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Readily comes to mind:
Taken 2
Ring 2
Fast and Furious 2, 3, 4, 5, etc...
Why can't they just leave well enough alone? History has shown that most sequels suck anally. One exception where a sequel is actually better than the original: Bride of Frankenstein. and that was back in 1935
Maybe they think they can succeed where many many others have failed. When will they ever learn?
Then again some sequels are better than the original.
F&tF 5 & 6 comes to mind
Gothfather 2
From Russia with Love
etc
- M:I 3 & 4 >>> M:I 1 & 2
- Episode V = Episode IV
- T2 = The Terminator
- Aliens = Alien
- Bride Of Frankenstein > Frankenstein
- F&F 5,6 > anything previous
- The Dark Knight = Batman Begins
- Bride Of Chucky >> the Child's Play trilogy
- ...
The way I see it, sequels need not necessarily be bad. But in some cases, I too wonder why they even bother. *Ahum* Independence Day 2 *ahum*.
I don't think he ever was. I can't stand him in anything and I am surprised he ever got an acting job in the first place, let alone made a career out of it.
This. I don't like the remakes and reboot craze of the last decade(s), but it is sadly explained by the volatile aspect of the market. And people, let's face it, don't want to see something new, not that often anyway, they want to see what they have seen before.
That said, I'd love to see more movies adapted from novels that were never adapted before. Not flavors of the month novels only recently published, but things that have been on the shelves for years.
I think it depends on how the sequels are approached. If they are made as a copy of the first movie, in effect a remake without the name, then it fails. If they are an evolution from it, then it works. Sadly, they usually prefer remaking the first one: Terminator 2, Die Hard 2, etc.
I'm still waiting for a good Nick Stone film. There's one in production apparently and a few years ago Jason Statham was set to star in it but he dropped out and I haven't heard anything about it since.
In my case it is a George Pelecanos novel, any of them. preferably Right as Rain, as the beginning of a Derek Strange/Terry Quinn trilogy (with a Hard Revolution prequel for good measure), but any would do. Shoedog has been in preproduction since at least 2011, with no sign of even beginning shooting.
The marketing department better be giving us something new, that can't easily be copied, for Bond 24.
Know anything, Mr. Page? ;)
Don't forget teamsports movies in which an untalented, overmatched and deeply flawed team dead last in the standings with a few games left to play rises to the occasion and wins it all in spectacular and earth-shattering fashion.
How many fu.... times have we seen that?
I basically completely agree with you, especially when I hear that the guy from Twilight plans to get a director himself when he wasn't even a good actor to begin with.But it's can work. Just look at Clint Eastwood.I doubt he ever was a gaffer, editor or whatever and he really is one of the best.
it's even made it into the new godzilla trailer.
I would say that Clint Eastwood is a greater director than actor.
Toilet and sex humor.
Live action movie adaptations of video games and cartoons that don't relate at all the videogame/cartoons and invent new characters to appeal to a mass audience.
Eastwood is a great director but my point is he never earned his way there as a filmmaker. Who knows how many hundreds or even thousands of potentially great filmmakers never made it because they could never get thru that glass ceiling. They never had the connections or the luck to make it big. Guys like Eastwood, Affleck, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ron Howard, Leonard Nimoy, etc never had to earn a thing when it came to getting their filmmaking careers off the ground as they already had connections and didn't have to get noticed due to their fame as actors not directors.
In a way it's also nepotism.The same could be applied to actors. Say Dakota Johnson becomes a big star after 50 Shades of Grey. I'm sure the fact that she's Melanie Griffin and Don Johnson's daughter along with Antonio Banderes' stepdaughter had nothing to do with her climbing the ladder in the acting world right?
Sadly, we have never gotten a sequel to wrap up all the loose ends of Batman Returns. BF is not even considered a sequel by some fans.
Right on the nail! Zimmer's the epitome of overly-simplistic musical style in modern cinema.
Though his score for Black Rain (1989) Was a pretty good score, but once Chris Nolan got his hooks in him he's just done the same thing for everything now.
I sure don't consider it a sequel.
Please don't just randomly post in every thread you visit. If you have a point to make, elaborate. "It's not a sequel" doesn't exactly add anything to the discussion.
Thank you.