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Upcoming Movie and TV Reboots 7: Best of the Rest #spoof

June 20, 2021film, spoof#MovieReviewsBlog, #spoof, @MovieReviewsBlo, Back to the Future, Cabin Fever, Cabin Fever 2002, Cabin Fever 2016, David Bowie, Death at a Funeral, Death at a Funeral 2007, Death at a Funeral 2010, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four 2005, Fantastic Four 2015, Final Destination, Game of Thrones, George Lucas, GoT, Harry Potter, HBO, Hitcher, Hulk, Hulk 2003, Hulk 2008, J. J. Abrams, J. K. Rowling, Jennifer Connelly, Labyrinth, Labyrinth 1986, Lord of the Rings, LotR, Michael J. Fox, Peter Jackson, Planet of the Apes, Planet of the Apes 1968, Planet of the Apes 2001, Planet of the Apes 2011, Pottermania, reboot, remake, Robert Zemeckis, spoof, superman, Superman 1976, Superman 2006, The Fourth Kind, The Hills Have Eyes, The Hills Have Eyes 1977, The Hills Have Eyes 2006, The Phantom Menacebryanajparry

The best of the rest

The Fourth Kind (2022… and again in 2026… and again in 2027)

How we tried to like the 2009 original. That owl idea was just too damn cool. Unfortunately, the film wasn’t. By the way, the reboot(s) won’t be, either. Sorry to break it to you.

Final Destination (2022)

Same plot as the original. And the sequel to the original. And the second sequel. And the third. Aaaand the fourth. But with new actors. $100,000,000 box office?

Hitcher (2024)

The 2007 remake wasn’t that good, so, yeah… REBOOT!

CREDITS:

Cabin Fever: http://www.dreadcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Cabin-Fever.jpg

Fourth Kind: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenna-busch/emthe-fourth-kindem-revie_b_342812.html

Final Destination: https://wall.alphacoders.com/by_sub_category.php?id=231695

The Hitcher: http://crypticrock.com/this-week-in-horror-movie-history-the-hitcher-1986/

Labyrinth: http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/11/30/disturbingly-tight-pants-family-movie-labyrinth

Harry Potter: http://aretheyoldenough.com/are-they-old-enough/project/harry-potter-philosophers-stone/

LotR: http://www.androidauthority.com/fellowship-google-free-574980/

X Files: http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-x-files/38483/the-x-files-episode-1-spoiler-free-review-my-struggle

Back to the Future: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28374-back-to-the-future-does-physics-of-martys-time-travel-add-up/

Star Wars Episode I: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars-episode-i–the-phantom-menace/review/

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Upcoming Movie and TV Reboots! #reboot #remake #sequel

June 6, 2016film, humour, List, movieAragorn, Back to the Future, Bilbo, Boromir, Cabin Fever, Cape Fear, CSM, Dana Scully, Daniel Radcliff, David Bowie, Davidy Duchovny, Death at a Funeral, Emma Watson, Episode I, Fantastic Four, Final Destination, Fox Mulder, Frodo, Game of Thrones, Gandalf, George Lucas, Gillian Anderson, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter reboot, HBO, Hitcher, Hulk, J K Rowling, Jennifer Connelly, Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, LotR, Mitch Pileggi, Planet of the Apes, reboot, remake, Robert Zemeckis, Rupert Grint, Samwise Gamgee, sequel, Star Wars, Star Wars Episode I, superman, The Fourth Kind, The Hills Have Eyes, The Phantom Menace, The Philosopher's Stone, threequel, X Filesbryanajparry

It used to be that to qualify for a reboot or remake, a film had to satisfy two criteria:

the original had to be a “classic”,
a generation had to have passed since the original: Cape Fear (1962, 1991), The Hills Have Eyes (1977, 2006), Superman (1976, 2006).

Not so anymore. The appearance of Cabin Fever, a 2016 remake of a middling 2002 film, means all bets are off. And it’s not the only one:

Hulk (2003, 2008)
Fantastic Four (2005, 2015)
Death at a Funeral (2007, 2010)
Planet of the Apes (1968, 2001… 2011)

Using sophisticated NASA-style algorithms (read: guesswork) powered by the next generation software and hardware (read: coffee, boredom in my job), I have managed to foretell a 100% accurate schedule* of film and TV reboots for the next few years.

So put these dates in your daybook, because these films are coming to a cinema near you!

*At time of going to press: all changes to schedule are the result of a mishap with a DeLorean.

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Film Review: Cabin Fever (2016) @thefilmreview @KermodeMovie

February 19, 2016film, ReviewAmerican Pie, Cabin Fever, Carrie, Comfortably Numb, Eli Roth, Film, Let Me In, Let The Right One In, Madonna, Mark Kermode, Movie, netflix, Osunsanmi, Pink Floyd, Poltergeist, Ring, Scissor Sisters, The Fourth Kind, The Last House on the Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Travis Zariwnybryanajparry

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Ah, the great tradition of the horror film remake: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, 2003), The Last House on the Left (1972, 2009), Carrie (1976, 2013), Poltergeist (1982, 2015) and now… Cabin Fever. When I first heard they’d be rebooting the thirteen year old Eli Roth flick, I thought it was an actual joke. The 2002 original was hardly a classic, and surely thirteen years was just too soon. At least with those dodgy English language remakes (Ring, Let Me In), there’s some vaguely-justifiable kind of point: more familiar actors, setting, language. Cabin Fever version 2016 might just be the most pointless remake ever.

I was at least hoping writer Randy Pearlstein would take Eli Roth’s concept in a completely different direction, give it a different spin: do a number like the Scissor Sisters did to Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. But instead they’ve done a Madonna American Pie.

It really is the same film. A bunch of young adults go to a cabin in the woods but they all start getting mysteriously ill with a flesh-eating sickness: hence the punny title, Cabin Fever. The same horror shocks as the original (the razor scene, anybody?), the same OTT humour (violent hillbilly locals). But at least the lead characters in the Travis Zariwny directed reboot are not annoying. In fact, they’re quite believable — by horror movie standards, at least. I mean, one character does try to get help by peering in the window at a love-making couple, and promptly gets chased away for being a pervert, instead of just, y’know, knocking on the door. The slightly (like 10%) heightened realism affects the humour, too: the jokes just aren’t quite as zany and funny as the original (for example, there’s no sign of everyone’s favourite line “shootin’ niggas”).

All in all, I thought 2002 Cabin Fever was entertaining if pretty poor. I gave it two stars. 2016 Cabin Fever is still pretty funny, though not quite as much, and it’s still pretty horror-ish, yet slightly more believable. Good fun. A slight improvement over the original. But seriously: no more remakes of decade old non-classics, please. What next? A remake of Osunsanmi’s 2009 The Fourth Kind? Another Hitcher Reboot?

3/5

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