Snake-Pit Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 (edited) Erm... Saw Ghostbusters (2016) last night, saw Terminator Genisys (2015) online in 2015; before those however, I'm reminded of reboots personally that are older than the term 'Reboot'; citing The Nutty Professor (1996) and (another one starring Eddie Murphy) Doctor Dolittle (1998); - Down to Earth was a (2001) was a remake of Heaven Can Wait (1978), I'm not sure if that counts as a 'reboot' though. I'm not really opposed against them but it seems; That the 1980s are back, again. Also, I personally liked; and The best for TMNT era renditions. Versions since that golden era of TMNT have been more or less sacrilege .. To me. .. In fact; I think that cartoon was so popular, it gave way to those movies; pictured there are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the cartoon show that spanned 1987 - 1996)... Edited July 23, 2016 by Snake-Pit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 All reboots should rot in hell. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 To me personally they are the plankton of cinema. I mean have em if you want em but they really are the lowest. If, at its best, cinema is an art form then reboots are the lowest because they are not so much an artistic endeavour as a business desicion. Now I'm not stupid, i understand that cinema, hollywood cinema, it's about profit, you've got to turn over profit to be viable but hollywood is at its best when it balances the two, making money which is essential and also making a piece that actually says something/does something/offers something to the medium. If you really looked into how these films are made, if you were really privvy to the details of what goes on in the creation of these things, if you had a decent idea how little respect the people that make this shit have for the audience it'd really open your eyes. It's about surveys and focus groups and judging cultural trends and then exploiting them. Now, again, a lot of cinema is about that but the sheer tawdryness of the way they go about it, MASSIVE desicions are made in terms of plot, structure, whats in these movies, based on 'will this bump up sales based on appealing to such and such market', it's just deeply insulting, they treat the audience like rats hitting the feeder button for pellets. Take this fuckin' new Ghostbusters bollocks for a start, there is something so cynical about it...and yet all these people get on one side or the other, as if it's a feminism debate or something when really it's just about exploiting a gap in the market that has been assessed by a bunch of number crunchers 'chick reboots are in this summer'...hooray for feminism. It is just SO tiresome. There have been cynical eras in cinema, some of my favourites were very cynical, like the studio system but at the same time the studio system, though the structure, the monolith, the money men behind it were cynical the artists were anything but, they were men and women who fought within those constraints to give you some fucking outstanding cinema, these days it appears the 'artists' and money men are all in cahoots and there is an agreement there to forgo...well, just about anything in the name of further profitability. Much like the music industry it has become a sort of machinery that is run by people who have no interest in the job they work in, these bean counters couldn't give a flying rats tail for cinema and its really quite tragic. Now don't get me wrong, i believe in everything existing if there's someone out there to watch it but i do think that there should be a counter-balance, an alternative, a contingent whoose focus is on cinema and the advancement of. If you really think about it, forgetting special effects for a moment, what advancements have there been in the medium? I mean in the way films are constructed. Literally from the inception of cinema right up until the 1980s there was HUGE advancement in cinema...it seems after that that all you get is sort of the artsy niche stuff and the rest has just stagnated, purely because there are no actual filmmakers out there really, pure filmmakers I mean. Digitalisation, special effects, CGI, this stuff is all great stuff but it is nothing to do with the actual nuts and bolts of cinema and this whole reboot thing is just symptomatic of a total and complete lack of ideas in the medium anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I'm not paying to see the same story retold over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 (edited) Either the 1980s were so good; or, people who grew up then are now old enough to have more spending power so studios sitting on these rights to these 1980s franchises have them in their crosshairs to sell to; or - People have lost the ability to produce anything original anymore if not: All of the above. Long live the 1980s (I post, in this Guns N' Roses fan forum I'm an actively posting member of). Edited July 23, 2016 by Snake-Pit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 5 minutes ago, Snake-Pit said: People have lost the ability to produce anything original anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 There has never been original films. Everything is basically a rehash of stories that have been around for thousands of years. Romeo and Juliet is a retelling of Tristan and Iseut. Stories are written and retold in different ways. But yeah, I am going to vote Nay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 5 minutes ago, Georgy Zhukov said: There has never been original films. Everything is basically a rehash of stories that have been around for thousands of years. Romeo and Juliet is a retelling of Tristan and Iseut. Stories are written and retold in different ways. But yeah, I am going to vote Nay. We come along way from Rome and Juliet and Tristan and Isolde and a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, or a Ghostbusters reboot!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I honestly don't care one way or the other about them. My biggest complaint is that I don't need to be reminded about origin stories every couple of years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 The weirdest reboot was spiderman. They started rebooting Spiderman only a year or so after the ones with Toby whatshisface wrapped!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NostalgiaGoddess Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I think it depends on what is being rebooted. If it is a franchise that could use some work or if the creator wants to do more with the franchise's universe, then I wouldn't mind a reboot. If it is something whose premise can't work for today's world or has no reason to be rebooted, then I see no point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bond Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I'm getting tired of the word reboot, just like Hollywood got tired of the word "remake." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 (edited) Well there are three kinds of reboots. There's the traditional Hollywood "remake," which is really just a complete re-doing of the same plot. The best remakes take the original plot but elevate it with a bunch of cool new thematic elements (like Scarface), and the worst remakes don't do anything at all (like Psycho 1998). then there's "reboot" in the sense of starting a story over from the beginning but taking it in a new direction. Sometimes this is done for the right reasons (Batman Begins) and sometimes it's done just to make some money (The Amazing Spider-Man). lastly, there's the sequel-boot. Yah know, the remake that pretends to be a sequel. Sometimes, the original plot beats are mixed with enough new thematic ideas to make it feel fresh (Creed), and sometimes they aren't (Jurassic World). so there are good and bad examples of all three kinds of reboots. It all depends on context (what kind of reboot is being done for what source material and why). But honestly, I agree with the majority that all three kinds of reboots are getting really fucking old now. Hollywood needs to take it down a damn notch. Edited August 16, 2017 by rocknroll41 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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