Blog Post 10
Never as good as the originals.
So many old television animations are being brought back into studios to be remade. In my opinion this is a horrible idea. Remakes are never as good as or better than the originals, even with newer technology people just can’t seem to remake a series or a movie that makes it.
Scooby Doo, Ghostbusters, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a couple of cartoons that I can think of right now that have been remade and sunk pathetically. Now there are supposed to be a couple more being remade like Speedy Gonzales and Popeye the Sailor Man. This is a horrible idea because they are just going to sink like the others did. I remember sitting at home every Saturday and Sunday morning watching cartoons on the couch with my brother. We’d watch TMNT and Ghostbusters. We’d jump up and start acting out the cartoons. When they were remade we just turned the channel because they were so awful. Sometimes the drawings were not even as good as in the originals.
Scooby Doo is another remake that I think should have been left alone. I still love watching the older Scooby Doo shows when they come on. I think that they were well thought out, had great storylines, and were just over all good. Now I think that animators of Scooby Doo are trying to take violence out of the cartoons and have more gore, which is strange to me. Scooby Doo on Zombie Island is a Scooby Doo movie that came out in 1998. It was okay but nothing like Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers or Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf. The Boo Brothers and the Werewolf were good movies that were funny, had some violence but not a lot and weren’t meant to scare kids. Scooby Doo on Zombie Island had even less violence but more ghosts that were really creepy looking. I just think that Scooby Doo should have been left alone.
People think that Scooby Doo tries to bring in a relationship to drugs. An article I read says that people think that Shaggy is a stoner because he is always hungry and has a hippie attitude. Maybe this is why they changed things in Scooby Doo but as a kid I never caught onto the similarities of a drug user and Shaggy. I just looked at it as a funny guy who was always obsessed with food.
I really wish that people would stop remaking movies. I think that they should just air the old ones and leave them the way they were. Remakes are just not as good as the originals.
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April 11, 2010 at 10:06 pm |
It is hard not to fully agree with what you touch on within your post. There are way too many instances in which classic characters or movies are remade in some form. A lot of the time, like you had said, they should have been left alone. Unfortunately, a lot of these movie companies think they can profit off of a remake of these characters while the overall outcome turns out negatively. I also have to agree with you point about the remakes of both “TMNT” and “Ghostbusters.” I wouldn’t quite call them awful, but more like not as good as the original even though the live action equivalents of both were pretty entertaining. Hopefully, these hot shot producers will realize that some things are better left alone.
April 11, 2010 at 10:11 pm |
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April 12, 2010 at 12:41 am |
I disagree that all remakes are bad, sometimes they are a way of redoing a show that could have been better. The second TMNT cartoon was much truer to the original comics than the first. As for Scooby Doo, it’s been remade countless times and the age has little to do with the quality. As a rule of thumb if there is no Scrappy Doo it’s generally considered to be one of the good incarnations. Strangely enough Scooby Doo on Zombie Island was much truer to the orignal cartoon than the movies with Scrappy, it retains the group dynamic and actually involves solving a mystery. (with the twist being that the monsters are real).
April 12, 2010 at 7:11 pm |
I actually kind of agree. So many times cartoons are re-made and they are completely awful. I wrote about two of those re-makes, Speedy Gonzales and Popeye, and I think the only one that even has a little bit of potential is Popeye. You also touched on another good point about the character Shaggy from Scooby Doo. I never caught on to the fact that he could have been considered a stoner. People look too much into cartoons. Kids do not catch on to those kind of references. I guess some people need to just CHILL!
April 12, 2010 at 7:15 pm |
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April 12, 2010 at 8:38 pm |
I think that what the producers are thinking is that since Scooby Doo was so popular when we were kids and profitable, it would be in their best interest to try and capitalize on that market, although most of their efforts were unsuccessful. I do agree with you for the most part that remakes are generally worse than the original. But I think the reason behind these remakes is just for profit. Which you can blame producers for trying to some how reinvent old cartoons to capitalize on the market.
April 12, 2010 at 8:40 pm |
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April 12, 2010 at 10:09 pm |
I don’t think ALL remakes are bad…but most of them are not as good as the first….that’s for sure! I also know that I usually don’t like sequels as much as the first movie either. Not sure why this is…but most people I know seem to think this way as well!
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