History Main / ItsTheSameNowItSucks

* Disney fans and outside observers share this viewpoint from time to time, particularly about Disney's [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation 1990s Renaissance films]]. The formulaic princess stories, the wisecracking sidekicks, the musical numbers, and the happy endings embody both what we love about the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon when they do it right, and what we roll our eyes at when they do it for ''too'' long in one stretch (and what rival studios have since attempted to imitate). Expect all fairy tale animated movies to be met with this trope, with certain fans and non-fans agreeing that things have a tendency to get too predictable, and yet [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Lord help Disney when they try to change things up]]. The public goes batty every time.

* In April of 2016, ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'' came out for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Two weeks later, ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016'' came out in theaters. A lot of the cutscenes from the game are included wholesale in the film, and a lot of fans just felt there was no point seeing the movie when they already had a superior and ''playable'' experience right at home.

* UsefulNotes/OpenGL 3 got this ''and'' TheyChangedItNowItSucks; the original idea was to completely overhaul the API, making it more like what [=Direct3D=] 10 ended up being. This made it quite far into the process, before Kronos declared the standard needed a few tweaks, entered a media black out and released a glorified [=OpenGL=] 2.2; people following the standard were not amused.

* Due to the state of the economy in TheNewTens and rising production costs, an increasingly common cost saving measure for companies like Creator/{{Hasbro}} and Creator/{{Mattel}} is to reuse parts from previous figures when creating new ones. This can mean anything from reusing arms and legs to flat out re-releasing old figures with new [[PaletteSwap paint jobs]] or head sculpts. Naturally, some collectors get rather pissed about this, as they feel they're essentially being asked to pay for figures they already own.
** What makes this somewhat amusing is that if you look at the first year of ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'', ''Franchise/GIJoe: A Real American Hero'', or ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' figures, you'll realize that [[OlderThanTheyThink they've been doing this since]] TheEighties. It's [[FranchiseOriginalSin arguably forgivable when a line is brand-new]], especially if early success in a toyline brings about a greater variety of original designs in later waves, and many of the adult collectors who care about such minutiae today simply didn't care as much when they were kids.

* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' got some criticism for the fact the the plot is nearly a beat-for-beat retread of the first film (a supervillain fight in the beginning causes collateral damage that results in the public hating Supers again, the villain is another tech genius who hates Supers due to a personal grudge, another member of the Parr family gets emotionally divided from the others due to superhero antics, another FalseFriend villain twist, film ends with Frozone and the Incredibles having to stop a giant machine from destroying the city), including pressing the ResetButton on Violet's relationship with Tony and the public opinion of Supers being down the drain again.

** One of the most common criticisms of the film is that it largely follows the basic Disney animated film formula without much variation and comes off as very bland and safe. While the film is deliberately made to be a throwback to the classic Disney films to commemorate the company's 100th anniversary, many fans and critics were hoping that Disney would be a little more creative on the film and feel that in the film's attempts to evoke Disney's classic fare instead of doing new things, it lacks a strong voice and identity of its own.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': In general, most One Piece arcs tend to follow the same formula and, while some argue that each arc manages to have its own identity and different feel, other fans have gotten sick of the formula and the series has gotten too repetitive. It doesn't help that its length means there have been many arcs and therefore it's very easy to find the plot-formula. Many fans compare Dressrosa to Alabasta. In both arcs, the Straw Hats seek to defeat one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, who is trying to/has taken over a country, although both main villains are completely different aside of their Warlord status, and they gain help of that country's princess and an honorable Marine. Several members of Doflamingo's crew have similar powers to the members of Baroque Works, but are otherwise polar opposite when it comes to the characterization of the crews.

