s got to be something more entertaining than rehashing all these already told stories.
Damn, I can’t believe spending two decades pushing people into STEM and business school at the expense of the humanities has left our society creativly bankrupt. Who could have possibly forseen that cutting arts education would lead to this?
I disagree.
I suspect the issue is wealth concentration. Too few people able to fund films.
It’s more likely over saturation, GOOD movies used to mostly come out of Hollywood alone. Now ever streaming service is buying shit up to keep on the back burner until needed. More stories but owned by a much larger crowd may be thinning out the quality. But Hollywood does love to rehash old shit, even before streaming so what do I know.
There are STEAM schools that include art. And art exists at most schools still.
I don’t think it’s that. Still plenty of good ideas they just get bought and shelved.
If we look at the history of Hollywood in recent decades, periods of remakes/“existing viewer franchise” properties always come at times of economic retrenching.
It’s risk aversion from investors. They’d rather a smaller but predictable level of return on everything than having studios take some creative chances.
Which is where @MNByChoice’s point comes in, the fewer parent companies the more this becomes normalized.
Wait, didn’t Blair Witch Project get a reboot just a few… nevermind, it’s been 8 years already.
I heard a gen z say “what’s blair witching” the other day and i aged like 10 years in one sentence lol.
For a second I thought they ment Hammer Studio stuff of the 60s and similar old school movies. Bummer.
“Classics” 🙄
What’s there to reimagine? Blair Witch was a product of the right time and place, and there’s no way to capture that again. Even translating it for the social media era will fall flat, as Creep 1&2 and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair already did that.
There were so many horror movies about cyberspace, video games, VR, and Facebook toward the late 90’s, early 2000’s too. Even Hellraiser had a film that ventured into this cyberspace horror idea. And it is also the worst one.
Yeah, what new angle will a remake have? The original wasn’t the first found footage horror, but it was the first one to be filmed with amateur cameras with the actors largely improvising the plot with viral marketing to push it. Nowadays they’d have the actors record everything on smart phones or streaming it live on Twitch, but that concept has already been done to death. And without its hook, the film itself is… just ok? I mean, the ending is great, but the rest is not all that interesting without the found footage premise.
It was a dumbfuck movie.
It helps to remember that we didn’t all have cameras and flash lights in our pockets. We also thought magic witches were real. Now we just have sexy human witches.
Nah, it was just straight dumb. I saw it in the theater and it was a fucking waste. Amazing hype job, tho.
