As 'The Crow' Dies, Hollywood Needs to Stop Making Nostalgia-Chasing Remakes

12 years after 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' a generation's worth of "because you loved the first one" remakes have produced almost no actual hits or viable franchises.

The weekend totaled around $94 million, dipping below $100 million for the first time since the $66 million post-Memorial Day frame. That weekend preceded the debut of Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which rebooted the summer, if not the entire theatrical industry. The weekend’s The Crow was temporarily slated to debut early in June when Bad Boys 4 was opening alongside Inside Out 2. I’ll thus blame Lionsgate’s The Crow, which opened with $4.6 million this weekend, for breaking the nearly three-month-long streak. I’ve been singing “Bad Idea, Right?” about this one since George W. Bush was still president. Fun fact: The decades-long trend of remaking/rebooting generational favorites, mostly because audiences remember and love the previous flick, rarely results in commercial success. Maybe we should stop.