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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 0:49:46 GMT -5
Because I just read there will be another Terminator movie......
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Post by Celebith on May 21, 2017 2:45:04 GMT -5
1. Cars cars
2. Paul Walker-less Cars
3. Dances with Smurfs
4. Toy Story
5. Harry Potterless
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6. The Purge
6. Pirates
The rest could all find new things to do. I don't know that any of them need continuations, but a good creative team might take them in interesting directions. Bond could do a lot with Brexit and the dying British Empire - considering that the books started just after the loss of British South-East Asia, they could get less fantastic and deeper into political conflicts. Bond replacing a retiring M and Idris Elba (or Harris' Moneypenny going back into the field) as the new 007, would both be interesting twists, and give the franchise a way to stay 'Bond' but open up casting possibilities down the line. Alien and Terminator can tap into their horror roots and fill that genre's typical social mirror, and Transformers can go back to being 'stupid' fun.
Pirates and The Purge are both on the bubble - I don't know enough about the Purge, but they could probably do something with immigrant hunts or some other commentary on making America great again. Pirates may be too far up it's own ass with the mythology it has established, but the possibility of spinning off to other seas would open up a lot of stories. There's probably a good story with the Chinese Treasure fleet - that was 15th Century, so they could either predate the current timeline, and backstory some of the development of the 'pirate code / fellowship' or have someone go looking for lost ships in the 1700s . It would make corporate happy, too, because they could definitely pitch it at the Chinese market.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 21, 2017 9:28:59 GMT -5
Man that is tough. Avatar and Terminator would be tops for me.
Call me crazy (or just dad with a 5 year old), but the Cars 3 trailers actually look ...good? It basically reads as Rocky 3, but Cars, but that feels like it kind of works. Of course Larry the Cable Guy continues to be employed, so who knows. He at least doesn't seem to be an equal co-star this time.
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Post by pairesta on May 21, 2017 9:41:37 GMT -5
I'd say the Pirates movies.Most of the other ones can be justified by "but they make a ton of money", much as sequels aren't needed. But Pirates seems to have run through its goodwill two movies back, and I haven't heard, read, or seen anyone excited about yet another one.
Doing a sequel to Cameron's Avatar is a no brainer since it's the highest grossing movie of all time, but it's been so LONG since it came out, and with every passing year you'd think somebody would notice that that movie had no cultural footprint whatsoever and kill the whole thing.
I'd really love there to be no more Transformers movies, but each one inexplicably does gangbusters, so we're stuck with them for a long time.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 21, 2017 9:50:31 GMT -5
I'd say the Pirates movies.Most of the other ones can be justified by "but they make a ton of money", much as sequels aren't needed. But Pirates seems to have run through its goodwill two movies back, and I haven't heard, read, or seen anyone excited about yet another one. Doing a sequel to Cameron's Avatar is a no brainer since it's the highest grossing movie of all time, but it's been so LONG since it came out, and with every passing year you'd think somebody would notice that that movie had no cultural footprint whatsoever and kill the whole thing. I'd really love there to be no more Transformers movies, but each one inexplicably does gangbusters, so we're stuck with them for a long time. I don't get that rationale with the Avatar stuff at all. Even when it was making money, it was because of the 3D. It's not like that story/world really captured people. |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 9:55:26 GMT -5
I'd say the Pirates movies.Most of the other ones can be justified by "but they make a ton of money", much as sequels aren't needed. But Pirates seems to have run through its goodwill two movies back, and I haven't heard, read, or seen anyone excited about yet another one. Doing a sequel to Cameron's Avatar is a no brainer since it's the highest grossing movie of all time, but it's been so LONG since it came out, and with every passing year you'd think somebody would notice that that movie had no cultural footprint whatsoever and kill the whole thing. I'd really love there to be no more Transformers movies, but each one inexplicably does gangbusters, so we're stuck with them for a long time. Pirates 4 made more than double that of Terminator Genysis |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on May 21, 2017 10:55:33 GMT -5
why isn't there an "all of these but Harry Potter" option?
