The Reason Why a Schwarzengger-less Reboot Never Works

[sagemovman]

After returning home from a screening of the newly rebooted Conan the Barbarian I sat down to write a review for my column and realized, that I was absolutely indifferent to the film. While the picture was playing I enjoyed it, but the minute I left the theater a faint sadness drifted over me. I?d been sucked in to paying for a sub-par ?re-imagining? of one of my favorite films. It reminded me of the same feeling I had upon exiting the theater from Predators last summer.

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[CelticMuscle]

This is not the first "reboot" of a sword and sandal thing to be a complete disaster. I seem to recall that when He-Man was first launched, it was as a direct result of the first Conan movie (and indeed there were comparsions made between Arnold and He-Man)



And whilst when He-Man got rebooted in 2002 (with a much more muscular He-Man I should point out)



that series only lasted two complete season all of which suggests that sword and sandal reboots are a complete non starter.