CC2K's Kristen Lopez is dubious of the script for the remake of the 80s horror classic.

The original Fright Night was a loveable, 1980s vampire story that expertly blended comedy with horror. At times an out-and-out vampire film, at others a tribute to the old drive-in vampire stories of the 1950s, Fright Night wasn’t the best vampire film but has become an instant classic. With a pedigree like that, it’s obviously time for a remake, right? Well, Dreamworks agrees, having just cast David Tennant and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, but unfortunately, the script as it currently reads owes a little too much to Twilight and not enough to the original. If anything, the remake of Fright Night will be a newer version of Disturbia with fangs – and that just sucks!

In this SPOILER FILLED review, we lament over the script intended to reboot the Highlander franchise.

Highlander was a solid fantasy/action film released in 1986 that told the tale of Conner MacLeod (played by Christopher Lambert), a Scotsman born in the year 1518 "in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel," who violently discovers that he is a member of a group of immortals who move silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives until the time of The Gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last, each hoping to win The Prize.  Though it told a complete, self-contained narrative - at the film's climax MacLeod battles and kills the penultimate immortal, his arch-nemesis The Kurgan (played by Clancy Brown) and wins The Prize - its success demanded more.  Despite the difficulty of building a franchise upon a story that essentially left no room for one, several sequels and television series spin-offs were developed with varying success.  But since Hollywood has a memory of a 12-year-old with ADHD and the financial philosophy of Gordan Gekko, it's time to slap a new coat of paint on the Highlander franchise and take it out for another spin, i.e. it's reboot time!

Sorkin's new script is dense and brainy, but will Mark Zuckerberg allow it to get made?  

Learning that someone is making a movie based on “Facebook” sounds weird enough. But hearing that it’s being written by Aaron Sorkin is just plain bizarre. Almost as bad, say, as hearing that Ridley Scott is attached to direct an adaptation of the board game Monopoly. Sorkin—who created the West Wing and wrote, among other things, A Few Good Men—is about as A-list as a writer gets, and presumably gets his pick of projects (assuming a sort of collective amnesia regarding the entire existence of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) (Hey, remember when people used to debate whether 30 Rock had a chance against Studio 60?) . Whither this seemingly unwanted, paper-thin cultural ephemera?

Let’s get the obvious jokes out of the way so you won’t have to suffer through 'em later.

Finding Nemo 2 should be lost.

No one should look for Finding Nemo 2.

Finding Nemo 2 should be flushed down the loo.

Nemo’s missing? What, again? Just how dumb is this kid?

And so on.