Episode 15: Why Can't They Leave Good Movies Alone? A Dive into Remakes

Remember that magical feeling when you first watched your favorite childhood movie? Now imagine Hollywood trying to remake it—sometimes brilliantly, often disastrously. This week, the Girl Gang dives headfirst into the world of remakes, sequels, and spinoffs, exploring why some brilliantly recapture magic while others leave us wondering why anyone bothered.

Have strong feelings about remakes? The Girl Gang wants to hear which ones you love, which ones you hate, and which classics should remain untouched. Join the conversation and let us know—should Hollywood keep remaking our favorites, or is it time to demand original stories?

Transcript

Welcome and How to Train Your Dragon

Rachael 0:34

Hi everyone, welcome to Girl Gang Podcast. My name's Rachel,

Sarah 0:37

I'm Sarah

Brandi 0:37

and I'm Brandi and we are your hosts for this episode.

Rachael 0:40

So this week the Girl Gang went and saw the remake of how to Train your Dragon and that's kind of what sparked the interest for our episode this week. So we were interested in talking about remakes, what we think about them, which ones are awesome, which ones suck, and then we also kind of went down this rabbit hole of, well, what's the difference between a sequel versus a remake, versus a spinoff? So Google lets us know that, for those of you who are questioning it, what's the difference? Sequel continues the story of an existing story. A remake retells the story of an existing work but has updated production values, but it might not be considered part of the same continuity Continuity, continuity, I don't know. And then a spinoff focuses on, maybe, a new story featuring a specific character from that first kind of universe.

Brandi 1:37

Yeah, typically in the same universe.

Rachael 1:40

So, How to Train your Dragon is a remake, but it's a live action remake right?

Brandi 1:44

Yes, and honestly, probably one of the better remakes.

Rachael 1:47

So good.

Sarah 1:48

Agreed.

Sarah 1:49

I don't know if there's gonna be any spoilers or not, but definitely recommend going to see it

Brandi 1:52

well, it was exactly like the animation one,

Sarah 1:55

which is that's true

Sarah 2:01

Yes, and

Remake vs Sequel vs Spinoff

Rachael 2:02

didn't you listen? Didn't you watch the interview? Saying that like this person is very Like, doesn't like it when they change details?

Sarah 2:22

Yes, who was this produdcer..

Sarah 2:22

There was an interview I saw with one of the um producer or directors and he had said one of his biggest pet peeves was when a team goes to remake a movie and they try too hard to change the animation to make it more modern, like yes in his words, it takes the magic out of it.

Sarah 2:35

So he tried really hard. He had said in this interview to keep the magic in toothless as much as possible. That was shown in the original and he went on to. I looked up the rest of the interview. I'll just look it up and tag it in the in the comments. But he went back to and he said they even tried to reanimate toothless in a different way, you know, more realistic, like because it was a live action. Like they tried to make his mouth smaller. He changed the size of his eyes because what natural animal has that?

Brandi 3:04

Big of eyes they do.

Sarah 3:07

They do. So he said they tried it in a number of different ways and nothing ever worked. So he's like you know what it's? Just it's meant to stay the same, it's meant to be magical and he's meant to look like that. That is, toothless is what we know and love. So he said I'm going to try and make this as best as I can, or die trying, and I'm like we appreciate you, sir.

Brandi 3:25

I will say that is something I noticed when I watched it is that he looks so like he's going against all these realistic-looking dragons who are just meaner and scarier than he is. Yeah, and he just. He was just, you know, different, which I liked because he's by far the best part of those movies, but it was just kind of funny watching him with his big gummy smile yeah, big eyes go after these scary, like I say, realistic, like a dragon's, a real animal, but you know what I mean. You know more of what you would have seen. And if they were real, I guess?

Sarah 4:05

And true. When we were all at the theater, we saw two people who had, like their, viking helmets on and like gotten a character and they had the little toothless on their shoulder. Yeah, if they were, would have changed what toothless looked like I mean a ll of those stuffed animals would have gone to waste, yeah.

Brandi 4:20

You know, For sure. Or that movie just would have sucked,

Sarah 4:23

or exactly right?

Sarah 4:24

So the interview is on YouTube. It's How to Train your Dragon interview with director Dean DeBlois, I'm assuming it's French, I don't know how to pronounce that. He is a three-time Oscar nominee and a Golden Globe winner, and that was a really cool interview. It was interesting to see.

Rachael 4:44

I just appreciated that. So I had not watched How to Train your Dragon in a while, but I watched it and I was like this feels exactly the same. I hate it when I go into a theater and I watch something and I'm like, oh, they changed this.

Sarah 4:58

Yes.

Rachael 5:01

Like a particular part

Sarah 5:01

It was so nice I actually watched the first one and the second one earlier that day because I really like to compare, like the remakes, or like the first one to the second one, or I just like to see what they change, what they keep the same, how they modernize it. All that fun stuff. But it was definitely a good one.

Brandi 5:21

I am the same way and I will say a lot of times you know they market it to a look Like. When you see commercials and stuff, they put the familiar clips in there.

Sarah 5:30

Yes,

Brandi 5:31

Especially with like, a lot of the like, the Disney remakes that they're doing the live actions. They put all of the scenes that you're like yes, this is going to be great, it looks just like the animated one. And then you get in there and it's completely different, and that's what frustrates me.

Sarah 5:47

Right? I want to know why. Why are we doing so many remakes?

Brandi 5:54

Because they make money. It's an easy way to make money.

Sarah 5:57

Are we just losing creativity? Like

Brandi 6:01

Money just speaks louder than art. Always has.

Sarah 6:04

Crazy to me, that I feel like and I don't know if this is just, maybe this is just me but I feel like pre-COVID we had a lot of better movies.

Brandi 6:15

uhh, there are still a lot of

Sarah 6:16

I don't know. I feel like there are right, but I feel like since then, something just kind of changed, like there hasn't really been something that came out that's like I mean, I will say Wicked was a really good one that came out post-covid, but there hasn't really been, at least to my knowledge, a really good movie that's like whoa,

Rachael 6:38

Do you think there are more movies based on real stories coming out, nowadays?

Sarah 6:43

I do like that because I think that's part of like the keeping history alive and sharing those pastimes

Brandi 6:52

yeah, but then again lack of creativity

Sarah 6:56

right,

Brandi 6:56

you know

Sarah 6:57

right unless we go back to you know more honest, truthful storylines instead of, because we all know a lot of those fairy tales are fabricated, like a lot of I won't say fairy tales. A lot of the disney version of these fairy tales are fabricated they're not like the original folklores

Brandi 7:12

The original ones are horror movies.

Sarah 7:16

They are but, like you know, like I would, for some reason, I think I'd rather. Well, I don't know if I'd rather, but it would be interesting to see remakes where they're going back to more originality versus trying to modernize everything.

Brandi 7:30

Well, I hope you like scary movies, because if you did any, hans Christian Andersen fairy tales are so dark.

Rachael 7:42

Hard pass for me.

Brandi 7:43

So dark.

Sarah 7:43

I kind of like those movies. They're different.

