Why have movie studios 'dumbed down' remakes of popular foreign classics
I feel like I'm in the movie "Idiocracy".
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This coming from a guy who was a part of "'The Hobbit' crews murdered 27 animals" troll brigade...
shareThis has little, if anything to do with 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)'.
There is an 'Idiocracy (2006)' forum on IMDb that would be a great place for this topic:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/board/threads/
Hope this helped.
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Because idiocracy is coming true. The Cinema has been transformed into an intellectual ghetto because an increasing number of people are turning to the watered-down, family-friendly versions and ripoffs, but proportionally, intelligent or well-educated consumers are turning to the Internet in far greater numbers. Pure demographics.
Sure, you probably occasionally watch television or tune in for your favorite shows, but the vast majority of the television audience are now ignorant, while the majority of intelligent people have tuned out.
The Cinema has been transformed into an intellectual ghetto because an increasing number of people are turning to the watered-down, family-friendly versions and ripoffs, but proportionally, intelligent or well-educated consumers are turning to the Internet in far greater numbers. Pure demographics.
You know... cinema itself actually started as an entertainment. share
Entertainment for the masses, but a racket for studio moguls. In this day age studios would still profit at 1 cent a viewer, especially with the new digital distribution methods (the story of jesus and the hungry multitude comes to mind) and at that price would probably attract 10x more viewers. But this won't happen until butt-hurt moguls get with program!
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In fact, America is the only country where the Battle Royale 2 craze of the early 2000s never caught on, (it was heavilyly censored due to its anti-capitalist stance and the whole Colombine era thing) so it stands to reason that the US was behind the rest of world in this "cultural" regard.
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ye it really bothered me when Toei Company and partners made Battle Royale, the dumbed down remake of several Western classics...
People whining at THG by holding up BR as The Original is like people whining at Avatar yet holding up DWW or Disney's Pocahontas as originals.
You're asking a group of people that collectively doesn't understand that the cinema is a competitive industry and hard science shows don't appeal to the masses.
This is a group that, at the same time, thinks MythBusters is a hard science program and that Shark Week is television for scholars.
Honestly the answer to your question is in there somewhere. The same reason the dumb downers thinks MythBusters is science is the same reason why everyone else finds appeal in whatever gets ripped off next. Its all dumbed down to reach the largest audience possible.
The bigger answer though is that anyone who looks to hollywood for knowledge in 2014 is an idiot. When IMDB gets outraged about this they just look like a bunch of simpletons trying to play smart.
Mythbusters. Why couldn't they have died from a heroin overdose? Try busting the adrenaline shot myth from Pulp Fiction boys. See how that one goes down.
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Right. Thanks to them the "History" channel now shows back to back marthons of "Pawn Stars". It's the whole reason I left the US and took a teaching job in Asia...
shareI hope this sets a very important precedent for the US film industry. I find that in certain US films if entire Hollywood movies themselves are not copied, plot point elements or dialogue snippets are. I find it absolutely delightful that a Hollywood production is pursuing a multi-million dollar slap on the wrist. Patent attorneys should look retrospectively at other offenders and do the same. There is no excuse for such shoddy, soulless and ultimately immoral filmmaking. It's repulsive that so much money is made off such blatant theft.
shareYou forgot to put "OT:" in the thread title.
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Why Dorkie, you just now watched the film? Didn't you watch it before you translated the last version of the novel? And gee whizz, announcing names in a tournament...I guess the Olympics will have to find another way of letting us know who wins. That darn Takami, how dare he rip off the Olympics. Ruining them for us all.
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"The Hunger Games" and "The Outsiders" have about as much in common as "Twilight" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"... that is to say, nothing at all. I have no idea at all where you got such a crazy idea.
"Hunger Games" isn't a ripoff of anything, it's just a different take on an idea that we'd seen before.
I feel your pain, have you seen the Japanese remake of 'The Borrowers'?
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