Really?
Not enough diversity, not enough development of the Computer entity in the city or the organization of the Sandmen or the age-population groups. They dont have to do much backstory in a reboot, but those are the basics. The way women (and men) are portrayed in the original needs a modern update. A modern update could spawn three different movies: 1) Logan's Run 2) The Domed Cities (a prequel), and 3) After Logan's Run.
Legitimate concerns, to be sure. I think the very first thing any of these hipster "blockbuster makers" would do is to make the runners a GROUP of young people instead of just Logan and Jessica, thereby ruining it. They would replace the boy meets girl and gets married thing with something more PC and generic, to appease the LGBT crowd. The group would of course be diverse.
*sigh*
On second thought, maybe a reboot is not such a good idea?
I just happen to be doing a Back To The Future rewatch, and I noticed that the beginning of Back To The Future II sets the timeframe as 2015.
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Then, I thought about the other movies that got it so wrong:
1984
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010
Legitimate concerns, to be sure. I think the very first thing any of these hipster "blockbuster makers" would do is to make the runners a GROUP of young people instead of just Logan and Jessica, thereby ruining it. They would replace the boy meets girl and gets married thing with something more PC and generic, to appease the LGBT crowd. The group would of course be diverse.
*sigh*
On second thought, maybe a reboot is not such a good idea?
You have to look at the bigger picture. Technology developed at a very rapid pace for the first half of the twentieth century, mainly 'cause of wars. 2 world wars in the space of 30 years, and then the Korean war. There is nothing like a good war to stimulate development as well as economic activity.Why did we get it so wrong? I think it's because we didn't realize man likes to move slowly...we moved very fast in the 20th century going from the first airplane to man on the moon in 60+ years- society then took a deep breath and started whining and bitching and moaning and we're still in that stage!
I have said before, that as a child who watched the moon landing, I expected man to have colonized the moon and begun our movement to other planets (and moons) in our solar system by 2000! In 1968, 2001 seemed plausable. But by 1984 (2010) it was more science-fictiony. Hell, in 1984 we didn't realize the USSR had only 8 years left! and it ended with a whimper not a bang.
As time has passed we find many of the predictions of the past are hilariously off-- in TOS trek there was the story of the Eugenics wars in the 1980's & 90's on earth! uh huh riiiiiiiiiight! although I found a trek aurthor who did a good job incorporating that storyline into reality....Greg Cox; the Eugenics wars vols 1 & 2
It seems we either have a dystopian view of the future or a utopian view. it's neither it's just reality!
as for 1984-- Orwell was jost off by 30 years- maybe he scared society enough that we protected ourselves. But now - privacy is mostly dead.
