original (but idk, maybe meme on russian was the translation of original english feminist meme... lol)

Now don't hear what I didn't say. There are terrible... imma call them Reformattings instead of Remakes. Terrible reformattings out there. Lilo and Stitch? Awful. Lady and the Tramp? Awful. But there have been good ones, too. HTTYD. Beauty and the Beast. Maleficent.

And YES, Maleficent counts BECAUSE.

Yall don't understand how fairytales work. The animated versions of the things you love so much? Probably already a story that's been told before. Even HTTYD was originally a book series for kids. And you know what? I remember how absolutely feral people who loved the books were when the animated movie came out. A lot of you sound a lot like them.

Here's why that's BAD.

Yes. Making shitty media just for money is bad. Completely changing key details of a story will fundamentally alter its quality. (See Lilo and Stitch). Imma keep using Lilo and Stitch as an example because it went on to subliminally enforce imperialism and specifically clothes harmful colonialist ideas that USAmericans have been both perpetuating and trying to get away from for the last 250 years.

But. BUT.

Stop being assholes. Just stop it. You don't have to like it. Stop making other people feel like shit just because they do. They are allowed to like a bad movie. Should they maybe be conscientious of what the money they spend supports? Absolutely. As adults we should be critical, to some degree, when we have the energy and space to do so, of the media we consume, too. That's a no brainer.

But no one is remaking the movies you're so staunchly defending. Remake implies erasing the original content. It implies that the fundamental story is being irreversibly changed. Lilo and Stitch and Eragon are great examples of this.

What's happening is reformatting in the case of movies like the live actions The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, the most recent Narnia movies, and HTTYD. The story isn't changing, but the form in which you're consuming it IS.

There have been other live action movies to come out that have been retellings. Beauty and the Beast and Maleficent and The Little Mermaid and Snow White are perfect examples. They are stories that have changed with every telling since they were first told. The details that change have changed because some little kid thought their version sounded cooler, so that's what they told their kids.

HTTYD from books to animated movie was a retelling. The story changed but fundamental details remained the same. HTTYD from animated to live action was a reformatting because most everything stayed the same.

Get your language right. Get off your high horse. Admit that you specifically have an issue with something instead of saying 'If you like this then you're BAD'. Let other adults apply their own critical thinking, decide what they want to spend money on and support, and instead of being assholes actually spread awareness about the people working in animation losing their jobs because of the increased popularity of live action reformatting, about the dangers of imperialist views, about how to vote to make the changes you want to see instead of being bitter and crabby.