I still can't go to Timberline Lodge without a shudder or two.Yeah, let's do a reboot of The Shining
Now if only someone would do a decent Cthulhu movie I would be happy. No reason they all need to be blood-spurting gore fests...
General / Off-Topic Constant stupid movie reboots
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Now if only someone would do a decent Cthulhu movie I would be happy. No reason they all need to be blood-spurting gore fests...
There are quite a few watchable Cthulhu movies. All low budget of course. They range from comedy horror to more serious. There are some very good cosmic horror movies some of which are Lovecraftian. There's also a few where the writers have said 'yeah, it's Cthulhu we just didn't want to pay for the rights".
Here's another good example of how reboots get made. Notice how writers have nothing to do with it.
www.ign.com
Why Is The Fall Guy Rebooting a TV Show Most People Probably Don't Know? - IGN
The new Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt action-comedy and adaptation of the TV show The Fall Guy is fun, but also a case of needlessly using a vaguely familiar title simply because it’s vaguely familiar.
Colour Out of Space is excellent, as is Mandy.
Yep, pretty much most of Nic Cage's resurgence is at least watchable.
The reboot is the industry's strategy of selling a successful product once again with less risk than launching something new. Hollywood, games industry, comic book series. Have you maybe noticed how authors once they land a success tend to serialise their success? Same thing. But essentially, it's publishers minimising risk while rolling higher chances of success. Most prominent was the extreme dominance of "new" movie stuff that fed itself from Marvel & Co. during the last quarter century. Imagine that a quarter of a century of uninspriring remakes of comic books - this "trend" is definitely not new.