Brandi 7:45

I don't like scary movies. I like reading his fairy tales, like actually reading them and being like holy shit, this is so different. I could never watch it as a movie, though. I don't even like suspenseful movies because I don't like jump scares.

Rachael 7:59

I don't like suspenseful movies because I don't like jump scares. I like the movies that are based off stephen king novels like I can get behind those because they're more like

Brandi 8:07

well they stick to their source material better than a lot of other,

Sarah 8:10

yeah they're more like thrillers versus like these like said pop out and scare you, yeah, like all of the haunted house, like I don't know, exorcism, like movies that are just scary just to be scary.

Sarah 8:24

I agree I don't really like, but I go from very dark, like psychological thrillers to Disney movies real quick.

Brandi 8:32

Well, I mean that interacts with your personality,

Sarah 8:34

I know.

Sarah 8:35

Those are like my two favorites. I love them.

Disney Live Action Remakes

Rachael 8:36

Do we think that the Disney live action movies are like flops?

Brandi 8:41

Most yes,

Sarah 8:42

some yes.

Brandi 8:43

Love, Beauty and the Beast.

Rachael 8:45

Oh yeah,

Sarah 8:45

See, that was one I actually liked.

Brandi 8:47

I liked that one.

Sarah 8:48

That was a remake, one I actually liked.

Brandi 8:50

Hated Lion King, didn't see it. Hated Aladdin,

Sarah 8:52

you know.

Sarah 8:52

I don't know why Lion King got so much hate. Can we elaborate on that, because I didn't think it was that bad.

Rachael 8:58

I did not see it, so I cannot have it.

Brandi 8:59

I think it was the voice actors they picked.

Sarah 9:02

I would have probably recasted them if I was the casting director myself. I would agree. But I mean the animation and the storyline. I don't think there was too much difference.

Brandi 9:13

Here's the thing. How is it I do struggle with some of these movies and Lilo and Stitch was kind of the same way is how do you do a true live action with like talking animals?

Rachael 9:29

Yeah

Sarah 9:30

that is true,

Brandi 9:31

you know like they can make it stitch is very similar to the toothless aspect. He looked very similar.

Sarah 9:40

I did like it from the commercials how he looked like

Brandi 9:42

More realistic, yeah, and even some of the other.

Brandi 9:47

Well, and see, for that I don't want to spoil anything, but they even changed some of the other aliens,

Sarah 9:54

the looks of them

Brandi 9:55

Not necessarily the looks, but their abilities, to make it more realistic. So it's hard to explain without giving it away, and I think that was kind of a cool feature that they put in it. So I don't want to say anything, um, but I think for Lion ing is, there's literally no humans in it, so you're literally it's quote-unquote live action, but you're just animating in a different way.

Sarah 10:18

and see that one that I actually the one good thing I do see is because in that case it's not that half and half that you're talking about, where it's all live action humans but then like a stitch or a toothless. I kind of liked that, as like the modernized remake of Lion King, because it like, I don't know it's it's letting the animals feel a little more realistic to kids

Brandi 10:41

no, that's fine.

Brandi 10:42

Just don't don't sell it as a live action,

Sarah 10:46

that well. No, that is true, it's still, it's still.

Sarah 10:50

What is that considered? Cgi? Still, I don't know what all those terms are.

Brandi 10:54

Uh, you're talking the wrong, I don't.

Brandi 10:57

Yeah, yeah, no, it's essentially a form of cgi like all of yeah,

Sarah 11:02

so I would.

Sarah 11:02

I would agree, then I don't think that's considered like live action. Well, or um, did they like film? Because again, I don't know what this is called, but when they film animals and then use that footage to then

Brandi 11:15

still cgi,

Sarah 11:16

animate it probably, then

Brandi 11:18

still cgi live action. Part of live action is there's a live human being acting

Sarah 11:28

so we need to come up with another name for animal live action movies

Brandi 11:31

Yeah, cgi animation

Sarah 11:32

there you go

Brandi 11:33

Its animation.

Brandi 11:35

It's another animated animation.

Rachael 11:41

I think it also depends on, like, maybe what your like connection to those movies are

Sarah 11:47

true,

Rachael 11:48

like I remember really loving Lion King as a kid, but have I watched it? Like, do I feel the need to watch it, even the original, nowadays?

Brandi 11:57

no, that's where you differ from me and Kozy because we watch them all the time,

Sarah 12:01

all the time but I will say, I loved mulan as a kid.

Sarah 12:06

That was one of my favorite. I mean, I love

Brandi 12:08

don't talk to me about that remake.

Sarah 12:10

I haven't seen it and I refuse to

Brandi 12:12

don't

Sarah 12:13

because of the rumors because of the rumors I heard that they they have mushu but he doesn't talk, so they took out the songs. Yeah, it's more of like and I don't. I heard that they have Mushu but he doesn't talk.

Brandi 12:23

It's not. I don't even want to call it a remake, because

Rachael 12:26

Let me Google this what's?

Rachael 12:27

it considered it's a live action remake.

Sarah 12:28

It's a live action remake.

Brandi 12:30

It is technically because it's the same characters, but they make it more historically accurate and like

Sarah 12:50

was it still kid friendly, like I mean, I think it's still rated pg, but

Brandi 12:55

yeah,

Brandi 12:56

I mean, I mean it's the first one really kid friendly. I mean she's like, she's like they're like cutting heads off and stuff.

Rachael 13:00

So I mean, I didn't really get the like woman being the bird, like there's kind of like some like

Brandi 13:10

what?

Rachael 13:11

Because um, in the original, like the bad guy had his like bird, hawk.

Rachael 13:25

Yeah,

Rachael 13:28

I didnt really like that, like she was some sort of

Sarah 13:29

well chinese culture yes oh well, I mean, I was assuming, like chinese culture has a lot of, you know, like spirituality and um, what do you want to call it like?

Sarah 13:37

Uh, I don't what i am trying to think of, I don't know. It's more cultural aspect of, like their ancestors.

Rachael 13:44

, gotcha, no, that's what I thought.

Brandi 13:45

This was more they like pretend to as a sorcerer, as a sorcerer

Sarah 13:49

gotcha

Brandi 13:49

, yeah, I forgot about that.

Rachael 13:50

See, that's kind of why I didn't like that,

Sarah 13:53

yeah, I'm good.

Sarah 13:53

I like the songs

Brandi 13:55

yeah, those aren't in the live action whatsoever boo

Sarah 13:59

did anybody see the snow white remake?

Rachael 14:01

no I've heard it's terrible, though

Sarah 14:02

I did too, so I didn't want to see it.

Brandi 14:03

That was a flop.

Brandi 14:04

I didn't actually watch that one because I've been so upset with all the other remakes that

Rachael 14:09

that's the thing is like.

Rachael 14:10

I'm just not drawn towards them because I'm like, why ruin something that was already great to begin with?

Sarah 14:15

true

Rachael 14:16

if I wanted to see it then

Sarah 14:19

I am kind of excited for the moana one, though I know we're talking a lot about disney ones too, but I feel like they are really the most popular ones that are kind of coming up right now.

