# Prequels nobody wants to see. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186 "2006-05-10T03:54:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/161 "2006-05-14T15:25:35Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > **Apollo 12** was interesting, but not really compelling. What’s not to like about Conrad, Gordon and Bean singing and dancing to [“Sugar, Sugar”?](http://www.hipsmart.com/TMC/people/conrad.html) That episode of [From the Earth to the Moon](http://www.moviefreak.com/artman/publish/dvd_earthmoon.shtml) is one of my all time favorites. ---
**Author:** ![a\_10\_u\_us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@a\_10\_u\_us](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_10_u_us)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/162 "2006-05-14T21:07:19Z")
Casablanca, “We’ll always have Paris” Where she “thinks” her husband may be dead, but has an affair just because it’s a crazy mixed up world. Gee, I guess that says it all. Add 90 minutes of dreamy scenery and cruises down the Seine, plus 15 minutes of him buying Rick’s Cafe from the Fat Man. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/163 "2006-05-14T23:45:27Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > **The Fifth Sense** Tagline: _I smell dead people!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/164 "2006-05-15T00:08:00Z")
> [@a 10 u us](#): > > Casablanca, “We’ll always have Paris” > Where she “thinks” her husband may be dead, but has an affair just because it’s a crazy mixed up world. Gee, I guess that says it all. Add 90 minutes of dreamy scenery and cruises down the Seine, plus 15 minutes of him buying Rick’s Cafe from the Fat Man. You know…I think they actually did that. I mean it. Made for TV, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/165 "2006-05-15T00:41:08Z")
> [@Engineer Dude](#): > > **The Life of Count Dracula** Which Mel Brooks parodied with his even-worse-than-the-sequel **Dracula: Alive And Loving It**. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/166 "2006-05-15T00:43:01Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > Yep, and that didn’t work out either, so they had _another_ go… The explanation I came up with was that the studio chief got a list of all the films in development and wasn’t too pleased with the prospect of _The W-Men_, seeing as the first two failed. He wanted the project canned, and pointed this out by writing a big “X” over the movie’s title. However, the “X” only went through the letter “W,” and the producers thought he was only asking for the title to be changed. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/167 "2006-05-15T02:19:01Z")
**Dawn of the Killer Tomatoes** (alternate title, **Birth of the Killer Tomatoes** ). ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/168 "2006-05-15T11:23:33Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat\* Prince Kong \*… [/QUOTE] [Neo] Whoa, Deja-vu. [/Neo] ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/169 "2006-05-15T12:54:50Z")
Prequels for Tom Cruise: **Conceived on the 4th of October Cloudy Man Dull Mission: Possible** ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/170 "2006-05-15T18:42:09Z")
\*\* This is Then, Now is Later The Sweet Here and Now While it’s Still Light, My Sweet Preschool Cop The Night the Lights Flickered Alarmingly but Stayed On In Georgia \*\* This week on TBS: James Bond Prequel Week! \*\* Teaching Assistant No I’ll Drop You a Line When I get to Russia Who’s Buying up all the Gold? You Only Live Once, I Think Live and Let Live Septopussy Learner’s Permit to Kill Platinumeye The Spy I Just Met Today Dies For Now, I’ll Take the World \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/171 "2006-05-15T19:23:09Z")
> [@Malodorous](#): > > > [@KGS](#): > > > > The Fifth Sense > > Tagline: _I smell dead people!_ That was already funny … then I noted your username, and it was _really_ funny! > [@Scupper](#): > > **Learner’s Permit to Kill** Awww … I was hoping to see **License to Cause Discomfort**. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/172 "2006-05-15T19:36:54Z")
> [@Engineer Dude](#): > > any perquel to **Pet Sematary** I think this would be titled: **Burying Dead Indians** ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/173 "2006-05-16T22:31:59Z")
Looks like James Lileks is playing this game, too. Today on his site, he joked that the film noir **The Dark Corner** was the sequel to “the rollickin’ fun-loving musical, **The Brightly Lit Middle of the Room**.” ---
**Author:** ![CrisLander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@CrisLander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrisLander)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/174 "2006-05-17T14:22:46Z")
> [@Scupper](#): > > \*\* > Today Dies > \*\* **The Day after Tomorrow never dies**!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/175 "2006-05-17T15:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by KGS > The Fifth Sense > > > [@Malodorous](#): > > > > Tagline: _I smell dead people!_ Best follow up ever … considering the poster’s name. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/176 "2006-05-17T15:44:55Z")
> [@Antonius Block](#): > > [ul] > [li]…[/li][li]The final bombing run up the fjord by the [Mosquitos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeHavilland_Mosquito) in [633 Squadron](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057811/) was one of George Lucas’ major influences for the climactic “Death Star Trench” scene in [Star Wars](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/): by comparison, [632 Squadron](http://maeci.gc.ca/sustain/EnvironMan/contest/2004/C-en.asp) could only be a disappointment.[/li][li]…[/li][/ul] zzzzWha, wha? 42! No? 61, in 1961? Hmmm, uh, I dunno… zzzzzz ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/177 "2006-05-17T16:11:08Z")
**Catch 21** **Half-baked** was the successful follow-up to the completely unfunny **Preheating the Oven**. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/178 "2006-05-17T16:39:53Z")
**The Day the Earth Rotated** **Allowed Planet** **We’re in space, and we know where we are** ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/179 "2006-05-17T18:48:45Z")
Has anyone mentioned **I Have No Idea What You Did Last Summer** , yet? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prequels-nobody-wants-to-see/356186/180 "2006-05-17T19:03:10Z")
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