Studio remake strategy: Are they deliberately throwing flaming bags of crap at us to lower our standards?

Are studios deliberately creating terrible remakes of classic films (e.g., Ghostbusters) in order to destroy audience expectations so that the eventual "real" remake will be received better?

Think about it: If the first remake in however many years or decades is mediocre drivel, then they are at best damned with faint praise and lose money due to lack of interest. Nobody even remembers it a few years later. But consider what happens if the remake is an outright dumpster-fire that disgusts fans and critics alike, to such an extent that it drives attention and controversy.

Now move to a couple of years later, and the same people are rebooting the reboot with a decent cast and adequate script. Suddenly, against the backdrop of the self-inflicted catastrophe of the previous effort, the "mediocre drivel" looks practically like the Renaissance. Audiences would be eager to wipe away the stain of the first reboot, and eager to rationalize the shortcomings of the new one in comparison with the atrocities of the former.

So don't be terribly shocked if some formulaic but definitely-not-the-previous-one Ghostbusters movie comes out in 2018, and critics gush about how diligently the studio has acted to correct its errors from 2016.

Submitted September 05, 2017 at 04:04PM by KubrickIsMyCopilot http://ift.tt/2iZU1hs