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Post by pairesta on May 21, 2017 11:02:41 GMT -5
I'd say the Pirates movies.Most of the other ones can be justified by "but they make a ton of money", much as sequels aren't needed. But Pirates seems to have run through its goodwill two movies back, and I haven't heard, read, or seen anyone excited about yet another one. Doing a sequel to Cameron's Avatar is a no brainer since it's the highest grossing movie of all time, but it's been so LONG since it came out, and with every passing year you'd think somebody would notice that that movie had no cultural footprint whatsoever and kill the whole thing. I'd really love there to be no more Transformers movies, but each one inexplicably does gangbusters, so we're stuck with them for a long time. I don't get that rationale with the Avatar stuff at all. Even when it was making money, it was because of the 3D. It's not like that story/world really captured people. I don't either. Even with something like Titanic, for years after you still had people quoting it, doing the "King of the World" scene, etc. Avatar came out, made alot of money, and left, and nobody ever spoke of it again. No toys, no famous quotes or scenes, nothing. |
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on May 21, 2017 11:31:46 GMT -5
I want to give Cameron credit for the sheer balls of making four sequels concurrently.
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Post by ganews on May 21, 2017 13:54:37 GMT -5
I voted for Pixar Cars simply because its production eats resources that could be turned toward any number of wonderful Pixar projects. Meanwhile I don't think we need more Toy Story either, but I at least expect it would be good. I don't care a bit about any of the others because I won't be seeking them out; some on HBO, at best.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on May 21, 2017 16:12:16 GMT -5
I assume the shitty Avatar is a reference to The Last Airbender, a movie presumably so dreadful I didn't even bother seeing it. One less sequel would mean it wouldn't exist which sounds fine.
More seriously I voted for Pirates. I thought the original film was fine and stopped there. Nothing I've heard since suggested this was not the right call.
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Post by Nudeviking on May 22, 2017 1:01:00 GMT -5
All of the above except maybe Harry Porter since you unlike the other ones want to retroactively do away with movies that already exist rather than prevent further shitty sequels from existing. So in order of most offensive to least we got...
1. Alien - One great movie. One really good movie. Two shitty sequels. One shitty prequel. A shitty Vs. Another Movie Franchise movie, and a sequel to the shitty prequel that I haven't seen yet so have no business commenting on. Alien does not have a good track record when it comes to sequels. They should just stop and stop diluting the awesomeness that is Jonesy the Cat jump scares, Alien hand in a ventilation pipe, staying frosty, a space car full of people going to space grandma's house, and Vasquez wrecking shit on everything.
2. Toy Story - Story is told. Completely unnecessary.
3. Terminator - Same deal as Alien. A great movie. A really good movie. A mediocre sequel. A couple of shitty sequels. An alright TV show. Leave it alone.
4. Avatar - If you mean the Last Airbender movie. If you're talking about the James Cameron space adventure I guess this would be last or second to last since at present there was a single movie that was not terrible, had a interesting world they could do other stuff with and made a bajillion and three dollars.
5. Pirates - I don't like Johnny Depp movies where he wears a funny hat.
6. Transformers - It's robots punching the shit out of stuff while things explode while granite jawed men and sex boobed women act heroically. If you expect anything more from these movies you are a dolt. They are fine things to watch on basic cable in the same way dubbed Godzilla movies were in the early 80s. They are dumb movies where big things fight in cities and crush skyscrapers, and that's a fine film genre.
7. James Bond - I've seen like one out of the Daniel Craig Bond movies it was okay. They are generally fine movies to see on an international flight or a marathon on basic cable over a long holiday but I will never ever go out of my way to see one in the theater.
8. Vin Diesel Cars - I guess you mean Fast and Furious. These movies are all more or less awesome. At worst they are about Tyrese eating a lot of sandwiches and cops having carpoons that take control of a sport car's computer systems at best they are The Rock being The Rock while car chases happen and guns are fired.
NA. Cars - I never saw any Cars movies so I don't know how necessary/unnecessary a sequel is.
NA. Purge - I never saw any Purge movies so I don't know how necessary/unnecessary a sequel is.
DQ. Harry Potter - The way you phrased this makes it a completely different question than the other film series here so I'm not counting it.
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