The Reboot

It is good to have a reboot of classic films?

 In recent years we have seen some of the biggest films from the 1970's and 1980's being rebooted for a younger audience with more technology to play with, it's a directors dream now to make a film that in it's time wasn't the best due to either it's lack of narrative or due to the actual CGI on offer at the time and lets face facts there wasn't much to play with back in the day is it a good idea to make a new version once you have all the tools to do so???  

Take yourselves back to 1987, Bon Jovi was still rocking out at the top of the charts and Robocop was just released in Cinemas. 

New suited and Booted Robocop! 

1987 Robocop!

Fast forward to 2013, Robocop is in production once more, set to be released in 2014 the film is still the same but just having a major face lift. With Joel Kinnaman taking the lead as Robocop himself, with other famous faces joining him such as Samuel L Jackson and Gary Oldman in this seemingly awesome remake!  Turning back time just a bit 2012 saw some remakes hit our screens again, with Total Recall and Dredd hitting the screens with a bang. 

Arnie in the 1990 version!

Total Recall 1 was good but it wasn't the best, with the cheesiest CGI i've seen for years (Eye balls popping out of head cringe moment) it put other Arnie films to shame ( I am talking about The Terminator) so when they announced a whole new Total Recall part of me kinda died, thinking it would be just the same but rebooted. But Boy was I wrong. Total Recall on the surface is a brilliant concept, narrative wise it has everything you need, suspense, drama and complete and utter confusion most of the time, but what the original one lacked was the over complexity of the narrative. By sending Quad to Mars? To this day that still confuses me, i know in the film we (humans) had people/mutants up there for some reason?? 

Farrel as Quad in Recall!

Anyway the new one kept it simple, still set in the future this time it was more about what the world would look like if a nuclear bomb had exploded and only Britain(whoo) and Australia had survived. So what happens Britain becomes a rich state and Australia i'm afraid becomes the poor state that works for the rich state.  So you should know how the plot follows on from there, Recall is a place where you can simulate and live out your fantasies so long as you have never experienced them before. So when Quad goes to recall wanting to be a spy for an hour or two it all ends in tears as it turns out he is one and that everything in his life is a lie down to his wife who is also a spy and thats when it all kicks off. 

 With action scenes with things blowing up left right and centre, his wife will NOT DIE!!!! And I mean she won't ... she's a machine no matter how hard you fight her she always gets back up. This rebook is one to watch. 

Moving on... again set in the future and also a Graphic Novel Dredd had fans at the edge of their seats waiting just for a release date for the new and better film. Go back to 1995, The Lion King was out, girls and boys were not as yet chanting Girl Power and we still had only 5 channel TV in the UK for most people. The first Dredd was AWFUL!!!!! Honestly it is not worth watching!!!! IT WAS RUBBISH!!! The only thing to survive from the first film was the Helmet that Dredd wears. 

Mega city one

So when we heard that a new and more true to the graphic novel Dredd was coming out we could not wait!!!! The new Dredd was perfect down to way Mega City One looked, the story goes that after again Nuclear Fall out the only nation to have survived happened to be America, but only a certain section of America. I think Mega-City One spans from the east to the western sea board of America... I'm not sure... haven't read the novel for a while. Dredd had everything down to the gore and a very scary looking Lena Headly! Worth also watching in 3D!  

New reboots coming to the screen include Spiderman as the trilogy that ended in 2007 has been rebooted and rebranded as The Amazing Spiderman with it's narrative falling back to the original Marvel Comic Book narrative. The second film is out this autumn so that is something to look forward to. 

Other famous Comic Reboots come in the shape of Batman and Superman as well. 

Whatever we think of the reboot sometimes they are a good thing!