The reboot/remake bandwagon rumbles on...

[judas]

Getting a bit OT now but what the hell.

Back in the ye olde times, before VHS, you could get a very cut down version of Star Wars on Super 8 cine film. It came in various formats and lengths from an 10 minute silent cut in black and white to a thirty minute cut in colour with sound! The prices were suitably horrific but as a Star Wars child I lusted after it with every bone in my body.

After many months I eventually I managed to get the shortest silent version in a swap from a much richer mate. Finally, I had my very own copy of Star Wars!

Thing is, I never did manage to get hold of a projector to play it...

[Halb]

Could go any which way, one of them being, the end of the age of the reboot?....for now....

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[FourWheelDrift]

Queen Latifah to produce and star in The Equalizer TV reboot - https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2019/11/queen-latif...

I had to check that wasn't a Daily Mash story first.

Story elsewhere - https://www.google.co.uk/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNTN2ZBR...

[irocfan]

FourWheelDrift said:

Queen Latifah to produce and star in The Equalizer TV reboot - https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2019/11/queen-latif...

I had to check that wasn't a Daily Mash story first.

Story elsewhere - https://www.google.co.uk/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNTN2ZBR...

I know how the cat feels...

[Morningside]

irocfan said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Queen Latifah to produce and star in The Equalizer TV reboot - https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2019/11/queen-latif...

I had to check that wasn't a Daily Mash story first.

Story elsewhere - https://www.google.co.uk/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNTN2ZBR...

I know how the cat feels...

Yup, clearly cue a Jean Luc Picard facepalm moment.

[IanH755]

Female "Zorro" reboot as a TV show incoming too! - https://www.thewrap.com/female-led-zorro-reboot-se...

[Clockwork Cupcake]

IanH755 said:

Female "Zorro" reboot as a TV show incoming too! - https://www.thewrap.com/female-led-zorro-reboot-se...

The whole gender swap remake thing is getting really tired.

I love a strong female lead - Ripley in Aliens, for example. And I really like seeing woman taking a more leading role. But the whole "let's remake an old film but change all the men to women" is just lazy.

Having said that, I think changing Starbuck to a woman in Battlestar Galactica was a masterstroke and worked really well. Boomer was more "meh" - I could take or leave that - but Starbuck really worked.

And I think the idea of the new Wolverine being female worked too - with the justification that they could only salvage the X chromosome from Logan when they cloned him so had to double it up to XX (ie. female). I can go with that.

So, I guess I'm saying that when it is done well, then it works. But when it's done as a lazy trope (like a lot of remakes are doing) then it doesn't.

[FourWheelDrift]

As mentioned in the comments on that Zorro reboot.

By all means have female leads but do it with new things, not changing established male leads to female.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

FourWheelDrift said:

As mentioned in the comments on that Zorro reboot.

Apologies - I didn't click the link. I will go look now.

FourWheelDrift said:

By all means have female leads but do it with new things, not changing established male leads to female.

Indeed.

[FourWheelDrift]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

FourWheelDrift said:

As mentioned in the comments on that Zorro reboot.

Apologies - I didn't click the link. I will go look now.

I wasn't commenting on your comment, I was commenting on my comment that I was going to make

[ajprice]

Fantasy Island

From this TV series


To a horror-ish murder mystery by Blumhouse and the people involved with Get Out, Halloween and Truth or Dare https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3593415/synops...

[irocfan]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

The whole gender swap remake thing is getting really tired.

I love a strong female lead - Ripley in Aliens, for example. And I really like seeing woman taking a more leading role. But the whole "let's remake an old film but change all the men to women" is just lazy.

Having said that, I think changing Starbuck to a woman in Battlestar Galactica was a masterstroke and worked really well. Boomer was more "meh" - I could take or leave that - but Starbuck really worked.

And I think the idea of the new Wolverine being female worked too - with the justification that they could only salvage the X chromosome from Logan when they cloned him so had to double it up to XX (ie. female). I can go with that.

So, I guess I'm saying that when it is done well, then it works. But when it's done as a lazy trope (like a lot of remakes are doing) then it doesn't.

don't make you wrong at all there. Apparently there's a saying that's been trotted out more than a few times recently "get woke, go broke".

All we want is a good film - personally I couldn't care less if it's a male/female lead, I just want it to be entertaining and not yet another re-tread.

[ajprice]

ajprice said:

Fantasy Island

From this TV series


To a horror-ish murder mystery by Blumhouse and the people involved with Get Out, Halloween and Truth or Dare https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3593415/synops...

Trailer for the Blumhouse Fantasy Island https://youtu.be/a6O30nJ02PU

[Halb]

I watched the trailer firs look on beyond the trailer yesterday, didn't realise it was a horror, was watching it thinking, 'this might be better suits for a daytime programme' and then whoooah, this is different.

[ajprice]

Home Alone remake by Disney... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50743023

[Halb]

I'm come to realise that Home ALone is a genuine xmas fate of mine now. Tied in with memories of watching it with family members.

[Cotty]

FourWheelDrift said:

By all means have female leads but do it with new things, not changing established male leads to female.

Instead of trying to change James Bond to a woman they should have had a spin off with Halle Berry as Jinx Johnson from Die Another day.

[prand]

Halb said:

I'm come to realise that Home ALone is a genuine xmas fate of mine now. Tied in with memories of watching it with family members.

Funny this - my wife loves watching Love Actually every year at Xmas and I enjoy about half of it. Around half of the entwined stories that originally made me cringe really grate now. I was thinking it might do with a makeover/reboot to iron out these wrinkles. For example they really messed up the Egg (Rory McGregor) and Keira Knightly story, and that could be better done differently (and with a different actress - and no Boris Johnson!)

But I am a firm believer that the original should be left by itself. Come up with new ideas FFS!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

prand said:

For example they really messed up the Egg (Rory McGregor) and Keira Knightly story, and that could be better done differently

You mean less creepy and less stalkery?

[Cotty]

prand said:

Funny this - my wife loves watching Love Actually every year at Xmas and I enjoy about half of it. Around half of the entwined stories that originally made me cringe really grate now. I was thinking it might do with a makeover/reboot to iron out these wrinkles. For example they really messed up the Egg (Rory McGregor) and Keira Knightly story, and that could be better done differently (and with a different actress - and no Boris Johnson!)

But I am a firm believer that the original should be left by itself. Come up with new ideas FFS!

Worth it for Martine McCutcheon and I like to try to spot a friend in the Christmas party scene. He worked as an extra for a while and I have spotted him a few times in the background of films.