It Didn’t Ruin Your Childhood!

With the reboots of movies that shaped a huge part of older generation’s childhood comes the growing hatred of the very generation that experienced the originals. You must have obviously seen reboots of popular films gaining backlash and usually not being received that well. Well, I want to know why these movies aren’t appreciated, is it because they are adding to something that is already perfect or twisting the story to something that it wasn’t in the first place. There are so many reasons people can put forth but for now, I shall be focusing on the more known opinions when it comes to remakes.

The very first reason that I generally hear is it’s just a scheme to take something that already seems complete and adding unnecessary plots just to make a few bucks. Now, this one I have to agree with. There are reboots made that have nothing to do with the original although some are remade to experience in a new way. Let me give you the example of The Lion King. The live action version was not well received but personally I enjoyed it quite a lot. That’s the fun in some of these remakes, experiencing the story you already know and love but with a totally different approach.

The second argument is that the reboot strays away too far from the original. If you want a movie that doesn’t stray far from the original plot but also don’t want anything new added to it. Just watch the same movie twice. It’s a reboot, it has to have some changes. What I mean by change is the same characters or the same protagonist thrown in a different situation or faced up against a different antagonist. A perfect example of this would be Kong : Skull Island, I enjoyed this flick because of the well packed action sequences and the scary look of the Skullcrawlers. And if you think I am a simpleton for just liking the movie because of the action scenes. Allow me to point out to you that if you are looking for something profound or symbolic in an action flick, you’re looking in the wrong place.


Contrary to popular opinion, I did like Kong’s look in the newer version and I think the CGI did do it justice.

Ultimately, I believe this is a symbol, it’s a symbol of people who just can’t let go. Those people who were emotionally invested in the characters as kids can now simply not accept the fact that those very characters have changed. After all, isn’t that why we end up liking these movies so much. It’s because of the characters, we resonate with them so much to the point that we can’t let them change.

But they will learn, be it the hard way, to eventually let go one day.




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