With the Sci-Fi channell playing their latest Highlander-based travesty, it got me thinking, what films (most likely sequels) do you refuse to acknowledge the existence of?
for me, it’s;
Highlander 2, The Quickening
Ghostbusters 2
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Freddy’s Revenge
I’m really glad that these movies don’t really exist, the Nightmare numbering series is really strange, I mean, they jump from the original Wes Craven’s Nightmare film to Nightmare 3, you’d think they would have filled a part 2, but luckilly they NEVER DID, i’ll hazard that the series really dodged a bullet on that one
Ghostbusters is probably one of the few, very few, PERFECT movies, I’m sure glad they never dilluted the franchise with another movie or even an animated cartoon…
The curiosity still makes me wonder what the third Matrix movie would have been like. The second one had some iffy special effects but set up a really smart and subtle plot. Too bad the Wachowski Brothers died in that tragic zeppelin accident carrying their only draft of the script, which for some bizarre reason they had written on flash paper. Even worse for us fans, they were so secretive that they had told nobody their plans for the script; they had hired “extra” actors and given them bogus roles, so nobody knew who was actually going to be in it; and they had spent money building several fake sets to confuse the papparazzi. What got me the most, though, was that they had willed the sequel rights to their pet – which turned out to be a mutant animal cross between a shark, a lawyer, and a pit bull, which lived in a vat of acid – so the studio couldn’t even attempt to cash in on the hype!
So I guess I’ll have to be content with my own, made-up version of the ending, which brings the series to a brilliant but somewhat dark close and resolves all the loose ends from the first two films.
That film between Rocky IV and Balboa.
Only one dip into the Karate Kid well.
Any one care to guess what happened to all the characters after Godfather II?
There will only ever be one Jake.
Jaws was never released in 3-D, and definitely went revenge-less.
I’m so glad they didn’t give in to the temptation of rushing out sequels to Aliens, Men In Black and Lethal Weapon just to beat various Writer’s strikes.
I only celebrate Halloween once, once damnit.
In an earlier thread, I speculated on what the third movie would be:
“The Zion-universe is just a higher-level Matrix. There are higher levels above that, as well. At the highest level (?), we learn that humans have actually been extinct for centuries, and the human/machine war is the nothing but the result of layer upon layer of symbiotic delusions within the programming.”
Kind of like Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress, only with software instead of drugs fueling the illusion. It would have explained why Neo had powers in the Zion-level universe: he had managed to break through another layer.
Wow, I thought they hadn’t made a second Matrix film. I mean, thought about it, you know, what would the Matrix world be like if they added more speeches and some sort of tedious political council, but then I realised that would probably be boring. Besides, once you can fly and do kung-fu, the only way is up, right?
I’m still waiting for George Lucas to do a few more Star Wars films. He’s been talking about doing a prequel for ages. My shrink says that George already did a few, but I think the guy is just screwing with my head. With all his babble about “post traumatic stress disorder”, how can I believe that quack?
Hannibal. The book wasn’t as good to begin with. Then they fail to bring Jodie Foster back, trim the plot substantially, and tack on a shitty ending. Don’t get me wrong, it was still a watchable movie - it’s just not a sequel to one of the best movies of all time.
Red Dragon, for that matter, was an unnecessary remake in my opinion. The original Manhunter was infinitely more badass - it had way more character, more interesting sets (lots of weird new-wave 80s architecture,) a kick ass soundtrack that featured some totally obscure 80s bands and came in at exactly the right moments (This Big Hush playing as Dolarhyde and that blind girl laid in bed together, for instance - stunning. Or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida for the climactic gunfight at the end (Dolarhyde lumbering forward with the shotgun right as the drum solo kicks in), not to mention that Tom Noonan played a WAY more badass Dolarhyde than pretty-boy Ralph Fiennes. And I think William Petersen of CSI, who was then young, skinny and very handsome, did a better job as Graham than Edward Norton.
*Red Dragon * was a waste of time and money, and an insult to the far better original.
I’m glad they didn’t try to tack on a third Terminator movie that had impressive (but not groundbreaking) SFX, a bland new enemy (c’mon…to top T2, you’d either have to use Stallone, Linda Hamilton (as Sarah Conner’s clone-skin doppleganger), or Sigorney Weaver as a Ripley analog to work as the new Terminator. Anyone else would be lame—who’d even try it?), and a storyline that mangled the heart of the last film. Not to mention that Arnie, even aging as relatively well as he has, just doesn’t quite match up with the überman death machine look of his prime.
All in all, I’m glad no one tried it. It’d be like making another Die Hard movie—I mean, half of what made the first one (and even the second, IMHO) was the setting, and unless you want look like you’re ripping off another action movie that was made in the years after DH2 (John McClane on a cruise ship? Perhaps Air Force One, for McClane on a Plane?), you’d just be stuck with this iconic action hero—I dunno, running around a city blowing people up, or something. Probably not even around a holiday, either. It just rings hollow.
I always wondered what happened to Michael Corleone after all these years.
Maybe if they brought back the original writer and director -oh and his daughter too- give Michael a touch of diabetes, throw in a bad-ass nephew and add some incomprehensible plot that somehow has murky ties with the Vatican, oh and get rid of that old Tom Hagen character and bring in some faceless schlub as the new consigliere --yeah, that would make a good movie!
