Monster of the Day #2022

Updated on November 4, 2019 By Ken Begg 18 Comments

Sooner or later somebody will go back to all this older material out there rather than trying to rehash AGAIN another Terminator movie. Or Men in Black, or Charlie’s Angels, or Ghostbusters, or The Predator, whatever.

Admittedly, if you were going to try any of those you might also want to try making, you know, a good movie or something. But even so.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    That’s a pretty well laid-out cover. Lots of stuff happening, but it’s pretty clear what’s happening.

    OT, but I just found out that Greydon Clark’s “Uninvited” was released on blue-ray earlier this year. Huh.

  • bgbear_punchingforthechildren

    The tried with John Carter on Mars. It was OK. I think like Lone Ranger, which I liked, they could have done better by not spending so much money.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    The biggest problem with “John Carter” was Taylor Kitch. They really needed someone with a commanding presence and he just doesn’t have that. Plus, yeah, it was pretty bloated and it didn’t help that it was a “previous regime” production.

  • Eric Hinkle

    A Wellman tale in Planet Stories? I hope this is in reprint somehow. I love his horror and dark fantasy tales but I’ve never read very much of Wellman’s SF.

  • Gamera977

    I liked the look of the movie, they got that right from the flying ships to the green Martians. Even with the red Martians I thought the red tattoo thing was kinda a odd choice but it worked. The plot though, they went from a standard quest plot of ‘rescue the kidnapped princess’ to a romance story- aka put the two main characters together and have them constantly bicker and argue until they realize they love each other. And yeah Taylor Kitch didn’t help, just not cast in the role.

  • Gamera977

    Plus the soft reboots of ‘Star Trek’, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Doctor Who’. And there’s rumor of a THIRD Battlestar Galactica reboot- do we really really need another?!? Heaven forbid anything new!!!

  • Gamera977

    Now that’s a movie that screams to be remade! Think what they could do with a CGI cat!!!!

  • Gamera977

    Not to be sexist or anything but sweet mercy that space Amazon has a pair of legs I could stare at all day…

  • KeithB

    Funny, all I can see is the crossbow/energy weapon. I want one!

  • And almost any other “underused” property they could find would be met with cries of “It’s a rip-off!” even though the stuff they are saying it’s a rip-off of is the stuff that actually ripped off the property they are trying to use. For example, “Doc” Savage had his themes stolen used by Batman (wealthy and supremely fit crimefighter) and Superman (hideout in the Arctic), and E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensmen were “adapted” into the Green Lantern Corps….

  • bgbear_punchingforthechildren

    Tough Saturday for the USC Cheerleaders.

  • Ken_Begg

    There’s also a lot of evidence that Disney tanked John Carter on purpose. (I will agree that Taylor Kitch was a problem, but a bigger one, I think, is that eventually Hollywood–or whoever replaces them–will just have to give audiences (especially boys) what they want, really kick-ass heroes. Turning John Carter into a man haunted by war really turns the character upside-down. To my original point, though, check out the book John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood, which really lays out a convincing case that Disney intentionally torpedoed the film.

  • Ken_Begg

    Despite the grousing on remakes in my post, again, it really ALWAYS comes down to execution. The problem with all these remakes is they only want them for their supposed marketing value, not because they have a great idea to make a movie.

  • Ken_Begg

    The oldest boys’ debate! Chicks vs. tech.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    As I’ve mentioned before, the Bogart “Maltese Falcon” was the third go-round for that story.

  • Gamera977

    I have to read that someday…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    It’s very good and very thorough. The author put together a fan trailer before the film opened and Andrew Stanton said “This is the trailer we should have had.” The publicist assigned to the film didn’t have a clue (or interest in) how to market the film, insisting the movies that had the word “Mars” in them would inevitably bomb. Basically it was killed by internal politics.

  • Marsden

    I wonder if those uniforms are velour.