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I once set myself to read all of Will’s plays, and that was the only one I couldn’t get through. I kept getting stopped by the guy that lisped.
Thanks goodness Charlotte Bronte never wrote another book, though! What could top Jane Eyre?
The Matrix was indeed a great standalone move.
[As it happens, I have Shakespeare in Love on the same tape with the Matrix. I just had a terrible thought of them making a sequel, Shakespeare’s Still in Love :eek: ]
Perhaps, but they never spun off a character directly from Seinfeld, like, say, a lovable but dimwitted hunk, and move him to LA for his own show.
Of course, since they’d never do such a thing with Friends, either, this is totally academic. Totally.
They made a movie from that show? Never heard of it. Must have been a direct-to-video release and got buried at my local video store. Same thing with the rumored remake of “The Stepford Wives”. Heard they were planning on turning it into a comedy no less. Thank heavens they didn’t come out with those planned TV movie sequels too. Lifetime has enough bad movies to show already.
Star Trek: Nemesis. What a piece of crap.
I’ve always wondered how Agent J from Men in Black is doing. It’s great that even though the movie was such a success, commercially and critically, no over-the-top, unwitty, sequel with bad dialogue was ever in the works.
I heard that Orson Scott Card wanted to write another book after Speaker for the Dead, but decided to keep that away.
Sorry, no soup for you!
“Friends” was a pale copy of a British show called “Coupling”. “Seinfeld” was a pale copy of the first couple of seasons of “Seinfeld”. They should have stopped while it was still watchable. After about season three, “Seinfeld” was a festering pile of crap.
I’m still waiting for the fifth Harry Potter book. I hear it’s going to be quite long, so I hope that most of the pages aren’t wasted on Harry-angst and pointless exposition that plays no real part in the story. Also, apparently someone’s going to die. I hope that JK doesn’t kill off one of the characters everyone loves, or anything.
It’s way past time for some Hagrid-character development. Maybe in the fifth book he can be more than a bumbling oaf who doesn’t know the dangers of his pets, and actually become a competent teacher. That’d be nice.
Well, since “Friends” began when “Seinfeld” was extremely popular, I would say they were trying to cash in. It’s a lovey-dovey version of “Seinfeld”.
Wasn’t it odd how the Indiana Jones movies went from 1 to 3? It’s like forgot how to count or something, as if their brains were damaged by something like … oh I don’t know … constant annoying screaming. Yeah, that might do it.
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Maybe if NBC has a magic time machine that can go six years in the future to rip off future British shows. Friends started in 1994 whil the British version of Coupling began in 2000.
Return to Roissey. No she didn’t.
How can you not like Seinfeld? Every episode was a gem to me.
How can you like “Seinfeld”? Every episode was to be avoided like the plague to me.
OK, I laughed my ass off for the first season or two, then it got stupider and stupider and I began to truly hate the characters as they got shallower and shallower. I couldn’t bring myself to give a damn what these worthless excuses for people did for half an hour every week. I gave in and watched the final episode at a friend’s going-away party…I’d have much rather just spent that 30 minutes hanging out and telling her how much I was gonna miss her.
As for more worthless sequels…have you heard the silly rumors that they were gonna make a second, third and fourth Superman movie with Christopher Reeve back in the '80s?
I could’ve handled a second Superman. However, I can’t imagine that anything good would’ve come from a third or fourth Superman, except maybe inspiration for a cult comedy flick about working in an office.
Well, movies, books, and TV shows may have crapy sequels that you’re all happy to put out of your mind, but thank goodness that doesn’t happen in the music industry. I mean, could you imagine if, for example, Metalica made a sequel to their song Unforgiven? Also, I heard that years ago, Peter Schilling considered making a sequil/remake of a song he never originally wrote. That would have been kind of strange, in my opinion.
slight hijack - I realized recently that the reason I like Seinfeld and loathe Friends is because the first is about obnoxious shallow people, and knows it is. And generally just tried to be funny. Whereas the “Friends” were every bit as shallow and obnoxious but for some reason, there was an expectation that you were supposed to care about them. Odd.
Anyway if we’re talking about television shows, it’s sad they had to end Roseanne on such a sad note, with Dan dying. But at least it was realistic, not like they spent a year on some idiotic fantasy that dragged out every stupid sitcom idea, basically undermining everything that was good about the original grity realistic, intelligent show. (ok, they were already undermining it the last couple years but I guess I’ll admit they exist…)
I, for one, will always be kind of sad they never made a sequel to Ghostbusters. I mean, with that much potential, there was no way they could miss!
And speaking of Larry Niven, I’m just sorry he and Steven Barnes never got around to writing a sequel to Legacy of Heorot. I loved that book, and was hoping it would signal a return to good things for him rather than pathetic re-hashes and compilations.
Really, though, what makes me feel thankful is that, after Tolkien passed away, his son allowed only The Silmarillion to be released, and then had his papers sealed rather than publishing endless volumes of rough drafts and scraps. I mean, can you imagine if there were obnoxious Tolkien fans who had exaustively pored over every discarded fragment from his wastebasket and would lecture you endlessly on niggling points about whether the elves of Belariand had a letter K in their alphabet? Or explain in lavish detail about how Strider was originally supposed to be a hobbit? It gives me nightmares to think of it.
And to think they were going to have Ellen come out, though she’d spent many of the previous episodes chasing after men - even going through hell to get onto American Gladiators because she fancied Nitro. That would be, you know, totally unrealistic and crap.
I’m still glad CBS didn’t renew “Magnum, P.I.” at the last minute, when Thomas was walking into the clouds after getting shot. After spending the entire episode wrapping up all the loose plot theads, it was a great end to the series. Trying to revive it for one more season would have been a crappy idea.
And I’m also glad Patrick O’Brian only wrote 18 novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. I’m sure that, nearing the end of his life and losing his wife like that, he would have felt like doing something sad and tragic like, oh, just pulling an example out of my hat, Diana dying in a tragic carriage accident, or Bonden dying in a tragic cannonball accident (lead poisoning, I believe. Massive dose.) An expression of grief in the man, sure, and a philosophical notion to be sympathized with, but not poetical, don’chu know.
You know what was a great movie? Grease. I’m so glad Michelle Pfeiffer decided not to participate in a crappy sequel and held out for her star-making turn in Scarface instead.