The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

[the G-man]

Enough with the lapsesploitations already.

There are so many interesting takes someone could do with public domain Popeye (I've heard Popeye v Cthulhu suggested more than once and, yes, please) and instead we get this crap. One almost starts to think these horror films are being churned out by Disney shell companies in a twisted effort to gross out the public so it supports yet another copyright extension law.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Some believe it's being done to ruin all the legacy franchises people loved for good.

 

[Aragorn]

As bad as most super low budget horror movies are, there is passion behind them. They're not trying to make a bad movie, they're just missing one or two ingredients to make it good (and yes, sometimes that one missing ingredient is talent). Using public domain characters puts a few more eyeballs onto them.

Now the lower budget Randall Emmett action movies that rush through a two-and-a-half week shooting schedule and give half the budget to a has-been "name" actor who sleepwalks through his role for one or two days because they're using him to market the movie, I don't think think there's passion there.

 

[Jayson1]

People have been saying similar things about Trek and Star Wars and so forth. I think it's just people trying to make a quick buck with some cheap horror movie with a recognizable IP name.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Even before the fires, it seemed the majority of movies and TV moved to less costly areas, while not revealing where until the story was finished.

There are some productions in my area, even. For example Letterkenny and its spinoff Shoresy.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Popeye is in the public domain now. I predict an origin film looming...

I predict a crappy horror movie.

 

[Jayson1]

Public Domain Popeye can't even gets his powers from spinach. Time to give him his powers from something else green. Like weed. Finally we find out what he is smoking in his pipe.

 

[Aragorn]

There are so many interesting takes someone could do with public domain Popeye (I've heard Popeye v Cthulhu suggested more than once and, yes, please) and instead we get this crap. One almost starts to think these horror films are being churned out by Disney shell companies in a twisted effort to gross out the public so it supports yet another copyright extension law.

Clearly the next step for Popeye is to become a police consultant who solves crimes on CBS.

 

[Starkers]

Public Domain Popeye can't even gets his powers from spinach. Time to give him his powers from something else green. Like weed. Finally we find out what he is smoking in his pipe.

He can't? But one of those horror films clearly has him ingesting (tainted) spinach?

 

[Jayson1]

It does? I was under the impression that the spinach thing came later in the characters creation and thus wasn't allowed.

 

[Starkers]

One of those trailers definitely involves spinach, in fact it's set in a spinach factory!

 

[marillion]

While spinach wasn't initially part of the narrative, it began in the early 30s. Now THAT makes me feel old.

One of my wife's 5th grade students commented that she was from the "late 1900s" the other day. That pissed her off and mad her sad all at the same time.

 

[tharpdevenport]

"CSI: Popeye"

 

[the G-man]

Clearly the next step for Popeye is to become a police consultant who solves crimes on CBS.

"CSI: Popeye"

Please. He's a sailor. We're obviously looking at "Popeye: NCIS"

 

[Nerys Myk]

It does? I was under the impression that the spinach thing came later in the characters creation and thus wasn't allowed.

My AI claimed 1929 for when Popeye started eating spinach. Other sources say 1931/32.

 

[Jayson1]

But was spinach always the thing that gave him his powers?

 

[Nerys Myk]

But was spinach always the thing that gave him his powers?

I think being a cartoon is what gave him his powers

 

[Aragorn]

Please. He's a sailor. We're obviously looking at "Popeye: NCIS"

Popeye: USDA - OIG Criminal Investigators

 

[Owain Taggart]

Public Domain Popeye can't even gets his powers from spinach. Time to give him his powers from something else green. Like weed. Finally we find out what he is smoking in his pipe.

That kind of works in a way.

Clearly the next step for Popeye is to become a police consultant who solves crimes on CBS.

And the twist being that he can't solve anything unless he's high. Add in that he's hard to work with and alienates nearly everyone, and you could have something...

 

[Kraig]

But was spinach always the thing that gave him his powers?

Not always.

The canned spinach giving him strength was caused by a German Scientist misplacing a decimal point on the amount of iron it contained.