Tired Franchises Hollywood Refuses To Let Die

I remember the creator behind Powerpuff girls saying on Twitter he pitched something like 9 original shows and none of them got picked up. But as soon as he said reboot Powerpuff girls the studio was all over him

The worse thing about Harry potter is that there are so many things they can talk about: the marauders, the founding fathers, even focusing on the trio's children, idk. Why retell the story of Harry, Hermione and Ron again?

Dear Hollywood, We are tired of the same story being told for decades. Also, action and CGI and special effects can’t replace a great story with good characters. Sincerely, the whole world

honestly the funniest thing about james bond is how checked out daniel craig is. you can tell he's just there to collect a paycheck most of the time. watching the first knives out movie was so wild for me because he was giving like 120% compared to the bare minimum he's doing in most of the bond movies. hilarious

So I’m 100% behind Amanda’s idea: Redemptions instead of remakes. Was technologically not able to support your concept? Was great technology and concept failed by an inept director or casting agent/cast? Prove it! Fix the “issues” and redo it right!

The "Home Alone" movies deserve an honourable mention. The first two with Macaulay Culkin are undeniable classics, but everything afterwards has been the same old tired formula. The most recent movie tried to spruce things up by making the burglars sympathetic, but it backfired by making you root for them over the obnoxious kid protagonist.

"Bigger equals better" is what really killed many good frenchises. Like Alien 1, it was more intimate with the audience, really trying to handcraft a world for you and each action against the enemy had weight. Mowing down hoards of them isnt better then handcrafted scenario with meaning! It infested many many other movies unfortunately..... Im missing the small scale scenarios, delivers way more content then bloated wars with no soul.

The problem with Terminator is it's supposed to be a story about saving the world from some future human apocalypse. Instead, to make it a cash cow, they write it to, "you are going to fight and win, but it's going to happen". To the point that with time travel, you ultimately end up in a time loop! The whole premise of the movie is established. Then stomped on

I have a gut feeling that the Harry Potter series won't be that good

The ending of Toy Story 3 felt like a fitting conclusion, with Andy accepting that he has to grow up, and giving Woody, Buzz and the others to Bonnie. The fourth movie was alright, but still felt unnecessary. However, with the announcement of a FIFTH installment, it just feels dragged out, especially since Woody is no longer with the other toys.

I'm telling you we live in The Matrix and this is just the system recalculating different scenarios to see which one will plug more people back in❤

Just a side note: The "Planet of the Apes" franchise has been in existence since 1968. There was a television series in the early seventies as well.

I think the only franchise that truly deserves a reboot/revival is Percy Jackson. The movies we got never did justice to the original and unlike most other IPs, fans have actually been asking for it to be redone. Not only that, but Rick Riordan is very obviously taking his time with the show, being involved in every step of the way. It truly feels more like a passion project than a cash grab and because of that I think it's one of the few of these revival projects that will actually be good. I just hope it won't underperform due to people being so exhausted of reboots.

What do you MEAN there was an animated Fast and Furious TV show with 6 seasons in 2 years I never heard a single thing about it until now

Normally my line is: "If you want it to die, don't go watch the crap" - but there are too many cases these days, where flop after flop happened and the studios keep churning out films or TV shows in the franchise. No idea here...are those films making their money on bluray and streaming? Through commercial breaks when broadcasted or sold abroad? But at the end of the day, we can claim "everyone hated xyz" - but you only need 100 million people to spend 10 dollars on their ticket and you get the success of Aladdin or so. 100 million sounds a lot, but that is just 25 million families if mom, dad and the kiddies go. Disney won't care if 8 BILLION people hated it ^^ (which I am pretty sure didn't hate it of course)

all of these were such great picks to talk about never ending franchises. massive kudos to you man. if there were anymore to talk about (other than star wars and the mcu of course), it would be predator, transformers, and home alone. and speaking of film franchises having obscure animated spin off shows, i just found out that theres a jurassic world animated series out there. end all suffering...

What confuses me the most about the Harry Potter reboot series is: what are they going to do about merch? what about the theme parks? what about the WB studios tour in London? They can’t completely erase the movies because they’re still very significant in pop culture and generate a ton of money. The theme parks and merch are licensed for the movies specifically and use the voices and likenesses of the movie’s characters. When the series comes out will they just have two competing adaptations? Who would buy TV Harry’s wand when movie Harry’s wand is right there? They’re setting up the series for failure already just by comparison.

One of the most painful things about Charlie's Angels is that it had a successful... well not a franchise but a very-clearly-inspired-by animated series in Totally Spies so we even know it's doable, Hollywood just can't do it.

It's weird that films can have things that sound interesting and promising on paper but get so badly executed! Like with the Terminator films: the third one could be considered an unserious kinda satire on its tropes injecting the dramatic action scenes with humor. Terminator Salvation could've been amazing showing what was actually happening after Judgement Day (the event, not the film) and how John Connor becomes the leader of the resistance through carisma and great strategy and being active. Terminator Genisys takes the familiar plot of the first film and turns it on its head by having Sarah Connor mysteriously aware of terminators and her fate and so on. You could explore so many philosophical things with this and deepen the characters of Sarah and Kyle. Terminator Dark Fate could have been a modern reboot that modernizes the whole concept of AI taking over the world - I mean, the first one was made before the internet and smartphones were public or existed. The way we think of AI and how it has been ingrained in our society already has drastically changed. That could be a great potential for a Terminator film. But somehow, all these potentials were badly executed.

Netflix also made an animated Jurrassic World spin-off show - Camp Cretaceous. They made a ton of seasons pretty fast. It was obviously aimed ar kids but was surprisingly good and far better than the Jurassic World movies. In general, Jurasic Park 1 was good because it was based on an AMAZING book. Lost World's book was written between movies 1 and 2, so it wasnt as strong because of the movie's influence and was immediately turned into the 2nd movie, although the movie was MUCH more loosely based on the 2nd book. I think the lack of pre-planning and meticulous editing a novel goes through is what sank the rest of rhe film series. They were all based on trying to attract audiences and make money rather than focusing on telling an amazing story.