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I am SO tired of everything being a revival where the characters you remember liking are old and sad now.
Not going to say it doesn't fit the mood of the times. Creativity is dead, all the money is with the middle aged people and everybody is tired and sad while society unravels.
I just... don't feel the need to pay to be reminded of all that.
Hollywood has been out of ideas forever. Even the Clooney Pitt ocean's 11 wasn't original. It was a remake of the rat pack one, with Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.
Sure, but it's one thing to take the concept of a heist movie with cool popular guys and repurpose it as a vehicle for the current batch of cool popular guys and another to do a follow up about how the cool popular guys are all old and tired now.
It's different layers, even discounting the fact that Soderbergh adapting Traffic or remaking Ocean's is very much a different exercise than modern IP rehashes or reboots.
I suspect these will die out after the generation of pre-internet celebrities do. There were less famous people back then so each one has a lot of brand recognition. Getting them all together for a film is a safebet right now.
Maybe we'll miss this era when we need to watch a movie where a crack team of vtubers need to assemble together to mac a guffin from a secret society's discord channel.
We already miss this era, which is sort of the point. The question is whether reviving it and making it about how we are no longer in that era and everybody from it is dead or sad about being old takes us back to it or further away from it.