When Star Trek Beyond came out, I was (unbeknownst to me) at the tail end of my longest- term relationship. I saw it with my girlfriend at the time. As usual, we were holding hands during the movie.
After we left the auditorium, she was grinning at me. I was curious. She told me that she could feel the moments that were pissing me off the most because, without me being aware, I was squeezing her hand harder during the worst moments, and the most-not-Star-Trek moments of the movie.
I've been a fan-boy of Star Trek and Star Wars (mostly Star Trek), since I was...what...five or so? As I grew up, my favorite episodes shifted from the ones with the space battles to the ones with the most emotional impact and the most complex philosophical questions. Still, I grew up with it.
I know enough about Star Trek to know that the TNG episode Parallels exists, which introduced the idea that there are countless universes and timelines for every possible decision made by any individual. If Jar Jar, Kurtzman, and Orci were intelligent people, they could argue that that episode is a way of saying, "This is just another time line. We're not just saying, 'Fuck the last fifty years of Star Trek canon. We're not saying that all of the content that you've viewed in your life suddenly didn't happen anymore. It's just an independent timeline that we want to explore to free ourselves up.'" But, these aren't smart people.
We all know that Into Darkness was a half-assed remake of Wrath of Khan. We all know that the absurd scene in Beyond with Kirk and Bones discussing how Kirk doesn't know where his life is going, and how he's unfulfilled is just a scene from Wrath of Khan that they missed in Into Darkness. We also know that that scene made perfect sense in Wrath of Khan and zero sense in Beyond.
But, that's just one franchise. If I included Star Wars, I'd need to write a book.
I'm not nearly on the level of many of my friends regarding my knowledge nor love of The Lord of the Rings. Even when Disney was relatively good, I wasn't too much of a fan after I hit the age of seven or so. I'm not familiar with The Witcher at all outside of the criticisms that have arisen from several fans, including Henry Cavill, about departures from the source material.
The animosity from loyal fans of many of these IPs should be understandable to just about anyone.
Apparently it's not.
So, I would like to thank Rachel Zegler for being a walking, talking embodiment of the problem in regard to Snow White.
No, I'm not bitching about them casting a character that was described as having skin "white as snow" since 1812 with a person who's half Columbian.
It's that everything that she's said to the media is a slight on the source material and an insult to fans. The snarkyness that comes with the comments of how old the original film is, and the musing about how the Prince may end up on the cutting room floor just come off as a bunch of rich assholes telling us that they know better.
Only, they demonstrably don't know better.
The problems with all of this repurposing for "modern audiences" are plentiful.
It doesn't stop with the middle fingers flipped at those of us who love the originals.
By and large, these are just opportunities for talentless bums to hide behind the shoulders of giants rather than stand on them.
Star Trek fans don't have a problem with the Jar Jar era because they're bad movies -- and they are. The Final Frontier was garbage. Generations wasn't great; but, I like it more than most people. Spock's Brain was one of the worst episodes of television ever. We have a problem because Star Trek is supposed to...well...trek. Trekking and recycling aren't synonymous.
All these people are doing is taking something that we love, recycling the title and the characters' names, and relying on us to spend our money in the hope that it will be a continuation of the thing we've loved our whole lives. All the while, all they're doing is stealing ideas from much better people, probably spitting on the graves of those better people, and feeding us vacuous garbage.
After they do that, they call us "racists" or "bigots" if we don't buy their bullshit.
Hollywood probably broke the rails on this issue with Beyond. George Takei is woke to the point of being insufferable, even to life-long Star Trek fans. Even he criticized Beyond for making Sulu gay. It was a blatant move by rich people in Hollywood to alter a character that we've loved for fifty years just to get their druthers.
If these people had talent, they'd come up with their own ideas.
We're tired of being insulted by brats.
That's where the animosity comes from.