Rachael 14:28

The moana ones

Sarah 14:29

just the disney ones in general.

Brandi 14:30

That's literally disney making an easy money grab

Sarah 14:32

yeah, yeah, and in a way kind of like continuing on those, a way for them to continue on those movies and those storylines for like our kids.

Rachael 14:41

Did you all see the cinderella one that came out?

Sarah 14:43

Which one

Rachael 14:44

Probably like

Sarah 14:45

there's been, like

Rachael 14:46

okay, yeah, there's okay,

Sarah 14:48

there's only one cinderella that I will ever watch

Rachael 14:51

the 20, it's the 2015 one

Sarah 14:55

no,

Brandi 14:56

no, are you talking about?

Brandi 14:57

so it's the one with the blonde? That one, I think, was very good.

Rachael 14:59

Okay, so which one is the one that you would? So it's the one with the blonde. That one I don't think was very good. Okay, so which one is the one that you would watch?

Brandi 15:03

is it the one with brandy?

Sarah 15:04

yes, with brandy and whitney houston. That is the besides the like disney one

Brandi 15:13

you don't like ever after

Sarah 15:14

I dont think ive seen Ever After

Rachael 15:16

Ever After is a Was that a remake?

Brandi 15:21

Was that a remake?

Brandi 15:22

of Cinderella

Rachael 15:23

Is Ever After. I'm just Googling a lot here a remake.

Sarah 15:27

No, yeah, no one can ever play. I'm sorry, no one can ever play the.

Sarah 15:32

Godmother better than Whitney Houston.

Rachael 15:34

It is not a direct remake.

Brandi 15:36

Well, yeah technically. Okay, adaptation. Let's throw another term in there Adaptation.

Rachael 15:42

I love me a good Ever After, but it does not pretend to be Cinderella specifically, so I feel like that's why I can get behind it?

Brandi 15:49

Yeah, it does. They literally call her Cinderella when the old lady's telling the story.

Rachael 15:54

I guess, but it seems it feels different to me. Feels, I mean, I guess, now that I'm thinking about it, like all the things align, but I don't know,

Brandi 16:06

it's just more realistic.

Brandi 16:07

There's no talking mice. There's no. You know, her outfits are historically accurate. It's true, yeah you know it ties in some history with certain characters

Rachael 16:19

what about like an ella enchanted?

Sarah 16:22

that was a cute one

Brandi 16:23

that's technically cinderella.

Brandi 16:25

It's an adaptation.

Sarah 16:27

There's a good example of that,

Brandi 16:28

literally ella it's cinderella.

Sarah 16:30

Yes,

Rachael 16:30

yeah yeah, but something like that, like I like that movie.

Sarah 16:36

Yeah, I love that one

Rachael 16:37

because that one's fun

Brandi 16:38

but I feel like they take so again.

Brandi 16:40

Cinderella's a fairy tale, Like a folklore, Like that's been like passed down. So technically, anything from that is an adaptation. But what we all like about these movies is they're not trying to be like the others. Yeah, they're trying to differentiate themselves. They're not coming out like oh, this is disney cinderella, we're gonna remake it right and it's gonna be exactly the same, but with people. These are all our interpretation of the fairy tale

Rachael 17:12

so they're supposed to do live action um tangled.

Sarah 17:17

Yes, I did hear that.

Rachael 17:20

I don't know if it's like official, but it's definitely rumored and I feel like

Sarah 17:23

I think they had auditions all over tiktok like people posting their like self-audition tapes.

Brandi 17:28

They're gonna want to do a live action frozen

Sarah 17:31

oh

Rachael 17:34

I feel like it's too soon

Sarah 17:36

no, they couldn't they couldn't.

Sarah 17:37

And if they don't bring back Idina Menzel, for that I I'm going to be very upset. I'm going to write a very strongly worded letter if they don't do that.

Rachael 17:45

But that's the thing is like when is it okay to do a remake? Because they were like I was watching this video and they're saying like it hasn't been that long since Tangled came out that long since Tangled came out

Sarah 17:56

yeah that's true.

Rachael 18:01

At what point can you do a remake or a live action and it will resonate with people?

Sarah 18:04

I feel like that's when it goes, what Brandi said when it's demand and if they know that's going to make money, because a bunch of little girls still love Tangled and Rapunzel. They kind of Tangled, brought Rapunzel back to the frame.

Brandi 18:14

Yeah, and maybe that is why we're just so over them, because when we were growing up, if there was a remake it was an old remake set maybe like our grandparents watched yeah, and so for us, they're like oh, this is a remake, this came out when I was a kid, but we didn't remember it, whereas now

Sarah 18:32

right,

Rachael 18:33

true,

Brandi 18:34

most they're coming out so quickly now that most people remember when the original came out and they're like we don't need another one of these, whereas the other ones.

Rachael 18:46

Agree.

Rachael 18:46

Like.

Rachael 18:46

Ocean's Eleven is a remake, like Scarface is a remake. But we did not know that those were remakes when we were growing up, because so much time had passed.

Sarah 18:54

I had definitely seen the Again, I thought it was the original Willy Wonka when I was a kid. The Gene Wilder, yes, yeah, but there was one before that. Oh no, just kidding, gene Wilder was the first one then. Johnny Depp, and then they did the newest one. That was, I think, like an appropriate amount of time in between each movie

Brandi 19:15

the first two, not the third one.

Sarah 19:17

The third one's kind of good, though that one?

Rachael 19:18

No, it's not. Is it in the musical?

Sarah 19:20

With Timothy

Sarah 19:22

No, I actually thought that was so cute.

Rachael 19:25

I have not seen it, but I heard it's a musical right.

Sarah 19:28

Yes,

Rachael 19:28

so it's different.

Sarah 19:29

It was different.

Sarah 19:30

It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I thought that was a cute.

Brandi 19:32

What's his name? As an Oompa Loom? I can't remember.

Rachael 19:45

All I know is growing up.

Rachael 19:46

did I want to be in a big-ass room with a bunch of candy and a chocolate river? Yes, like you just can't top that.

Sarah 19:51

So another good one that I think is kind of fitting with our age group is this Freaky Friday.

Rachael 19:56

Oh yeah, I don't want to see it.

Brandi 19:59

It's too soon.

Sarah 20:00

So is that considered a remake?

Rachael 20:02

No it is a sequel.

Brandi 20:03

It's a sequel.

Rachael 20:04

Okay, so they can still name it the same thing, because it's Freakier Friday, right, or whatever. Oh is it?

Brandi 20:09

And it actually takes place after the first one with the original characters, so that is a sequel.

Rachael 20:16

Freakier Friday

Brandi 20:17

but it might be what they call a standalone,

Dark Fairy Tales and Change

Rachael 20:19

you know but there's been a shit ton. Well, not a shit ton, but there was one.

Brandi 20:26

The concept's been around,

Rachael 20:28

but there was a Freaky Friday, so there was one 1976, 1995. Then you have the 2003 version.

