Remakes need to stop!

And so do reboots!

You know what made Star Wars so beloved? It was a wonderous escape from reality, a universe full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Yet it remained grounded in many ways and offered it’s viewers nuggets of wisdom. It was an alien universe, yet it had enough elements make it relatable to us. To this day Steven Spielberg’s masterpieces are hotly spoken about.

Fast forward to today, where we have, arguably, a disastrous bastardization of the franchise from episodes 8 and 9 especially. With episode 7, I think many of us could forgive it for repeating the same formula from the original trilogy (it’s been years since we’ve had a proper Star Wars Film, and it did honor the spirit of the franchise to an acceptable level.) However, when Luke Skywalker’s character was revealed to be a disappointing shell of his former self in Episode 8, that’s when the downward spiral began.

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There are many offenses to the reboot and remake “genre” of cinema and TV shows, like Ghostbusters 2016, The Matrix Resurrections & Joker 2. It has even invest the gaming industry with the shoddy Grand Theft Auto remaster. The curse of reboots and remakes is similar to the curse video game movie adaptations had since 1980 (until marvelous works like Sonic miraculously rose.)

What is the main issue of these reboots and remakes, and can they ever turn out good? First let’s talk about why these types of media are produced to begin with. The key reason why is of course demand. There are a lot of fans of older works who would enjoy revisiting these properties with updated graphics and production quality. The demand is so high that sadly the writing quality can still dip drastically and still turn a profit.
This is where the first key issue comes into play: Profit over respect of the franchise.

The second problem I’ll talk about is malicious propaganda. It is no secret that we’ve seen a surge of LGBTQ+ and DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) elements into much of our content. Some argue it's due to a natural cultural shift. However, I argue it is a manufactured, and coerced cultural usurpation. In terms of reboots, the new Laura Croft animated series has been lambasted on social media for turning a heterosexual “womanizer” into a homosexual man. Or, turning Lara Croft’s entire character design to look uncannily masculine, turning her into a lesbian, and completely changing the feminine aesthetic she had when she was first created.

Another example of this agenda pushing I’d like to point to is a $400 Million disaster that was Concord. When the game launched, it could not even acquire 1000 total players. The design of the game, its characters, and the marketing strategy was unforgivable. This failure is so spectacular, people speculate the reason behind the PS5 pro’s price hike was attributed to Concord. No company would permit any executive to work in the industry with such a colossal failure under their belt. Yet, time and time again these blunders keep happening, and it’s growing at an alarming rate.

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The third problem I see is monopolization.
Consider the point above. Let’s now look at Ubisoft’s controversial Assassin’s Creed: Shdaows. Instead of electing to take an organic approach in a feudal Japan setting, Ubisoft decided to throw in a black guy for the sake of ‘diversity.’ The gaming company made a series of terrible business decisions, including Star Wars: Outlaws, and this “gem” of a statement (see below.)

Now, Ubisoft is collapsing so fast that the Chinese owned gaming studio, Tencent, is considering buying them out.
This is where I speculate a key reason behind a push for these agendas is to intentionally collapse the market value of companies so they can be bought up, exchange hands, and be placed into the hands of governments like communist China. When you have studios pushing out content with various DEI elements, you have to wonder if it is intentionally placed there to ruin the market value of that company.

The fourth key issue is spite and hatred of beloved fandoms.
The Joker, when it came out in 2019, instantly became a hit with fans worldwide. The story of Arthur Fleck was relatable and sympathetic, sharing a tragic tale of a man who was unable to get the professional help he needed, and instead was ‘groomed’ to become the psychopathic killer clown we all know and love.
For some reason, news media and Hollywood personalities turned it into a political piece against (who they think are) conservatives. They equated film lovers as “radical right wing extremists.” This misguided motivation lead producers to make a sequel geared towards the exact opposite audience that made them billions of dollars. Needless to say, Joker 2 flopped, thanks to its musical approach and by sodomizing Arthur Fleck both figuratively and literally.

It sounds like many of the points I listed above isn’t so much the nature of remakes and reboots in itself. However, once you tie it all together in point four, you realize something nefarious is happening in our cultural landscape. Think back to the 1950s when we had stable families able to work under one income able to afford a sizeable house, two cars, and even college for children. Think of all the comics, TV shows, and other forms of visual, auditory, and literary entertainment that was available back in the day. There is clearly a stark contrast in the nature and values our media produced back then as opposed to today.

Conservative cultural critic, Anthony Malcolm Daniels once stated:

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.”

The disorientated nature of our shows, literature, comics, art, and music are intentionally being sabotaged. With these reboots and remakes, it is not merely to “renew” the media. The intent is to destroy our history and replace it with something foul and obscene, and keep us in a perpetual swamp we may never leave. We are in a cultural war that has been ongoing for many decades, and no one has truly noticed until only recently.
However, it isn’t too late to course correct. All it requires is brave, creative men and women willing to say “NO!” to these wicked cultural practices.