Golden Compass was one of a slew of YA fantasy book series adaptations (Lemony Snicket, Eragon, City of Ember, Owls of Ga’Hoole) obviously trying to be the next Harry Potter-like franchise. I think the only of them to manage even one sequel was Percy Jackson.
So hard to quantify what I’m trying to convey. Lemony Snicket is supposed to have future movies. I watched the first Percy Jones with two nephews and a niece. Not being exposed to the books beforehand, I did not know that there was more than one book and watching the movie didn’t clue me in.
I did watch the second movie with a niece and a nephew. The both loved it but I thought it was. . . a tween movie. Not that the first wasn’t, but it was much more fresh and fun.
John Wick, right on schedule.
… you’re joking, right? You realize that was made from one of Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt novels? He’s got like 40 of those out… So, you’re right…
Yeah, I knew – but, if you’re watching the movie without knowing that, you can see the effect they’re going for even though it never actually happens. (Heck, you could’ve made pretty much the same remark when I alluded to the Aubrey-Maturin series just a little earlier in this thread: same reasoning, y’know?)
Spoilers ahead. But seriously, who’s going to complain if I ruin the ending of Swashbuckler? Were you planning on seeing it next week?
Not only did the climax of the movie show the good guys all sailing off to the horizon but they also had the villain defeated but still alive.
Dredd (2012). Still holding out hope they greenlight a sequel for it.
Alec Baldwin in “The Shadow” (1994). Heck, they even made a pinball machine out of it.
BB vs. The World Crime League
Man I enjoyed that movie.
FYI: They made a TV pilot for the series, but it didn’t get picked up. Think you an find it on YouTube.
They used to make pinball machines out of everything. There is a pinball version of PacMan. There is a Guns N Roses pinball machine.
Well, it was the first full-length feature film to have the first fully 3-D digital (or CGI), or computer generated, photorealistic animated character in it.
So,it had that going for it.
That was the stained glass knight, right? I remember that knight for always but not where it came from. I had to ask here about it. And even after the answer was given to me, I still couldn’t remember the movie. But man, that knight!
I dropped in to add The Last Starfighter to the discussion. The Ko-Dan Armada was destroyed, but Xur escaped and The Frontier was still down. I would’ve liked to see a sequel. It still holds up very well on its own, though.
To be fair, Sophie Ward was cute as a button.
Lord of The Rings. I just knew they weren’t going to stop with that blasted Fellowship movie.
Yeah that’s right, the stained glass knight. I think it was created by the group that would one day become Pixar
There was a teen comedy called Making the Grade where at the end it said Shmippie and Bippie (whatever the two guys character’s names were) will be back in Tourista which was presumably the title of a sequel they planned but never got made.
Dracula Reborn was Universal’s first attempt to copy the Marvel formula with their monsters and fail. The Mummy is their second.
Amazing Spider-Man 2 had sets ups for pretty much every Spider-man villain they had not yet already used.
Well, Batman vs. Superman was just a setup for a Justice League movie, but I guess that’s widely known.