Sarah 20:37

I knew there was an original before that because I had seen that I feel like on some TV channels where they play all the old ones

Rachael 20:43

and then, in 2018, also, disney Channel came out with one too, so it's been redone a lot,

Sarah 20:49

all I know but that is lindsey lohan, if you are listening, if you're coming back for a freaky friday remake. we need a parent trap remake.

Rachael 20:57

Oh yeah,

Sarah 20:58

someone put on the internet an ai intro of the second series of parent trap and it opened up on the camp and it's like, nine years later, dot, dot, dot, dot dot. And I'm like, oh,

Rachael 21:13

Nine years later.?

Sarah 21:14

Yes

Brandi 21:14

, she's way older than that

Rachael 21:16

Right.

Sarah 21:16

Well correct

Sarah 21:17

But it was just that was the animation that it was. So that got me thinking I'm like, and she's doing the remake of this,

Brandi 21:22

it would be funny if she was a camp counselor now,

Sarah 21:24

or it's her girls going to camp.

Brandi 21:29

But Paratrap is a remake.

Sarah 21:30

It is yes true Also.

Brandi 21:32

So maybe social media has ruined remakes because we just didn't have access to the old ones unless we knew about it, whereas now you've got IMDB and you can look up anything,

Sarah 21:44

true.

Brandi 21:46

You know what I am excited about? This new Freaky Friday, though, they're bringing back Chad Michael Murray on his motorcycles.

Rachael 21:52

Gorgeous.

Sarah 21:53

Love him.

Brandi 21:54

That man has aged like a fine wine.

Sarah 21:57

I know people have been. Some people are excited, some people are upset that the Moana 2 or no Moana live action. Moana 2 was great but the Moana live action with Dwayne Johnson.

Brandi 22:11

Why are they upset?

Sarah 22:12

I don't know, but some people on the internet were upset.

Brandi 22:14

He's literally the voice of it. He's the voice of it, right, and what other man are you going to get to even resemble?

Sarah 22:21

the size of Maui. I mean, we do have a friend who looks like Maui.

Brandi 22:29

Yeah, but even next to the rock he's gonna look small

Sarah 22:31

um it chat Gpt says some backlash over duane johnson returning as maui and the optics of remaking a culturally significant animated movie while it's still fresh. Okay, I don't know what the problem is with that either. i dont know what the problem is with that, either

Rachael 22:49

when's the live animated?

Brandi 22:52

like moana 2, just came out a couple years ago yeah again, this is look

Sarah 22:57

and that's gonna be a part animal, part human one.

Sarah 22:59

So,

Brandi 23:01

yeah, but there's people in it.

Sarah 23:02

Yeah, but they're not gonna not have the chicken or the pig,

Brandi 23:05

yeah, but but I bet they don't,

Sarah 23:06

or all of the water animals that we see.

Brandi 23:08

I know, but they're not going to have the same characteristics

Sarah 23:12

or Maui shapeshifting. They're going to have to because these shapeshifts are different animals.

Brandi 23:16

Yeah, I mean, you can do things. I'm just saying CGI is in all of these live actions. You just that's part of it, but the whole movie can't be CGI, which is my problem with Lion King.

Rachael 23:29

What about? Roadhouse

Brandi 23:31

oh God, that's so bad, so bad

Rachael 23:34

Really.

Rachael 23:35

I was going to say I didn't mind it.

Sarah 23:37

I'm meaning to watch that because I love the original.

Brandi 23:39

Oh, don't do it to yourself, sarah. No, it's so bad?

Rachael 23:42

You should, I think you should. I liked it. I liked it. I liked it.

Sarah 23:46

Dang

Rachael 23:46

Okay. But here's the thing With Roadhouse like there were enough differences and like I felt like it was meant to be more ridiculous.

Sarah 23:57

Okay,

Rachael 23:58

like the fight scene at the end.

Brandi 24:00

There's nothing ridiculous about the original Roadhouse.

Rachael 24:03

I know, but it's because they weren't trying to make it exactly the same, like there were elements that were the same, but like the books, like the name of the bookstore had like significance, you know all these things, but it was. I just felt like it was

Brandi 24:18

garbage.

Rachael 24:18

Slightly different in the sense that I was like okay, like I could get behind it okay.

Brandi 24:23

And here's where I say maybe if I'd been prepared for it, I would have gone in differently.

Rachael 24:28

So TikTok would have been like this is how it's all going to be different.

Brandi 24:32

Maybe it is so it is like a mix of Fast and Furious nonsense and Roadhouse combined, and that's what I didn't like about it.

Sarah 24:41

Yeah.

Brandi 24:41

It's because the first one,

Rachael 24:43

it's exaggerated for sure.

Brandi 24:44

It's all about acting, and the actors were so good and the storyline was so good. And then you have this one and it's all about let's make this as extreme as possible, let's make this unbelievable, and the acting sucked.

Sarah 25:00

You know who I think is killing it when it comes to remakes or new renditions of movies Is all of these stage productions that they are now bringing into the movies

Rachael 25:12

Like the Wicked.

Sarah 25:13

Like Wicked, I mean, wicked was fantastic, but I think that

Rachael 25:15

I haven't seen it yet.

Sarah 25:16

Girl, how am I Friends? Oh my God.

Brandi 25:21

Is this when i drop the bomb, but I haven't seen it either.

Sarah 25:27

Oh my, that.

Rachael 25:28

Oh my gosh,

Brandi 25:28

I have no desire to see the movie.

Rachael 25:29

She's so upset with us right now.

Sarah 25:30

I own it.

Sarah 25:31

I think I watched it like a total of 20 times a week.

Brandi 25:33

I have no desire to watch the movie Because I have yet to see Wicked on stage.

Sarah 25:41

Okay, fair enough. Fair enough,

Brandi 25:43

I do not want to ruin the experience.

Brandi 25:46

I understand storyline blah, blah, blah.

Brandi 25:47

No, fair. I do not want to ruin the experience. I understand storyline blah, blah, blah yeah.

Rachael 25:50

No, it's definitely worth seeing on stage first.

Sarah 25:51

That's like reading the book before seeing the movie.

Sarah 25:53

You've got to see the play before seeing the movie.

Rachael 25:55

To be fair, I had tickets, I just didn't make it that day.

Brandi 25:57

Well, did you read the book Wicked? Because it's a book, it's a really big book.

Rachael 26:02

That's her answer no, she has not read it. I did.

Sarah 26:05

My family owned it at one point in time, but I feel like I no longer have it.

Sarah 26:09

I would like to go back and read it though because I know it has a lot more.

Brandi 26:12

I might like an audiobook of it,

Sarah 26:13

I'm going to get into audiobooks.

Sarah 26:17

That's going to be a whole other thing too.

Brandi 26:18

We could have a whole conversation on audiobooks. But one thing if you are hesitant to get started in audiobooks because you're like, oh, I can't pay attention, blah blah, there is a company out there now and the audiobooks are a little more expensive, but it's because it is a full production that is called graphic audio and they their tagline is basically a movie for your ears.

Rachael 26:40

Nice.

