The Ghostbusters are back to battle ghosts and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in this update of the 1980's classic video game Remember the 1980's? The Ghostbusters, Jason, Freddy Kruger, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, The Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks. All these classic TV shows and movies are getting rebooted in the 2000's.
It all started with the cartoons. New TMNT and He-Man cartoons showed up on Fox and Cartoon Network. Then talk of The Smurfs anniversary coming up prompted a CGI movie coming out in 2010.
Friday the 13th (now on DVD) got a reboot earlier this year with Freddy Kruger coming back in 2010. Alvin and the Chipmunks got the CGI update in 2007 with a sequel in the works. Now there is word that the Ghostbusters are back for a third movie and to wet fans appetites: a new video game on PS3, XBOX 360 and Wii.
All these things, with the exception of Ghostbusters, are reboots because hollywood is desperate to recapture the magic and money those franchises brought in. Originality is very scarce in hollywood these days unless it's a TV show. I find it hard to believe that no one can think of anything original and instead want to update even the most remote TV show or idea like "Land of the Lost" only to watch it tank.
Dan Akroyd wrote and created Ghostbusters in 1984 and is busy co-writing a third movie to pass the torch to a new generation. He co-wrote a brand new story with Harold Ramis set in 1991 two years after Ghostbusters II for the new video game. If Akroyd can think of something, why is it so difficult for everyone else?
Hollywood needs to go back to originality or else they'll start touching the ultimate classics and remaking them into horrid tributes that devalue what they truly stood for.
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