This movie isn't bad, but it's a bit hard to follow without having seen the first four in the series first. I guess that's the trouble with sequels. For some reason, however, I can't seem to find any of the others anywhere! Maybe they weren't as good.
shareSlaughterhouse IV is the best, hands down. Billy Pilgrim travels to Russia to take part in a boxing match against this blonde Hulk of a guy. Definitely worth checking out. Good soundtrack as well, although precious little Bach for my taste.
shareMaybe they'll make SLAUGHTERHOUSE-SIX. It would make a great triple feature with CATCH-23 and MALCOLM XI.
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you're all idiots, this was based on a book by kurt vonnegut. there is no "first four" or prequils/sequils. Its just a stand alone movie. So there is no slaughterhouse-one through four.
shareyou're all idiots, this was based on a book by kurt vonnegut.No, trust me, you're the idiot, and you've made a complete tool of yourself.
...and some more for your consideration. United 94, where it was all a dream in the head of a sleeping passenger. 13 Angry Men in which Henry Fonda's boys are joined by Jesus, who shows them the real meaning of justice. And The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Donkey, The Illegal and The Prime Minister's Wife. This last one is very rarely shown.
I can eat fifty eggs
oh MAN! You win the best comment of the year award!
shareI love it when people call other people idiots and then conclude with idiot misspellings. Although I do hope the original post was made in jest. Malcolm XI will be Spike Lee's masterpiece.
sharehahahahahahahahaha! anyone seen childboy and youngboy - death to dae-su? can't seem to get them on e-bay or amazon either....
shareThere will be plasma? heesterical!
how about:
Juno 2, Oops i did it again!
yes. fantastic. but i was really worried about 'V' too. It's really difficult to find I, II, III and IV.
shareBoy are YOU way off. Everyone knows he prequels to "V" are "Q", "R", "S", "T" & "U". I'm really looking forward to "W".
"Draw from your past, but do not let your past draw from you" -Master Bra'tac, Stargate: SG-1
lol sequill.
shareyou're an idiot for not getting it. but thanks for falling for it, because that's funny too.
share"you're all idiots, this was based on a book by kurt vonnegut. there is no "first four" or prequils/sequils. Its just a stand alone movie. So there is no slaughterhouse-one through four."
this post was brilliant and went over so many heads... specifically hayesism's and chareth's
well played
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You're the idiot for not realising it's a joke. And as if any more proof were needed it's prequel/ sequel not prequil/ sequil...
share Actually, I have seen all five of the movies. They are coming out in a boxed set in DVD format very soon. Here is an outline for those who have not yet seen them: The original, The Slaughterhouse, was a story of an optometrist, the son of a butcher (hence the name), who discovered glasses through which he could see his own history, such as the bombing of Dresden in 1945 which he had survived, and his own installation as president of a local Lions Club. Rather boring stuff, granted, but Billy’s first wife (portrayed by Mama Cass) set the mood for the whole movie. As the movie closed, he could never remember to take off his glasses at night.
Slaughterhouse: The Sequel (which I refer to as SH-2) almost never was made since Mama Cass was uncooperative, so she was replaced by Kathleen Turner. Anyway, Billy discovers his newly invented glasses also can look into the future if he turns them around and looks through them in the opposite direction. He sees the coming destruction of the world when an extra-terrestrial pushes some wrong button and melts the universe. Slowly pushing the glasses away from him, he sees more in the near term, and realizes that the only hope of avoiding that cosmic disaster would be if he could send a chemical weapon with cyanide gas to the planet where this E.T. lives. Sadly, he never realizes that the weapon will pollute the atmosphere of the whole planet. (Sort of like Planet of the Apes, in which everything was destroyed after the first sequel, yet they went on and made other sequels nonetheless.)
Which brings us to Slaughterhouse 3. In it, Billy Pilgram raises a family and his wife becomes more and more irrational due to post-partum depression. (By this time, Kathleen Turner had left the cast too.) The wife also takes to driving extremely fast down the wrong sides of divided highways. Anyway, Billy finds some cool silver boots in his attic, a souvenir from the war, and begins to wear them everywhere he goes. He is committed to an insane asylum for doing so, where he drifts in and out of consciousness muttering things about the war and a planet called Tralfamadore.
