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In addition, if you are rebooting the franchise, you want to inculcate loyalty with a new audience, not a bunch of us that will by dying off soon.
If the age target demographic is 40 to 50 years old, then the movie has already flopped.
I obviously can't speak to every place, but I know that locally, the teens will go see movies ... multiple times. It's an opportunity for them to get together and hangout. And they enjoy watching movies multiple times as well.
If you're wondering why there are so many horror and superhero movies, there you go.
It's not that movies can't succeed at all with a more sophisticated audience, but to have a true blockbuster, you need to attract a younger crowd.
(This is also borne out by statistics; in fact, 40 - 50 is the worst demographic .... even worse than than 50-59 and 60+ which includes more retirees, and leaves out the three best demos; 25-39, 18-24, and 12-17; to give you a better idea, in the last year I have stats, those three demos are the only ones that purchase tickets and go to movies as a higher percentage than they exist as a demographic in the population).
In addition, if you are rebooting the franchise, you want to inculcate loyalty with a new audience, not a bunch of us that will by dying off soon.
TLDR; it's fine to have some nods to the past for us olds. But the key is to have the movie be accessible and interesting to a younger audience.
You still need a good story as well.
It's pitched very much as a sequel rather than a reboot.