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EDIT: Do you think when you saw a movie/tvs how/read a book impacts how you view reboots/remakes/sequels?
Without a doubt. As I consumed it, it was correct. Any changes later are a blasphemy.
EDIT: Do you think when you saw a movie/tvs how/read a book impacts how you view reboots/remakes/sequels?
There is a minor record company (Multimusic) that sells budget albums. They manage to do it through covers, alternate takes and later less popular records by the original artist. This latter group of songs sounds very, very off because the original songs were mostly acoustic ballads and the new ones heavily feature synthetizers.I've noticed a few things on this outside of imprinting about music. Some musicians just never adapt, and some others try, but are not really able to do it. The 80's turnover for instance, changed a lot of classic rock bands and not for the better. I think many producers tried to sell these artists on trends and it wasnt in their wheelhouse. Dont get me wrong, lots of artists are great with a synthesizer, but suddenly it was everywhere. Dare I say auto-tune was similar in the aughts.
Huh. Today I learned that Live put out an album before Mental Jewelry! (EDIT: Actually, it's come back to me now. Yes, the band known as Live put out an album before Mental Jewelry, but it was under their previous name, Public Affection, which is why I tend to think of Throwing Copper as their second album not their third.)Literally just crossed my path this AM:
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The person posting it was musing about Live’s Throwing Copper (their 3rd album).
It wasn’t like their first two albums. It wasn’t like what followed. But it was chock full of hits & went platinum.
I think that some source material is just better suited to being either campy, or serious. Some can go wither way equally well. I think that Conan needs a certain degree of camp for it to be the most true to its source. Robocop? Serious just doesn't work for it, as the source is meant to be a cutting criticism of capitalism. Battlestar Galactica was campy more because of when it was made, than it was inherent to the story. The themes were generally pretty serious, so it could work in a serious adaptation.Something I think about from time to time is whether I'll see a remake of Lord of the Rings in my lifetime. Probably. It took, close to 30 years for a remake of Conan the Barbarian, to little avail.
It's also fascinating to me when I read Lord of the Rings, I have the images of Gimli, Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, and company that I've had in my head for decades. But sometimes, I'll catch myself picturing Viggo Mortensen or Sean Astin in their roles as I read the books. I have to take a moment to correct myself back to how I pictured them. Though, according to Tolkien, I was wrong in that Aragorn should be clean-shaven.
Paul Verhoeven is the man!I think that some source material is just better suited to being either campy, or serious. Some can go wither way equally well. I think that Conan needs a certain degree of camp for it to be the most true to its source. Robocop? Serious just doesn't work for it, as the source is meant to be a cutting criticism of capitalism. Battlestar Galactica was campy more because of when it was made, than it was inherent to the story. The themes were generally pretty serious, so it could work in a serious adaptation.
(I will not mention "Starship Troopers." I will not mention "Starship Troopers." I will not mention "Starship Troopers.")
I can’t say I like modern music more than older stuff…or vice versa. They’re different, for the most part.Huh. Today I learned that Live put out an album before Mental Jewelry!
For me, I think – perhaps because I had much older siblings and was something of a precocious child as a result – stuff imprinted on me as much in my childhood if not more so than in my teens.
My siblings were teens in the 80s and find a lot of 80s stuff cringey now. I was a teen in the 90s and while Weezer is still my favorite band, I find a lot of 90s music cringey. I think I probably prefer most music that came before or has come after the 90s.
I also grew up watching the OG Star Wars movies as a kid and love them, whereas I saw The Phantom Menace as an older teen and hated it so much that I didn’t bother seeing the other two until they were on free-to-air TV years later. (I like Ep III the most, and it’s the only one of the prequels I have on DVD.)
I like a lot of modern music and think it’s better than stuff from the 80s and 90s. I also tend to prefer modern movie / TV production values and find it harder to go back and watch older things now.
As usual, it seems I’m an outlier in the EN World community.
I like some music from just about every era. In terms of popular music, I think I tend to listen to stuff from the 70s and 80s or from the 2000s to now more than I listen to stuff from the 90s. I was just trying to point out that the idea of musical taste at least being set in the teenage years didn't seem to happen for me (or for my siblings).I can’t say I like modern music more than older stuff…or vice versa. They’re different, for the most part.
Yeah, I'm not like that. Sometimes I enjoy a modern take on a classic more than the original. A radically different take can be a real pleasure as well (like M Ward's renditions of David Bowie's "Let's Dance" and Buddy Holly's "Rave On". Speaking of M Ward, he is probably my favorite male solo artist. Tom Petty is up there too ~ I tend to think of him as a solo artist even though many of his hits were with the Heartbreakers.)Even in genres I’m really big on, there’s almost always a difference between a style’s pioneers and those inspired by them. Tge history of Heavy Metal is a great example of that.
I've never walked out of a theater mid-movie before, but the two times I came the closest to doing so was Jean-Claude van Damme's Knock Off and The Phantom Menace. I note that they were both late 90s movies.As for Star Wars? Phantom Menace killed the franchise for me. I always knew Lucas liked to beg, borrow & steal, but there was so much of it in that film- coupled with cribbing notes from RW racial stereotypes- that I haven’t watched anything beyond the trailers (and memes) since.
I made it through the first two and then never watched the third. Same with "The Hobbit."I can’t say I like modern music more than older stuff…or vice versa. They’re different, for the most part.
Even in genres I’m really big on, there’s almost always a difference between a style’s pioneers and those inspired by them. Tge history of Heavy Metal is a great example of that.
As for Star Wars? Phantom Menace killed the franchise for me. I always knew Lucas liked to beg, borrow & steal, but there was so much of it in that film- coupled with cribbing notes from RW racial stereotypes- that I haven’t watched anything beyond the trailers (and memes) since.