Another Woke Reboot Dies a Horrible Death
PJ Media,
by
Matt Margolis
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
6/26/2023 10:10:25 AM
We’ve long been critical of Hollywood’s lack of fresh, new ideas and its apparent fascination with rebooting past films or giving us a sequel decades later. Sadly, merely paying homage to the original material is insufficient. Instead, producers opt to incorporate “wokeness,” believing it will be more appealing to modern viewers, but in the process, they end up taking something beloved and turning it into garbage that the masses don’t want to see.
The latest example is Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, the prequel series to the 1978 hit film Grease. I’m not sure who wanted this — it’s bad enough to hear any of the original songs
Reply 1 - Posted by:
downnout 6/26/2023 10:18:13 AM (No. 1499867)
Olivia Newton John must be rolling in her grave. Some movies shouldn’t be tinkered with and Grease is one of them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HerbVA 6/26/2023 10:20:28 AM (No. 1499870)
I was particularly delighted to read the quote from Annabelle Oakes, the creator. She sure can whine and snivel with the best of them.
BOO HOO, Girlie.
20 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
MaMe2 6/26/2023 10:41:00 AM (No. 1499878)
The ponies ain't buying the dog show.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Daisymay 6/26/2023 11:05:19 AM (No. 1499893)
Grease was a Classic, a memory of better times in our lives!! So sad they couldn't leave that memory alone and had to put their grimy hands over it and leave THEIR print on a Movie that wasn't theirs in the first place!
17 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 6/26/2023 11:16:21 AM (No. 1499901)
Homosexuality and trans insanity have been making themselves radioactive. More and more people are starting to be disgusted by and be unwilling to be associated with anything to do with these topics.
In case this isn't clear, ask Anheiser-Busch.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SycamoreHills 6/26/2023 11:17:03 AM (No. 1499902)
I haven't watched the academy awards in decades but I might be tempted to if they would introduce some new, reality based awards like "Most Hideous Sequel"; "Biggest Box Office Loser of the Year"; "Best Marxist Revision of an Oscar winner Classic"; "Whiniest Director of the Year", etc.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/26/2023 11:20:44 AM (No. 1499910)
You know where they went wrong, right? If the "girls" had just been trannies it would have been a hit. They could have changed the title to "Pink Ladies with Penises". Wink, wink.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 6/26/2023 11:34:40 AM (No. 1499922)
Hmmmph...heard they were going to remake Die Hard and Hans Gruber would be wearing a pride t shirt when he fell off Nakatomi Plaza....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/26/2023 12:21:57 PM (No. 1499966)
Interesting to read the reviews of the new 'League.." movie from the link to the Hollywood Reporter:
it (League) currently boasts an impressive 94 percent rating among critics and 87 percent score with viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. The show also has earned recognition from GLAAD (outstanding new TV series), the Independent Spirit Awards (for supporting actress Gbemisola Ikumelo) and with the NAACP Image Awards (costume design). It was also honored by the Critics Choice Association, earning the women’s committee seal of female empowerment in entertainment, the National Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign, and the Voice and Visibility Award from the National Council of La Raza. .
And yet it failed to attract an audience. With all those diverse accolades, how could that happen?..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 6/26/2023 12:38:25 PM (No. 1499977)
The Academy Movie Museum on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax is possibly getting the message. The museum has professionally mounted displays of movie making from the earliest years and even has the Balzer collection of pre-cinematic slides and primitive "projectors" for showing them. Old movies like The Godfather and Casablanca along with important letters and screen plays, or portions of them, are fun to look at and read. A couple of rooms are devoted to Black cinema which has an interesting history. Gregory Peck's Oscar for To Kill a Mockingbird can be seen. Modern films...zero. LGBT stuff in the gift shop, ignored by the visitors. I touched the very edge of a huge painting of Mt. Rushmore used as a backdrop in North By Northwest, got a screamed "no." If the museum goes 'woke' the crowds will disappear. They will go down the street to the La Brea tars to look at sexually straight mammoths and saber tooth tigers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Noj15 6/26/2023 12:38:50 PM (No. 1499978)
Hollywood thinks we want 20 Batman movies and 22 Superman movies. No, we want Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock back. You suck, Hollywood. That's why we don't spend our money on your crap. We vote with our dollars, too...every single day.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/26/2023 12:48:29 PM (No. 1499983)
Hollywood hasn't had an original idea in decades. Everything is either a sequel, prequel, remake or reboot. Everything else is a comic book superhero movie made for grown, male nerd children.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Birddog 6/26/2023 1:03:40 PM (No. 1499995)
Why remake a "League of their Own", about 1940's baseball?
