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*** Official Film Thread ***

Sequals are fine. It's remakes that are the fudging bane of hollywood.

The Dark Knight
The Empire Strikes Back
Godfather II
Aliens
Terminator II
Toy Story 2
Mad Max 2
Die Hard 2 and 3
Desperado
Superman 2

Like I said, it's the damn remakes!!
 
Good point on The Matrix actually.

But yeah I'm with Mumorn., remakes upset me greatly. Like that brick with the Incredible Hulk and Spiderman, proper tinkle take but people still go to watch it....
 
Pretty sure the first Matrix was meant to stay as a single film, hence the closure at the end, Neos the one, all is good etc... It was only after it done so well they shoe horned in the next 2 utter brick films to capitalise. Those are the worst sequels, much like Ace Ventura 2.

Will also echo Murmons comment that reboots are the real problem, a new fudging Red Dawn... Ffs.
 
Sequels are generally good when they progress the story, rather than basically trying to remake the original (usually with cheaper actors).

Good:
Hellraiser 2 (personal fave)
Empire Strikes Back
Godfather 2

Bad:
Speed 2
Death Watch 2
Crank 2
 
The Bourne and Star Wars movies are based upon successful series of novels so have no excuse for not being good. What is annoying is when a one-off movie does well at the box office and the people behind it decide to cash-in by releasing a half-baked follow up like Speed 2, Ace Ventura 2, The Matrix 2 & 3.

Not forgetting other brick sequels such as:

The Crow: City of Angels
Ocean's Twelve
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

There's been some good remakes.

Scarface




Okay, I'm out.

The Fly
Casino Royale
Oldboy :-k
 
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sequels can be good if they're planned from the start.. if they're just tacked on for revenue (saw 5? final destination 10?) that gets on my tits.
 
a new fudging Red Dawn... Ffs.

Have you seen the trailer!? What a load of bollox. I hate these angst plagued teens/20-somethings saving the world type movies enough as it is, so to make Red Dawn one of these said movies... Is it made by the same people as Twilight ffs!?? May aswel be
 
Looking forward to Rush.

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Excellent.

The era I loved about F1. The drivers and the cars still live in my memory, Jody Schekter,Jochen Mass,Emerson Fittipaldi,Jean-Pierre Jarier and Jacques Lafitte in his Blue Ligier(my favourite car)
 
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