What is this shit?
I just caught a few minutes of the show, and I can't believe how far away this is from the other Kung Fu shows. This is some teen targeted CW drama. Nothing about this is anything close to what we know as Kung Fu.
shareHollywood's idea of remake now a days is hijacking a popular title, crapping on the original source material and building an entirely new show/movie under the guise of a reboot.They don't care about the classic original.The idea is to use the title to lure in an audience.
shareYep.
A lot of idiots, "allies", and uninformed people will consume this garbage and then think that this is what it's supposed to be.
They'll continue doing this until every new generation is a brainwashed potato bag gulping down the schlong of Social Justice from their local Starbucks while streaming degenerate Netflix garbage from their rainbow colored iMac Pro Xer-Kin.
The problem is, any new show based on an original will always be targeted towards a modern audience.
The reasons are largely financial, there are simply not enough older fans around any more to make it profitable.
If the studios can capture the imagination of a new audience with modern reworking, they could have a massive hit.
The original movie/series will be familiar to few of today's generation, so the changes don't affect them.
They will never make a movie or series designed to appeal to 50 year old fan boys, there is just no money in it.
So while thousands of those fanboys are on websites like this constantly complaining about wokeness, diverse casting etc, the younger generation just don't care and watch such programmes regardless.
I disagree.Look at the success of Cobra kai.Success that was built by having the utmost respect for the original source material and it's original and modern fans.While they built the show to attract a new audience who may not have seen the original films it's mainly geared toward the fans who are familiar with them.The Karate kid remake movie in contrast completely disregarded the original films and it's fans and failed miserably.
shareI haven't seen Cobra Kai but that's interesting - and encouraging.
shareI highly recommend it.Especially if your a fan of the original films.
shareIts excellent. One of the best continuations of a movie series inhave seen in tv form. They totally respect the original films. Good or bad they didnt throw anything out from the films. New Star trek could learn a thing or two from it.
shareCobra Kai may be an example of a show that does appeal to older fans because of the references to the original and use of original actors.
But I think its a rare example. Most revamps of old movies and TV shows are universally disliked.
For the record, I watched the first two seasons and thought it was OK, but never felt the impetus to watch the third.
Relative to shows/movies that disregard the original source material i think that ones that hold closer to the original fans tend to be more popular and successful IMO.
"For the record, I watched the first two seasons and thought it was OK, but never felt the impetus to watch the third."
To each their own.Personally i liked season 3 the best so far.It had a great season finale and gave Kreese ,who was always such a generic bad guy, a little backstory .
They will never make a movie or series designed to appeal to 50 year old fan boys, there is just no money in it.
All of this is wrong, just flatout wrong on every metric. Did you know Star Wars is successful in China?
https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/original-star-wars-trilogy-finally-makes-china-debut
Just not the sequel trilogy:
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-rise-skywalker-box-office-china-bomb/
So you're wrong right off the bat that new generations don't respect the history of classic franchises. The Chinese hate all the woke bullcrap that America throws into their movies. They love movies that hearken back to the classics where men are macho, women are feminine, and the bad guys are believably evil.
The reasons are largely financial, there are simply not enough older fans around any more to make it profitable.
All of this is wrong. Look at the box office returns for the biggest money makers in India...
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/entertainment/top-10-grossing-hindi-films-in-2019/
And China, mostly movies that are reminiscent of the films Hollywood used to produce in the 80s and early 90s.
https://www.inkstonenews.com/arts/chinese-box-offices-top-10-films-and-5-biggest-flops/article/2180370
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2020-01/02/content_75572170.htm
I use India and China as examples because they have annually equivalent returns as Hollywood. None of the woke nonsense sells outside of the U.S.
The problem is, any new show based on an original will always be targeted towards a modern audience.
Ratings and quarterly finances disagree. WWE targeting modern audiences has resulted in the company's LOWEST consumer/viewer engagement EVER in modern times, even accounting for streaming.
There isn't one woke reboot that has done better than its predecessor, from Magnum PI to Macguyver to Charlie's Angels to Charmed. Everything you said is just flatout wrong.
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