Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you want to join in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2024 here, and if you would like to read others’ thoughts on this week’s topic, you can do so here.
Books/Movies/TV Shows I Wouldn’t Revisit and Why
A book I Wouldn’t Revisit is the Novelisation of the Film Grease
I am a fan of novelisations for many reasons, like the fact you can often get expanded scenes, deleted scenes and more characterisation than in the movie or TV show that came before.
The novelisation of Grease, however, was just plain terrible. It was clunky, with poor overall characterisation and terrible dialogue (almost every sentence of dialogue begins with ‘ehey’).
Moreover, the story is told from the point of view of Sonny — a strange choice for a narrator!
I read the book last year, and if you’d like, you can read my thorough and opinion-filled review here.
A Film I Wouldn’t Revisit is the 2015 remake of the 1982 movie Poltergeist
I love the original Poltergeist movies (Poltergeist II was far superior in creep factor if you ask me), so I was immediately dubious of the news that there would be a complete ‘reimagining’. The thing is, I am all for retellings, reboots, revivals and even reimaginings if the project injects a bit of originality into the story or brings something new.
However, the 2015 movie Poltergeist was an awful hatchet job of the original story. I watched it with trepidation, and when the horror show that was the horror show ended, I was dumbfounded. I didn’t enjoy a single bit of it. I loved the original films because they were so suspenseful and creepy.
I slept with the lights on in the 90s whenever I watched the first movie.
In fairness (though I don’t really feel like this movie deserves my fairness), it did have promise. This could have been a brilliant film if the writers had tweaked things here and there, dispensed with the links to the original, and called it something else.
A TV show I Wouldn’t Revisit is the Reboot of Charmed, which aired from 2018 to 2022
At first, I was thrilled Charmed was being rebooted — as I said above, I have nothing against reboots if they’re done correctly — and in my naivete, I assumed it would be some form of continuation of the original series. But my excitement was short-lived when it quickly became apparent that the original actors from the 1998 version hadn’t been asked to be involved in any way, shape or form.
This would have been okay, I suppose, if the producers didn’t keep saying the show would be a modern feminist reboot because, in my opinion, the three original sisters in Charmed (and then the fourth when Rose McGowan joined in the show’s fourth season), were entirely badass! I would have preferred if they’d gone with one of the other reboot ideas that were initially planned – a prequel set in the 1970s.
There is so much backstory to the Halliwell sisters and their family alone that could have been explored. But alas, they went in a different direction. I wish they’d called it something other than charmed because, on the whole, it was a good show. For me, It just wasn’t what had been promised.
Well, that’s another post down. I’m looking forward to reading all your posts this week!
Until next time,
George
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
I was not aware of any of these, but your reasons not to revisit them make sense!
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Haha! Thanks, Lydia! 🙂🙂
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A nice common thread, running through of doing it better the first time. Having that better version out there, I can understand and not revisiting the lesser.
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