George Lucas Stole My Childhood: Remake Mania

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Originally Posted by Cassini90125

If you're going to do a movie based on a TV show or movie series with history, by the stars don't ignore that history or change the premise. It's part of what makes the original special, part of why it's considered good enough for a big-screen remake to begin with. And they shouldn't play around with character design too much, either. Updating the designs is one thing, but it often goes too far; the characters can become almost unrecognizable.

The most common reason producers don't continue from where stories leave off is because they have to worry about being constricted into the confines of the original story that was left behind by the last film. Which I can see how that'd be upsetting, but you can't just totally push away so much story so easily.'

Look at Batman's movies. Batman Beings basically is saying "yeah everything from 1989 up to 2004 does not exist anymore", that's BULL CRAP! How can you so carelessly and ignorantly discard so much hard work? Do you know how hard the writers, director, make up artists, and actors probably worked to make those movies only to basically say their story existence is wiped out?

Godzilla however does it WAY too much. After 1995's supposed "Last" Godzilla movie "Godzilla vs. Destroyah", continuity in the movies was completely ignored and for some stupid reason every movie after Destroyah was made to be a direct sequel to the original 1954 Godzilla movie "King of the monsters". Each time a new Godzilla movie was made, ZIP, everything before is ignored.

It's like this: Godzilla 2000 is a direct sequel to King of monsters ZIP! Sorry change that, Godzilla vs. Megagurius is the direct sequel ZIP! Sorry again GOD that is so annoying. The character revamps is also another big issue, I don't mind a tweak here or there but sometimes it's just revolting.

Dr. Doom for example from the FF movie looked JUST like Dr. Doom, he had pretty much the same powers, looked and acted just like the comic book Doom was. They didn't make him an alien from another planet or say he was bitten by a radioactive dung beetle, they kept majority of him in tact.

Leading back to relaunching movies and Batman Begins, this brings me to the new Joker portrayed by Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" and how they have already made the Joker a shallow shell of his character's history. Heath Ledger's Joker has the make up come off, as in he's NOT a "super" villain.

He's not the bleach skinned maniac we all know and loved, no, instead he's just another crazy villain who wears make up, that was one of the whole points of the Joker that he DIDN'T wear make up, it was permanent. Revamps usually can only be as good as the way the director envisions them.

Christopher Nolan made a beautiful movie with "Begins", I don't doubt that, but he made a totally stupid envision of the Batman series by making it more "realistic" and changing Scarecrow's gas, Ra's Al Gul, and Batman's gadgets into something more scientifically plausible. Batman is hardly what I call realistic so why bother whizzing on such a great super hero by making him more "real" when he never needed to be more real in the first place?