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I've calmed down now but I'm still annoyed and I've found myself thinking about this as I've flitted about the house doing my daily chores.
Why am I annoyed? It's because these people aren't remaking the original (average at best) movie for that movie's fanbase (and I'm sure it has one, who view SMG as a pale copy of the original, but they wouldn't fill many cinemas). To say that they are is disingenuous of them.
No. They're remaking Buffy, fine, but for most people (well, okay, I'm talking about me here) that means the show. I've seen and own the movie but I've never read a comic and the movie differs canonically from the show (Slayers get incapacitating cramps when they see a vampire? Really?) in a few places. Or the other way around, to be fair.
Anyway, my meandering point (I was way more concise when I head-wrote this filling the tumble dryer) is that these people are using the cachet and critically acclaimed clout of the show to lend credibility to their attempts to remake the movie, thus neatly doing away with any need to credit Joss while using what he created. Like saying you invented the iPod when all you did was take an iPod and glue sparkly glitter on it.
That's so bloody cheeky.
I'm seething. See me seethe.
Then I remember that movie-not-show rights means they won't have Giles, the Scoobies, Spike and Angel, hell, they won't even have Sunnydale, and I snicker. Hell, they're not even doing it in high school; what's left but the title?
I'm also aware of the fact that there's the implication that they need to make Buffy cool and hip because the show's dated now and that implies that I'm old and past it too which makes my lip curl.
Excuse me, I'm just going to read a few more pages of other people seething in the comments to the articles. I find it soothing.
Why am I annoyed? It's because these people aren't remaking the original (average at best) movie for that movie's fanbase (and I'm sure it has one, who view SMG as a pale copy of the original, but they wouldn't fill many cinemas). To say that they are is disingenuous of them.
No. They're remaking Buffy, fine, but for most people (well, okay, I'm talking about me here) that means the show. I've seen and own the movie but I've never read a comic and the movie differs canonically from the show (Slayers get incapacitating cramps when they see a vampire? Really?) in a few places. Or the other way around, to be fair.
Anyway, my meandering point (I was way more concise when I head-wrote this filling the tumble dryer) is that these people are using the cachet and critically acclaimed clout of the show to lend credibility to their attempts to remake the movie, thus neatly doing away with any need to credit Joss while using what he created. Like saying you invented the iPod when all you did was take an iPod and glue sparkly glitter on it.
That's so bloody cheeky.
I'm seething. See me seethe.
Then I remember that movie-not-show rights means they won't have Giles, the Scoobies, Spike and Angel, hell, they won't even have Sunnydale, and I snicker. Hell, they're not even doing it in high school; what's left but the title?
I'm also aware of the fact that there's the implication that they need to make Buffy cool and hip because the show's dated now and that implies that I'm old and past it too which makes my lip curl.
Excuse me, I'm just going to read a few more pages of other people seething in the comments to the articles. I find it soothing.
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You are adorable when you're seething. ;) Seriously, though...my way of dealing with this is just trying not to think about it. Thinking about it leads to badness. Serious badness. Although, I must say that you pointing out that movie rights won't include anything that defines Buffy (for me) has me feeling a whole lot better. Thanks, dear.
I'm going to go hug my DVDs.
*snuggles you*
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these people are using the cachet and critically acclaimed clout of the show to lend credibility to their attempts to remake the movie, thus neatly doing away with any need to credit Joss while using what he created.
This is a really good point, and yeah, it isn't fair. He should have gotten creative rights on the movie a decade ago, and he should get credit now, if they're doing a remake. Poor guy should have had JKR's lawyer. (But this is a separate issue from whether they should make a new movie at all, in my mind.)
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To be honest, all this seems really vague and up in the air and I'd be surprised if it even made it to screen given the immediate backlash. Or maybe they think people will come to mock and they'll get the cash that way? Who knows.
It's just so massively redundant.
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Yes, I think they ought not be doing this without Joss' input, but it's *possible* that they're trying to make things better and not just cash in on fans' love for the show.
(I'm not saying I think the reboot will be awesome. I'm just saying that changing the original movie should be a good thing, since the original movie sucked.)
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This is hopping on the Twilight bandwagon and it's ass-backwards because Buffy came before Twilight.
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