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Hey, remember The Butterfly Effect? It’s nearly a decade old! We mention this not because we want to make you feel old, but because apparently a decade is long enough to reboot a movie nobody cares about.
The original was essentially Somewhere In Time with the personal tragedy laid on with a trowel. Ashton Kutcher’s character wasn’t just molested, he was forced to star in kiddie porn by Eric Stoltz. He doesn’t just have an abusive father, he has a father who tries to strangle him to death before being killed by guards. It’s a dark movie but at the same time it’s kind of ridiculous, because it wants a PG-13 and frankly Ashton Kutcher just isn’t credible as a human being who’s suffered all this misfortune, and the screenwriters have no sense of the absurd; an alternate ending features the hero traveling back to his birth and aborting himself. Also there’s a scene where he wakes up with no hands which should not be funny, but is:
Anyway, it made $96 million on a $13 million budget, so the original screenwriter and director is back to try and repeat that performance with, we don’t know, Ted from How I Met Your Mother or something.
We’ve got to ask, just how much longer is Hollywood going to keep scraping this barrel? Some remakes kind of make sense, but lately it just seems to be that producers go to the $5 bin, sort through, and choose something to remake. Jacob’s Ladder? Eh, why not, it’s for sale at Best Buy so people have seen it, right? Videodrome? Hey, “Long Live The New Flesh” would make a killer tagline, amirite?
Ah well. At least there are no plans to remake Plan 9 From Outer Space. Oh wait: There are.
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Can it even be called a reboot when its the same writer and director? Sounds to me more like a timeloop.
I’m at a point where I’m as sick of complaining about reboots getting made as I am of actual reboots. It’s getting ridiculous.
I hope it starts a wave of remakes of other Ashton Kutcher movies, only starring actors audiences would like to see instead of Ashton Kutcher.
Only when they inevitably get to the Just Married remake, I still want it to co-star Brittany Murphy, logic and reason be damned.
So basically you want a remake of “Simone” inside a remake of “Just Married”. You want a Remakeception.
Yes! Two for one. It may be too much remake for one movie to handle so – if we’re lucky – it will cause the concept of needless remakes to collapse into themselves like a dying star.
Damn you, Dan, for making Remakeception a word I now know.
Well, I thought you meant starring the corpse, which sounded unpleasant. The Remakeceptionkakke sounds much better.
If we’re quick about it, we can remake Wonder Woman and The Flash before they even come out.
^^ Totally gets it.
I’m fine with this. Yes, the first film miscast Ashton Kutcher and had some unintentionally funny moments but when I saw it alone years ago I was crying like a baby by the end. I was completely shaken by the story it was trying to tell to the point that I forgave its many faults. For everyone else I suppose it was just another crap movie, but my younger self saw the message was to accept and let go of my past instead of letting it consume me & constantly wishing I could change it.
I suppose all I’m saying is in the proper hands this could be remade into a powerful film.
If the original made you cry like a baby then making it into a powerful film might kill you.
where’s my Dude, Where’s My Car? reboot?
I know I saw this movie but everything mentioned here? Don’t remember it one bit. It must have been just that good.
That 30 sec clip had me laughing the whole time. It makes me remember the movie as a comedy
If they are going to remake something, remake the crappy ones. I’ll take this everyday of the week and twice on Sundays over things like the aborted plan remake of Casablanca starring Bennifer.