In Time

[LochnarITB]

I watched the remake of Conan the Barbarian the other day, and it was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Only the first 10 or 15 minutes were even worth watching (Ron Perlman plays Conan's dad and Ron Perlman rules something fierce!). The guy who plays Conan should never act again. The closest analogy I can muster is that he's like Dr. McCoy in the original Star Trek series. He hates everything and is all quiet and brooding in a nonchalant kind of way, but when he's supposed to get angry and go barbarian he just goes "Dammit Jim!" and swings his sword around until people die.

I heard they were remaking that and I thought to myself "Why?". Of course, I felt that way when I heard they were remaking Footloose too. The one that really makes me shake my head and worry is not a remake, but a supposed "reboot" of Doctor Who for the big screen. BBC did a fine job of rebooting the series, although folks like my mother completely disagree, but a large part of what makes it so great is the British sense of humor that's thrown in when it makes sense to. Well, the more subtle version of British humor in this case. =) I can't see Hollywood bringing that to the big screen. They aren't interested in a reboot so much as a piece of the pie and, I'm sure in the process, of Americanising it to the point of it being unrecognizable as Doctor Who. At least there's just been talk and no cast, director, producer, etc. has been announced for it.

Edit: Whoops, director is in place, just not the script, cast, production crew. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2...sfeed=true

Noooooooooooo.... Why oh why must they hate me so? No no no no no no, Dr Who does not belong on the big screen. What are they going to do, break it up into 20 minute chunks and send everyone out to intermission in between each one? So much of the fun is in watching a blur of "what happened?" "how did he do that?" only to have that theme well up and the TARDIS go flying down the wormhole, sending you off to wonder how he's going to get out of this mess. A big screen movie is not going draw a kid "mumble mumble" years ago to set his alarm for 2am to get up and watch one of the doctors for a half hour, in black and white, on the local PBS station. Another childhood nerd's treasure being lost to today's kids finally figuring what is truly cool!