- June 1st, 2017, 7:54 pm#4894116
While it's unfair to say GB2016 is universally panned, I think it is fair to say the response on the Internet has been..unkind. To put it mildly.
I think an unintended consequence of the reboot was showing how genius Ivan Reitman & company really were when approaching the original films. The difference between them is jarring. While I wont go into listing all the differences between the originals and the reboot, it's pretty clear the biggest difference is tone. I've said it before but the reboot is comedy for comedy sake. The characters know they are in a comedy film. The original is much more subtle--for the most part.
It could be just me & a bias but I've noticed more and more articles popping up over the last couple years about how underrated GB2 really is. There are a few things that could account for this: the audience that grew up with GB2 is getting older and are in a position to write articles about it, Expectations were sky high in '89 and the amount of time that has passed has made the film less about the first film and more about the sequel on it's own terms. Also, GB2 was viewed as one of the all time disappointing sequels, so viewers coming to the film for the first time have lowered expectations. The other major factor is that the reboot has caused some people to re examine the first and second films.
We all can agree(I think) that GB1 is an all time classic. So my question is, has the reboot made you appreciate/ re-examine the original films in ways you perhaps didn't expect? Have you noticed others doing the same thing?
I think an unintended consequence of the reboot was showing how genius Ivan Reitman & company really were when approaching the original films. The difference between them is jarring. While I wont go into listing all the differences between the originals and the reboot, it's pretty clear the biggest difference is tone. I've said it before but the reboot is comedy for comedy sake. The characters know they are in a comedy film. The original is much more subtle--for the most part.
It could be just me & a bias but I've noticed more and more articles popping up over the last couple years about how underrated GB2 really is. There are a few things that could account for this: the audience that grew up with GB2 is getting older and are in a position to write articles about it, Expectations were sky high in '89 and the amount of time that has passed has made the film less about the first film and more about the sequel on it's own terms. Also, GB2 was viewed as one of the all time disappointing sequels, so viewers coming to the film for the first time have lowered expectations. The other major factor is that the reboot has caused some people to re examine the first and second films.
We all can agree(I think) that GB1 is an all time classic. So my question is, has the reboot made you appreciate/ re-examine the original films in ways you perhaps didn't expect? Have you noticed others doing the same thing?