Rehashed Lack of Originality
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With the news earlier this week that Spiderman 4 is dead in the water and a reboot would instead be taking its place I got to thinking how Hollywood seems to be lacking in original ideas. Original ideas that make a lot of money, anyway. Reboots, relaunches and remakes are all the craze in studios lately. While all redos haven’t been horrible, are they all really necessary?
Heres a short list of some recent or upcoming remakes:
- Superman (1978) – Superman (2006): Seems the comic book route is ripe with the reboots. This one though, may even go the route of yet another reboot. Wait and see.
- Halloween (1978) – Halloween (2007): Rob Zombies remake was well done and well received and even garnered a sequel of its own. That said, its hard to improve on a classic.
- Star Trek (1979) – Star Trek (2009): Most in need of the reboot treatment as the iconic series was pretty much left for dead. The retreatment of the ST universe was well done and leaves people eager for its sequel.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010): Again, necessary? Not really. Plus, I’m having a real hard time picturing a Bad News Bear — Jackie Earle Haley — donning the glove of blades.
- Friday the 13th (1980) – Friday the 13th (2009): Another classic in horror/slasher movies, not to mention it spawned countless sequels, regardless on how much more campy each one became. Necessary? You tell me.
- The Karate Kid (1984) – The Karate Kid (2010): While casting seems intriguing at best, was it necessary to retell this story?
- Batman (1989) – Batman Begins (2005): Of the original and its sequels, the sequels seemed to be the most in need of a redo. Batman Begins did well to start the franchise again though.
- The Crow (1994) – The Crow (2011): This is probably the one I cringe at the most. It saddens me even more as I am a huge Crow fan and feel the sequels alone were more than enough of an attempt at tarnishing a great movie. I’m not too comfortable with it in the hands of the guy that brought us League of Extraordinary Gentleman. They better look long and hard at who they choose to play the part. Anybody even close to Edward Furlong and I’ll be looking for this in the $5 dollar bin at Wal-Mart.
- Spiderman (2002) – Spiderman (2012): 10 years between original and reboot. Not necessary, at all.
Late Night Yawns
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Why not get all the late night hosts together and they can create their block of Late Night, well, something. LNTV will run 4 hours a night. The first 2 hours will be hosted by Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and David Letterman, collectively. The show begins with the Top 10 list of why NBC sucks followed by extended versions of “Jaywalking” and “In the Year 3000″ guaranteed to put everybody to sleep before the last hour long extravaganza of “Stupid Pet Tricks“.
Hour#3: Jimmy Kimmel, Carson Daly and Jimmy Fallon will fight it out in a triple threat match, every night. George Lopez will be the referee and Craig Furguson will appear every few minutes to beat someone with a steel chair. The final hour is dead air, you know, just like Jay Leno’s prime time experiment.
Sadly, LNTV will have above average ratings. Though, this will lead to much infighting. Then, they will all be pooped on by Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Thus, leaving us with 4 hours of brain rot TV sure to make anybody put a gun in their mouth.
This sad little trip through the late night twilight zone was brought to you by the letter W, for: Who gives a rats ass!
The whole thing reeks of a late night skit gone horribly wrong. Though it’s ripe for SNL to have fun with at their own networks expense. Shame it won’t be done with a better cast of comedians though.
War Against a Movie? What’s Next?
Of course, there is an agenda behind everything. People can’t be nice unless there’s something in it for them. The dog wouldn’t eat the cats food if it didn’t piss him off. Movie makers are hiding messages of their hatred for Marines and America in their film. Come on, last I checked Avatar is a blockbuster science fiction flick, not the latest Michael Moore docu-rant.
Chicago Alderman, James Balcer, a decorated war veteran, seems to take the stance that Avatar makes Marines “look like lunatics.” and “Well, they never mentioned America but when you have the eagle, globe and anchor (the Marine Corps emblem) it has to be America.”
You’re so right Mr Alderman, the logos, emblems or crests that extremists/mercenaries use, always hide any love/hate for a particular group or organization. However diluted their stance may be, that’s how they seem to operate! I don’t like it, or them for that matter, but I don’t lose any sleep over it, either. Same goes for a bunch of movie characters. If nothing else, maybe they’re trying to keep the characters as true to life as is possible in a SciFi flick.The basic plot of the movie (which I haven’t seen yet, but plan on seeing soon) is a group of mercenaries invade a planet for its precious ore and the blue people fight back.