REBOOTS. Do we need them? There are many questions associated with that work and the similarly expressed question. One can say when a story or series of stories have run it's course it's best to start fresh with a new look, a new twist, a whole different set of eyes. However, a lot of franchises seem like cult classics that still looked to have a lot of fresh juice in them. Some think that Hollywood is running out of ideas, recycling classic favorites to catch it's followers from the previous generation, but to attract the young generations as well.
You see, the issue with this is, the Rebooted versions may or may not live up to their predecessors, and there in lies the problem that it takes away from the value of the classics that started it all. So, in the situation of a failed or not-well-received reboot, that still gives you a weird feeling when thinking about or watching even the originals. Sometimes you get the scenario of a franchise that makes a reboot, which doesn't get over so well, so they make a reboot out of that, perhaps even so on until they get a combination that everyone is comfortable with and that everything does to all standards desired. That has been the case with HULK and The Incredible Hulk, it can be a hard task, even I admit, so what is the true logic of capitalizing on used names?
It's not quite long awaited sequels that I am worried about, I love the idea of digging up an old story and adding chapters on, it's treading over the already charted waters that makes me uncomfortable. It's tampering with proven history. Something I feel could be lack of communication, which has been proven with the X-Men films, where, the continuity proves, it's not exactly a matter of what the core fans want, but what looks most marketable from an executive standpoint. It's a smart move on their part to be so bold and hard sighted, but it angers the masses who care to follow deep into the background of things. On the other hand, certain films sometimes follow the opposite views and standards, and rush things together, sometimes listening to fans to the point where it puts them in a rush and they make some decisions in a rather cluttered fashion. Point of example, Spiderman 3, which, while it was a truly great experience for me, one of my finest date nights with an old girlfriend at the time, I will even admit for a fan of the film, it had flaws, huge cluttered flaws, including the disappearing Venom, here you see him, here you don't, then BOOM! Gone. It would have been best to save Sandman for another day if the Symbiote story was necessary this time around. If not, just keep Goblin Jr. to fight Spidey, while still wearing the classic blue and red threads, and then perhaps, if you needed, use the Sandman then. Also, I would have gave Goblin Jr. aka Harry, the name Hobgoblin, and changed that awful Sushi Samurai costume, alright, I know I'm taking liberties there, but let's face it, some changes, if made to benefit the story, and not drift too far from the source material, should be fine. There are lots of things I would change about certain movies, especially lots more in Spiderman 3, but I'd rather not go into detail about every little thing right now.
Point being, Spiderman 3 should have been corrected from the mistakes by Spidey 4 continuing the series with fresh things to be done, even if it meant just recasting everyone, which sort of is what they are doing now, but why backtrack him to high school again and redo everything? Although, Raimi's Trilogy made one serious and critical error, everyone around Spidey MacGuire dies! This is unfortunate, because the similar fate can be said of X-Men 3, but in the world of comics, fate should never be a definite, but rather an infinite, a truly open world of wonder and mysterious speculation. The way the story of every comic taught us to be. Nothing and everything is an absolute, anything is possible, anything is likely, and anything is everything. That's the way it should be in comic book movies, sometimes, filmmakers fail to realize that, and it causes a bigger fail amongst the fan communities, thus creating the legendary Epic Fail.
So, with that, I would like to ask, regarding reboots, are they a genius creation or purely the strange brew of Epic Fail? You decide.