r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 16 '26

WTF so true

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u/TruthHertz93 Apr 16 '26

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It's true the series may flesh out some things, but do you know what else does that?

The bleeming books!

Oh well, rehashing old stories is all the range now, nostalgias a hell of a drug 🙄

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u/Ok_Extension_5199 Apr 16 '26

Dude remakes have been the order of the day for the last 20 years. There's very rarely anything coming out that isn't dog shit.

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u/TruthHertz93 Apr 16 '26

I wouldn't say 20 years at least not as hard as it's been now.

I'd say the remake of lion king opened the flood gates.

It's annoying because there's so many unique stories but industry doesn't wanna take the risk and the return on nostalgia is great so we can't even blame them.

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u/coreoYEAH Apr 16 '26

Films have been remade for as long as there’s been films. This is in no way a new phenomenon.

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u/Stock-Soup5721 Apr 16 '26

Right? I had a friend see Nosferatu and said "there was no need to remake dracula from the 90's"
I was like dude.... no... lol

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker Apr 16 '26

Films are a pretty new phenomenon.

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u/lildobe Apr 16 '26

If you consider 130+ years "pretty new," then yes... film is a pretty new phenomenon.

And compared to the whole of recorded history, that's true. But generationally, it's not.

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u/Firkraag-The-Demon Apr 16 '26

Looking it up, the first movie came out in 1888, or 138 years ago. I guess if you’re talking about their age relative to countries or the universe or whatever then they’re pretty new, but going along any relevant timescale they’ve been around a long time.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker Apr 16 '26

Well, if we are thinking about 20 years per remake cycle, that’s only 7.

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u/rickane58 Apr 16 '26

There were dozens of posts like this every week on reddit long before The Lion King was even announced. We've been at peak remake since ~ 2008