Film, television and games, looked at again
CC2K is an independent site of commentary on movies, TV series and video games, written from today’s vantage point.
Most coverage of popular culture happens in the week something comes out. The trailer drops, the reviews land, the opening weekend is counted, and then everyone moves on. We are more interested in what happens after that: the films that found a second audience years later, the sequels that changed shape on their way to the screen, and the adaptations that were announced with great fanfare and then quietly disappeared.
The writing here is retrospective by design. Each piece starts from the public record of a film, a series or a game, and asks what it looks like now that the hype has cleared. Sometimes the answer is kinder than the original reception, sometimes it is not.
Where to start
The site is split into three sections. Movies covers remakes, reboots, reappraisals and the long, odd histories of projects stuck in development. Television is about the series that defined their seasons and the network decisions that shaped them. Games looks at downloadable content, design trends and where the medium might be heading.
A few pieces worth reading first:
- Jennifer’s Body, reconsidered: how a film that was sold to the wrong audience in 2009 found the right one later.
- Tron: Legacy, from “Tron 2” to the screen: the decades between a cult original and its sequel.
- Castlevania, the movie that never was: a live-action adaptation that stalled, and the animated series that did the job instead.
- Alien Resurrection and what could have been: a strong director, a celebrated writer and a film that pleased neither camp.
- Masters of the Universe on film: one 1987 movie and a very long line of reboot attempts.
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