Reboot you say?

[all the tramps]

so the next few years looks like a good time for reboots, with the biggest announced in my opinion so farr are the new spider man, x-men first class, superman and as the escapist has just posted there may even be a highlander reboot! so the question im asking here is, what movies in your opinion deserve a reboot and why? and if you know of any more movies getting a new jolt of life please post

 

[Marowit]

It's not a movie, but Reboot the TV show should have a Reboot. That was a great show.

 

[Binerexis]

No films ever deserve a reboot. Some, rare reboots are very well done (like the recent batman films) but others are blatant cash-ins and/or just don't need to be made.

 

[Lord Devius]

It's not a movie, but Reboot the TV show should have a Reboot. That was a great show.

...That is the sole reason I came to this thread. Thought this thread was about it. *sigh*

I wouldn't call it a reboot, but I'd like to see Star Wars' prequel trilogy remade... with... well, more quality.

There needs to be a prequel trilogy, it just needs to be done without Jar Jar and Hayden Christiansen.

...well, it'd take more than that. There's some good ideas in there, but eeh, not pulled off too well.

 

[Fumbles]

No films ever deserve a reboot. Some, rare reboots are very well done (like the recent batman films) but others are blatant cash-ins and/or just don't need to be made.

While I mostly agree with you, let us take a look at the recent True Grit. It is supremely better, a reboot can be good, only if the writers/director care enough to make a good movie (which is absurdly rare)

 

[Marowit]

It's not a movie, but Reboot the TV show should have a Reboot. That was a great show.

...That is the sole reason I came to this thread. Thought this thread was about it. *sigh*

I wouldn't call it a reboot, but I'd like to see Star Wars' prequel trilogy remade... with... well, more quality.

There needs to be a prequel trilogy, it just needs to be done without Jar Jar and Hayden Christiansen.

...well, it'd take more than that. There's some good ideas in there, but eeh, not pulled off too well.

You and me both, on both your point and about why we came to this thread. So instead of being disappointed about the lack of Reboot I thought I'd bring Reboot to the thread. It's all the better for it.

 

[dibblywibbles]

you know what movie needs a reboot? the mighty ducks. except emilio estevez still has to be in it. Flying V!

 

[WanderingFool]

No films ever deserve a reboot. Some, rare reboots are very well done (like the recent batman films) but others are blatant cash-ins and/or just don't need to be made.

This.

I view the Reboot as one of several things:

Reboots are for old shows/movies that are not on the air anymore/old. Typically seen as a modernization of the original.
Reboots are attempts at restarting a franchise that has gotten stale.
Reboots are attempts at trying to save a floundering franchise that never really took off.
Reboots are attempting to make money off of an established franchise, but which there is really no where to go, but to start at the beginning.

I know there are more, this is all I have at the moment...

 

[WanderingFool]

No films ever deserve a reboot. Some, rare reboots are very well done (like the recent batman films) but others are blatant cash-ins and/or just don't need to be made.

While I mostly agree with you, let us take a look at the recent True Grit. It is supremely better, a reboot can be good, only if the writers/director care enough to make a good movie (which is absurdly rare)

First, That wasnt a reboot, as much as a remake. A reboot would be taking the... lets say The man with no name trilogy with Eastwood, and reshooting the whole trilogy. Reboots are more franchise oriented, while remakes focus on one particular movie/game/book.

Second, True Grit without The Duke is not True Grit, thus that movie automatically sucks in comparison to the original. And yes, I am basically a John Wayne fanboy...

*Edit*
Forgot to edit my last comment and add this too it, my bad...

 

[Fumbles]

No films ever deserve a reboot. Some, rare reboots are very well done (like the recent batman films) but others are blatant cash-ins and/or just don't need to be made.

While I mostly agree with you, let us take a look at the recent True Grit. It is supremely better, a reboot can be good, only if the writers/director care enough to make a good movie (which is absurdly rare)

First, That wasnt a reboot, as much as a remake. A reboot would be taking the... lets say The man with no name trilogy with Eastwood, and reshooting the whole trilogy. Reboots are more franchise oriented, while remakes focus on one particular movie/game/book.

Second, True Grit without The Duke is not True Grit, thus that movie automatically sucks in comparison to the original. And yes, I am basically a John Wayne fanboy...

*Edit*
Forgot to edit my last comment and add this too it, my bad...

Oops yeah you're right.

However, I live in the deep south (i.e I grew up watching all of the Duke films) and I will say that Bridges just showed how basically incompetent of an actor Wayne truely was. I mean Jeff just delivered an awesome peformance.

Samething as Eastwood, He is miles better as a western actor then Wayne. Mostly because Eastwood has more of a range then the Duke.

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

Firefly needs a reboot. With the original cast and crew.
Just start over and put it on a good network that won't screw it all up.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

It's not a movie, but Reboot the TV show should have a Reboot. That was a great show.

You know about the ReBoot movies in production, right? Granted, I'm not sure if they're in development hell or just really slow to progress, but Rainmaker Entertainment is supposed to be at work on a trilogy.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

The screenwriter for Twilight has been hired for the Highlander reboot.

http://worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=20612&count=0

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[Marowit]

It's not a movie, but Reboot the TV show should have a Reboot. That was a great show.

You know about the ReBoot movies in production, right? Granted, I'm not sure if they're in development hell or just really slow to progress, but Rainmaker Entertainment is supposed to be at work on a trilogy.

Interesting. It would be incredible if they could some how get the rights and place them into current-culture video games a la WoW, CoD, TF2, etc...

Ah, that'd be hoping for too much though.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

The screenwriter for Twilight has been hired for the Highlander reboot.

http://worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=20612&count=0

This makes me cry a little. The original Hylander was one of the best movies ever made.

I bet he will sparkle in sunlight and stalk teenage girls too now.

Another franchise to the crapper.

Honestly the only decent reboot to me is The Thing. The rest just meh.

 

[Binerexis]

No films ever deserve a reboot. Some, rare reboots are very well done (like the recent batman films) but others are blatant cash-ins and/or just don't need to be made.

While I mostly agree with you, let us take a look at the recent True Grit. It is supremely better, a reboot can be good, only if the writers/director care enough to make a good movie (which is absurdly rare)

I'll be honest here, I've never even heard of True Grit before the more recent film. It could just be the country I'm in (England) but I've not actually met anyone who has seen the original let alone a big fan of it. Highlander, on the other hand, is a well known film and is held very dear by fans; the potential of disaster here is too high. It's true that Batman also has a devoted fan base but when you look at the changes it's gone through on TV film (campy, bit darker, very dark, goofy, too goofy, dark animated show, dark reboot, dark knight) they at least seem to get fair representations of the source material.

I will say that Highlander isn't that well known to people my age (mid-teens to early twenties) so maybe a Highlander reboot could do well. A remake of Total Recall, one of Arnie's well known films, just seems insane. It's not like with the recent reboot of Rocky where the story was continued with the same actor, it's going to be the same thing with modern graphics (which doesn't really matter no matter what George Lucas or James Cameron says) and with no Arnie. Putting Arnold Schwarzenegger in a film can be a bit of a gamble but taking him out of one will always make the film worse. Can you really imagine True Lies, The Terminator, Commando or Predator without Arnie? Why would you even WANT to imagine them without him?!

Shit be crazy in Hollywood.

 

[Canatrix]

And here I thought this would be a Reboot thread. You got me excited for a moment.