Brandi 26:41

A lot of times they're even a little shorter than traditional narrations of audiobooks, because when it says so-and-so close the door in like written out and in a normal audiobook it would say so-and-so, close the door. And this you just hear a door close, yeah, there's like sound effects and it's literally like you're listening to a movie almost, and that is one way to keep your interest much better. And every single character has a voice actor instead of just one narrator

Sarah 27:14

I've heard that where it's like yeah movie in your mind

Brandi 27:17

Yes, that's, yeah, that's their choice

Sarah 27:18

Is that what it is?

Brandi 27:19

yeah.

Brandi 27:20

Not music for or movie for your ears, music movie for your mind. Is it Highly recommend.

Brandi 27:24

It is worth the extra money for your mind is it highly recommend. It is worth the extra money.

Rachael 27:33

I think that remakes can go like even if they weren't good, the actors can still like. Sway you in that direction, though.

Speaker 2 27:37

Like,

Sarah 27:37

yes,

Speaker 2 27:38

Like, footloose, one of my all-time favorite movies, the remake yeah,

Brandi 27:42

the original

Rachael 27:42

yeah, the original I probably like growing up like footloose and flash Chance were my things, like I want to be a ballerina forever.

Rachael 27:50

I still want to be a ballerina, actually. Like that was my dream growing up and so Footloose like always resonated with me because I love to dance. He's so good, yes, um the remake is not great, but, oh my, I have the biggest crush on him. Julianne Hough, I have the biggest crush on her.

Sarah 28:11

That was very well casted, yes.

Rachael 28:14

I thought even Miles Teller

Brandi 28:16

Poorly executed,

Rachael 28:16

isn't it Miles Teller?

Sarah 28:17

Yes, that plays. Yes, I love him.

Rachael 28:21

Willard yes, yeah, and like thought that was so, I think, my casting could make it

Rachael 28:28

I didn't love it because like there were differences and it just like seemed a little off, but I love all three of them as actors and dancers. So I was like I still like it, I would still watch it because I'm about it

Brandi 28:39

i cant watch it it's bad enough.

Sarah 28:42

Oh my gosh

Brandi 28:43

. Well casted, poorly executed.

Sarah 28:44

I love it. I'll give it some love

Brandi 28:47

no, I am.

Sarah 28:48

I probably watch the remake more than I do the original one, to be honest

Casting and Movie Magic

Brandi 28:51

One of my favorite remakes and you guys probably have haven't seen it, but, um, my grandpa has always been obsessed with mini coopers and so in like 2000, they came out with a new Italian job which is like a heist movie.

Rachael 29:03

Oh yeah, Mark Wahlberg

Sarah 29:04

Yes, oh, my god, I love that movie.

Brandi 29:04

I love that that's a remake. Yeah, I didn't know. In like 2000, they came out with a new italian job which is like a heist movie.

Sarah 29:07

Oh yeah, Mark Wahlberg, yes oh my god, I love that movie I love that

Brandi 29:10

that's a remake.

Rachael 29:11

Yeah, I didn't know that was a remake, though, but I fucking love Mark Wahlberg in that movie. Yeah,

Sarah 29:15

what's it called?

Brandi 29:16

the italian job.

Sarah 29:17

I have not seen

Brandi 29:18

that charlie's throne or, however you say, your last name, uh such a good movie, top movie for me, but yeah, it is the only reason I knew it was a remake when I was eight or nine years old is because we watched the original.

Brandi 29:32

Yeah, my, yeah it. Because it and the reason it was so, it resonated in our house so much is they use mini Coopers in their heists, and so that was um. My grandpa has a 1961, um mini morris, which is technically the model before the cooper came out. So he loves minis, loves classic british cars, and he was part of a club, saint louis I think it was the saint louis mini club or something and they got a like free, like preview, um, you know when you can see a movie before it comes out. What am I blanking on here? Oh, like a pre-screening yeah, pre-screening, yeah. And so he had like the movie poster and everything and we watched that all the time growing up. So that's one of my favorite remakes.

Rachael 30:22

I love that movie so much.

Brandi 30:23

It is so good.

Rachael 30:24

I feel like some movies, though, like do you ever go back and watch older movies and you're like this is very inappropriate, very inappropriate yeah.

Brandi 30:35

Blazing Saddles.

Rachael 30:36

That's exactly what I was thinking I was like they would never make a Blazing Saddles nowadays and what? The anniversary of it was just like a year or so ago, and they showed it in theaters and I was like went,

Brandi 30:52

my family went.

Rachael 30:52

Yeah, I went too. I took my dad because, like, growing up, that was like his birthday gift. I was like here you go, dad, we're gonna go see blazing saddles.

Rachael 30:55

But the fact that they even played it in theaters was shocking to me

Brandi 30:58

but it's all satire,

Rachael 31:00

I mean it is, but people get very upset about things like that nowadays, I feel

Sarah 31:05

that's why I feel like they won't ever do a live action or a remake of peter pan.

Brandi 31:10

Oh, they will,

Rachael 31:10

really.

Sarah 31:11

I don't know. I feel like people are they have, but it's been. Who was last time?

Rachael 31:15

I mean hook maybe

Brandi 31:16

no,

Sarah 31:17

that was a while ago

Brandi 31:19

oh who what?

Sarah 31:20

They made one when we were kids, yeah and my cousin went to school

Sarah 31:24

2003

Brandi 31:24

jim or jeremy. Oh, so I guess they did do a peter pan and wendy in 2023 and my cousin went to school with him.

Sarah 31:28

My best friend had a huge crush on him 2003. Jeremy, oh, so I guess they did do a Peter Pan and Wendy in 2023. Yeah, they've done it a couple times Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare. Oh no, that was a horror one.

Rachael 31:36

Oh Lord, oh, that's so good. The things you find when you go to these things.

Sarah 31:39

Yeah, the one in 2003. I really enjoyed that one.

Brandi 31:43

What year Did you say 2003?

Sarah 31:46

Yeah, 2003, 2003. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Brandi 31:49

Sorry, that just cracked me up,

Sarah 31:50

but that's one that like I absolutely. Peter Pan was one of my favorites to see on a stage and like my first memory of it was seeing the recorded stage production with Mary Martin as Peter Pan, which was a big thing because she was like a woman playing a male one.

Rachael 32:05

You're talking about the 2003 version of Peter Pan.

Sarah 32:08

I mean, that's a remake, but I'm talking.

Brandi 32:10

She's talking about the Broadway.

Sarah 32:11

The original play Ah, got it got it and then they recorded like a stage production of the play, similar to what they did with Hamilton, but like a long more time ago

Rachael 32:20

Got it

Sarah 32:29

and I always wanted to see like a remake of that in, like mary martin's kind of own style, like of how she did that role. I don't know, but they have a lot of controversy on making, like, things too culturally culturally different or making sure everything is all

Rachael 32:41

that would definitely be tricky.

Rachael 32:43

It would be tricky to do peter pan nowadays

Sarah 32:45

I mean because we actually learned this the other day too is in like Pocahontas, the song Colors of the Wind, how they like change words in those songs too, like they're taking like the word savage out of it, like they just make little changes like that too. So I don't know if they would. I would really hope that they do, because that was just one of my favorite ones. Yes, hook was great.

