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Well, heck, squabbling between the parties involved already squelched any possibility of a Roger Rabbit II.
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Ah, but with Eisner getting forcibly booted out of Disney (and he was the main problem), it’s possible that they could do one now.
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Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I’ve always thought that ‘Buckaroo Banzai’ was a highly over-rated, not funny or especially interesting character and movie. It seemed like an attempt to cash in on the ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Star Wars’ franchises, but without the genuine artistic inspiration behind it… just a bunch of Hollywood CEOs in a board-room slapping together a ‘zany iconic character’ from which they could generate lots of ancillary merchandise. “No matter where you go, there you are,” is the single-most idiotic & overused lines from movie-dom. IMO, ‘Banzai’ did not deserve a sequel.
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I agree: Bucakroo Banzai was basically inept; I think they saw what they had and decided to try to market it as a cult film (and they marketed it hard: I remember Buckaroo Banzai giveaways at science fiction conventions six months before the film came out – in August, which was movie trash time back then).
Wasn’t Lost in Space (the movie) supposed to have a sequel?
I’m confused – this one’s been in production, with names and everything on IMDB, and defintely looks as if it’s coming out soon:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457295/
(And iy wasn’t promised at the end of Bubba Ho tep)
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I’ve always thought that ‘Buckaroo Banzai’ was a highly over-rated, not funny or especially interesting character and movie. It seemed like an attempt to cash in on the ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Star Wars’ franchises, but without the genuine artistic inspiration behind it… just a bunch of Hollywood CEOs in a board-room slapping together a ‘zany iconic character’ from which they could generate lots of ancillary merchandise. “No matter where you go, there you are,” is the single-most idiotic & overused lines from movie-dom. IMO, ‘Banzai’ did not deserve a sequel.
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For those who don’t like Buckaroo Banzai, how many times have you seen it? I saw it in the theater when it first came out, and I left not knowing what to think of it. This movie feels like a sequel; in fact, it feels like the 14th movie in a series. There’s just tons of backstory implied, but the movie doesn’t fill in any of it. (“Wait a sec, so the surgeon/jet-truck guy is now a musician? Huh?”) It’s that same feeling of running downhill just a little too fast, and barely keeping your feet underneath you. But knowing that made it a lot better the second time.
I don’t think the movie was ineptly made. It’s on the same scale of absurdity with Monty Python. There are great quotes, like the one Chuck mentions. As the evil alien has penetrated Banzai HQ, and the team are searching for him…
“What’s that watermelon doing there?”
“I’ll tell you later.”
…and it’s never mentioned again.
I read an interview somewhere with the director (may have been the writer) who said that the really fascinating thing about making that movie was that all the actors understood what he was going for. I’ve never acted, but I think I can see what he meant. I mean, it’s easy to watch a movie and see what it’s about. But he had to get that idea into people’s heads, so they could help him create the movie. And it seems like a very difficult thing to explain.
The disorientation I mentioned is absolutely intentional, and part of the fun.
And I liked Remo Williams, too, but I’m glad it wasn’t a Bond movie.
The classic old PC RPG Wasteland had one throwaway moment where you found a still-operating PC in the ruins of postapocalyptic Vegas, and if you looked at the screen, it said something like “The screen reads Wasteland 2. You shiver with anticipation…”.
It was never made, although many people have told me that Fallout was basically Wasteland 2.
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I’m holding out hope for The Madness of George IV.
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I hear that Malcolm XI has been stuck in development hell for, like, forever.
At the end of Mac and Me (a cheap version of ET) Mac blew a bubble that said “We’ll be back!”.
So far, they haven’t returned though. 
Anyone remember Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett and directed by Shekhar Kapur? Well, many of the same people just completed another film about the same queen, about her relationship with Sir Walter Raleigh. I’m just kind of disappointed that they titled it The Golden Age instead of Elizabeth II.
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Squabbling between Pixar & Disney may prevent an Incredibles 2.
Thus proving that CEOs are all swine. :mad:
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And this makes no sense to me, since Pixar is owned by Disney.
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I don’t think the movie was ineptly made. It’s on the same scale of absurdity with Monty Python. There are great quotes, like the one Chuck mentions. As the evil alien has penetrated Banzai HQ, and the team are searching for him…
“What’s that watermelon doing there?”
“I’ll tell you later.”
…and it’s never mentioned again.
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In the commentary (I forget if it’s the writer or director) says that every day the suits would watch the dailies and send voluminous notes. At one point the studio bosses refused to let Buckaroo wear red glasses. “No hero ever wears red glasses.” One day they put the watermelon in the industrial press with the “I’ll tell you later.” comment. When they didn’t get any notes on it, they realized that the suits had given up, the studio had either quit watching or quit interfering, and they could work in peace.
The Voodoo Lady in Monkey Island promised that she had an unbreakable 5 game contract, so we can expect more piratey goodness, right?
Well, not exactly Spaceballs II or III, but it’s a start.
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I really enjoyed Anne Rice’s The Mummy (Ramses the Damned) which had on the last page “The adventures of Ramses the Damned shall continue”. That was 18 years ago and Anne has become Catholic and decided she will “write only for the Lord” it seems that will never happen.
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That’s the one I came into this thread to mention! (Proving once again, that among Dopers, I don’t have an original thought in my head.) I always thought The Mummy was the most fun of her books, and looked forward to the sequel.
I suppose the upside is that her other series went downhill fast, so perhaps it is a blessing that the Mummy ends (and starts) on a high note.
The OP doesn’t mention it’s got to be a movie, so I’ll mention the third AOI album from De La Soul. It was promised quite specifically by (I think) Busta Rhymes during the early stages of the 2nd AOI album. I think they ran into record company hassles after the 2nd one.
Otherwise, I’ll just say I was really bummed out when the Kevin Smith Fletch prequel featuring Jason Lee as a young Fletch finally bit the dust as a plan. How could that not have been great? What idiots were passing on that idea?
Flash Gordon: "The End… {a wizened claw gropes in from off-camera and picks up the recently impaled and apparently deceased Emperor Ming’s power ring} …Or Is It?
Apparently it was.
The great 1964 caper movie Topkapi ended with a teaser for a sequel set in Russia. 43 years later; I imagine all the principals are dead, so I can probably stop waiting.
Skeletor promised us he’d be back at the end of Masters of the Universe. He’s really taking his sweet time about it.
At the end of Airplane II, after the credits a caption promised us that Airplane III was coming soon. Cut to William Shatner saying “That’s just what they’re expecting us to do”
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
I’m confused – this one’s been in production, with names and everything on IMDB, and defintely looks as if it’s coming out soon:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457295/
(And iy wasn’t promised at the end of Bubba Ho tep)
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It was promised, at the end of the credits for Bubba Ho-Tep. I don’t think that it was a serious sequel anouncement, though, but there were enough fans of Ho-Tep that the actual movie might be happening…but it might not. (Bruce Campbell has repeatedly denied that it’s happening.)
Plus, totally weird stuff shows up on IMDb all the time; they had a listing for the Boondock Saints sequel back when it was solely a way to boost DVD sales, and not an actual movie. So I’ll believe both of them when I see them in the theater, and not before.
It was never specifically promised, but Unbreakable, with Bruce Willis sure seemed like it should have had a sequel or two. I guess I’ll just pretend the new Die Hard movie is the sequel, since he seems pretty unbreakable in the previews.