Are remakes ruining entertainment?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are remakes ruining entertainment?". Your opponent's style: Oscar Wilde

No, if you are going to say that it "ruines" entertainment, what does that mean? economically? surely not because many fans of the original are glad to see a remake. It's not cycling, it's re-introduction for the newer generation.

You're conflating consumer satisfaction with systemic harm, which is lazy reasoning. Yes, some fans enjoy remakes, but that doesn't mean the industry isn't optimizing for **safe sequels over risky originals**. Studios greenlight remakes because they're profitable shortcuts, not because they're better art. The economic reality is brutal: original IP gets starved of funding while remakes dominate release calendars. Your "reintroduction for new generations" argument collapses when you ask why Hollywood doesn't fund **new** stories for those same audiences instead. Nostalgia-mining and innovation aren't equivalent. So what would convince you that remake saturation actually *does* crowd out originality, or are you defending the status quo regardless of evidence?