Sarah 33:06

robin williams love him

Brandi 33:08

all right

Rachael 33:09

there's yes, oh yeah, you can't beat that, um, but even like dumbo, now I'm just like searching all the ones, or like lady and the tramp I just haven't seen any of these because

Brandi 33:22

they changed some stuff because of animal cruelty

Sarah 33:24

and I think, wasn't that one like really, really sad too, like dumbo's already has sad scenes, but

Rachael 33:29

Dumbo and Pinocchio, like I think I fell asleep during that, pinocchio scared the shit out of me growing up, like when he gets changed into the donkey or whatever.

Rachael 33:38

Like ugh, no, scarred for life. Even Alice in Wonderland like I struggled with that as a kid.

Sarah 33:43

There's probably some of those that I think of when I go back to watch old movies Instead of like how would they show that in the movie Like they wouldn't do it nowadays? There's some scenes from like kid movies that.

Sarah 33:54

I'm like oh, how did that not give me nightmares?

Rachael 33:57

How were we not scared by that?

Sarah 33:59

I mean

Rachael 34:01

Like I think, anastasia,

Sarah 34:02

oh, I loved that one,

Rachael 34:03

I loved that too but, when. I watched it when I was a little bit older. I was like this is kind of freaky, like the villain.

Brandi 34:11

When he has that dance with all the ghosts and everything. I used to get nightmares from that. I look at it now and I'm like, yep, I can see why that scared me. That makes sense. That checks out.

Sarah 34:23

I don't think any of those Disney movies ever gave me nightmares. The movie that gave me nightmares was Holes what? Yeah, for some reason I had like a reoccurring nightmare. I was like this is because the schoolhouse got on fire and for some reason. That was a nightmare I remember as a kid you were stuck in the schoolhouse being on fire.

Rachael 34:39

No, I think I was just watching it.

Brandi 34:43

Oh, like I mean it's pretty dark.

Brandi 34:44

I mean, what's his name? Like they kill him,

Sarah 34:47

they should do a Holes remake.

Sarah 34:48

Lady from Holes.

Brandi 34:50

No.

Sarah 34:50

No,

Brandi 34:51

no,

Sarah 34:52

I love that one

Brandi 34:53

no

Rachael 34:54

Okay, kate Barlow from Holes. Yes, she plays in Severance.

Sarah 35:00

Yes,

Rachael 35:01

I'm like I'm spinning off into a slightly different subject right now, but have you all seen Severance?

Sarah 35:07

No, I haven't seen all of it, but I have watched it.

Rachael 35:09

It is fucked. It is so good,

Sarah 35:11

I think, brian would like it but he won't watch it with me

Brandi 35:14

yet it's on my list.

Brandi 35:15

I just haven't gotten to it yet.

Rachael 35:16

Okay, yes, highly recommend. That is not a remake, I don't think.

Rachael 35:29

This is a whole new. But who knows right?

Brandi 35:30

And here's why I don't want holes to be remade, because it's perfection.

Sarah 35:32

It is true, it is true, it is true. And what are we saying? If it ain't broken, don't fuck with it.

Brandi 35:35

That too I like your version.

Sarah 35:36

Don't fuck with it,

Rachael 35:38

I like digging holes.

Rachael 35:42

Oh, so good, I'm gonna watch that now. I don't have disney plus, though, so I can't watch a lot of these.

Sarah 35:46

You can use mine, yeah, or just come over.

Brandi 35:48

You can use mine, yeah.

Sarah 35:49

Or just come over and watch it again.

Brandi 35:50

You can't because Hulu and Disney changed. They're like Netflix now. They take your IP address and if you're not in the same household you have to get your own account. Because I just got kicked off my parents

Sarah 36:01

don't find me.

Sarah 36:04

They are like combined though, like when you have Disney Plus and Hulu. Now I can see both of them, so I actually don't even have to log into my Hulu.

Sarah 36:11

Yeah you can just do it all. I can see them all from Disney

Brandi 36:13

Oh, that made so many people mad when they did that.

Sarah 36:18

I mean, I can just look at more options together

Brandi 36:20

For kids, there was this show that was on Hulu about like sex.

Brandi 36:25

There was the show that that was on hulu about like sex and it said

Sarah 36:26

that's why they have their parental control.

Brandi 36:27

That's what I said. But everyone was up in the arms because and I was just like maybe you should pay attention what your kids are watching.

Sarah 36:31

But maybe open the door, let your kids run outside and play okay, a good sorry,

Rachael 36:37

a good remake twisters

Sarah 36:41

I really don't I remember watching one like it's like a long time ago.

Rachael 36:46

Is it a sequel?

Brandi 36:47

It's a sequel,

Rachael 36:47

sequel, okay, okay, sorry, sequel.

Sarah 36:50

I feel like I don't purposely want to watch a movie about a tornado.

Rachael 36:53

Did you not see it?

Sarah 36:54

I don't think I've seen it, no what. At least not the remake,

Rachael 36:57

it's so good,

Sarah 36:57

but I've seen the original, like a long time ago

Brandi 37:06

my favorites oh, I love them,

Sarah 37:07

that's like those are the movies like if it's too, if it's too realistic? They're not, neither of them. No, it's not, no, but like okay, well, I guess I should actually watch it

Rachael 37:12

okay, there's this tagline in the movie.

Superhero Movie Fatigue

Brandi 37:14

It's like if you can smell it, chase it. If you can smell it, chase it.

Rachael 37:20

Yeah, what did you say at the concert that one night

Brandi 37:23

oh god, I don't even remember.

Rachael 37:25

If you it like, if you can smell it, eat it, yes, or something like that. And we were like Brandi, that's not it,

Brandi 37:34

I butchered it, but you all knew what I meant.

Rachael 37:37

But yeah, you got to watch it because then you can do the hand motion and like be part of the cool kids club.

Brandi 37:54

I think it was in you can taste it, chase it. It's what I said. Oh, if you can taste it, chase it, instead of if you can smell it, chase it. We're like that, ain't it? No, it is. It is good, but see, twister, the original is what got me uns, like I wasn't scared of tornadoes as a kid

Rachael 38:02

I wanted to be a storm chaser.

Rachael 38:04

Yeah, yeah.

Brandi 38:04

Me freaking too. I actually so. In college I almost, when I was switching out of engineering, I was looking at going to biochemistry which is what I ended up doing or going into meteorology, like I was this close to becoming a storm chaser. But then I looked at logistics of things and decided that wasn't the best path forward for me

Rachael 38:26

when I was in high school, we my mom and I like did this tarot card reading and the lady was like, think of like three careers that you want to do. And I thought of the first two and she's like, yeah, you do okay in that career. And then the third one that I thought of was storm chaser and when she flipped over the card. She's like that's not a good one. Whatever you're thinking about, don't do that one so that's why I did not become a storm chaser.

Brandi 38:46

So well, sad days good, like there used to be a show on like tlc or like one of those like reality show channels and they were called twister sisters and you could pay to ride along with them while they were chasing storms. Yeah, I wanted to do it.

