Well, I’m not sure how many people besides me will get this one, but:
It’s been alleged for some time that Jeff Lindsay wrote a book called Dexter in the Dark, about everyone’s favorite Miami serial killer, Dexter Morgan. Some say that the book was a shitty attempt to explain why Dexter was a serial killer by making that shadowy internal voice, his “Dark Passenger”, an actual separate supernatural entity. One idiot even said it was some demonic offspring of an ancient evil god called Moloch. It’s a good thing that book was never written, because it sounds like a real turd.
I normally don’t do this but Alien 3 was such a betrayal of the first two movies, and such a bad movie to boot, that I just imagine the whole thing was a PTSD nightmare Ripley had due to a slightly malfunctioning component in her cryo-sleep unit.
I agree with this and would add that Willie in particular is a useless, irritating character. (Wikipedia tells me that Kate Capshaw herself said the characters was “not much more than a dumb screaming blonde.”) Every other female lead in the series was more competent and helpful, and that includes the woman in Last Crusade despite the fact that she was actually a Nazi agent.
The Simpsons was the best sitcom ever aired in American TV. I thought it was classy that they pulled the plug after season 10 when it became obvious that it could only go downhill, despite all the money Fox was offering them.
The Matrix was a groundbreaking movie, not just for the effects but for its engaging story and philosophical underpinnings.
I’m disappointed they never made the sequels they were talking about, but I think the movie stands on its own very well and I respect the directors’ artistic choice to leave it at that.
South Park, Oh yeah, that was a great show! Hey, have you ever heard the story of how it ended? Yeah, apparently the writers were 3/4 of the way into writing a storyline about a little hamster named “Lemmewinks.”
Yeah, and legend has it that when they looked back at what they were doing, they realized that it was beyond utter and complete crap; this turd they had laid was so foul, so completely without humour or purpose or even discernible plotline, that they looked at each other, stood up as one, and left the show then and there, refusing to write another one again. That show never aired, and there never was another episode of South Park.
Which is the Indiana Jones movie that didn’t get made that didn’t have Sean Connery in it as Indy’s dad, who didn’t even appear in screen for the first half of it, and I’m not sure if he ever did because I walked out on it? Or maybe I didn’t because it never really happened.
OTOH, The Nick Cage Wicker Man remake was so hilariously bad that I talk about it every chance I get, having had a near death experience due to laughing so hard at it that I almost suffocated.
Well, if the story is neverending, then the sequels should theoretically continue on into infinity. Now a sequel to The Ending Story would be stupid.
Remember that Donald Sutherland movie, where he and Elliot Gould were army doctors in the Korean War? That would have made a good TV show. It could have been some welcome relief from the usual idiotic sitcoms with moronic laugh tracks that cluttered the airwaves back in the 70’s.