Yeah, and everyone thought Heath Ledger would suck as the Joker when it was first announced. Yeah, I'd PREFER Joss, but I'm not about to slit this movie's wrists yet before it even starts to film.
It's only partly about Joss not being on board, for me. My main beef is that I think it's really ridiculous to do a reboot now. BtVS the show ended less than a decade ago, and it's still absolutely culturally relevant.
I'm not a big fan of reboots in general, but I could see, for example, rebooting the Brady Bunch and setting it in modern times, with more contemporary issues. Sure. BtVS the movie, while older than the show, is still new enough that a reboot seems silly. (The show just makes it make that much less sense, imo.)
I guess I feel like sometimes it's too soon. The Spider-Man franchise is another example of this. I think they're just doing it to jump aboard the Twilight and True Blood bandwagons, which blows my mind because those things and the other current vampire craziness were still on the bandwagon that Anne Rice and Joss started. Oy.
Reboots almost never end well. I can think of what ... twice? MAYBE three times, that a reboot has worked?
Especially when the main fan-grouping for the original is still alive, kicking, and fond of the original. For instance? I grew up with the inimitable Christopher Reeves as Superman. To this DAY I haven't gone anywhere NEAR Smallville ... because it's not Chris, and insofar as I am concerned, they WILL fark it up and do it wrong. I grew up with the Haley Mills version of Parent Trap, too ... and have yet to watch any of the many, painful remakes/reboots of that idea.
And I'm far from the only one that throws a snit about idiots trying to redo MY favorite movie/TV show with newer, less known (and talented, IMO) (and cheaper!) actors/actresses.
Maybe it wouldn't be so much of a problem if, in addition to the dive in talent, the plot/concept didn't also invariably take a /painful/ nosedive every time someone decides to try to refresh/reframe/what have you an older show or movie.
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I'm not a big fan of reboots in general, but I could see, for example, rebooting the Brady Bunch and setting it in modern times, with more contemporary issues. Sure. BtVS the movie, while older than the show, is still new enough that a reboot seems silly. (The show just makes it make that much less sense, imo.)
I guess I feel like sometimes it's too soon. The Spider-Man franchise is another example of this. I think they're just doing it to jump aboard the Twilight and True Blood bandwagons, which blows my mind because those things and the other current vampire craziness were still on the bandwagon that Anne Rice and Joss started. Oy.
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Especially when the main fan-grouping for the original is still alive, kicking, and fond of the original. For instance? I grew up with the inimitable Christopher Reeves as Superman. To this DAY I haven't gone anywhere NEAR Smallville ... because it's not Chris, and insofar as I am concerned, they WILL fark it up and do it wrong. I grew up with the Haley Mills version of Parent Trap, too ... and have yet to watch any of the many, painful remakes/reboots of that idea.
And I'm far from the only one that throws a snit about idiots trying to redo MY favorite movie/TV show with newer, less known (and talented, IMO) (and cheaper!) actors/actresses.
Maybe it wouldn't be so much of a problem if, in addition to the dive in talent, the plot/concept didn't also invariably take a /painful/ nosedive every time someone decides to try to refresh/reframe/what have you an older show or movie.
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