You know one thing I'm fed up with? "Reboot". The word.
OK, you might have missed it, but "reboot" is now being used to mean that it takes a movie or TV series and re-energises it (rather than simply remaking it). Still not sure what I mean? Well, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, for example. Or Superman Returns. Or Casino Royale. Or the upcoming JJ Abrams version of Star Trek. It gets bandied about all over the place — more overexposed than Paris Hilton.
The reason it irritates me so much is that "remake" would really do just fine, but these producers, executives and showbiz reporters are really just stealing a little bit of geek cred by co-opting a techie word in order to inject a bit of hi-tech sexiness into their vapid, Hollywood lives. Damn it, if you're going to honour the integrity of the reboot then you at least need a blue screen of death first.
Anyway. I'm going off the point.
And yes, there was a point — and a wildly hypocritical one at that. Let's reclaim reboot for the geeks by answering the following Friday Afternoon Question.
Which movie would you like to see a reboot of ... and who would be in it?
Funniest answers get their bellies tickled.
