I don't think a reboot needs to be punk to work. Part 2 isn't as good as part 1, but the lack of punk isn't the problem. Some version of Tarman seems essential, as does comedy, though I agree the comedy might be too stupid like a lot of comedy is now.

You know I couldn't care less about any new zombie movie or TV show that comes along, but if they do a new RotLD that doesn't look lame and channels the style and energy of the original, I'd watch it.

I'm thinking they might do some other music genre instead of punk. What do kids listen to these days? Dub step? Kanye? I also fear it might be too meta. I hope they don't overthink it.

Instead of NotLD being based on a real event like in the original, the original will be based on a real event in the reboot. I have no idea what kids listen to now. Probably nothing we want in a zombie movie.

Kids don't listen to actual songs anymore, it's just 30 second soundbites on Tik Tok. And it's mostly emo-rap and hyper-pop.

Emo-rap? Hyper-pop? Even those genre names sound awful. If they opt for that style, they can call the movie Return of the Ticking Twats. Even though they never left.

OK, my first reaction to this is that it will almost certainly SUCK, unless maybe they try a Stranger Things approach. The 80s-ness of the original is PART of it. It can't be dispensed with. The punk stuff (both music and clothes), the nuclear missile, the idea of young people spending their free time getting hammered in a cemetery.... alll of that kind of stuff is just different now.

Of course, it was inevitable that they would try to reboot it eventually. Best case scenario, maybe they'll hand it over to Mike Flanagan, and get Grady Hendricks as a consultant? And surviving cast members from the original, also as consultants, of course. But, that will never happen, the corporate overlords won't be respectful, somehow they will mess it up.

By the way, I hope you don't waste your time watching ROtLD 4 or 5. You will only regret it, if you do. They are really nothing but a waste of time, they are not "so bad they are good," or anything like that.