OK You got my meaning—I was thinking of leaked copies etc. 
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I know I’m 18 months late to this party 
but the movie (Mulan) you mentioned piqued my interest.
I trust my own ratings and nothing else whatsoever.
I can’t say I ever saw much positive said about Mulan but for me it’s one of my favourite movies over the last few years.
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It is not on my list of favorites but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The film on it’s own, probably would have done better if it did not have to live up to the original.
Not to mention all the controversies that Disney had surrounding the film, that probably didn’t help either.
LOL good point.
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Do remakes have to live up to originals? I’ve always considered remakes in their own right as their own standalone movies. On ratings systems most remakes will be downvoted before they’re even released unless the remake is specifically paying fanservice so I don’t take ratings on them at all seriously.
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Not necessarily as it gives a chance to introduce new generations to a franchise. But I do believe it does need to feel true to the original. Otherwise at what point does it just become a remake in name only? I think an exception to that is if it can match or out perform the original. Take Wizard Of Oz(1939) for instance, it was it’s tenth or so time being adapted.
Personally for remakes I usually go by word of mouth.
Is it a bad thing if it is a remake in name only though? There are plenty of movies I watched when I was younger that I had no idea at the time were remakes of earlier movies or TV shows. To me it was irrelevant whether it was true to the original or not, just whether or not the movie was good in its own right.
Put it this way. Imagine you watch a movie and you don’t know it’s a remake. You quite enjoy it and rate it 9/10. You then find out it was a remake, it wasn’t at all true to the original and the original was in itself a great movie. Does that now change your 9/10 rating of the new movie? Did you retroactively enjoy it less? I’d argue that finding out it’s a remake should have no impact on that.
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I would agree with that.
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There are those rare cases. “Spawn,” starring Michael Jai White, was one of my most favorite movie. I also felt co star, john leguizamo, was funny as all hell. I was dumbfounded when I saw those low scores on IMDB. However, to be honest, that genre was complicated in terms of ratings… The reason being, the ratings for “Spawn” was effected by:
- Comic book fans (who can be incredibly overly critical)
- Generation Gap
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You know, I gotta tell ya, It’s rare that I like remakes. Especially when it’s been remade by another producer fresh out of college. They usually reek with teenage stupidity.
I can’t say I dislike remakes at any greater rate than I dislike movies in general. Some are good, some aren’t. The point I was making is that knowing it’s a remake has no impact. Like for example Scarface, a great movie that I enjoyed, but later found out was a remake of an earlier film of the same name. I didn’t retroactively like it less because I found out it was a remake.
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