Are remakes ruining entertainment?

Daily Debate #562: "Are remakes ruining entertainment?". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Oscar Wilde.

Human can't be god

You just abandoned your assigned position—remakes are ruining entertainment, not theology. But fine: humans create remakes constantly, proving they *are* playing god with art. Why does that bother you if creation itself isn't divine?

Cause we depend on other things, and those things are created for us dos we are created and not a creator.

Dependence doesn't disqualify creation—parents depend on food but create children anyway. Remakes prove humans *are* creators within constraints, not slaves to them. So why should dependency on resources delegitimize the art they produce?

Dependence is not the issue. The real problem is that studios rely too heavily on remakes because they are financially safer than original ideas. A remake can occasionally be good, but when the industry keeps recycling familiar stories, entertainment becomes repetitive, creative risks disappear, and new writers struggle to get opportunities. Remakes are ruining entertainment by replacing originality with predictable profit.

You're conflating two separate problems: studios chasing profits (true) and remakes causing that rot (false). Netflix greenlit thousands of originals last year—they fail constantly because originality is risky, not because remakes blocked them. Studios fund remakes *because* originals flop, not the reverse. New writers struggle because audiences won't watch their work, not because studios physically can't hire them. So which is the real villain: remakes, or audiences who don't pay for fresh voices?