Bound to happen one day!!!
At the hands of a "Dude" named Michael Bay today and George Lucas a few years ago..
I have not had the colossal break in an industry like some people have. Despite my trying with my own original content I always seem to be fighting an uphill battle but some guy named Michael Bay has made a KILLING off our child hoods. Mostly Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but he's looking to take as much as he can get despite "retiring from the drama of Cybertron". To be honest you can't fault someone for making tons of money but you can fault them when your childhood is savaged and brutally beaten and thrown into a frozen river.
We're not bound to WATCH these horrible derived works from content of our childhoods but the Intellectual properties carry such weight that when the average every day person sees "Guardians of the Galaxy" then "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" people are going to say "Oh man... I KNOW Ninja turtles..not this Guardians of the Galaxy crap.. lets see turtles!" and that's what happens! Money that would have been well spent on something AMAZINGLY CLOSE to what it was derived from instead spent on a mutated monstrosity that only served to entertain younger audiences and people over 55 because:
"I remember when my kid's liked Ninja Turtles" -My own father.
So we've had it happen. Ninja turtles, Transformers, GI Joe, Garfield, Fat Albert, and ALL those things have been resurrected only to be a horrible WARP WHALE of a turn out (Despite the hotness of The baroness, G.I. Joe just didn't do it.) while other products approach the chopping block and our imaginations blare with air raid sirens while impending doom befalls the next beloved work...
You can't say "They're bad movies" because they FOLLOW the Hollywood Formula. You can however say they are not true to their original source material. We saw the first signs of this with Star Wars Episode I-III and that was done by the very guy who had first given us "A New Hope".
No amount of complaining will change what we have seen, no matter how much it hurts to look at. What will change it is how us true fans go about telling people NOT to mess it up and follow the FORMULA of less known works that are great hits and a worthwhile derivation from it's source material like Guardian's of the Galaxy or X-Men: Days of Future Past
We're not bound to WATCH these horrible derived works from content of our childhoods but the Intellectual properties carry such weight that when the average every day person sees "Guardians of the Galaxy" then "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" people are going to say "Oh man... I KNOW Ninja turtles..not this Guardians of the Galaxy crap.. lets see turtles!" and that's what happens! Money that would have been well spent on something AMAZINGLY CLOSE to what it was derived from instead spent on a mutated monstrosity that only served to entertain younger audiences and people over 55 because:
"I remember when my kid's liked Ninja Turtles" -My own father.
So we've had it happen. Ninja turtles, Transformers, GI Joe, Garfield, Fat Albert, and ALL those things have been resurrected only to be a horrible WARP WHALE of a turn out (Despite the hotness of The baroness, G.I. Joe just didn't do it.) while other products approach the chopping block and our imaginations blare with air raid sirens while impending doom befalls the next beloved work...
You can't say "They're bad movies" because they FOLLOW the Hollywood Formula. You can however say they are not true to their original source material. We saw the first signs of this with Star Wars Episode I-III and that was done by the very guy who had first given us "A New Hope".
No amount of complaining will change what we have seen, no matter how much it hurts to look at. What will change it is how us true fans go about telling people NOT to mess it up and follow the FORMULA of less known works that are great hits and a worthwhile derivation from it's source material like Guardian's of the Galaxy or X-Men: Days of Future Past
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