News: Have Your Say: Has The 'Reboot' Trend Run Amok?

News: Have Your Say: Has The 'Reboot' Trend Run Amok?

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by Todd Brown, January 11, 2010 11:29 PM
Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, USA & Canada
Yes, I know that a good number of re-boot films have come off rather well in the past few years and I certainly prefer making a fresh start to beating a dead horse into the ground, but this is madness. I go into hospital for a few days and in that time Sam Raimi objects to the rushed timeline being forced on Spider-Man 4, either walks or is bounced or - more likely - some mutually agreed upon combination of the two, and already Sony has cut bait and moved on, announcing that their upcoming fourth film will bring in fresh talent - Maguire's gone now, too - and will reboot the franchise with Peter Parker still in high school.

I understand the trend to reboot 80s horror franchises, long buried under the dead weight of hideously substandard sequels. Superman made sense, too, what with the time gap and Richard Pryor and attempted foray into teen girl fandom. Batman? Anything that got Joel Schumacher away from that franchise was good by me. And as weird as I found rebooting the Hulk after just one film, at least it was a refreshing admission that the first one just didn't work they way they wanted it to. But this? Sure, the third film isn't great but this is still a franchise at its peak, with a ton of stories still to tell, just being tossed aside onto the scrap heap. Madness, I say.