Thread: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Movie

The movie's pretty bad.

Most Buffy fans will say they'll have nothing to do with it, but they'll watch it out of curiosity.

I just think it's a pretty lame idea. I don't see anything ridiculously sacrilegious about it any more than it's sacrilege to make Batman movies without consultation from Batman's creators, or JJ Abrams making a Star Trek -- what irks me is how much it smells like easy money. No creativity, no storytelling is going to go into this (if it ever gets made, which I find unlikely), it's just a cash grab.

Years from now, without the Kuzuis (I don't like them), a Buffy movie could be made without Whedon. I'd be cool for that. It'd be good for Buffy as a character to be taken out of an auteur's hands, but only if the story is treated like a story, and not like an easy way make a bit of money.

Yay Anthony Stewart Head.

I was waiting for you to reply qwahir, the only other big Whedon fan that I know of on this site.

I don't know, I have a hard time when characters are recast as well. I saw the show before I ever bothered watching the original movie, and I just find it hard to see anyone other than Gellar playing Buffy. The same if they tried to recast Willow or Giles or any of the other characters.

I've had that problem with any sort of sequel movies that don't use the original actors.