It's an odd thing that (most) superhero movies are extremely successful in terms of profitability, yet they keep getting rebooted. Spider-man's on his third(?) version. X-Men got started over. Eventually the Fantastic Four will get another shot and you know that it'll get rebooted. Superman, Batman. The Daredevil tv series vis a vis the movie. It seems like a complete mess given superhero comics have depended on some kind of continuity for over five decades now, but maybe that is the sensible thing, to keep from getting hung up by old stories. (And, to bring it back to The Last Jedi, the assertion about letting the past die.)
I thought the best thing about the most recent Spider-Man reboot was that it alludes vaguely to his origin once. We don’t need to see Uncle Ben anymore. Let’s get to the Spider-Manning.
Im no comic nerd but I thought Michael Keaton made the movie interesting. Without that storyline meh.
It's an odd thing that (most) superhero movies are extremely successful in terms of profitability, yet they keep getting rebooted. Spider-man's on his third(?) version. X-Men got started over. Eventually the Fantastic Four will get another shot and you know that it'll get rebooted. Superman, Batman. The Daredevil tv series vis a vis the movie. It seems like a complete mess given superhero comics have depended on some kind of continuity for over five decades now, but maybe that is the sensible thing, to keep from getting hung up by old stories. (And, to bring it back to The Last Jedi, the assertion about letting the past die.)
I thought the best thing about the most recent Spider-Man reboot was that it alludes vaguely to his origin once. We don’t need to see Uncle Ben anymore. Let’s get to the Spider-Manning.
Im no comic nerd but I thought Michael Keaton made the movie interesting. Without that storyline meh.
Oh, yeah. I should’ve specified the best part of Spider-Man the movie was Keaton. Probably the best performed comic book villain ever.
I like Homecoming a lot, but I’ve been waiting for a believably teenaged Spidey for a while.
It's an odd thing that (most) superhero movies are extremely successful in terms of profitability, yet they keep getting rebooted. Spider-man's on his third(?) version. X-Men got started over. Eventually the Fantastic Four will get another shot and you know that it'll get rebooted. Superman, Batman. The Daredevil tv series vis a vis the movie. It seems like a complete mess given superhero comics have depended on some kind of continuity for over five decades now, but maybe that is the sensible thing, to keep from getting hung up by old stories. (And, to bring it back to The Last Jedi, the assertion about letting the past die.)
I can speak to the Daredevil reboot, since it was given up by the hated Fox for Marvel to do correctly. And now with the Disney purchase of Fox properties (leaving aside the horrifying actual consequences), the FF can now be done correctly, so I don't see a reboot there for a while unless it's part of a larger cinematic universe shift (one that's theorized we'll be seeing after 2019 when most of the actors' contracts are up).
All other reboots are because the films sucked, revenue notwithstanding.
Re: Star Trek
Posted: 05 Jan 2018, 10:57pm
by eumaas
Have had TNG on in the background. The racist doctor Pulaski has just appeared.
Watching Starship Mine and man, this episode is just Star Trek: Die Hard.
That might be the official moment when Riker was replaced by Picard as the action guy.
Re: Star Trek
Posted: 29 Jan 2018, 5:55pm
by Dr. Medulla
Not … incorrect.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: What the hell is Discovery about? Star Trek: Five-year mission to explore the universe. Next Generation: Same remit, without the time limit. Deep Space Nine: What happens if you stay in one place? Voyager: What happens if you get lost? Enterprise: What happens if we go back to where it all began, and also Scott Bakula needs a paycheck? Discovery: What happens when a protagonist betrays her captain and inadvertently helps start a war with the Klingons and gets sentenced to life imprisonment only to get saved by a captain who turns out to be a guy from another universe and also her boyfriend is a secret Klingon and right that war is still going on and spores!