Reboots should only be considered if the original source material is vast. Some comics are perfect for reboots, because they have decades of material to work from. Spider-man will undoubtedly get a reboot in the future after Raimi and crew are done. They can only go for so long, and Spider-man has too many great stories to limit for just 6 or 7 movies. James Bond is good for reboots too, because there is already so many movies and novels to work from. There is also that mentality of thinking, "We've already made 20+ movies, why not make 5 more?" Buffy and Cliffhanger though are terrible for "reboots." I don't even think they're reboots since there wasn't much of a film franchise anyway. Even Buffy with it's tv show had enough to give fans their fill. There are way too many other properties that can be used instead of Buffy. The Friday the 13th series is a guilty pleasure of mine, and I own the first 8 movies. Still, that crappy remake/reboot/reimagining was more unnecessary than a hang glider for a vulture. There is only so many times you can see a guy kill people in the woods, and if you're dying to see something like that being "updated" after 11 outings, then you seriously need to expand your horizons. Characters with multiple films need to actually have some kind of progression and versatility besides chopping people to bits. I love it too, but we need to leave that **** in the 80s.
Remakes on the other hand are the most vile thing about movies today. Cinema is a form of art, and remakes really cripple the ability of it as an artform. Imagine if in any other medium we got remakes. What if someone took a Van Gogh painting, and "reimagined" it? That person would be called a hack without originality, and these remakes are far from original. Having it "updated" is a stupid idea and excuse. Who in the hell sees a movie in the present day thinking to themselves, "That movie was hot. I bet it would be even hotter if some guy did the same thing in about 20 years with the same characters." There's also the dumb excuse that the movie is outdated. Well no ****, it was made decades ago. Any film gets outdated after awhile. If you really want to enjoy the story, then watch the damn film and accept it for what it is. If you can't accept the movie due to it's age, then watch something modern. I was interested in the story of Taxi Driver, and guess what I did? I watched the movie. I didn't like it, but I'm not going to hope some guy directs a new movie to give me a chance to like it. If I didn't like it then, I don't care to see another take on it. It's what pisses me off about these remakes. Also, and this is my opinion, but there have only been four good remakes I can think of. Peter Jackson's King Kong, Man on Fire, The Nutty Professor and the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. Hollywood needs to seriously start thinking progressive again. They're using excuse after excuse to be lazy.
