Maybe cabin fever has finally set in. The crew melts down as we attempt to reinvent the most thematically ambitious franchise in cinema history. The wheels fall off, resentments build, and we lose ourselves in fits of rage, ego, and frustration. But as we explore how deep the A.I. rabbit hole goes, do we discover a mind-melting new take on the concept that launched a million stoned dorm-room debates? Or does our hubris finally push us too close to the sun? Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, L...
Mar 12, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Has Masters of the Universe EVER “had the power”? No matter how high He-Man held his sword, the franchise has struggled to channel the Power of Grayskull. Between bargain-basement animation, absurdly dumbed-down characters and conflicts, and a big-screen adaptation made from a different IP's rewritten script, MOTU has never lived up to its toy line’s wild success. We love Skeletor, Orko, Hordak, and Man-At-Arms’ ‘stache as much as the next red-blooded American male between the ages of 33 and 40…...
Mar 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min
This franchise set the bar for twenty-first-century blockbusters. Then, The Hobbit happened. The bloated sequel trilogy tried to shoehorn in themes and stories ignored by the originals (plus even more walking and that banging Misty Mountains song), and doubt was cast over the perfection of Middle-Earth. Peter Jackson's long journey ultimately shied away from the classism, xenophobia, and true nature of Sauron that would make it most relevant to today. Plus, a severe lack of Eagles scenes, gender...
Mar 12, 2022•2 hr 38 min
Ed Greer and Producer Bill go knock-down, drag-out over The Man of Tomorrow, The Last Son of Krypton, Zack Snyder's Lament, Jon Peters' White Whale. It's the oldest franchise in comics, and a story so torn between living up to its myth and straining to be relevant, it's almost impossible to tell. Fanboys call him unrelatable, the general public calls him old-fashioned, but everyone knows they don't want to watch him doubt himself or snap necks. You may think you don't want it, but yeah, we're go...
Mar 12, 2022•1 hr 28 min
The Green Lantern franchise was dead on arrival. The source material didn't help. Between seven universe-spanning super-groups, 80 years' worth of rules, prophecies, and retcons, and no less than seven different versions of the main character (Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Simon Baz, and Jessica Cruz), the comics are over-stuffed and over-complicated. Yet the general public knows barely two of its characters (plus an evil space cloud, if they paid attention to t...
Mar 12, 2022•2 hr 31 min
The crew nearly comes to blows as we tackle the most controversial reboot imaginable. When your franchise is burdened by missed opportunities, sloppy story logic, thematic contradictions, dangling plot threads, underexplored premises, and slip-shod overall construction, we're kind enough to step in and fix up that old hunk of junk. Even when it is the richest, most beloved franchise ever put to screen. Let the hate-mail flow through you. BILLY BUSINESS: https://www.twitter.com/billyapatter...
Jan 19, 2022•2 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 7
The slasher genre is the tropiest around, and NO ONE tropes harder than Jason friggin' Voorhees. It's a franchise with no direction. He's a psycho-killer with nowhere left to go (you know, having literally been to hell, space, AND New York). The story's more gimmick than narrative. And there's already one failed revival in the record books. It's definitely time for us to reboot Friday the 13th. BILLY BUSINESS: https://www.twitter.com/billyapatterson ED GREER: https://www.twitter.com/edgreerdestr...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 6
James Bond has been rebooted to obsolescence! Spanning 25 films, a half-dozen different actors, tones that range from camp to gritty, and more than HALF A CENTURY'S history, there's almost nothing the 007 franchise hasn't tried. They made so many, they ran out of source material! With a slew of mega-franchises doing Bond better than Bond, and the LAST successful reinvention now exhausting audiences, it's obviously the perfect time for us to take a crack at a reboot. BILLY BUSINESS: https:/...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In the wake of Batfleck, in the afterglow of Joker, in the pre-dawn of Battinson, and less than ten years after The Dark Knight, we're gonna go ahead and tell you why no one's ever gotten Batman right. But don't worry, we will. Is that not a viable position for comics' most adapted character? Oh well. Plus, with a live audience to play off, this reboot couldn't possibly go wrong. Could it? BILLY BUSINESS: https://www.twitter.com/billyapatterson ED GREER: https://www.twitter.com/edgreerdest...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The greatest action hero of the twentieth century is no longer cool! With an old-fashioned sensibility, set in an old-fashioned era, with an old star playing an old-fashioned character with old-school fighting skills, Indiana Jones seems tailor-made to fail in the era of mega-budget action-epic blockbusters. Plus, we all remember what happened the LAST time they tried to revive this franchise. So, yeah, we should definitely reboot it. BILLY BUSINESS: https://www.twitter.com/billyapatterson...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Marty McFly and Doc Brown wrote the rules of time travel for a generation. Boasting iconic performances from Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Wilson, Crispin Glover, and Lea Thompson, with a magnificent structure, a satisfying ending, and, most of all, a really important sense of time and place, the Back To The Future series feels like it should stand unmolested as arguably the greatest family adventure of all time. So we're gonna go ahead and reboot it. BILLY BUSINESS: https://www.t...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The only cinematic Logan film lovers have ever known retired on a majestic high note. Hugh Jackman's casting was perfect. The loss is still fresh. Bringing back Wolverine with a whole new actor in a whole new story feels like sacrilege. And making him the first big mutant movie in the MCU feels destined to fail. So we’re gonna go ahead and do that. BILLY BUSINESS: https://www.twitter.com/billyapatterson ED GREER: https://www.twitter.com/edgreerdestroys RON SWALLOW: https://www.twitter.com/...
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 1
