I'm just watching BLAIR WITCH: BOOK OF SHADOWS... it's so corny and nonsensical I half suspect the director was secretly trolling the actors into doing any random stuff he thought of, just for fun...e.g. giving them lines such as " I had a nightmare that children were looking up my skirt", and "how did you get into college, brush your teeth?", and "the naysayers come here and they say nay"....
I probably won't watch this again but it's a mildly entertaining mess. I remember the original BLAIR WITCH PROJECT being played pretty straight
Any other sequels that completely undermine or ignore the 'seriousness' or genuine intent of the originals? there's a few others I can think of...
HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING. Oh, the pain . . . :bluesad:
C.H.U.D. II Bud The Chud
Seriously, WHY?
Quote from: indianasmith on May 11, 2018, 05:50:29 PM
HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING. Oh, the pain . . . :bluesad:
Agreed.
BTW I see what you did there!
Dr. Phibes rises again.
It wasn't a bad movie but it kinda ignored the original movie's intent. Phibes' wife was dead and he joined her after "avenging" her.
Rambo 2. Looking at the first and second movies, they really are totally different beasts and it would take a long time for the series to return to its roots.
The Wild Geese 2: no likeable characters and none of the actors from the original such as Sir Roger Moore return.
Motivation from the lead: "Death ate its way into me." Yeah, OK. :tongueout:
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Scott Glenn, Barbra Carrera and Edward Fox busting a Nazi out of Spandau Prison: blah :thumbdown:
Troll 2 :bouncegiggle:
I keep wondering whether or not I should mention Godzilla's Revenge (1969)...........
couple more I was thinking of
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2
EXCORCIST 2
AMERICAN PSYCHO 2
HOWLING 2
Quote from: LilCerberus on May 13, 2018, 03:11:46 PM
I keep wondering whether or not I should mention Godzilla's Revenge (1969)...........
Only as "The Godzilla movie that must not
be named."
House 2: The Second Story
The original Evil Dead was a straight horror film made on a low budget.
With Evil Dead 2, the camp started to creep in.
PHANTASM isn't exactly a serious film, but each sequel is just a more ridiculous parody of the one that came before it. PHANTASM: RAVAGER was just a complete piece of incomprehensible nonsense.
Return of the Living Dead wasn't Citizen Kane, but ROTLD 2 was just a cheesy piece of crap that tried (and failed IMO) to be funny and campy. ROTLD 3 was more serious. 4 and especially 5 were just garbage afterthoughts.
Um, you people do know that a lot of bad movies are made as tax write offs, right? Watch "the producers" or "lobster man from mars" to see how that is supposed to work.
Yes we all know that. Uwe Boll made an entire career out of it. Doesn't mean we can't comment and complain about the results though.
Quote from: Dark Alex on May 15, 2018, 01:01:04 AM
Uwe Boll made an entire career out of it.
The two exceptions to those bad movies are the two he made in South Africa:
1968 Tunnel Rats and the emotionally devastating
Darfur / Attack on Darfur.
yes the actual reasons are not really relevant....
this thread made me.realise I have never seen:
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
HIGHLANDER
HOUSE *although I've seen HOUSE 3, which was pretty goofy iirc
WILD GEESE
PHANTASM *well I think I started watching it once...
I'm an amateur!
Quote from: zombie #1 on May 15, 2018, 03:43:45 AM
yes the actual reasons are not really relevant....
this thread made me.realise I have never seen:
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
HIGHLANDER
HOUSE *although I've seen HOUSE 3, which was pretty goofy iirc
WILD GEESE
PHANTASM *well I think I started watching it once...
I'm an amateur!
I own most of them, but haven't got around to watching any of those either, besides Return of the Living Dead of course.
I get HIGHLANDER confused with THE HITCHER (which I haven't seen either...seen about half of the remake but it was a bit bobbins tbh)