Slaughterhouse IV was the weakest of the sequels, in the opinion of some reviewers. I don't remember the Russia sequence. I think that was another movie, maybe Rambo. Anyway, this one was a prequel describing how young Billy had a crush on a little girl named Montana in his grade school, kept bothering her, so she gave up her plans to become a chemist and instead went into magazine modeling. Before she did so, however, she slipped some concoction into Billy’s Ovaltine which he drank without knowing, causing him to begin time tripping.
As someone else has said, Slaughterhouse VI is in the works. Rumors are that Tom Cruise will direct, with Travolta in the lead villain role and Mama Cass rumored to be doing a posthumous cameo, describing how errant space rangers land on Tralfamadore and find a dome inhabited by beautiful but mindless people, always turning off and on the sunlight as a game, and never knowing why they are there.
Are these the Special Editions or the original versions?
i hate, with all my heart, the majority of posters on IMDB.
subjects like "He Looks Like" or, the act of going to a shows page that you hate and writing the post "worst show/movie ever". this makes me crazy, seriously, crazy.
however, this is without a doubt the best post i have ever read. i love everyone involved (especially the innocent who get caught in between).
to further the story, i dont know if its true, but a friend of mine in brazil got a bootleg copy of a dvd titled Slaughterhouse 6, which is a remake of the first half of Slaughterhouse 2 with all sorts of crazy animation in it. oh, and at one point they have to go back to the year 1986 to rescue some whales. bottom line, its great. cover art by rabo karabekian. starring master blaster.
Special editions. I think Slaughterhouse III is the most promising since, as many of you already know, it will feature a commentary track by Kilgore Trout.
Trivia: A little birdie told me that Trout prefers Slaughterhouse II out of all the adaptations (!)
VI for Vindeta
shareit says in the papers that the man is dead and you seriusly believe it? oh man, it's advertising for the 6th movie, hell be at the premiere in tokyo!!
has anybody watched American History XV? It kinda sucks, those arabs...
Yeah, but American History XI was great, I'm glad they made a movie showing white people what it's like for minorities
We can't stop here this is bat country.
Well I have alsready seen slaughter house 6, 7 ad 8 and im glad they went back to make the first ones... coz you know it makes the story complete... I am just a bit disapionted that they used all that cg work in the prequels, not that nessesary.
If that 'Love God And Are 100% Proud Signature' makes you sick, make THIS your signature!
I heard a rumor Stallone was gonna write/direct/star in Slaughterhouse-VI, but he's gonna rename it Billy Pilgrim. 60 year old Billy (played by Stallone) time travels to the present where he takes it upon himself to wipe out the entire Burmese millitary. Should be exciting.
shareWord is that they're going for a series re-launch - the working title is "Slaughterhouse Begins" and it will get back to what made the early Slaughterhouse films so memorable, before they spiralled out of control into overproduced self-parody. I can't wait for the gritty realism of "Slaughterhouse Begins!"
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Seriously!? I think they just should leave the Slaughterhouse series alone, especially since Vonnegut has died. I don't believe they should go on and install another movie, and consider it apart of this already classic series, without the approval of Vonnegut on set. Its just not right.
And does any else agree that the acting in Slaughterhouse-Four, Volume 2 was just horrendous
They need to just let the series die along with the writer.
Ah, Kurt... So It Goes.
This movie sucked. I mean I expected an adaptation of the classic Sega Genesis game Splatterhouse to have a lot more of the story. But they turn the Poltergeist into aliens? WTF? And then change the name to Slaughterhouse? Guess splatter was just too violent sounding.
"Brought to you by Carl's, Jr. 'F@ck you! I'm eating.'"
Well, of course you know why the studios want to make "Slaughterhouse Begins"? Its because since Vonnegut's passing, and the renewed interest in the "Slaughterhouse Saga", they're looking to capitalize on the success and remake it, possibly with George Clooney as Billy. Its all about the money, and when they see the title "Slaughterhouse-Five" they see commercially viable cash cow.
Hahaha great thread.
