I would prefer if instead of rebooting Harry Potter the Anti-Harry-Potter, Artemis Fowl, got the same kind of lavish, big budget movie adaptation. That's something I would really really love to see. The problems Bob mentioned about the Harry Potter movies wouldn't even be there all that much in hypothetical Artemis Fowl movies because those books hardly contain any fluff at all, they are not a huge doorstopper each but straight action.
The Big Picture: The Boot, Part Two
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I feel like quite a nerd for knowing this, but I have to pass it on.
B5 was the first show to ditch models and only use CGI for the space shots. The reason they only have about 5 stock exterior shots in series one is because it took so long for each piece to render. Hell, they were being rendered on Amigas! They had to leave them on overnight and pray that they didn't crash, because if they did they'd have to start all over again.
Personally, I would love to see a reboot of B5, but it would have to be with JMS at the wheel, or at least writing the scripts. From season 2 onwards he wrote every single episode, bar one in series five that was written by Neil Gaiman.
If JJ Abrams goes near this series, I will lose all hope for humanity.
B5 was the first show to ditch models and only use CGI for the space shots. The reason they only have about 5 stock exterior shots in series one is because it took so long for each piece to render. Hell, they were being rendered on Amigas! They had to leave them on overnight and pray that they didn't crash, because if they did they'd have to start all over again.
Personally, I would love to see a reboot of B5, but it would have to be with JMS at the wheel, or at least writing the scripts. From season 2 onwards he wrote every single episode, bar one in series five that was written by Neil Gaiman.
If JJ Abrams goes near this series, I will lose all hope for humanity.
...Um, I actually -have- intentionally rewatched swafts of Harry Potter movies and re-read most of the longer books a year or two back. If anything, yeah, make it a TV series. That would work -so- much better. Just don't let it become a Twilight sort of thing, keep the tone of the movies as best you can.
Besides that, anything further to say on the matter would just be my own list of rebootable franchises, and more of those would be games or books anyway so I'll shut up.
Besides that, anything further to say on the matter would just be my own list of rebootable franchises, and more of those would be games or books anyway so I'll shut up.
Yes. This. Give each book a season of a TV series. Shorter books get shorter seasons. But it would allow for all the stuff that got skipped over which they missed out and then had to cover their asses about to be put intemplar1138a said:
Oh, and no I wouldn't want to sit down and watch all of the Harry Potter films in a marathon...because there's eight of them and they're like 2 hours each. I can't spare sixteen hours like that
know what? a Watchmen-style gritty reimagining of The Simpsons could actually be pretty hilarious
i cant see the Simpsons being rebooted or the harry potters, not that i would care that much if i did, i just dont think anyone would be willing to pay for it.
although i do want to know what moviebob as against the iron man 2? what the hell man!?
gargoyles would be a good reboot, and now all i can think of is all those earlier cartoons coming back, the kong one, or the ghostbusters extreme one,......yeah i have just discovered i want an Extreme Ghostbusters reboot...
Hollywood make it happen!
although i do want to know what moviebob as against the iron man 2? what the hell man!?
gargoyles would be a good reboot, and now all i can think of is all those earlier cartoons coming back, the kong one, or the ghostbusters extreme one,......yeah i have just discovered i want an Extreme Ghostbusters reboot...
Hollywood make it happen!
Harry Potter as a TV series (preferably cartoon) would be great. A cartoon would drastically reduce the budget, since you wouldn't have to use made for TV quality CGI AND you wouldn't have to try and find actors that look like the characters.
I think he would have been better off saying he wanted Simpsons spin offs rather than a reboot. He doesn't want the Simpson family to form the core of any reboot, but more the Trials and Tribulations of Frank Grimes. Maybe pick a new character every episode and show a peak into their life. They already do it in vignette form, why not make a season or two out of it?
I think he would have been better off saying he wanted Simpsons spin offs rather than a reboot. He doesn't want the Simpson family to form the core of any reboot, but more the Trials and Tribulations of Frank Grimes. Maybe pick a new character every episode and show a peak into their life. They already do it in vignette form, why not make a season or two out of it?
orangeapples said:
.....that's like 20 hours. that's insane. i seriously SERIOUSLY doubt anyone would do that, regardless of the amount they care about the films.