* A number of viewers and critics deride the Filipino television station Creator/{{ABSCBN}} (and by extension, rival network [[Creator/GMANetwork GMA-7]]) for churning out {{Telenovela}}s with a similar premise (e.g. extramarital affairs, peasants going after ''hacienda'' clans, sibling rivalries involving a snob sister and an ExtremeDoormat sibling...) or in the case of their motion picture arm Star Cinema, romcom after romcom after romcom, ''ad nauseam''. Part of the reason for the latter was, according to [[https://coconuts.co/manila/features/illegal-streaming-habit-hurting-philippine-film-industry this article,]] due to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil piracy]] leaving less revenue for the studio to gamble on a higher-budget production (save for UsefulNotes/MetroManilaFilmFestival entries where they can throw wads of money at and have a surefire box office hit regardless of artistic value). Still, it isn't surprising for one to get annoyed at the rather tiring and formulaic cookie-cutter output ABS' film arm is doing.

* When Music/MichaelJackson released ''Music/{{Bad}}'' in 1987, many reviewers complained that it was too much like ''Music/{{Thriller}}''. The title songs were fairly similar, and other songs just barely avoided being analogues for others from the previous album. The 1991 followup, ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' didn't have quite the same problem until after Jackson died, where polls and iTunes charts showed that certain songs from ''Bad'' seemed to be making a comeback and ''Dangerous'' seemed to signal the beginning of the end. Because Jackson clearly moved in a different direction with ''Dangerous'' and it's the first album of his adult solo career not to be produced by Quincy Jones, it could be a retroactive case of TheyChangedItNowItSucks.

* While Creator/BarbraStreisand--who starred in the [[Film/AStarIsBorn1976 1976 remake]] of ''Film/AStarIsBorn1937''--initially paid lipservice to the [[Film/AStarIsBorn2018 2018 version]], she has since revealed that she doesn't like it since she thought it was too similar to her version. When it was first proposed, Music/{{Beyonce}} and Creator/WillSmith were supposed to star in it, and Streisand loved the idea of giving the classic film an R&B/hip-hop update. But it languished in DevelopmentHell for years and by the time it finally reached production, it starred Creator/BradleyCooper and Music/LadyGaga as country singers, which Streisand criticized for not being appreciably different from the 1976 movie.

* A minor example in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Season 6 finale "To Where and Back Again", where Queen Chrysalis is offered a chance at redemption only to [[RedemptionRejection rebuke the offer and swear vengeance]]. Chrysalis was the ''third'' major villain to be offered [[EasilyForgiven a free shot at forgiveness]], the sixth or seventh antagonist overall to be offered it, and the third or so to refuse. Instead of being a touching moment turned tragic, it basically had some fans rolling their eyes at a resolution they feel has been overdone, even for a show where the premise is ''friendship'' is magic. Many others, however, are just happy that Chrysalis has stayed a villain after the past few antagonists made a HeelFaceTurn.

* A criticism made by detractors of ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'' is that the film is mostly a straight-up remake of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} the original animated movie]]. However, some fans prefer this to the film being ''too'' different. It's really more a case of personal preference.

** Likewise the personalities and characters arcs drew unfavorable comparison to those of past characters. Kenobi's characterization, that of a washed-up Jedi cut off from the Force, was seen as a rehash of Luke's from ''Film/TheLastJedi'' and Cal's in ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Jedi: Fallen Order]]''. On a more specific note, the antagonistic Reva was unfavorably compared to Second Sister/Trilla from ''Fallen Order'' as she is also former Jedi who survived Order 66, became an Inquisitor [[spoiler: holds a grudge against a Jedi who she blames for abandoning her]] and is played by a Black Woman.

%%* A common criticism of Creator/KyotoAnimation is that nearly all their series have a virtually identical artstyle even when it doesn't really fit the show.

* Creator/NeillBlomkamp is being criticized by some on the fact that, after his promising and much-praised film debut ''Film/District9'', he's essentially recycling the same story and themes but with increasingly worse results. Namely, {{anvilicious}} films set in squalid South African suburbs in the near future, having the actors paired with aliens/robots and other special effects, and lots of stylized violence; all things that come from his earlier short films, which were then expanded into his feature films. It's telling that he hasn't done a proper film since 2015's ''Film/{{Chappie}}''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The most dramatic difference [is] the addition of a masturbation scene. That's appropriate, since this new ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' evokes the real thing in an attempt to re-create remembered passion."'' -- Creator/RogerEbert, who rated the remake 1.5/4.]]