Why not use the same title and make shows/films about womens basketball/soccer?
THEY fought to get established, and all of the woke got them Broke.
Nowhere near enough people have an interest in them to make the actual Leagues profitable, or watch the games to make televising them profitable...transporting that by "Magic" to the 40's-50's as a costume drama was/is always destined to Fail.
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Hollywood is in my central Oklahoma town for the next few weeks filming a sequel to “Twister.” They seem to be enjoying the small-town culture that’s missing in SoCal. Hope some of it rubs off on them when they go back.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Birddog 6/26/2023 1:39:05 PM (No. 1500013)
Some of the culprits are "Out on strike" right now..the greats and classics had a Writer(singular) or Writers(small team) One of the reasons for the strike is because producers are balking at Writers Guild demands that a "Room of writers" must be granted contracts for every production, not individual writers based upon some merit but rather a minimum number of warm bodies, hired through their Union Hall.
Taylor Sheriden, (who is supporting the strike"Pencil Down"), mentioned that for one of his shows the demand was for a minimum of 40 writers to be hired, on a show HE does ALL of the writing. He has at least 8 shows/films under contract right now, he writes ALL of it.
Writing by "Committee" is reminiscent of that old Joke..."A Camel is just a Horse, designed by a Committee".
Also reminiscent of the Military APC/Bradley designed that way...which WAS made into a Movie. "Pentagon Wars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/26/2023 2:05:38 PM (No. 1500033)
A fairly simple and very common theme, the heterosexual (not CIS) summer romance with a couple of pretty catchy songs thrown in like ANY musical.
Now it's a Homosexual Pride Parade on film. Gack
PS On the big day of THEIR month they walk around nude in front of and tell us they're COMING FOR
our children. Take them seriously. I'm inclined to go for THEM first.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 6/26/2023 2:07:21 PM (No. 1500035)
Wonderful news. The deader the woke products get, the sooner they well be forced to stop this hideous crap.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/26/2023 2:11:14 PM (No. 1500039)
and PS (I try to keep them rare) to my homosexual friends. The novelty has worn off. You're not GAY you're HOMOSEXUAL. I'm TIRED of hearing about you HUSBAND. Shut up and talk about the interests and hobbies we have in common.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 6/26/2023 2:14:06 PM (No. 1500041)
It’s a well deserved death. Not a horrible death
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/26/2023 2:15:35 PM (No. 1500042)
Now I'm on a roll. Sorry
But for all the actual DADS on Fathers' Day this month, ... How about a Dads' Day Parade. I'll carry some of my grandkids on my shoulders (some) because the kids are too big. How about Dad's day marchers holler "We're coming for OUR kids !!! Come for yours.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/26/2023 2:25:44 PM (No. 1500046)
We are the ultimate power.
As no viewers mean no show.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/26/2023 3:39:27 PM (No. 1500094)
The government (tax money) will have to come to the rescue because Hollywood is 'Too Big To Fail'. Think money influences scripts now? Just wait.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/26/2023 4:55:22 PM (No. 1500142)
Grease gives me a headache. Pink Ladies, never heard of it. Those 4 women in the picture are unattractive, if I want to watch unattractive people, I'll go to WalMart.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
kono 6/26/2023 5:51:38 PM (No. 1500173)
"Instead, producers opt to incorporate “wokeness,” believing it will be more appealing to modern viewers,"
Or... believing it will be better protected against woke activist boycotts?
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