Goosebumps: the movie

I think by now we've all gotten the idea that you hate the movie.

Y'all that are complaining about "defanged horrors" and how the trailer looked too goofy or stuff, did you...ever actually read Goosebumps?

Because that shit was not scary. At all. It was goofy as hell.

The trailer, so far, has been pretty much exactly like the books except more metafictional. And with Jack Black.

I found the trailer to be pretty funny. I'm not a big Goosebumps fan(Never read the book but I've recently seen some episodes on Netflix and found em to be cheesy-funny) but I think the film looks like a fun popcorn flick.

Goosebumps wasn't scary but it did have some genuinely disturbing stuff in a few of the books. This looks like a straight comedy.

EXACTLY.

why is this thing aimed at kids still aimed at kids and not at me

i don't understand

I don't have the hatred for this movie that Sci Fi Slasher does but it isn't exactly what I'd want from a Goosebumps movie. While the books weren't terribly scary they weren't comedies.

edited 10th Jul '15 1:13:38 PM by Kostya

The show on, the other hand is, unintentionally a comedy.

To be honest, I think this was probably the easiest way to cater to the fanbase of the series and properly adapt it.

The series is all thematically connected as they're horror stories for kids. Often pretty creative.

They could adapt the most popular, but then you might alienate those who don't like the Dummy or who think he overshadows the entire series.

They could write their own, but it might not be very good and welcome among the other Goosebumps stories.

By making the film ABOUT Goosebumps as a series and being able to do 'Wink-Wink-Nudge-Nudge' at the fanbase, you have potential to show you work and that you did do the research, make sure people know you cared, and make the fans feel at home in a new medium.

I wouldn't expect any differently of a video game adaptation with a referential side quest to collect an artifact from the books or something. It just shows care.

Then why don't they just adapt an actual Goosebumps story?

I mean, they only adapted two of the Series 2000 books for the TV series. Or maybe I Live in Your Basement!. I feel like that would be a good one.

But almost none of the books are actually really relevant for a movie medium. Or, in my opinion, really worth adapting to such a medium since most of them are fairly short and would need significant padding to get to a 60 min length, let alone 90 or 120 like Hollywood likes these days.

Which is why I suggested the anthology approach. Just pick six or seven of them and have it be a series of short stories. There was another movie like that. I think Stephen King worked on it but I can't recall the name.

Creepshow?

Yes.

If there's one thing that could save this movie, it would be a Kaiju fight between the Giant Praying Mantis, Cuddles the Hamster, the Amazing Ants, the Blob that Ate Everyone, and the giant Worm from Go Eat Worms!

Or a fight between green and blue Monster Blood.

That's the one. When I heard they were making a Goosebumps movie that was my first thought.

edited 11th Jul '15 8:45:00 AM by Kostya

Anthology movies don't usually work. I've yet to really see one outside of Direct-To-Video Movies and etc. And those typically have really awkward pacing.

Of course the pacing will be different when you have three or more short stories being told in a single movie! Really, anything would be better than what they're doing now.

I think that might be a bit extreme since we know nothing about the film really except for one trailer. I know trailers are meant for us to judge and, thus, judging them is what we're supposed to do.

But, this feels less like an outright shitty movie and more 'We're trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator and hope that the brand name will get the fans in those seats'.

It wouldn't be the first time that I've seen a movie trailer make a movie out to be far shittier than it ended up being. Or cramming every single funny moment in the entire film into a single trailer when the finish product isn't a comedy.

I wonder what the shitty twist at the end will be.

The Platonic Female Friend being named Hannah his pretty funny. Is it just me or did that name come up a lot in the series?

edited 11th Jul '15 11:38:36 PM by KnownUnknown

Someone has already pointed out in the Work Page that Stein doesn't have a daughter and that Hannah is a main character from one of the more popular books out there.

IF the writers are talented enough and understand why Goosebumps work and the reoccurring tropes through almost EVERY book in the series, They'll have some Tomato Surprise Twist where Hannah is actually the antagonist and Slappy isn't at all.

Like Hannah was released from the books and made Stein think she was his daughter and when they have to put the snowman back she releases every monster so she doesnt get found out and have to go back too?

Possibly. Or she plays herself up as the Love Interest to escape being put back into the book, but turns psychopathic when things stop going her way and resolves to just murder the protagonists.

Essentially, playing up cheesy awful Teen Movie Tropes to avoid suspicion.

That twist would be shitty enough to be perfect for a goosebumps movie

I was under the impression that her being named Hannah was more of a Mythology Gag, rather than her actually being a character from the books a la the monsters. Do we know that for sure or is it spec?

Either way, IIRC the only villainous Hannah in the series was the one from Werewolf Skin. Which I mainly remember because it was one of my favorite twist endings in the series - if they bring that back here, it'd be pretty cool.

edited 12th Jul '15 1:53:31 AM by KnownUnknown