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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8349474" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Hopefully because it's well executed and enjoyable.</p><p></p><p>But Hamlet isn't just good live. The live experience is different, for sure, but if I watch Brannagh today, I won't enjoy David Tennent any less a week from now. Nor do I enjoy movies that are takes on Hamlet any less than I enjoy the "real thing".</p><p></p><p>And this is what I guess I don't get. Why is novelty desirable as an end in itself, which it seems this idea relies on? If I enjoyed it, why wouldn't I see it again?</p><p></p><p>The weird thing is, a lot of the remakes are wildly underrated, and only do poorly because people don't take them seriously because they're remakes. Then, some remakes blow people away and get good reviews and everyone ignores that they're remakes, like It, but I feel like that mostly happens when people remember a thing fondly but also have some strong criticism of it, like It.</p><p></p><p>Sure, people love those things, so they come back. Exactly what I don't get is <em>why this is supposedly a bad thing?</em></p><p></p><p>Yeah I've watched a lot of versions of Hamlet, and without any real deviation or novelty involved beyond "oh hey new actors", it...didn't lose anything in the retelling. The really good stories don't, generally. I mean, there is a reason people re-watch/read/consume stories, and listen to their favorite songs over and over. There is a reason the classic stories managed to get to us at all, and it's because when the storyteller sat down to tell stories, certain stories were in high demand, and folks expected it to be the same story. </p><p></p><p>Novelty has it's value too, of course. "Why is this thing so dominant in media criticism" isn't the same thing as "this things is bad, actually", obviously. I like new experiences. I like the way time stretches out when I listen to a totally new album for the first time, and every song seems to go on forever, and my entire cognitive bandwidth is taken up by the experience (if it's a good enough album). </p><p></p><p>The first time I listened to Opeth, I had to sit down and just listen. When I got a really solid mixed CD to introduce me to The Mountain Goats, I spent literally weeks with my only hobby being listening to that packed to the brim CD of Mountain Goats songs. </p><p></p><p>It's just...like, if someone made music similar to The Mountain Goats, and the music was good, I wouldn't care that it isn't as novel as The Mountain Goats were when they dropped, nor do I care that they aren't really <em>that</em> novel in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8349474, member: 6704184"] Hopefully because it's well executed and enjoyable. But Hamlet isn't just good live. The live experience is different, for sure, but if I watch Brannagh today, I won't enjoy David Tennent any less a week from now. Nor do I enjoy movies that are takes on Hamlet any less than I enjoy the "real thing". And this is what I guess I don't get. Why is novelty desirable as an end in itself, which it seems this idea relies on? If I enjoyed it, why wouldn't I see it again? The weird thing is, a lot of the remakes are wildly underrated, and only do poorly because people don't take them seriously because they're remakes. Then, some remakes blow people away and get good reviews and everyone ignores that they're remakes, like It, but I feel like that mostly happens when people remember a thing fondly but also have some strong criticism of it, like It. Sure, people love those things, so they come back. Exactly what I don't get is [I]why this is supposedly a bad thing?[/I] Yeah I've watched a lot of versions of Hamlet, and without any real deviation or novelty involved beyond "oh hey new actors", it...didn't lose anything in the retelling. The really good stories don't, generally. I mean, there is a reason people re-watch/read/consume stories, and listen to their favorite songs over and over. There is a reason the classic stories managed to get to us at all, and it's because when the storyteller sat down to tell stories, certain stories were in high demand, and folks expected it to be the same story. Novelty has it's value too, of course. "Why is this thing so dominant in media criticism" isn't the same thing as "this things is bad, actually", obviously. I like new experiences. I like the way time stretches out when I listen to a totally new album for the first time, and every song seems to go on forever, and my entire cognitive bandwidth is taken up by the experience (if it's a good enough album). The first time I listened to Opeth, I had to sit down and just listen. When I got a really solid mixed CD to introduce me to The Mountain Goats, I spent literally weeks with my only hobby being listening to that packed to the brim CD of Mountain Goats songs. It's just...like, if someone made music similar to The Mountain Goats, and the music was good, I wouldn't care that it isn't as novel as The Mountain Goats were when they dropped, nor do I care that they aren't really [I]that[/I] novel in the first place. [/QUOTE]
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