Sarah 39:05

So bad I always love watching like the storm chaser videos

Brandi 39:10

yeah, you could ride along with them while they chase tornadoes in oklahoma

Sarah 39:15

well, I guess I'll have to have to watch the twister movies

Rachael 39:18

yes, how do we feel about jurassic park?

Brandi 39:22

can we stop already? It's as bad as Fast and Furious,

Rachael 39:26

but is it, but is it okay?

Rachael 39:27

so you have like the original Jurassic Park? Yes, and you have.

Rachael 39:30

Jurassic. World. Now you have, like this new one with Scarlett Johansson that's going to come out.

Brandi 39:35

Those are all sequels

Sarah 39:36

Beats me. I've never seen Jurassic Park.

Rachael 39:38

You've never seen any of the Jurassic Parks.

Brandi 39:40

What, what and and you almost walked away when I said I had to watch Yep.

Sarah 39:44

What? This is a fair point. Fair point Because one of my neighbors growing up me and a neighbor girl were like a year apart and I remember we went over to her house and her brother babysat us for a day or an afternoon or something and he had Jurassic Park on and I can't remember what had all happened. But my friend and I ended up in the basement. He locked the door so we were in the basement and then he kept stomping like on the floor and we were like five, six years old or something. So that was just my only memory of anyone ever watching Jurassic Park. So I just never did it,

Brandi 40:20

girl

Sarah 40:20

. But to be fair, before meeting my husband I had never seen Star Wars. I had never seen Lord of the Rings.

Sarah 40:27

I've seen all of them. Now we're all caught up. But I've not seen Jurassic Park, so maybe we should do a movie marathon of that.

Rachael 40:33

That would be good

Rachael 40:34

You would be happy to know that when I was flying back from Lisbon, I did watch all of the Hobbits, ew. But I haven't seen the Lord of the Rings yet.

Sarah 40:45

They were good. I liked them a lot.

Rachael 40:47

I'm working on it

Rachael 40:48

I'm working on it I actually have like 15 minutes left of the Last Hobbit.

Sarah 40:52

I really like the Hobbit.

Brandi 40:53

You're not missing anything

Sarah 40:55

In another life I'm a Hobbit.

Brandi 40:56

So just so you know, kozy, if we're doing a marathon. The original has three movies. There's Jurassic Park 1, 2, and 3. Yes, it doesn't go from Jurassic Park to Jurassic World.

Sarah 41:10

Yeah, I knew that this was a whole other one.

Brandi 41:11

Technically, Jurassic World is a sequel to the original movies.

Sarah 41:19

I want to see if I like the Jurassic Park

Rachael 41:21

yeah because they changed.

Rachael 41:26

So the island is now like a tourist attraction, right, yeah, and

Brandi 41:27

the Jeep is still on the island, yeah

Rachael 41:27

because they changed. So the island is now like a tourist attraction, right, yeah, and the jeep is still on the island, yeah because they find it.

Sarah 41:32

Is Chris Pratt in one of the Jurassic Parks,

Brandi 41:34

Jurassic World

Sarah 41:34

Okay

Sarah 41:35

I'll watch that one,

Brandi 41:36

and they've made a couple with him too. There's probably like seven movies in the franchise now.

Sarah 41:41

He's nice to look at.

Rachael 41:43

Yes. So there's Jurassic Park, then there's the Lost World, then there's Jurassic Park 3. Then you skip 14 years and now you have the Jurassic World series.

Sarah 41:52

I would commit more to this series than I have committed to. Like the Marvel series. That's a little overwhelming for me.

Rachael 41:58

Okay, when I did have Disney Plus, I did watch all of the Marvel movies in order until I got rid.

Sarah 42:04

So like I'm all the way up through, like I watched all like the main ones, yeah, but we didn't do like every single spinoff or like and here's something else that everyone's tired of, and it's an easy money grab, Because like I'm sorry, how many more superheroes are there,

Brandi 42:18

oh girl, so many.

Brandi 42:19

They're just getting started.

Sarah 42:27

Like I was not a superhero superhero girly as a kid, so I just knew the of the basic ones.

Brandi 42:30

Oh no, there are so many, so I wonder when that will end, or if people stop spending money to go to them.

Rachael 42:34

Oh, okay, spider-man. What about the spider-mans?

Sarah 42:37

oh, they've done a lot of spider-mans and again, like is spider-man?

Brandi 42:42

their remakes, remakes.

Sarah 42:44

I don't think I've seen the Zendaya remakes.

Rachael 42:49

With Tom Holland.

Sarah 42:50

Yeah, I don't think I've seen those, or maybe I think I saw the first one, the first one that Tom Holland did as Spider-Man, I don't know. Like, I think I've seen them all up to that?

Rachael 42:59

Was it Andrew Garfield? Yes, garfield, I liked him, and Tobey Maguire.

Rachael 43:07

I didn't like Tobey

Sarah 43:08

I liked Tobey.

Rachael 43:09

No, those were like our OG ones. I do like Andrew too. Nope, kirsten Dunst liked her, did not like Tobey.

Sarah 43:13

Maguire. Oh, I thought he just like to me, that's always going to be Spider-Man, yeah.

Brandi 43:19

And I don't really like Spider-Man.

Sarah 43:21

Yeah.

Brandi 43:21

As a superhero in general, I don't like his villains or like the batmans, they're like redoing batman there's so many batman remakes too.

Sarah 43:31

Again, those are all remakes. Yes, they're doing a lot of harley quinn remakes too, or I guess those are more spinoffs, because now they're, they're taking harley quinn and like putting her in different storylines, or yeah, those would be movies on different stories.

Brandi 43:47

Yeah, those would be different. I think everyone is getting to the point where they are over superhero movies.

Brandi 43:53

Marvel DC doesn't matter.

Rachael 43:55

There's new Superman coming out this year.

Brandi 43:57

Yeah it was awful, awful.

TV Shows vs Movie Remakes

Rachael 44:00

We get the point, we get the gist Like you can fly.

Sarah 44:04

We know how it ends.

Brandi 44:05

There are so many now that you can't do anything different.

Brandi 44:10

Yeah, and make it good,

Sarah 44:12

can we just like make up a new one?

Rachael 44:15

I like the joker movies. Which did you see the new ones though?

Sarah 44:19

no, because I liked the og

Brandi 44:21

what are you considering?

Brandi 44:22

the OG, the Dark Knight? No, the ones with Joaquin Phoenix.

Sarah 44:28

No, the actor who played the Joker, and then he passed away before the movie was finished.

Brandi 44:33

Oh, Heath Ledger. That's the Dark Knight. That's a Batman movie. Didn't that also do a Joker movie.

Sarah 44:39

Okay, never mind then.

Rachael 44:41

He just played the Joker in the Dark Knight.

Sarah 44:43

Yes, I really like the Dark Knight.

Sarah 44:45

And. I really love him. But the Joker movie, that

Brandi 44:50

With Joaquin Phoenix

Sarah 44:52

Maybe, but I also like the guy who's in Shameless. His version of it too, the redhead.

