Bad movies you hope never happen.......

respectmeordye3 · April 30, 2007, 01:17:13 PM

Goonies 2

any others?

RCMerchant · April 30, 2007, 02:21:30 PM

No more Jackass movies...please!
Freddy and Jason should stay dead.
No more video game based movies...! Agghh!
Actually,kinda surprised that GOONIES 2 never happened,not a big fan myself,but Hollywood tends to overkill succesful movies by running them into the ground.

flackbait · April 30, 2007, 03:12:51 PM

QuoteHollywood tends to overkill succesful movies by running them into the ground.

This explains how we get a 10th friday the 13th movie.

DistantJ · April 30, 2007, 03:50:34 PM

I can think of a whole number of videogames I hope Uwe Boll never gets license to.

ghouck · April 30, 2007, 04:02:45 PM

That's what I've always liked about Mel Brook's movies: He threatens a sequil, , but it doesn't happen. Did it at the end of History of the World Part 1, Spaceballs, , others I think.. I actually wish he would make a HOTW Part 2. .

It's Good to be 'da King!

rebel_1812 · April 30, 2007, 04:38:23 PM

scream 4... The premise was only good in the first one. I still know what you did last summer, although by the third sequel I think the title will change to I vaguely recall what you may have done a couple of summers ago.

DodgingGrunge · April 30, 2007, 08:45:50 PM

Quote from: flackbait on April 30, 2007, 03:12:51 PM
This explains how we get a 10th friday the 13th movie.

Oh come on! The Friday the 13th lineage ages like wine! If there weren't any sequels, we wouldn't even have the iconic hockey-masked-killer-protagonist the series has become famous for!

I think it is important to tell a story in the right medium, hence my vote is for improper adaptations. Video games have been mentioned already and I fully agree. Comic books have really stepped up for themselves in the last 20 years and as a result many have been optioned for film. This includes Neil Gaiman's legendary series Sandman. First of all, Sandman contains about 2000 pages of material and several dozen prominent characters, many of whom are not physical things but merely ideas. I suppose they could whittle it down to a series of films covering each of the 10 story arcs, but somehow I doubt a producer would be willing to commit to such a lengthy endeavor. :) Making matters worse, Gaiman wants nothing to do with the film. Haha. Oh joy.

Andrew · April 30, 2007, 08:48:42 PM

Quote from: DodgingGrunge on April 30, 2007, 08:45:50 PM
Quote from: flackbait on April 30, 2007, 03:12:51 PM
This explains how we get a 10th friday the 13th movie.

Oh come on! The Friday the 13th lineage ages like wine! If there weren't any sequels, we wouldn't even have the iconic hockey-masked-killer-protagonist the series has become famous for!

I got a kick out of "Jason X" and thought "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood" was pretty good, but "Jason Takes Manhattan" was agonizingly bad.

flackbait · April 30, 2007, 09:07:39 PM

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Oh come on! The Friday the 13th lineage ages like wine! If there weren't any sequels, we wouldn't even have the iconic hockey-masked-killer-protagonist the series has become famous for!

Calm down there man
I did not mean to insult the films I was just saying this was a good example how hollywood will milk their cashcows until they are dead.
just to repeat
I DID NOT MEAN TO INSULT THE FILMS

rebel_1812 · April 30, 2007, 11:32:42 PM

Quote from: flackbait on April 30, 2007, 09:07:39 PM
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Oh come on! The Friday the 13th lineage ages like wine! If there weren't any sequels, we wouldn't even have the iconic hockey-masked-killer-protagonist the series has become famous for!
Calm down there man
I did not mean to insult the films I was just saying this was a good example how hollywood will milk their cashcows until they are dead.
just to repeat
I DID NOT MEAN TO INSULT THE FILMS

could have also used the halloween series or the Nightmare on Elm street series, both of which have been milked dry.

AnubisVonMojo · May 01, 2007, 12:27:47 AM

I also have to pop in with a defense of the Friday the 13th movies. Though they're all just basic slasher fodder on the surface, each one provides it's own unique twist to distinguish it apart from the others.

