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Are you familiar with the term ReBoot in terms of film franchises? Some people might not be, so a quick explanation and examples will be given. A reboot, is when a film franchise either grows stale, or just runs out of material, or just received bad reviews. The idea is, if instead of doing a sequel, they just start over again, and hope they can re-write everything from scratch. They can use old characters that might not be alive in the previous version. Personally, I am not a fan of film reboots, but whatever!

Some examples of ReBoots in films:
 
Batman was Rebooted and called Batman Begins.
The Karate Kid was Rebooted and called The Karate Kid,
HULK was Rebooted and called The incredible Hulk.
James Bond got a reboot called Casino Royale
Classic horror films like Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm St. all got rebooted.

The point of this post? The point is, there’s two upcoming Reboots, that I am really not Excited about. I think one has been rebooted ENOUGH and the other, I think should continue along the same path it has been, and if need be, just recast. Films Recast different actors in their role all the time. How many batmen were there before the reboot? like, 4 or so? How many James bonds before the reboot? Can’t even begin counting!

The first film is “The Punisher“, and this ticks me off because it’s already been rebooted. Not once, but twice! Is three times really necessary? I don’t think it is. Either continue along a path, or just give up on the punisher flicks all together.

The second film is Spider-Man. Sure, it had a good run! Three kick ass films, and I was looking forward to a fourth, but that’s now Not going to happen. The films getting a reboot, so will be starting from scratch with a new actor, who has never had the experiences as the peter parker from the previous three films. Yea, I know it gets complicated.

So, yea. Basically I am not a huge fan of Reboots.

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Villains Spotlight

Hollywood has created some incredible things. It has bestowed upon the masses everyting from historic recreations to epic end of the world disasters(And of course let’s not forget several zombie plagues) but in the end their villains seem to always lack something. They just aren’t effective!

I mean, correct me if I am wrong here, but I always got the impression that hollywood badguys were supposed to be the ultimate criminals? I mean why else would James Bond, MacGyver or Spider-Man have to be the one to throw down with these Maestros of crime? If so, If they are considered to be Top of the Food chain in the underworld criminal empire, then why do they always suck so badly when it comes to killing their nemesis? Why after managing to knock their enemy out, do they decide to strap their foe into some time delayed killing device? Something like a Car crushing machine, a burning rope hanging over a container of molten liquid or a time bomb strapped to a chair? Why in the name of crime do they do that? Then, to make matters worse, apparently their schedule is so busy that they have to leave the goodguy there alone, because CLEARLY their plan is so fool proof that the hero will die!

Of course in the end, the hero of the tale does manage to get free(Surprise!) and then foil mister baddies plans.

Does any of that sound like something that someone who is supposed to be considered the ultimate evil would do? Seriously? They are top shelf bad guys, yet their method for killing sucks! I mean, the common thug has a better kill ratio than the super dudes. I mean thugs will just shoot the good guy in the face. See? Problem solved, not much chance of him freeing himself, and it’s much quicker, which would give the evil dude more time to make his rounds and reach his appointments, cause as we all know, bad guys always have appointments and are very very busy!