Speaking of Dr Who–
I’m kinbd of glad that they decided to do a Calvin and Hobbes and close down the series gracefully as well. I really can’t imagine what might have happeend otherwise. Somebody might otherwise have tried to make a movie out of it, but you know they’d do something stupid like leave out the Daleks.
Could be worse. They could have tried a live-action remake of some of Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation stuff…
Speaking of sequels, I sure enjoyed the sequel to Blade Runner. I’m glad I didn’t have to wait twenty years for it.
I’m glad that Michael Crawford realized he could never equal or top his Broadway success of “Phantom of the Opera” and has refused every show to come along and ask him since.
And when V.C. Andrews died after writing the great “Flowers in the Attic” series, it’s good they let her rest in her grave and didn’t try to capitalize on her name.
You misspelled “The Man With The Golden Gun”.
“Chinatown” - the greatest stand-alone movie ever made. There was a rumor that Jack Nicholson was going to attempt directing a sequel, but everyone on the goddamn planet said “Oh for god’s sake NO, NO, don’t let him get behind the freakin’ camera!” :rolleyes:
Don’t mean to be rude here, but you do know there’s a new Who TV series coming out next year?
I heard they were so hard up for new ways to milk the Batman film franchise that the considered making a completely unrelated Catwoman picture – not only that, but they were going to depart from the comic-book canon by making Catwoman an actual superpowered superheroine. They even offered the role to Halle Berry! Fortunately she decided not to dishonor her first-ever-black-Best-Actress-winner status with a piece of crap like that.
Roger Moore as Bond? Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it. Sure you didn’t dream that?
After Once Upon a China 2, Jet Li went on to have a great movie career in both Hollywood and China, declining roles in what turned out to be eggbert movies such as Once Upon a China 3, The One, and Black Mask, and getting successfully involved in epics such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the blockbuster Rush Hour and Lethal Weapon series.
Man, that Jet Li is so lucky.
that would be Once Upon a Time in China 2 and 3.
Actually, you both misspelled “Casino Royale.” I’m glad the producers realized that 007 and the entire British Secret Service being vaporized in a giant mushroom cloud pretty much made any further Bond escapades a logical impossibility.
And I’m doubly glad that Ian Fleming realized the childishness of stretching out a series of fantasy-fulfillment superspy tales, and decided to devote the remainder of his writing career to the continuing adventures of the delightful Practicus Potts and his magnificent machine, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.
I’m glad James Gardner realized that it would be a foolish thing to leave Maverick, and that no one has made that into a movie.
Roger Moore? The Saint? When did he do a Bond movie?
Remember how they decided to end MAS*H in 1979? Harry Morgan, William Christopher, Jamie Farr, Gary Burghoff, and Pernell Roberts all tried to get spin-offs done. Fortunately, they were all laughed-off.
Finally, it’s a good thing that Tom Clancy resisted the urge to make Jack Ryan President, or something along those lines.
I respectfully disagree with you about Rocky. I’m glad they ended it with Rocky III, because Mr. T/Clubber Lang was a great villian and I loved the way that they ended the series with Rocky and Apollo boxing each other for all the marbles alone in the gym.
Robert Jordan wrote a terrific pair of books called “The Eye of the World” and “The Great Hunt”. I often wish he’d go back and write the last book of the trilogy.
Halle Berry never won an Oscar. They nommed her a couple of years ago, but when they realised that she was so much inferior to the other four nominees that it would be obvious the Academy was giving the award not on the basis of Best Actress but of Whitest Female Nigger - their thoughts, not mine - they called off the plan.
I was really excited to hear that Will Smith was going to make a movie version of The Wild, Wild West. It was perfect casting, but like so great ideas, they just couldn’t get a script worth doing. And Will wouldn’t make anything cheesy.
Bill Cosby had a dream in which he explained why Fat Albert is subtitled “Leonard Part 7”. So he scrapped the project.