Part 1 - Pamela Vorhees kills sexy teens in revenge for her dead son and gets decapitation for her trouble.
Part 2 - Jason's revealed to be alive and living in the woods with a sack on his head, worshipping his dead mother's mummified head and taking up the family business of killing sexy teens.
Part 3 - Jason gets his famous hockey mask and kills more sexy teens, only this time in 3-D!
Part 4 - Jason vs. Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover in the ultimate showdown of '80s icons! Jason also finally dies, putting an end to his days as a big p**sed off retard.
Part 5 - A copycat killer picks up where Jason left off: killing sexy teens. Behold: Roy!
Part 6 - Jason returns from the grave thanks to Thom Matthews and Horshack and starts his run as Super Zombie Jason.
Part 7 - Super Zombie Jason does battle with a telekinetically powered girl who's honed her skills under the tutelage of Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's.
Part 8 - Taking a cue from the Muppet's playbook, Super Zombie Jason takes Manhattan *cough*Vancouver*cough* via cruise ship, punches a kid's head clean off, then drowns in the toxic waste that NYC apparently pumps through it's sewers nightly...
Part 9 - No longer content with just being a Super Zombie Jason, our killer becomes a body jumping entity that's attempting to be reborn through a blood relation... until he's killed with props from Army of Darkness... and dragged to Hell courtesy of Freddy Krueger...
Part 10 - Jason's remains are discovered on a dead Earth in the future and taken aboard a space-faring high school field trip where he kills more of those sexy teens (of the future!) and becomes half-cyborg, creating Uber Jason.
Part 11 - Jason is ressurected/woken up by the waining essence of Freddy Krueger so the two can start killing sexy teens. Ultimately Krueger's jealousy leads to cinema's greatest domestic dispute since King Kong vs. Godzilla.

I have to say that, as long as the series continues to throw in enough twists that you can still tell the movies apart, I have no problem with more sequels.

I did have an issue with all the neo-slasher crap that the '90s seemed to love pooping out like a Pez dispenser of cinematic dreck, but since that pretty much died and has since been demoted to direct-to-DVD, it's easier to ignore them.

I do wish that now dead series like the Wishmaster, Warlock and Leprechaun movies had quit while they were ahead though. I like Bruce Payne and Andrew Divoff, but seriously!

DistantJ · May 01, 2007, 05:19:56 AM

I say the Friday the 13th series finished at Part 8 and the followups with the different names are separate movies with their own story, set after (or during, if you like) the Friday the 13th series. I mean you can't really call Jason X "Part 10" even if it has an X in the title, and Jason Goes to Hell doesn't exactly follow up from Part 8, and neither does Jason X seem to follow up from JGTH. I think it's a good way of doing it because the sequels do go stale, but they bring us new movies with new names which don't require you to have seen them. I watched Jason X before I'd seen most of the sequels, and it all made perfect sense and I love it.

Hunky Magoo · May 01, 2007, 05:45:26 AM

Im a little worried about the follow up to Forbidden Zone thats being made The Sixth Element

AnubisVonMojo · May 01, 2007, 10:00:31 AM

Quote from: Hunky Magoo on May 01, 2007, 05:45:26 AM
Im a little worried about the follow up to Forbidden Zone thats being made The Sixth Element

WHA?! When did this start?!

DodgingGrunge · May 01, 2007, 01:08:41 PM

Quote from: flackbait on April 30, 2007, 09:07:39 PM
Calm down there man
I did not mean to insult the films I was just saying this was a good example how hollywood will milk their cashcows until they are dead.

Haha. No, your point was dead on. Those films have been milking the tried-and-true formula of slasher schlock for decades. I just felt it was important to point out (as tombofanubisdotcom did more completely) that sometimes the kidney stones of creativity only pass once you've nearly run the proverbial cow dry. And as Andrew stated, I got a kick out of Jason X and Freddy VS Jason, so evidently they still have some tricks to pull.

Now if you want a horror series that has been milked udderly (haha) dead, how 'bout Witchcraft? I've only seen the first 10, and maybe the series has redeemed itself with 11-13, but for the life of me I cannot think of anything remotely distinguishing in any of the sequels. It was as if they made a block stamp from WC 2: The Temptress and used it to print off the rest of the series.

Other times sequels have nothing to do with the original whatsoever. In such cases the producers are merely milking the *name* of the product to launch some alternate project. Look at the direction The Howling took. How do you go from sexy werewolves to marsupials and freaks and vampires? It's almost as if the producers admired the bizarre deviation of Halloween 3 so much they decided to mimic it. :)