A Buffy the vampire slayer reboot movie?!

[TheComicbookKid]

^ Yep it totally feels like a money grab, I think it's naive to think that isn't one of the driving factors.

When isn't using an established property a money grab. You think Abrams' use of the most iconic version of Trek instead of creating something new was pure love and admiration?

If the Green Hornet makes a billion dollars, you think the Shadow won't be far behind?

Having Whedon fans support would be great, but as we talk with in every superhero flick, we are a relatively small number in total to the larger population.

 

[jmc]

That's pretty cynical line of thinking mate, there are properties being remade with genuine love for the previous series/movies, this feels like it's being made for the sake of it to cash in on the Twilight BS, not because it warrants it, hence it comes off as one of those blatant money grabbers. In regards to Abrams' Star Trek I actually do think there was genuine love there to revitalize a series that was in desperate need of help. This is nothing more than a studio trying to capitalize on Vampires as they are suddenly a hot commodity. I'll put money on it that this will crash and burn simply because no-one will have a bar of it, Whedon fans, casual movie goers, everyone will see this for what it is.

 

[O'Haire]

http://twitpic.com/39av51

lol

 

[Thundarr]

I also doubt the people involved with the project too.

Same here. They're the same people who screwed up the first Buffy movie. Now they think that just because Buffy was a big success on TV they can make it work the second time around? Hello! The reason the TV show was a success was that Joss Whedon was directly involved and had pretty much full creative control. Take him out of the equasion and put the movie back into the hands of the very incompetents who made a mess of things the forst time around, and I predict a massive flop.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Eh, after I thought it about it for a while I don't care that they are remaking it. There are actual great things that they are remaking so it doesn't get my goat that they are remaking a bad movie/fun teen show that was only good for 2 and half or 3 seasons.

I hope they don't spend more than 30mil on it though because I don't see it making a ton. The original shows best rating were like 5mil and nobody gave a crap about the movie.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm not a huge Buffy fan either but I do like Joss overall. There's something about this project that rubs me the wrong way.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm not a huge Buffy fan either but I do like Joss overall. There's something about this project that rubs me the wrong way.

I was 12 when Buffy debuted in 1996 and I loved it, I was obsessed with it but now? Nah. I watched the first two seasons on DVD a year ago and had fun with the show but it was better when I was a kid. It was a very good show and I respect the the first couple of seasons but it's far from the greatest show ever to me. It was bound to be remade back into a movie one of these days. The Vampire craze has just gotten it into the "too soon" category.

I think it could be interesting but I don't have a love for the Buffy myth or Joss Whedon like some others do. I wouldn't put money on it but it could be a fun movie if done right.

Star Trek and it's actors were way more iconic and they remade it and most people liked it.

 

[Project862006]

how come i got a feeling Amanda Seyfried will be Buffy LOL

 

[Saint]

Eh, after I thought it about it for a while I don't care that they are remaking it. There are actual great things that they are remaking so it doesn't get my goat that they are remaking a bad movie/fun teen show that was only good for 2 and half or 3 seasons.

Buffy became incrementally better each season (with the exception of season four, which isn't as good as three). The best seasons were six and seven.

 

[Sawyer]

Buffy became incrementally better each season (with the exception of season four, which isn't as good as three). The best seasons were six and seven.

Incredibly debatable. As much as I enjoy them, two and three were far better IMO.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

That's pretty cynical line of thinking mate, there are properties being remade with genuine love for the previous series/movies, this feels like it's being made for the sake of it to cash in on the Twilight BS, not because it warrants it, hence it comes off as one of those blatant money grabbers. In regards to Abrams' Star Trek I actually do think there was genuine love there to revitalize a series that was in desperate need of help. This is nothing more than a studio trying to capitalize on Vampires as they are suddenly a hot commodity. I'll put money on it that this will crash and burn simply because no-one will have a bar of it, Whedon fans, casual movie goers, everyone will see this for what it is.

I'm not saying Orci and company don't love and respect the material. Just like I think the lady behind this reboot loves Buffy, but Paramount has a vested interest in keeping Trek a profitable franchise, just like the two producers from Buffy. You think Paramount would let Trek rest for two decades after Enterprise flamed out to let the fans regain their lust for the property or did the fact one of great producers of our time saying he wants to reboot Trek using the most iconic version make their eyes turn to dollar signs?

 

[Octoberist]

what you just read, i just had major deja vu as if I read it somewhere before. freaky.

 

[Primal Slayer]

If they cast someone like say...Katie Cassidy, I would be about 5% more interested in this.

 

[san15]

If they cast someone like say...Katie Cassidy, I would be about 5% more interested in this.

