Soon, the internet will explode with rage.

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Yes, they will. I liked the old buffy movie but never got into the TV show, so I don't really mind them hitting the reset button on Whedon's version. I imagine the hordes of fans disagree.

What sounds cool is that it's apparantly gonna be a slayer movie, not a Buffy movie. The same as Fray which was a comic book about a future slayer.

In order words it doesn't seem like it will have anything to do with "canon" so I can't see why fans should be angry. I'm a fan. I'm not angry.

There are so many stupid people in Hollywood. Right now, many of them are looking at the new Star Trek movie in envy. Instead of coming up with great new ideas, they are trying to think of other tv franchises that they can reboot. Now here's an interesting fact about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Joss Whedon. He is still writing the comic book version, and in March of 2009, it outsold Amazing Spider-man. No, there isn't a tv show anymore, but those cast members were aging in real time, outgrowing the original concept of the show. Hollywood needs to look elsewhere for now, for the next recycling project.

mads b. wrote:

What sounds cool is that it's apparantly gonna be a slayer movie, not a Buffy movie. The same as Fray which was a comic book about a future slayer.

In order words it doesn't seem like it will have anything to do with "canon" so I can't see why fans should be angry. I'm a fan. I'm not angry.

People are going to be pissed because they wanted a movie based on Whedon's vision and didn't get it. Stupid, but internet fanboyism thrives on stupidity.

I liked the show, mainly the first three seasons, and even played the RPG for a while. The TV show came after a movie that had a different actress playing Buffy and other different characters. In other words there is already a set precedent in a way for the franchise to not need the actors/characters of the TV show. I think most bitching will be because Whedon isn't involved. I'm fine with that. Like the new Star Trek, if they're going to resurrect it I'd like to see someone else's interpretation.

It's just stupid to do this reboot at this time. Who is the potential market? People who liked the Buffy movie from 17 years ago, but not the tv show? That's going to be a small group.

Shellhead wrote:

It's just stupid to do this reboot at this time. Who is the potential market? People who liked the Buffy movie from 17 years ago, but not the tv show? That's going to be a small group.

From the article I read a few days ago, they were planning for a heavy action spectacle movie rather than the lighter style of the show and old movie. Not that there isn't demographic crossover, but that is a different market.

I do agree its stupid to do a reboot.

So the new bright idea is to reboot Buffy? I don't care if Joss Whedon is involved or not. Buffy was a stupid show and a dumb movie. Sometimes they should just leave the dead alone.

-Will

Shellhead wrote:

People who liked the Buffy movie from 17 years ago, but not the tv show?

That would be me. I loved the movie (and still think it's great) but I thought the TV show was garbage that lost all the things that made me love the movie so much.

I also had such a crush on Buffy/Kristy Swanson then. I was like 12 years old and after seeing that movie I realized that she was everything I could ever want in a woman.

Shellhead wrote:

It's just stupid to do this reboot at this time. Who is the potential market? People who liked the Buffy movie from 17 years ago, but not the tv show? That's going to be a small group.

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Hey hollywood, how about another fucking Masters of the Universe film? I actually grant you permission to do that one. Throw me a bone here will ya?!

A good Masters of the Universe movie would be sweet - but casting it would be hell. And Michael Bay would just make everything explode in shakey-cam.

Michael Bay would also transport a group of marines to Eternia, where they get wrapped up in the struggle and get more screen time than He-Man, Skeletor, Prince Adam, and Beast Man combined.



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MattLoter wrote:

Shellhead wrote:

People who liked the Buffy movie from 17 years ago, but not the tv show?

That would be me. I loved the movie (and still think it's great) but I thought the TV show was garbage that lost all the things that made me love the movie so much.

I also had such a crush on Buffy/Kristy Swanson then. I was like 12 years old and after seeing that movie I realized that she was everything I could ever want in a woman.

Yeah that was me too. The movie was just bad enough to be good. I never liked the show although I tried to watch it a few times because so many people I knew thought it was the greatest thing ever on television.

Kristy Swanson occasionally shows up on law and order or CSI and other shows like that as a side character. I always half expect her to stab someone with a wooden stake.

The show rocks. You people are crazy. CRAYZEE.

Anyway, what actually bothers me about this is the sheer shamelessness of it. It's an absurd cash grab by a bunch of hacks who have never had an original idea in their lives. And, as others have said, totally unnecessary, especially at this time. This is hardly a property screaming for an update.

I'm also getting a little sick of the whole let's-make-a-dark-and-gritty version of everything. Sometimes it's appropriate (i.e. James Bond) but a lot of the time it's just stupid. What's next, Gilligan's Island?

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