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Transformers and a rant about remakes

Ok, time for a little 80's nerd talk plus a rant. If you want to change the channel now, please do. Anyways, I have been looking at these pictures that have been released of the Transformers from the new movie of the same name. I am confused and yet appalled about these new designs. Here are some pics of Optimus Prime and Megatron. I will explain some more below...

My first question if in fact these are what they are going to look like is this, How do they expect to have the toys transform? I'm not planning on buying them but that's a huge part of the Transformers. With the original Transformers, you could at least kind of tell what kind of machine they were when in robot form. With these, expecially Megatron, there's no way to figure that out.

I understand that people in Hollywood always use the excuse of "I'm bringing my vision to this movie" when making movies out of older ideas. I also understand that they are trying to update ideas for today's world. What sucks is that almost everytime Hollywood remakes something, they always butcher up the things that made people love the shows/movies to begin with. Hollywood almost always ends up trying to cater to the complete opposite crowd of the originals intended audience. A perfect example is The Honeymooners and The Dukes of Hazzard. While I didn't see the Honeymooners movie, anyone could tell from the trailer that it's target audience was the complete opposite of what it should have been. Nothing against Mr. the Entertainer or anything. The Dukes of Hazzard was a family adventure show, and they ended up turning it into almost a teen sex comedy. I am surprised that Hollywood hasn't learned its lesson yet. If your faithful to the themes and ideas a show or movie has, it will have a better chance at succeeding. If not, it will turn into one of the many wastes of money like these stink bombs:
Æon Flux
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
The Brady Bunch
Car 54, Where Are You?
Dudley Do-Right
Dukes of Hazzard
Fat Albert
George of the Jungle
The Honeymooners
Inspector Gadget
I Spy
Josie and the Pussycats
Leave it to Beaver
Little Rascals
Lost in Space
McHale's Navy
The Mod Squad
Masters of the Universe
Mr. Magoo
My Favorite Martian
Ri¢hie Ri¢h Rocky and Bullwinkle
Scooby-Doo
Sergeant Bilko
S.W.A.T.
Wild Wild West

I will give credit for the absolute few that were either entertaining and/or good(still, these were butchered versions):
The Addams Family(the first one)
Charlie's Angels(the first one)
Maverick
Mission:Impossible
Starsky &Hutch

Thats enough for today. Feel free to add a bad movie to the list or tell me if you disagree with my lists or observations. Let's all hope Hollywood doesn't touch The Andy Griffith Show. That might actually be the one to cause a revolt if they even try and touch that.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 at 3:37 AM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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