eighty-plus years of pastiches and parodies had made those versions overly familiar and not particularly scary or affecting. The original Frankenstein makeup was probably terrifying in 1931. In the 21st Century, it reminds most people of kids’ breakfast cereal.

I’d agree with that, plus go full out and have the Bride of Dracula hearken back to Dracula Untold and have the main baddie be the “master vampire.” You can never get enough of Charles Dance.

Counterpoint: You can’t polish a turd. This movie was a train wreck in every conceivable way, and not the fun kind.

Look, I really understand wanting Sofia Boutella to play a sexy powerful monster, but this movie wasted her and any good idea it might have had under all of the crap.

Actually, it was all bad. 

No, the Dark Universe didn’t exist yet.

That…actually works! So many posters here would only find that kind of nostalgia callback cynical/money grabbing but hey, it helps develop a movie universe on a decent enough foundation/lore.

I kinda feel like you are talking about a movie you want to exist and not one that actually does.

Yeesh, that video is... something. Also re. Rule 4, this guy has clearly never seen an Ewok. 

The only thing I unequivocally agree with in that video is the Force is mysterious. It’s basically Qi. That’s all you need to know.

Lawrence of Arabia meets Star Wars is my dream Obi-Wan series.

An assassin named Kate Bush who’s weapon of choice is a sound that can kill someone at a distance.

An assassin named Kate Bush who’s weapon of choice is a sound that can kill someone at a distance.

In the case of Bright, I’m not sure if it was games or books that provided the impetus

Bright made me think about Shadowrun a lot. Obviously without the near-future cyberpunk elements, but I have to wonder how much the writers had played that game, if at all.

Yeah. Let’s be the real: the first two Mummies with Frazer (they only made two, right? definitely wasn’t a trilogy. Feel like someone would remember if they did that) were not particularly GOOD films. If you thought about them too hard they made no sense at all, were goofy and weird, and relied completely on tropes to…

The biggest crime the reboot made was that it just wasn’t very fun.

Apparently so!

Worse than that, it’s a cheap lazy rip-off of what Shadowrun (the TT RPG and latterly, video game - first out in 1988, note and hugely popular in the TT RPG sphere by 1990) did, setting-wise, which had considerably better and more coherent world-building than Bright, but a lot of similar basic ideas. I very strongly…

You laugh, but they actually expanded into several medias and have produced some pretty good shit overall.