For those saying to never make movies/shows from animated originals...

I loved Spiderman growing up. Saw every cartoon, every crappy real-life version, read the comics...

When the Tobey Maguire versions came out...

My ex-wife and I...we almost never went to a full-priced movie. We were always trying to save. $2 movies (I'm old, obviously) were the way to go.

That first live-action "Spiderman"...oh..my..dogs!

I have long since watched all of the "How To Train..." movies. They are all great-to-at-least-solid. If they remake these again as live-action and do them well, it is great. New generation, right?

I mean...they are going to reboot James Bond (again) and go for a younger audience. It's not like they are writing new villains up or publishing new novels (I don't think?). So remakes alone are abundant (and rarely better, to be certain).

Disney has been hit-or-miss with their own products in this way.

This looks like a good version here, though. So...a good movie is a good movie is a good movie.

Don't like remakes? Just don't watch it. If it flops (no matter the quality), it won't matter, and they won't make any more (you win!). If it succeeds...make a billion, they will definitely make more, but interestingly enough, you still do not have to go see those sequels, either.

Much easier to cry for 'something new' than to create something new, trust me.

The first Fantastic Four movie with a (perfectly cast) Gruffield and (insanely hot, blonded-up) Alba was a hit and good movie (especially for those times).

Also, the Maguire franchise didn't have "relative success", it was a monster hit. Sony screwed it up, of course, by letting the market research mopes make story decisions, but even then, Sony pulled the plug when the (actually talented) folks making the movies pushed back at making 4 like 3. Not because it didn't make gobs of money.

This what happens when people write about things they don't know. If you weren't alive then (quite likely), read more first. This nonsense is why you can be replaced by fake intelligence software.

It was never questioned if Cranston (or Kazmerek) were/are great at acting.

People are nostalgia-glazing how the show slid more and more as it went on.

Malcolm and Dewey (who isn't coming back for this) were the only consistently funny and interesting written characters. Reese was a one-note trope idiot bully. The oldest brother's running gag was constant travel and new jobs, but he was mostly disconnected. Then...the parents. The writers and showrunner realized they were great talents and started shifting more screen and story time to them. The show became about them, and that hurt the tone, which was already stretched thin story-wise because they clearly couldn't figure out if they were writing around the titular child (who was also excellent in his role) or an ensemble tilting toward the adults. (Who, it should be noted, were one of the main causes of strife to the boy-genius.)

A show about the "genius" of the family and his never-ending struggles started out strong and funny. It devolved into a sloppy ensemble mess with little cohesion. The finale, with its cutesy bow of excuses for all of their abuses (let's face it, today we would call it like it was) toward Malcolm, wasn't even an adequate season finale, let alone for the series.

The interesting thing about this reboot (maybe) is if they finally do justice to the lead character, or just show him suffering for his entire life. Not sure which sadists would want to watch that.

Frieren, the Apothecary Diaries, then Solo Leveling, for me.

So much fighting is overdone, pointless, and not even fully animated...if even the creators feel like they need to 'skip ahead', that is a clear sign we all can, but also, they should have written a better scene.

Just the opposite, I think is what most would say...

Solo Leveling is for teen boys, and Frieren is for adults who actually want a story and not just non-stop mindless fights. Solo was well done, but nothing about it was ground-breaking or magically special. Almost everything about Frieren is at the pinnacle of what has ever been done in anime, and I've been watching it since Speed Racer was originally on channel 44 when I was like 4 years old decades ago.