Reboot. It is the most popular term nowadays as Hollywood takes many of their failures and applies the cinematic equivalent of "White Out." A dab of correction fluid proclaims a "my bad" for the terrible attempt of many of the screen’s popular characters so to repackage them or merely better the movie after the failed try. Many films had great success in starting over and going in another creative direction from "Star Trek" to "The Incredible Hulk" where the franchises went back to the drawing board and reinvented them in order to reconnect with today's audiences. This new trend that followed the requel or remake where studios now simply blow the whole thing up and start anew as if nothing happened years ago such as Warner Bros. with the Batman franchise after the horrors of "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin." While this practice helps to give moviegoers another chance to see their favorite characters in a whole new light, some properties truly need a boost of short term memory and possibly revitalize a stale property.
One such franchise is "Halloween" with Michael Myers after the two back-to-back films have turned him into a sympathetic Frankenstein rip-off to a wandering psychopathic hermit in the latest pic. Rob Zombie did his best to try and give the monster a face and a bit of an origin story but the most compelling villains are not the ones we care for. True horror comes from the connection the viewer have with the victims who may eventually meet their fate against the killer. Someone needs to invest in these people like Laurie Strode so people can recapture that sense of dread when Michael Myers creeps down those hallways. It sure beats another "Saw" movie in theaters.
Bryan Singer has returned to the franchise he helped established when comic book films emerged, as a creative and financial beacon for Hollywood as now there's never a summer that doesn't pass by when Marvel or DC doesn't release a picture in the theaters. "X-Men 3" deserves to be remade and fully capture the vision he tried to realize in the first two chapters. The Phoenix Saga was an epic in the panels of many fans’ minds and it deserves to be done properly and give closure to the terrible debacle that was "Last Stand." Hugh Jackman is already in works for the sequel to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" so why not make a few calls and film around his schedule. But who's to say that the latest X-Men film about the first class of Professor X isn't a reboot in disguise?
Action movies too like the Predator are now given the new reimaging care and it seems that people will be ready to embrace them once again. Reincarnation, cinema style!
