We’ve all played fantastic, fun and legendary video games in the past. These are the types of games you still see made into t-shirts and still talk about them to your friends when you’re drunk…well I do anyway. Certain games stick with you forever because of the quality of the game, the replay value and the hours you spent trying to beat it. To me, Mario Brothers 3, Wing Commander 3, Max Payne, Doom, Resident Evil 2 all fit the bill for the above mentioned criteria. Then years later, you hear rumblings and go…”What? They’re what??…a movie version of the classic game I grew up with???…Could you repeat that, I…
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Fantastic 4 Reboot…Anyone care??
I’ve written before about remakes and reboots. And since Reboot seems to be the vernacular coming off every studio exec’s tongue these days, everything under the sun is getting a re-do. Fantastic 4 is next in the firing line. Now I understand if something doesn’t work out the first time, if you have the means, then give it another go, but come on, F4??… I think I can see where the studio got the idea for this in 4 letters…H-U-L-K. The first Hulk…HULK…missed the mark, I think, because Ang Lee tried an off-kilter approach towards the film. Going for more emotional/tortured soul plot rather than “HULK SMASH”, the audience got…
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Pirates 4?
For every trilogy that finishes to tremendous audience approval and long-lasting endearment, there are countless more that don’t succeed as well. In my opinion, Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones are all great stories that finish in 3 acts and should sit atop a pedestal labeled “This is how you do a trilogy right”. I know there was a 4th Indiana Jones film but I don’t consider ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ a legitimate Indiana Jones film (in fact I try to deny it’s existence actually…it was just bad). Whether planned as a trilogy or be it a film whose sequels just happen to work…