Fail.

The fuck are you on about, neckbeard?

I think it’s mostly the latter; we checked out one of those movies once and shut it off in favor of old episodes very quickly.

I always felt that way, but it probably helped that I was so exposed to all of those in the late 70s to early 80s. I think they may acquire some repetition and familiarization that is harder to come by these days with all the other entertainment options available to kids.

I sure as hell watched a lot of those, but I never connected with them the way I did the cartoons. The sitcoms seemed impossibly old and alien, while the cartoons, which were mostly way older, felt as though they were contemporary. Even the voice patterns and archaic references to old movies and characters in cartoons…

Okay, that’s a good one, but not a remake in the usual sense, since it was the same creative team.  

I think it was less about the movie and the video game and more about the long tail of survival of all early 20th-century cartoons through the 1980s.

Sorry if the phrasing was ambiguous, but I thought the context was clear. I meant remakes of movies made since the 1970s, not remakes of movies made since the 1970s.  There’s lots of the latter.

Yeah, I wanted to exclude the few obvious improvements over much earlier films, and I wasn’t really thinking of Western reimaginings of Asian films, but I guess the Departed would be a big exception.

It’s been a while, but was there anything that qualified it as a remake besides “zombies in a mall?”

Those weren’t terrible, but I didn’t think that either was good enough to justify its existence.

It boggles the mind that this bullshit was greenlit at all. A whole bunch of people had to think that this was a good idea.

“Untouchable?”

Sorry they criticized your boyband idol.

The take that these movies are equivalent is fucking absurd outside of incel Reddit.

Nothing argues better against a website overstating its takes than overstating your own.

Yeah, that’s the fucking argument.  You seem really bright.

Okay, little fella.

Ted Demme is dead. Demme has some culpability, but it is a bonkers stretch to make him not the primary person responsible for his own behavior.

He’s dead.