Rachael 45:00

Oh, I don't. Was that a show? Was it Gotham? No, because there's also like Gotham which,

Sarah 45:15

oh yeah, was it maybe Gotham?

Sarah 45:16

I'm going to figure that out, Cameron Monaghan,

Rachael 45:21

yes, he played. Yeah, he definitely played Gotham, okay, he played in Gotham.

Sarah 45:30

I was like I don't think I watched the entire like show on the streaming service. I looked up every single video that there was on tiktok. I liked gotham yeah I like him, I liked, I liked him. I would love to see a movie where he plays a joker.

Brandi 45:44

That'd be cool I'm just tired, and this is the thing, though. They took the success of the dark knight and that trilogy and they did these spin-offs on things and they rode those coattails to where now they're like beating it out of us. Same with the marvel ones, like it's just it's ridiculous and if it's not a movie, then it's a tv show, and true, but I don't mind a tv show like if it was a movie, because like if there's a spinoff story from like the show or a character I got like we're gonna remake, because you can get so much more detail in a tv show than you can a movie, your movie.

Brandi 46:26

You're really tied to about two hours, two and a half to fit a whole story in A series. You can make them all an hour long. You can have eight to ten hours of storyline in a season, and then you can have a second season.

Sarah 46:40

That's true.

Brandi 46:41

You can just put so much more into a TV show.

Rachael 46:45

Isn't that what they were doing with Harry Potter?

Brandi 46:46

We're not going to talk about that.

Sarah 46:48

Why not?

Brandi 46:50

I have very strong opinions on it. And I was so.

Rachael 46:53

Too soon?

Brandi 46:56

Yes that, and some of their casting choices were questionable.

Sarah 47:03

Didn't they do that with Friday Night Lights? That was a movie and a show, right?

Brandi 47:06

Yes, it was a movie first.

Sarah 47:08

Movie first, then they made a show spin-off of it.

Brandi 47:10

Movie 100% better than a show and my sister, if she's listening, is going to murder me because Friday Night Lights TV show is her absolute favorite, but the movie was 10 million times better.

Sarah 47:21

I think I actually only saw the movie of that and not the show.

Rachael 47:26

I think you'd like, I feel. I feel like there are like some very specific um series that resonate with our generation at least, like if they remade p? Uh harry potter or if they remade pirates of the caribbean or if they remade, like certain things, I think people would have very strong opinions about it.

Rachael 47:48

Or like Hunger Games, like two, two, like, but eventually like we're gonna get to that point, I think yeah

Brandi 47:55

we already are they're remaking HBO's bringing out Harry Potter

Sarah 47:59

this is actually kind of funny, so I just

Rachael 48:00

but it's gonna be a show yeah, it's gonna be a show

Sarah 48:03

I put it in chatGPT to see what like movies that went into TV shows, because I'm kind of blanking. I did not realize they made Jaws into a TV show. It failed. These are failed or short-lived TV remakes. Minority Report was based on the 2002. Tom Cruise film. Jaws apparently attempted multiple times but nothing ever stuck. Bad Teacher, oh yeah, Based with Cameron Diaz. They tried to do a TV show on that but it said bland writing and toned down humor, Canceled that from just three episodes aired. Yikes, my Big Fat Greek Life based on my Big Fat Greek Wedding. I don't think the last movie of that did very well either. Yeah, Mixed reviews. Were the Terminator Taken? Oh, they did make that into a TV show

Brandi 48:58

they did, it wasn't very good.

Sarah 48:59

Teen Wolf I guess I kind of knew that was an original, but I totally forgot about that. Yeah, I guess I kind of.

Brandi 49:04

I knew that was an original, but I totally forgot about that. Yeah, that was terribly.

Brandi 49:07

That was so different.

Brandi 49:08

I don't even know if I would call that a remake Because it was so different

Sarah 49:11

the movie or the show.

Brandi 49:15

Well, they were different from each other. Like you had Teen Wolf and then I feel like the Teen Wolf show was trying to ride the Twilight Wave and make it more dark or like the Vampire Diaries.

Sarah 49:24

Yes, same timeframe.

Brandi 49:26

Yes it wasn't this cheesy classic 80s movie, like the original Teen Wolf was. It'd be like them redoing Back to the Future, but in like.

Sarah 49:39

Okay but the musical was really good.

Rachael 49:41

The musical was good but

Brandi 49:45

I don't mind adapting it one way or the other, from play to movie or movie to play. I don't mind that. That's fine. I'm going into it expecting differences, because they're two different formats. You only have a stage to work with instead of multiple stages and millions of cameras,

Rachael 50:04

and it was Back to the Future, the musical so like way different,

Brandi 50:07

which is how they do all of them

Sarah 50:09

but they still kept it like mostly the same.

Brandi 50:12

Well, yeah, so I don't have.

Brandi 50:14

I go into that, knowing it's going to be different yeah and it's expected. You have to use your imagination when you're watching plays.

Brandi 50:20

That's just part of it

Rachael 50:22

honestly, I just try to go in with like zero expectations.

Brandi 50:25

I go in with too many expectations.

Rachael 50:28

Yeah, you got to lower your standards, girl, I mean,

Sarah 50:30

I am similar like that with a show.

Sarah 50:32

If there is a new show or one that like is up and coming, I try to not listen to the soundtrack or anything. So I can like have that first reaction when, I first go to see it.

Brandi 50:42

I just. There's so many things to choose from now, I don't want to waste my time, it's true. So.

Sarah 50:48

So

Rachael 50:49

Legend of Tarzan. I'm sorry, I thought of another one, the Tarzan.

Sarah 50:53

And then they did the George of the Jungle kind of like. I don't know if that's considered a spin-off of it. It was kind of a but like concept he wasn't raised by monkeys, though I think he was raised in the jungle, george of the jungle strong as long as he can be. Probably that's also true.

Rachael 51:13

I don't count that as Tarzan, but like the legend of Tarzan, with Hargarabi in it. I liked it. Adaptation Live action adaptation.

Brandi 51:29

Yeah, they're all

Brandi 51:29

We're using remake in the wrong way because they're all adaptations and that's how they get away with changing things yes, that makes sense well, interesting yeah,

Rachael 51:37

I guess we want to throw it out to our listeners. Um, what movies do you feel like hit the mark? Maybe did not hit the mark.

Brandi 51:46

The good, the bad, the ugly Like which ones were good, which ones were bad which ones were just

Rachael 51:50

which ones should we watch again, see if we haven't seen and avoid at all costs? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

Sarah 51:55

Do we keep making remakes or do we just tell everyone to just stop?

Final Thoughts and Questions

Rachael 51:59

And if we have, like, any directors out there or editors, people who work in the film industry. If you're in the know let us know, because we obviously don't know the right terminology. We just have strong opinions, love to learn. Which we're the audience. We have a lot of feelings, we'll give you our opinions, yes, and you'll teach us the way. Love it Well, thanks for listening. So until next time,

Sarah 52:24

stay bold,

Brandi 52:25

stay empowere

Sarah 52:26

Girl Gang out.