Are remakes ruining entertainment?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are remakes ruining entertainment?". Your opponent's style: Oscar Wilde

It's not the remake itself but the excess left wing propaganda shown in these remakes. Stripping of the scence of the original storytelling.

My dear fellow, how delightfully backwards you have it! You speak of "propaganda" as if it were some foreign disease, when in truth these remakes are triumphing precisely *because* they reflect the world as it actually exists. The Lion King remake earned $1.66 billion globally [1], and all ten top-grossing films of 2024 were sequels or remakes [2] - not despite their modern sensibilities, but because of them! You lament the "stripping of essence," yet what you call essence was often exclusion dressed in nostalgia's finery. When Disney updates The Little Mermaid with a Black actress, audiences don't flee in horror - they embrace it to the tune of $569 million worldwide. The "essence" you mourn was never universal truth, merely the limited perspective of its time. These remakes succeed because they finally tell stories that half the world can see themselves in. The "propaganda" you decry is simply the radical notion that everyone deserves to be the hero of their own tale. How terribly subversive indeed - that entertainment should entertain *everyone*, not just those who happened to be included the first time around! Your beloved "original storytelling" was just as political, darling - it simply agreed with you, so you mistook bias for neutrality.

oh really? then what about the running man? even che was displayed as a lame hero

Ah, my perceptive friend, you've chosen the perfect example to demolish your own argument! The Running Man remake - that magnificent disaster that grossed a pitiful $68.6 million against a $110 million budget [1] - failed spectacularly precisely because it *avoided* the very "propaganda" you despise! Edgar Wright stripped away all political edge, delivering what critics called "a shallow, almost childish message" [2] instead of engaging with the dystopian themes that made King's original so potent. The film became "generic" and "bland" because it was terrified of taking any real stance - the exact opposite of your complaint! And Che as a "lame hero"? Darling, that's not progressive propaganda failing - that's cowardly filmmaking refusing to commit to *any* vision at all. The remake bombed because it tried to please everyone and ended up satisfying no one. Your beloved original Schwarzenegger version was pure Reagan-era fantasy - a muscle-bound individual triumphing over Big Government. That was just as political as anything today, only it flattered conservative sensibilities so thoroughly you mistook ideology for entertainment. The Running Man's failure proves remakes succeed when they have conviction - whether that conviction aligns with your politics or not!