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slaughterhouse X the final chapter. billy dies and is reborn as a frog and then must find valerie perrine's daughter and seduce her and then save the world from world war VI. i love that old laughterhouse video game
"Oww My Balls!"
I thought that the Aliens in "Sluaghter House V" were supposed to be big lizards or something.
And I also heard they were going to film "VI for Vindetta" and "VIN for Vindetta: the Trickening" at the same time.
Plus: don't for get to find the 'Direct to Video' sequel/prequel: "Slughter House Rules!"
My favorite sequel in development is Spike Lee's Girl 7 to be followed by Malcolm XII. The Seventh Day with Ahnuld was great too. "You're all idiots..." that person was the funniest ever. Thanks for schooling me on what slaughterhouse 5 is. But you are wrong stupidkid and all other smarties out there. It is called Slaughterhouse 5: Pilgrim's Feast. 90% of the people i tell this movie about think it is the latest slasher movie franchise. "Is it better than Saw III?" Yes, actually it is. The best sequel of the series! LOL. Given what this book is about, and neverending possibility, I suppose it is eternally possible this is a sequel of Pilgrim's continuing life if that makes any sense. Anyway, here are some of my favorite sequels...or prequels for that matter
1. The Fifth Sense
2. The First Picture Show
3. Illegal Immigrant Kane
4. The Pre-Wizard of Oz
5. 8 Skulls in a Duffle Bag
6. Destiny Turns on the Victrola
7. The Sixth Element
8. 17 Candles
9. An Egg Called Wanda
10. Post-Apocalypto
Bonus: Apocalypse Later, Engaged To The Mob, Good Morning, French IndoChina!
The annoying director from entourage is directing the apocalypse later one. ok, time to watch the adaptation of my my favorite book.....hope you reply shrewdly
You Forgot about S6X (the Sequel to se7en)
Attempted murder? It's not like he killed someone.
Don't forget 6 years in Tibet and Star Wars Episode 0:Cause It's still profitable or Star Wars 5.1:The Empire strikes back again! Can't wait for Billy Pilgrim Goes to Tralfalmadore: ThE final Time Trip.
shareThis has been a great post, but "VI for Vendeta" - brilliant.
shareit is way harder to follow "301: Spartans Unleashed Uncut and Uncensored"
shareID3. That was a boring movie. I kept waiting for the aliens to invade...
shareApparently I heard the next instalation will be synonomously release with 3001- A Cyber Oddessy, sort of a Kubric, Vonnegut double.
Apparently the box set will be called "Deceased Madness"
If that 'Love God And Are 100% Proud Signature' makes you sick, make THIS your signature!
Bravo to you all.
shareL...M...F...A...OFF!!!!!
hahaha
this is by far the funniest thread i have seen on IMDB...wheres the other 4?...
lmao!!!!!!!
but Slaughterhouse-5...it wuz awsome!!...loved the book and the movie!
just got done with them in my English class
I'm personally partial to 'Apocalypse Later'...
shareThe many versions of Henry VIII have all been disappointing as they've all strayed WAY too far from the original, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" and diminished the franchise. They are a little better written, though.
The up-coming and very belated sequel to The Ten Commandments, "The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Download", looks like it's just going to be a bit of industry propaganda. Though having Keanu Reeves play Moses is a stroke of brilliance.
"Being Ryan Seacrest" will be one to see though as its subject is far more interesting than John Malkovitch was.
Ah! I see now: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was written by Shakespeare! The character Otis did always sound a tad like the Porter anyways.
sharejust stumbled across this thread..very funny
How about the 'Thirteen Monkeys' AKA 'See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, think no evil, write no evil, wear no evil, eat no evil, drink no evil, practice no evil, dispose of no evil, incite no evil, buy no evil, burn no evil'
In a future devastated by terrorism and climate change, the mysterious army of the Thirteen Monkeys start an epidemic of social consciousness precipitated by fear and scaremongering, while one man travels back in time to uncover the secrets of human longevity, just how they survived when spam was considered a viable alternative to organic meat and hairspray was used as liberally as E numbers.
I'd see that for sure.
shareThe future IS bright, "when spam was considered a viable alternative to organic meat". It's hard to believe we learn to live on email!
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ok that was pretty highlarious
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