I'm withholding judgement until I see it. speculating beforehand is just irresponsible...

SIIIIKKKKKE EEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I'm a talkbacker, I never live in the now.

and this movie will suck.

And is anyone really clammoring for a Tarzan redo? If so, how about...

Wernor Herzog's TARZAN

Any reboot or remake will make this family friendly. I say, make this a savage story where Tarzan is a creature of the jungle, much more ape than man, as previous incarnations have humanized him. I've never read Burrough's work, but I think the character would work as a brutal killing force. Even killing or maiming a member of the exhibition team.( Hearing screams in the night, the team investigates to find one of their own, lying in a pool of blood with what appears to be human bite marks about the neck ). But, of course, the studios would never greenlight a dark version, even after Dark Knight.

And hey, I even liked Die Hard 2. Where else will you see an icicle to the eye in a big budget thriller?

*YAWN*

Wake me for breakfast, eh love?

Also, the girls on the GreatGlam ads are hot, but I miss the Busted Tees girls. They were much more attractive somehow.

And finally, about Tarzan. I was a HUGE Burroughs fan back in the day, and still have a soft spot in my heart for all of his creations, but I always preferred Mars, Venus and Pellucidar over straight-up Tarzan. The concept of Tarzan was great, but eventually it became a series of lost civilizations series, and I wasn't interested in those as much as monster-laden worlds. Admittedly, I loved the concept of Opar (Atlantis' surviving colony) with its gorgeous nude women and savage half-men, but after that, there weren't that many cool places Tarzan visited. The Ant Men? The Lost Roman civilization? Guys in leopard skins? Not as interesting to me. (Loved Pal-ul-don, but that was pretty much a surrogate Pellucidar, with monkey men and Triceratopses. And for some reason, I think audiences (maybe even ones including me) would have a tough time buying lost civilizations on the screen, unless the movie was a period piece. The world, aside from the bottom of the ocean, is pretty picked over by now, and there's not much unexplored land for Ant Men to be hiding in.

You know what they say, 80 is the new 70....(I don't know)

AND, they both have their next projects lined up.

And off subject still...yes, PETER SELLERS showed more creative imagination than 99.9% of bio-flicks produced, which are more like Classics Illustrated versions of one's life. Speaking of which, the new trailer for "Milk" looks very good. Sean Penn looks like a lock for another nomination.

Now, back to Tarzan...

So back to the original question. I wouldn't call Sommers a complete hack. He has some sequences that I think are well done. The mummy sword finale in the first was a nice tribute to Harryhausen and Fraser did some wonderful mime work. The bus fight and harpy attack in Returns and Van Helsing were also well staged and edited, in my opinion. So I think he has some degree of talent, its just the movies as a whole fall completely apart.