Hollywood is doing the creative equivalent of mountaintop blasting. Nothing will be left of anyone's childhood except a blasted heath of slow piano covers of beloved theme songs.
I'd put jurassic park first. At least Ghostbusters are solving an external conflict. At this point any jurassic park movie should just be 40 minutes of somebody trying to convince an investor a park where you have live dinosaurs won't have the exact same incredibly predictable problems they've immediatly encountered the last 6 times they did this exact thing.
Have they stopped making Terminator sequels/prequels yet? How many silly time travel branches can they churn out? Terminator 2 was basically a high budget remake of the original Terminator with some plot tweaks, both were excellent. I think I watched 2-3 more and they were all forgettable.
hot take: Ghostbusters (2016) was the best movie since the originals, possibly even on par with or slightly above Ghostbusters 2. it had good wacky energy and didn’t try to take itself seriously like the kids reboot, and it had queer rep that didn’t feel like queerbait, as opposed to the newest movie.
oh, and while I can’t explain why this is, the homages to the original movies and actors felt like proper homages, rather than nostalgia traps like in the reboot series.
Star Wars. It's clear at this point that Mando S1 and Andor are exceptions to the rule - Star Wars hasn't been good since 1983. Burn it all down, release the theatrical cut of the OT in 4K as an apology, and then wait for at least ten years before reconvening to try again.
They did, didn't they? They made 2 movies, then like 2 decades later they made a mediocre reboot that made all the CHUDs mad because wamens and that was the end of it. Hollywood learned they can't just keep milking the same franchises over and over and they've returned to making original content since then. Or so I would assume, I haven't been to a movie theatre in over a decade.
The genderswapped Ghostbusters was fun. I feel like we need the 80s vibe of cynical centerism to make it fun. Plus Dan Akroid is a great writer that was insane before the coke. He thought he was making a documentary then the good SNL writers sanded the rough edges and punched it up. I don't think we could get that today. There are fornsure some writers that have the same flair but the studios wouldn't ever approve it.