The trouble with sequels...


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.

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Sure, joke all you want now- but wait until it comes out that Vonnegut himself did the 3rd rewrite on Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow.


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XImen and the confusingly titled XI-2 weren't as nearly as good a franchise as the Slaughterhouse Saga ( though I never really cottoned on to Slaughterhouse Vs Predator On A Plane. )

For that matter, anyone looking forward to the timely release of Fritz Lang's "N"? I heard the scene where Peter Lorre faces off to Samuel L Jackson's bounty hunter is a classic.

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Hi everyone! I am really glad everyone has enjoyed this message board so much. Me too. Here are some more I have thought of. I think everyone of these we have all mentioned is way better than this or any year's crop of "green-lit" films. I feel like this is a long extension of the "Player" intro.

* "Kramer Vs. Costanza"
* "Alive Prose Guild"
* "The Wizard of Oz Penitentiary"
* "Lucid and Organized"
* "St. Elmo, The Arsonist"
* "Limited Recall"
* "Arthur 3: With An Olive"
* "Cream of Wheat Dad"
* "Joe Versus The Unpredictable Geyser"
* "How Far Go?"
* "Kreuger: A Man and His Nightmare"
* "There May Be Plasma"

Hopefully, we can all enjoy these. even the dude that tried to school us on what "Slaughterhouse 5" actually is. For those in the LA area, see me Kenny Tarr in Eric Bogosian's "Sex, Drugs, Rock&Roll" at the Hollywood Fight Club Theater March 27 to April 13, every Thursday at 8, Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 3. "That'd be great!" - Office Space. check the website for more details hollywoodfightclub dot com
Bye!

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I'll jump in...

You Only Live Three Times

29 Days Later

Two Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

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Two did fly over the Cuckoo's Nest; only one lived to tell about it.

There are two jokes in that post for the Vonnegut connoisseur.

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There's awesome in this post.

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You just lost the game.

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greetings everyone...its been awhile...now i am a stand up comedian. most of the humor derived from simple carlin and hedberg. heres some more upcoming sequels, original franchises and remakes.

KT

"You know Angela, it all boils down to good follicles...you've been blessed. One head in a million"
-"Married to the Mob" Ray 1988


"Attack of the Ewok"
"BoBo Mackenzie and the Ruthless Canyon of Lost Pearl"
"Sit Near I"
"Relapsed"

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13 Angry Men.

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Lot's of sequel and prequel talk here, i think there's something to be said for remakes though . . . especially now that Del Toro is talking about remaking at least the fifth Slaughterhouse film, if not the previous four or latter nineteen . . . but as we all know after seeing Frankbenstein, remakes/reinterpretations can be a huge, awful, boring mistake.

Don't even get me started on Win Frankbenstein's Money either, what an awful moment in cinema history THAT was.

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"13 Angry Men"
Personally, I liked "12 Angry Men and a Baby - the Musical" better.

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You guys are ridiculous Slaughterhouse Five was complete and utter *beep* Everyone knows Slaughterhouse Three is the masterpiece, Four was passable and . . . Let's just be thankful that they stopped at Five. Interestingly enough the novelization, by some guy name Curt von Glut or something, is actually pretty good. Too bad he didn't write the screenplay. Ah well. We always have the original trilogy... So it went.

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The problem with this kind of films is that they have so much material that they have to release them on parts. That's why it usually ends being such an incongruous mess. It happened to Lynch too with his Highway Trilogy -Highway blocked,Highway II:Diversion and Lost Highway-.

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You know, I'm not too excited about the next one because I noticed that those Seal movies have the reverse Star Trek Curse.

The even-numbered ones suck.

However, I find The First Seal, The Third Seal, The Fifth Seal, and The Seventh Seal pretty entertaining.


But cannot express enough how much I hate "The Second Seal: The Wrath of Roan Inish". It's utter tripe.

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Actually, the Slaughterhouse series is always released as a full box set. You watch the series all at the same time from a glass dome filmed in front of a live studio audience that lives in the forth dimention. You watch every installment of the box set and have no control over what point or what sequel you will watch. Like just this morning I was watching it with my good friend Ms. Civilwellesteemedprofessional while I was dealing with the problem of getting it unstuck from inside the DVD player.

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Operation: Passion Swordfish
Mozart: A Man And His Laugh
Conditioner: Shampoo II
Charlize's Angels: Reloaded
Field Of Dreams II: Obama At The Iowa Caucus
Slaughterhouse Five People You Meet In Heaven
City Slickers 3-D
A Very Specific Sunday
An Early Lure To Jesus
Nickels From Hell
The Player 2: Levy's Revenge
Triumph Of The Dorks


Well I wish these movies were playing at the theater rather than the bs at the theater. really i have a choice between Jonas, Madea and International at one theater and other stuff I have seen at other...I wish these movies, remakes and sequels /ripoffs wuld be made....I would probably see Player 2 first and then sneak in and see A Very Specific Sunday. Triumph of The Dorks would be great...not! Well I am going to think of more

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This reminds me of the reason why the British film The Madness of King George III was renamed The Madness of King George in the U.S so that Americans wouldn't think that they had missed the other two!

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More up-coming sequels:

Girl Allowed to Speak Freely
The Crying Game: Pre-Op
The Wixard of Oz Oz Oz (Oi Oi Oi!)
Brazil II: The Brazilian
Driving Miss Daisy II: Confessions of a Hearse Driver
Fried Green Tomatoes at Taco Bell
I Know What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Meet the Feebles II: Even Feebler
The Grapes of Wrath II: Bitter Wine
1985
Fear and Loathing in Boise
Naked Supper
Wall-E=MC2
The Penultimate Tango in Paris
The Piano II: Turntables

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1493 - Return to Paradise?

By the way, I'm pretty sure Hotel For Dogs was a sequel to Hotel Rwanda. They had to break the bank to get Don Cheadle back for the follow-up

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I'm still heartbroken they never made Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?

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Well it looks like "driving Miss Daisy's Hearse" is coming to DVD soon

Attempted murder? It's not like he killed someone.

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don't forget these upcoming sequels

1409
11:15
Back 4 The Future
13 Rounds
District 10
and The Taking of Pelham 124

This is my signature, It's freakin' brilliant isn't it?

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Nice job Fellows, I'd go see:

62* - Shrunken Balls, Hit Farther!
Dial P for Petty Larceny
My Two Mr. Moms - A Rainbow Home.

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I'm sorry, but why has this thread been going on continuously? What does it have to do with the movie?

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diablosandwich:

This post has nothing to do with either the movie or the book. I think it was just a slow day at the zoo and the animals started to act up and didn't know when to stop.


"Who, being loved, is poor?" (Oscar Wilde)

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I checked out Sorority Sluts VI this weekend. I thought I might have trouble following it, since I haven't seen Sorority Sluts I through V, but it was pretty easy to get into.

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"Pure racism and a disgrace to Malcolm's memory"


Oh Shut up for christ sake!

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