13 January 2010

Morning Vent, 13 January 2010

     During yesterday's shopping extravaganza, Reibo and I impulse-bought Blu-Ray Star Trek and Silence of the Lambs. My until now flawless Sony Blu-Ray player had had no problems, but it failed to read the Star Trek or Silence of the Lambs discs. It read a couple of my previously bought discs OK. Reibo did a firmware update this AM, and it read the Star Trek disc. Once.
     Yes, the picture looked amazing in 1080p. Once. When we swapped discs to the special feature disc, it wouldn't read. And Silence of the Lambs wouldn't read, either. So, Reibo schlepped up to Best Buy and got an Insignia Blu-Ray player which is also Netflix-enabled. So far, so good.
     Does anyone think that Hollywood's "reboot" fever is getting a bit out of hand? Latest franchise to get slated for a reboot is Spider-Man. The pre-production Spider-Man 4 has been canceled, and Sam Raimi and the cast of have been discarded. The original Spider-Man live action movie premiered in 2002. That's just 8 years ago.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The problem seemed to stem from Raimi and studio's difference of opinion on the villains for S4. He wanted the Vulture(John Malkovich) and the studio wanted to go in a different direction.

Anonymous said...

The problem seemed to stem from Raimi and studio's difference of opinion on the villains for S4. He wanted the Vulture(John Malkovich) and the studio wanted to go in a different direction.

Joker961 said...

Cool info! I did see a ridiculous article somewhere that speculated that there were no more good villains for Spidey to fight.

 
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