How did I know this would involve the recent news of the live-action Lion King remake?
The fact is, I feel the original has a lot of problems. Yeah, I admit it. I'm not the LBT fan I was when I joined half a decade ago.
As someone pointed out, however, the decent enough film we have would likely be trashed beyond belief. At least if it were made today. If it's made in a distant enough future, in which, hypothetically, filmmakers have actually learned to appreciate and understand the kind of quality that matters and that made the first one good, well, I'm all up for it.
But I hope there's a good decade and a half between now and whenever a remake is even considered. Children's films today, Pixar aside (and even Pixar has gone downhill a bit in the last half-decade), are just full of obnoxious pop-culture references, pop songs, obnoxious characters, celebrity voice actors, mediocre storytelling, bad writing, terrible jokes, and so many other things that would NOT suit a LBT remake. Until the world has learned better from that, they should stay away from remaking LBT.
From what I can tell the recent remake of "The Jungle Book" pretty much avoided these things, and if the other Disney remakes do as well, there's hope. But I still say there should be a 15 year or so wait before they even consider remaking it, to make sure the world has learned.
I would love to write this all down on TV Tropes, but as most of you know, they hate me.
