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Reboots are honestly a cop-out because the scriptwriters and Hollywood in general for that matter can't come up with any better material
And your comment is completely unoriginal. Your point?
It's not that they can't come up with anything new, it is that they won't. Especially when much of Hollywood has a racist and an unrealistic ethnocentric agenda of only a few samples of Americans , no wonder they are losing ideas.
Look at their adapts of anime and look at the staleness of the industry. It's outdated blood , in its decisions and in its prejudice has left far less opportunities for minorities to star or actually be heavily involved in the production process unless it is marginalized as a "black film" , "latino film" or an "Asian film". Hollywood's overly Far Left and thus far from the realities of today have drained the industry and its artists, especially when a large white elite of them spout beliefs that they don't follow themselves or stick to "safe", it harms the industry's integrity and its art form.
A reboot isn't inherently horrible, it is the direction and the staff behind it that makes it shitty or not. Any higher corporate meddling makes the initial films suffer, and if not suffer , lose in quality. Remember the American Godzilla, Dragonball and Airbender? All those films, prior to the higher ups screwing around were on the way to potentially being great hits.
The execs for Sony said that Jan Debont's film would have been "too expensive" , yet all of the mass advertising and waste of budget for the final version which tanked awesomely (Made barely its money back, including promotion) and got shitty ratings. A reboot is now being done and the first attempt came when I was a kindergartener. This reboot, if they are as serious as they want to be , can be a great film.
For Paramount and Airbender, it was the combination of meddling and not keeping the initial script which the creators of the TV Show gave a two thumbs up. If they gave it a thumbs, it must have been great, and in reading the novelization, there were beads of greatness in the changes , whatever materials we've seen from the trailers here and abroad alongside news of filming the series in parts of Asia. However, casting was meddled and it was cut severely until it became a braindead TV Pilot for a live action mini-series of Avatar. As a result, it pretty much fucked up budding actors' careers, killed M.Night's and set a reboot back fro some time, which now might be animated. It would be cool if aniamted , just leave it to the people who did HTTYDragon and Rango and make it a Dreamworks production, their first 2d animated film in a decade or so since The Prince of Egypt.
That'd make the headlines.
For Dragonball, it just went bleh , it's jumping to a very poorly done adaptation of the second Chi-Chi /Goku arc that leads to DBZ leaves the question? Why didn't they just adapt it from the beginning , have it compete with Airbender and stay somewhat close to the series as possible with changes to streamline the story? The story is good , but it needed buildup. A staff wielding martial artist that is from another world and turns to a monkey with a full moon, plus any adding the newer canon story of his origins? That'd be a totally perfect film , if done right, to compete with the Avatar reboots and with the wealth of material? Two trilogies worth, including Z.
Batman, Spiderman, X-Men, Hulk, Captain America, Fantastic Four and perhaps Superman have and will join the ranks of successful rebooted franchises because they are being handled seriously and with respect to their material.
The first attempt at Cap , the FF, and Nick Fury were poorly done 90's films that gave no heed to the material and were thus poorly done. Well, the Fantastic Four's reboot was great , Captain America is the ideal WWII period piece and Nick Fury in his appearance and the Avengers, well they improved him vastly. And it's all due to the evolution of effects that before, would make those films impossible to pursue without looking absolutely stupid or half-baked.
We need to get Hollywood and push it towards not only making decent reboots , but promoting newer films as massively as their safe hits that will innovate and change the status quo despite their risk, but will show to the audience that said studio has FAITH in their own products. When have we seen Hollywood put faith into newer innovative films as well as they do with franchises and reboots in the past ten years? Hardly.
Power Rangers had little faith from Disney and the quality declined while now, Saban has all the faith in the world for it and is getting it off its butt. Superhero films were though impossible until the right people got their heads together and made them work because the studios had FAITH in them and their products. We the audience know that these films can be done, but Hollywood, if it has no faith in their own products , why should we have faith in theirs ?