I'm gonna be totally upfront I'd give my left foot for a proper reboot of Gargoyles, and then my right foot for a proper reboot of Babylon 5. Forget tv shows those are two of my favorite things period, I'm honestly baffled that no one's tried to redo Gargoyles yet.
Actually... I'd kind of like to see a futurama reboot.
I still like the show enough that I'd watch and probably enjoy any new movie or episode continuation, but the charm of the first few seasons is gone and a lot of it has to do with the complete change of Bender's character from interesting to generic asshole. I don't know how to describe it... his egoism has basically removed any character he once possessed and he now can be molded into any shape to support whatever random jumble of plot points they try to make an episode out of, as long as you work "ego" into it somehow. If he ever does have any sort of character development it's always the same (he admits he loves his friends) and it resets before the next episode so he can do it again at some later point in the season.
The whole Fry and Leela relationship is botched, too. They made it happen (I assume) because they thought the movie would be the end of the show, but now that it isn't, they just don't want to stick to the idea. Every other episode involving them either seems to completely ignore the fact that they're a couple (which can get really confusing) or comes up with some contrived reason to separate them so the same character dynamic of 'the hopeless fool in love' can be played out for the billionth time.... Only to reunite them by fate. If they commit to the idea that the relationship isn't working out, then *gasp* Fry will have to eventually move on, and they won't be able to make him a hopeless fool in love anymore. The cycle is nauseating.
So I suppose I can summarize by saying, the main characters of futurama are stuck in a rut and the show is suffering because of it.
I still like the show enough that I'd watch and probably enjoy any new movie or episode continuation, but the charm of the first few seasons is gone and a lot of it has to do with the complete change of Bender's character from interesting to generic asshole. I don't know how to describe it... his egoism has basically removed any character he once possessed and he now can be molded into any shape to support whatever random jumble of plot points they try to make an episode out of, as long as you work "ego" into it somehow. If he ever does have any sort of character development it's always the same (he admits he loves his friends) and it resets before the next episode so he can do it again at some later point in the season.
The whole Fry and Leela relationship is botched, too. They made it happen (I assume) because they thought the movie would be the end of the show, but now that it isn't, they just don't want to stick to the idea. Every other episode involving them either seems to completely ignore the fact that they're a couple (which can get really confusing) or comes up with some contrived reason to separate them so the same character dynamic of 'the hopeless fool in love' can be played out for the billionth time.... Only to reunite them by fate. If they commit to the idea that the relationship isn't working out, then *gasp* Fry will have to eventually move on, and they won't be able to make him a hopeless fool in love anymore. The cycle is nauseating.
So I suppose I can summarize by saying, the main characters of futurama are stuck in a rut and the show is suffering because of it.
I said it in the comments for Part One, and I'll say it again here. They need to reboot Reboot. It's name is literally crying out for this to happen. Update it with modern technology and comparisons to the current way we use computers, play games and use the internet (porn references exempted). Have new characters, a new system, a new style of guardians, new style of game like MMORPGs. It would attract those who liked Wreck It Ralph.
Also, Gargoyles is a amazing idea, going to watch all those old episodes now. Not so convinced on the Simpsons or Harry Potter because I feel we'd need to let the Simpsons rest a little while before we did that and Harry Potter... I've had enough of Harry Potter, unless they do movies based around the first Wizard Wars when Voldemort came to power (maybe actually showing Dumbledore being gay instead of just saying he is and leaving supposed "clues", quit literally a gay witch hunt).
Also, Gargoyles is a amazing idea, going to watch all those old episodes now. Not so convinced on the Simpsons or Harry Potter because I feel we'd need to let the Simpsons rest a little while before we did that and Harry Potter... I've had enough of Harry Potter, unless they do movies based around the first Wizard Wars when Voldemort came to power (maybe actually showing Dumbledore being gay instead of just saying he is and leaving supposed "clues", quit literally a gay witch hunt).