I think she’ll make a great Buffy, because Kate is a “buff muffin” girl.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Buffy became incrementally better each season (with the exception of season four, which isn't as good as three). The best seasons were six and seven.

And thats another "opinion" that I respect. Personally I hated when the show got uber morid and it somehow got sillier too. I actually mostly stopped watching it after a short time. I only watched parts of the graduation season ender. I didn't stick with the show for long at all. And yes I liked the Gentleman episode but thats about it when it came to the post season 3 episodes. I'm sorry but I watched The Body and didn't have any love for it. It only made the show even drabber and un-fun...if that were possible.

Incredibly debatable. As much as I enjoy them, two and three were far better IMO.

1 and 2 are my favorite seasons.

 

[Saint]

Incredibly debatable.

Well, obviously; my standard for quality is not a statement of fact. In terms of character writing and long-term story, six and seven were superior--and that's what I'm watching for. If you're looking for lighter, more casual weekly adventure, however, then you're going to prefer the early seasons.

And thats another "opinion" that I respect.

I don't understand why you've used quotation marks here. It doesn't make any sense.

I actually mostly stopped watching it after a short time. I only watched parts of the graduation season ender. I didn't stick with the show for long at all. And yes I liked the Gentleman episode but thats about it when it came to the post season 3 episodes. I'm sorry but I watched The Body and didn't have any love for it. It only made the show even drabber and un-fun...if that were possible.

I can hardly fault the show for putting on it's serious face, since the imperative of the show was not merely to be fun, except perhaps in season one. I don't think the show was fully formed until season three; that's when it struck the tone and balance that would persist till the end of the series, with the exception of the extra-dark (and extra-awesome) season six.

 

[Doc Ock]

The idea of rebooting Buffy with Joss still around is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Well, obviously; my standard for quality is not a statement of fact. In terms of character writing and long-term story, six and seven were superior--and that's what I'm watching for. If you're looking for lighter, more casual weekly adventure, however, then you're going to prefer the early seasons.


I don't understand why you've used quotation marks here. It doesn't make any sense.


I can hardly fault the show for putting on it's serious face, since the imperative of the show was not merely to be fun, except perhaps in season one. I don't think the show was fully formed until season three; that's when it struck the tone and balance that would persist till the end of the series, with the exception of the extra-dark (and extra-awesome) season six.

I quoted "opinion" because you were (and still are a little bit BTW) insinuating that the show did get better and more interesting as it went along. That is infact an opinion and nothing more. I don't need you to put "in my opinion" in your posts but I don't care for people trying to pass off their opinion of a work as fact. I'm all up for a drab shows but that wasn't what I signed up for and most of all I just didn't think that it was as good. I hated the direction it took and you didn't. It's as simple as that.

 

[The Question]

Incredibly debatable. As much as I enjoy them, two and three were far better IMO.

They were trying to do such different things with the characters, and did both so well, that I don't think they're comperable like that.

 

[Saint]

I quoted "opinion" because you were (and still are a little bit BTW) insinuating that the show did get better and more interesting as it went along. That is infact an opinion and nothing more.

I wasn't insinuating anything; I was stating that outright. Insinuation is indirect. And yes, it is my opinion. I did not state different, nor did the language of my post imply anything different.

I don't need you to put "in my opinion" in your posts but I don't care for people trying to pass off their opinion of a work as fact.

Curious: you say it is not necessary for me to write "In my opinion," and yet you still feel the need to put "opinion" in quotations marks, point out that my opinion is, in fact, an opinion and then state that you don't care for people "trying to pass of their opinion as a work of fact."

As such, to avoid anything further confusion: the opinion I wrote is just my opinion, because things that are subjective are obviously opinions, in case someone doesn't know what an opinion is and needs me to tell them when I'm writing an opinion. In the future, you can assume that when I write something that is obviously an opinion, that it is, in fact, an opinion, and that it is unnecessary to tell me that my opinion is an opinion, because I know it is an opinion, because it is my opinion.

I hope that clears things up.

 

[Saint]

They were trying to do such different things with the characters, and did both so well, that I don't think they're comperable like that.

I'll agree with that. It was an impressively versatile show, now that you mention it.

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

They should just call the movie Slayer, and have a new Slayer trained by Buffy.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

or adapt the season 8 comic.

 

[Macphisto]

I think Whedon made a wise choice in allowing the show to grow more mature through the years along with its target audience. It never stays in one place, always evolving. Now being 20-plus, I get a lot more enjoyment out of the later seasons than I do the early high school stuff. Season 5 is Whedon's true masterpiece.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Season 5 was amazing. Glory was an amazing villain because her and Buffy could fight and just be snide snarky *****es to one another.

It was the beginning of Buffy having to grow up and take charge.