So they finally announced the Final Fantasy VII remake. Year after year, it’s been one of the hands-clasped-in-prayer announcements for E3 as much as the Half-Life 3. And me, being a huge FFVII fan, former writer on the FF Compendium, I asked myself this morning if I’d ever play it. My answer was “Pfft, no.” Look, man, I love Final Fantasy VII. I LOOOOOVE Final Fantasy VII. I love the characters, I love the story, I love the gameplay. My memories of it are nothing but fond. But the fact is, you can’t go home again. It’s 2015. It’s been more than fifteen years since that magic time. I’m married.…
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Why Do We Keep Remaking Carrie?
Why does Hollywood keep remaking Carrie? Is it that good a story? I understand the appeal. It’s simple in concept and appeals to base emotions. We all want to have superpowers. We all want to exact revenge on certain people in our lives. We all feel suppressed by “the rules” whether that’s government or religion, they always seem to have the same ridiculousness and irrelevance. But do we need four movies to tell us that (five if you count “Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver”, but let’s not talk about that). There’s the original Sissy Spacek version (1976), “The Rage: Carrie 2” (1999) which I loved, but is really the same basic story, “Carrie” the…
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Should They Remake The Princess Bride
Remakes. I’m always paying attention to them, since movies I liked as a kid are now being redone or rebooted. I was re-reading “The Princess Bride” and it got me thinking — should they remake this movie? It’s been 27 years, and with films like Robocop and Transformers and Indiana Jones and Ninja Turtles and Star Wars appealing to nostalgia, “The Princess Bride” is a candidate to get picked from the hat. But where those movies don’t need a remake, I wonder if this classic could use an update. No disassemble… my legacy. One of the determining factors in deciding “update-or-nodate” is whether the movie would be better without one. Short Circuit…
