Wait, they're remaking SUPERFLY (1972)?

Yeah, I think you summed it up quite well.

Well, at least when they resort to remakes.

Oh. I've always held this mindsight.  Certain movies and certian movie subgenres are borne straight from the need to express the social and cultural tensions of whatever it it that is going on in the exact moment in time, and so many movie to make this whole theory cutting edge clear, like "Jaws" and "Dog Doll Afternoon", and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "Taxi Driver'  And "The Deer Hunter" and "Badlands" and "Nashville" and "3 Women" and "the Jack Hill/Pam Grier productions and, more along the subversive outings like "The Baby" (1973) and "The Killing Kind" (1973) and "The Conversation" and "Heat" and "The Last Picture Show" and "Rosemary's Baby" and "Midnight Cowboy".   And so many others, too.  Like "Something Wild" and "Carrie" and "Food of the Gods" and "Dressed to Kill" and "empire of the Ants" and the whole start of Jason/Friday the 13th shpiel.   the truest reflection of any era's pop culture, and those are the movies that pop into what is going on just beneath the surface and the masses want to see where all the hostility and negative, dark, angry feelings being played out to satisfy the audiences.


And when that dubious, poorly conceived and absolutely no through ideas for sequels and remakes comes around {like many how many sequels are we talking about it, from "Jason Goes to Hell" and "Jason vs Freddy" and remake of the already nearly perfect "Black Christmas" and "Prom Night', then were I thought were the horrendous remakes of the already so-good-you-just-don't-touch-them, and then they rape them.  No subtlety, no sense of restraint, no suspence, no likeable characters and all the gross, over the top gore effects.   These newer offering are abysmal, and have no respect or apparent understanding of what made the originals and so timely and so irrelevant.

As appalled as the project may suggest, can you picture remaking the 1975 classic JAWS, with a woefully inadequate three female leads.    No matter who gets cast, I spell it D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R from the get go.

Okay, the original Quint is played by Reese Withersppon and we get to see the 56 great white shark swallow her whole.
Hooper is played by Renne Zellwellger and she and Miley Cyrus would have to indulge in some real physical hijiinks, lots of petty jealousies.
Brody was be played by Uma Thurman and she can sing as along as she want's to, as a matter of a fact, why doesn't Miss Thing just write her own little ditty for the dark, evil predator.   I am sure the film critics would be falling all over themselves in order to come with the best and the most superlatives.

And as far as the moster itself, well, there would just have a moment where the 65 foot predator could make the claim for the very own gender identitity.   I mean is the fish still merely a female (or have they recently succummbed to more post modern notions of gender.)   

No matter how you slice it, that's once big bitch!

And this linear line is, IMO, amongst the more promising of the possible plot lines.   Chuck all the relevant 1970s paranoia out the window.   It would just interfere with the girls' make up time and hours spent trying to determine exactly how they wanted to thrust out their hips to entice the 65 foot killer predator, who would gleefully take you out in one long swallow,  should you be so lucky.