…incredible sound track was done by Elmer Bernstein!
Gyrate
July 16, 2019, 12:04pm
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CalMeacham:
The Pink Panther series went on forever, even after Peter Sellers’ death.
when you’re reduced to using unused footage of Clouseau from earlier films (Trail of the Pink Panther ), explaining that your lead character has had plastic surgery and now looks completely different (Curse of the Pink Panther ), or introducing someone as the illegitimate son of your lead character (Son of the Pink Panther ), and none of them “work”, it’s pretty clearly time to shut down the series. why couldn’t they simply have someone else play Clouseau, looking the way Clouseau did? – oh, yeah, they did that with Alan Arkin in Inspector Clouseau , while Peter Sellers was still alive.
The Pink Panther Strikes Again and Revenge of the Pink Panther were surprisingly good, given that they were technically the fifth and sixth films in the series, but yes, the four Sellers-less films after that - and the two reboots - should be burned. I mean, I like Roberto Benigni but he’s no Peter Sellers.
The second Shrek was pretty good. The rest? Bleh.
ftg
July 16, 2019, 12:26pm
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As least no one is working on the script for a sequel to The Last Starfighter .
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Aw, fudge .
Dropo
July 16, 2019, 7:48pm
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Snake_Plissken:
The Magnificent Seven’ was essentially a remake of ‘The Seven Samurai’ and was terrific! Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn and introducing Horst Buchholz…all directed by John Sturgis.
You forgot Brad Dexter. I think you owe his legacy and fans an apology.
CalMeacham:
I have to admit that I was really surprised when they came up with a sequel to Beneath the Planet of the Apes
The movies are over 40 years old, so I ain’t spoilering this.
When you’re blown up the entire world and everyone on it, you’d think that would pretty much prevent any sequels. but, as with Michael Corleone in that Saturday Night Live skit, just when you think you’re done, they pull you right back in.
They somehow or other were able to fix up one of the rockets that had crashed on Future Earth and three apes had flown in it, going inexplicably back in time, rather than forward in time, and landed on then-present-day earth. They got three more sequels
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
They used the time-travel thing to explain how super-intelligent apes appeared and were able to lead a revolt against humans. But the sequels still seemed to be pretty pointless and endless.Beneath the Planet of the Apes was a pretty pointless and un-needed sequel, as well.
I’ve heard that the budgets shrank for the successive movies in the original franchise. The studio was not doing financially well and the Ape movies were helping to keep the lights on. By the time the last one was made, they were recycling props from recently canceled Irwin Allen shows, like Time Tunnel.
TimfromNapa:
I’ve heard that the budgets shrank for the successive movies in the original franchise. The studio was not doing financially well and the Ape movies were helping to keep the lights on. By the time the last one was made, they were recycling props from recently canceled Irwin Allen shows, like Time Tunnel.
Kinda liberal definition of “recently”. Time Tunnel ended in 1967, and Battle came out in 1973 (although I coulda sworn it was later)
Funny you should say that. It came right before his Christian rock phase
Voyager:
Citizen Kane.
And Buck Henry was the one who did the pitch for The Graduate sequel in The Player.
And that was one of the most perfect casting choices of all time.
As for the OP? 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yes, yes, I know. 2010 is based on a Clarke novel, blah blah. Nice. He wrote eleventy-four sequels to the novel, which was really an oddball bit if writing to begin with. The novel, writ in tandem with the shooting of the film.
Anywhoo, leave 2001 alone. Baby, Star Child, swelling music, over and done.
Lumpy
July 17, 2019, 2:16am
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glowacks:
Cabin in the Woods
What if it turned out the Elder Gods actually weren’t that bad? Maybe they’d decide humanity had advanced slightly (on their scale, from “slime mold” to “flatworm”) and keep us around for amusement.
glowacks:
Cabin in the Woods
For that matter, Cabin in the Sky.
Not “should hae stopped”. Rather “should have gone with the William Gibson script”. There was room for a sequel. Just not a really bad one.
anyway. Blade Runner . Where could that go after the original ending? Nowhere, as was made clear by the forgettable sequel.
Gyrate
July 17, 2019, 11:10am
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FTR I didn’t mind the sequel at all. It felt like the second part of a trilogy though, and the third film would have to be pretty damn good to make it all work.
Smid
July 17, 2019, 12:19pm
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It follows.
Gyrate
July 17, 2019, 3:23pm
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Smid:
It Follows
The studio is “looking into” a sequel.
Didn’t do well enough for a sequel.
No idea but seems unlikely.
Sequel already in the works. and due out next March.
Sequel being written, apparently.
No idea but seems unlikely.
So three out of six. That’s showbiz.
