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Category: Dark and Gritty Reboot

Corrective Sequels…

The Reboot is Dead. Long Live the Multiboot.

4 Jul 20235 Jul 2023
For a few years now, I’ve wondered what would come after the dark and gritty reboot. I wondered if it would be the light and funny reboot. More franchises rebooting…
Bale…

Why This Blog Isn’t About Christian Bale Anymore

16 Sep 20221 Nov 2022
I do not talk about myself on this website very often. I like using this website as a place to write about movies and, occasionally, promote things I’ve written that…
Corrective Sequels…

Understanding Sequels Through the Lens of Halloween

28 Oct 202129 Oct 2024
Updated in 2022 because there are even more sequels now. There are so many things a sequel can be these days. Reboot and requel are common descriptions accompanying many latest…
Batman…

Sick of Reboots, Sequels, and Extended Universes? Blame Classic Literature

25 Jun 20173 Nov 2021
We find ourselves in the midst of another summer and with it, an endless brigade of sequels, prequels, reboots, requels, and the ongoing march of extended cinematic universes. A new…
2017…

Let’s Hope the New Beauty and the Beast Ends with Gaston Killing the Beast

5 Mar 201721 Jun 2023
Update: it didn't end that way. But most of these points still stand. Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast is almost here. And while the majority of the conversation has…
2016 Election…

No More Gritty Reboots: Why Lego Batman and Legion Are the Future of Superheroes

12 Feb 201731 May 2017
Yes, this blog is dedicated to "an ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot." But, as written about in the previous post on this blog, The World Needs Bad…
2016…

The World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero

22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022
How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…

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