I am somewhat with Snoop on this one. How do you take a classic like Alex Haley's "Roots" and remake it. Why couldn't they just show the original "Roots"? It does make one wonder did Moses really look like Christian Bale? I definitely believe we need movies of that era, but we also need movies depicting black folks in a more positive light. Today a man that helped change the world was laid to rest today, young folks need to see more positive films of folks like Ali, Jim Brown, Bill Russell, Dr. King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Angela Davis, etc.
Of course the liberals running Hollywood are racists. Why would we expect them to be any different than the rest of the liberals?
Remaking roots was dumb, just dumb. When you look at the cast of actors in that original .great actors, the first thing I thought was what are they thinking? They are never going to top the original. All they did IMO was taint a classic. A re airing of the original would have been a far better idea. I watched all of 39 seconds before I cringed at the awful acting.
Well, it's either A) the target demographics the network is going for would rather see fresher actors and up-to-date production values than watch a rerun, B) Hollywood has no originality, or C) both A and B. I was at the movies last week, and I remarked to my wife before the movie started that we had seen three - yes three - trailers of remakes in a row. Tarzan, Ghostbusters, and Ben-Hur. And then the fourth was a sequel, Independence Day. So the problem you're describing isn't limited to just Roots, but is endemic of a larger issue within Hollywood.
I like the remake. It's much closer to the novel than the 1977 series, where they couldn't show graphic depictions on network TV. The book is extremely graphic, worse even than the 2016 series. As far as other movies that are more positive, they're out there. I thought 42 was a great movie, and Selma was pretty good too, to name a couple of recent ones.
