Green Lantern (2011)

[iHaunt]

So, who's going to see it? Maybe me and my girlfriend will see this movie next Friday.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I'll probably go see it when it comes out, but if it's anything like the "Green Hornet" movie was, I'll be very dissappointed. "The Green Hornet," though short lived, was one of my favorite shows, and was a great story. Too bad Hollywood had to turn the whole thing into a hokey farce, and made Christopher Reid into a womanizing naredowell.

Mike

[Spookymufu]

I'd be thrilled if Hollywood would stop making all these pathetic super hero movies and do something original................for a change

[Pumpkin_Man]

First they have to get away from all the remakes they've been doing. Many of those remakes are no better, and are nothing more then the same script with a more modern back ground. The remake of "The Omen," for instance, was really a waist of time, and had no impace like the original did.

As for the super heros, I do sort of like them, but that "Green Hornet" movie really pulled the tail out of it. It was a very poorly done, unfunny comedy, that spoiled a good hero for me. IT was all wrong, in fact. Christopher Reid was a true hero, who ran his news paper with dignity and faught criminals. This naredowell featured in that movie was anything but a hero, super or otherwise. If not for Kato, the Green Hornet's side kick, the Blaci Beauty and the Green Hornet never would have happened. The petty bickering between the two of them, the dislike between Kato and Christopher Reid, the alcoholism, the womanizing. This Christopher Reid was a typical spoile rich kid who never did an honest day's work in his life. The only redeaming quality of this farce was the car, and they even ruined that with one of the most hokey, utterly reciculous scene I ever saw in a movie.

A very poor substitute for the Green Hornet who I knew and loved back in 'the day,' when I was a kid. I was very dissappointed, and I was actualy tempte to leave before the end of the movie and ask for my money back.

Mike

[Spookymufu]

I thought Seth Rogan played the green hornet in this new movie?

I hate the super hero movies and 90% of the remakes, like I said be original and lighten up on all the chick flicks.....oh and I include the Transformers in the craptastic movies recently released.

I want to see some well done horror flicks that ARENT remakes for a change.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Well, Spooky, as much as I actualy did like some of the super hero movies that came out recently, I have to agree with you about the need for more original material, specificaly in the horror genre. All one has to do is take a 'haunted road trip' or two to find some great horror or ghost stories that would keep people like us glued to our seats. The legends surrounding Bachelors Grove, for isntance would make for a whole slew of horror stories. My October 2009 visit to the Bartonville Insane Asylum could also be another fabulous source of horror stories that could fill a 2 hour movie time slot. The super natural occurances that took place years ago, the horendous experiments, medical proceadures, inhuman shock treatments, the way orderlies treated some of the patients in that place are but a few of the ideas that could be exploited on film. There are numerous places in the U.S. alone that have planty of vampire legends, wearwolf legends, haunted houses,ghost stories, demonic possessions, witch stories, UFO sightings, the list goes on and on and on. Every city has haunted places. Just my home state alone could keep Hollywood producters busy for years to come.

I just don't understand why they have to keep remaking all the old classics like "Friday the 13th" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street." If you have to ride the coat tails of those old classics, then make PREQUILS to them. We allready know the story of Jason Vorhees. He's a mentaly challenged child turned supernatual psychotic killer. How about a story as to how he became that way? How about a prequel to "A Nightmare on Elm Street." How about we see the story, in detail, as to how Freddy Krueger, the flesh and blood pediaphine serial killer became the supernatural monster we all knew and loved in the 1980s movies he made famous. I like what the very first "Halloween" remake did. You saw a good development of what turned this wimpy little Michael Meyers who everyone poked fun at, into a super human evil monster that not even a gun could stop.

But I totaly agree. It's time for some new material. Either some new stories, or some new variatios on the old ones that hasn't been done before.

Mike

[Spookymufu]

I would love an original, spooky story that left a lot to the imagination but not so much your like "WTF was that?" (Blair Witch comes to mind) at the end. The Grudge is probably my favorite modern spook movie out, Dead Silence is another one. I think the Exorcist is my all time favorite for scare factor but I dont want to see a remake of it.
I like the old school style of suspense thrillers, not so much the gory, bloody movies, but those can be fun now and then, I love the MM movies just for that.
Oh well, hopefully they will come up with an original scary movie that fits the bill for me soon, hopefully before Halloween this year

[Pumpkin_Man]

The thing is, a lot of those "slasher" classics ( the Jasons, the Freddys, the Michel Meyers) all left me with that "WTF" feeling becuase while I did like them, and thought they were good for a scare, I would have like to known more about how these monsters actualy became the monsters that they were in the movies. Freddy Krueger, for instance, was a little kid at one time. At what point in his life did he decide to become a serial killer? What made him that way? What events happened in his life that turned him into a monster? How does a mentaly handicapped child like Jason Vorhees become a psychotic murderer and then a super human, super natural being that goes on a non stop killing spree? What was he like as a child before he was shoved into the lake?

All those questions would make great stories. As for "The Blair Witch" project, I actualy loved that one. It's not my all time favorite, but IMHO it is an all time classic which I screen every October when I'm alone in the house.

Mike