re: Spiderman, get off my lawn!

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The whole reboot thing for Spider-Man was fine; it is not that we have forgotten about the Raimi movies. We just want more stories told on the big screen

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It was about retaining the rights to a cash cow. Which is fine. His argument is sort of chicken/egg- industry changing because of teens or teens changing because of industry

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Hulk 2003 The Incredible Hulk 2008

Superman Returns 2006 Man of Steel 2013

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The Hulk film was remade because the original was just bad. No one should complain about remaking a bad movie- which the original Spider Man certainly was not.

Superman Returns is a different animal. It was a sequel to Superman II. No idea what Man of Steel is about, but a reboot doesn't seem superfluous

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The point is this is a relatively new phenomenon -- something has changed -- and the OP was examining the ramifications

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I think one thing that has changed is the nature of blockbuster movies.

For whatever reason, big budget action movies are the way to make money.

You can't just throw Tom Cruise in a movie like "The Firm" and make $100 million dollars anymore. The days of A-listers carrying hugely successful drama/suspense movies are gone.

There are only a small # of these properties like Spider-man so of course studios aren't going to let them go unused

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Living in a world of the here-and-now, obsessed with whatever is current, kids seem no more interested in seeing their parents' movies than they are in wearing their parents' clothes

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Is this really something that is unique to this generation? Every new generation is obsessed with new and current.

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A film's intrinsic value may matter less than its ability to be talked about. In any case, old movies clearly cannot serve this community-building function as they once did. More, the immediacy of social networking, a system in which one tweet supplants another every millisecond, militates against anything that is 10 minutes old, much less 10 years.

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I'm not buying that this is unique to the current generation. Sure social media has changed the visibility of the conversation, but the conversation hasn't changed from this generation of movie-goers to past ones. As a new audience emerges, things of the past become less important. It isn't a new phenomenon or only applicable to movies. I'm just not buying that social media changes the way we view movies.

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Not sure what is considered a reboot but Arthur with Russel Brand, they want to reboot the Vacation movies with Andy from The Office, planet of the Apes has been rebooted twice recently.

Total Recall is coming out, I believe a reboot of Robocop is also on the way.

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with the exception of Marky Mark's apes and Franco's apes, all of those reboots have been older movies that were before this generation's time. Hell, all of these except Vacation, Total Recall, and Robocop are before my time. I don't think those count the same

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Every new generation is obsessed with new and current.

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Not really. When I was a kid, Disney still showed some movies over and over at theaters. VHS wasn't prominent until the mid-80's. How do you think John Wayne movies, Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind were so popular for 40+ years? They showed them on big screens every so often. There was no demand to remake the movies.

The idea of "hey, have you seen the next big movie" being a source of conversation isn't new though.

I think we are just in an action movie/super hero phase or maybe completely industry change. With the price of tickets, no one gives a crap to go see some drama or intense courtroom thriller on the big screen. They can wait until Netflix or HBO. The only thing a lot of people are wiling to spend money on are kids animated movies and action movies. Which today = superheros.

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I think we are just in an action movie/super hero phase or maybe completely industry change. With the price of tickets, no one gives a crap to go see some drama or intense courtroom thriller on the big screen. They can wait until Netflix or HBO. The only thing a lot of people are wiling to spend money on are kids animated movies and action movies. Which today = superheros.

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spot on.

from the link about a Jumanji remake:

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All this to say, if this story proves anything, it's that reboots and sequels are still the name of the game in Hollywood, and it's going to be that way for some time.

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