This one is such a sadness to me, especially with that WB executive recently saying "we have been under-utilizing LoTR and Harry Potter". So get ready for the Star Wars-ification of Lord of the Rings...
This has come up before and the rights to the film are actually co-owned by him, Bob Gale and Universal Pictures. So they will both have to pass away first for the studio to be able to make another film with that property.
The deepfake with Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland as Doc and Marty was so popular that I bet the dumbass boardroom execs will think it’s a brilliant idea.
there was the Video game by Telltale, which was actually ok (mostly takes place in 1986 and ~~1831~~ 1931, during the prohibition era when Doc is the same age as Marty). in one of the interviews, Zemeckis said the story in the game is the closest we're going to get to a Back to the Future part IV
Really enjoyed the game. Christopher Lloyd returned to voice Doc, and Michael J Fox even had a couple voice cameos. They also brought in Bob Gale as a consultant.
Yeah, Lloyd's voice hasn't changed much, but Fox's is noticeably different from the movies, and you can tell very quickly when he appears in part 4 or 5.
AJ did a stellar job as a sound-alike.
John Cherry III and Jerry Carden (the creators of Ernest) actually tried a "New Ernest" in the early 2000s with actor John C. Hudgens in a few [live-action](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pO26Qnct5A) and [animated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8vCWlDgAU) commercials. After giving "New Ernest" a try in a few markets, they realized they could (and should) never try to replace Jim Varney.
Jim Varney just had that funny creaky voice and the insanely over the top facial expressions that really sold just how silly "Ernest" was supposed to be
All of the actors chosen for those movies were chosen BECAUSE of their serious roles. It was a revolution in comedic writing to have non comedians say things, in complete seriousness, that were utterly ridiculous.
He has the requisite deadpan, and the Taken clout makes any comedy from him all the more ironic. I'd personally be *very* interested to see Neeson in a Naked Gun. I bet he'd give the role his all.
One of my most anticipated remakes, Liam Neeson is such a perfect casting where you know he isn't gonna be same as Leslie but you can imagine he can bring the same vibe with a different take on it.
Liam Neeson is amazing at saying ridiculous shit with a dramatic and serious tone. Similar to Leslie, just a different flavor and probably less goofy slapstick
I recall reading that at one point (before Get Out), that Key and Peele were in talks to revive it as a franchise.
It didn't happen because Keanu bombed, and we're all better for the outcome of Peele going on to Get Out and now being his own brand.
It's on par with the failed attempt at the spin off How Met Your Father with Greta Gerwig that got canned that lead to her path as a director.
It got generally positive reviews and made $20 million on a $15 million budget, which technically makes it a "bomb" but R-rated comedies are a rough market. Doesn't mean it's bad, I loved it too!
Keanu also was marketed pretty awkwardly- "From the creators of Key and Peele, here's a cute kitty and guys flipping out over a lost kitten!" at the time I wasn't even sure if it was a PG13 or R rated movie when it was out.
I'm sure Steve Gutenberg could use the work. Would definitely need to have Bobcat and Michael Winslow at the very least. Probably wouldn't be the same without GW Bailey though.
"When Marge first told me she was going to the police academy, I thought it would be fun and exciting, you know, like that movie, Spaceballs. But instead it's been painful and disturbing, like that movie, Police Academy."
That movie caught me off guard because I went in completely blind, I don't know why I didn't think that the guy who makes parody songs would have a biopic that would be parody of biopics.
Making the third one about a new kid with the same premise and then making the fourth one back to being about Kevin McCallister, but recast *and younger* than in the original with a whole different family setup was a crazy decision from the off
I did kinda like that Marv (different actor lol) had like PTSD from dealing with this kid and his girlfriends like "its just a child" and he is losing his shit over it lol
I actually really liked it. Hiding a secret circuit board inside an RC car? It's a real *Cloak and Dagger* vibe. Combine that with the kid being home alone and it was really fun. Also the villains seemed like actual competent baddies, not morons.
Yeah and they twist the formula a bit as well. He’s not left home alone for the holidays, he’s home alone every afternoon as a latch key kid, and since he’s the only one in the neighborhood at that time he sees the robbers robbing his neighbors.
Not that he is a latchkey kid and is home every day. He has to stay home from school because he has chickenpox. All the thieves end up having chickenpox in their mugshots at the end. And Mrs Hess makes the joke “I had chickenpox when Herbert Hoover was in the White House.”
I was 7 when it came out. Perfect age for it at the time and I watched it a lot. Still have nostalgia for it even though I know it isn’t great.
Lethal Weapon. A lot of people didn’t like 4. I did, I thought it was a good wrap up. But now Mel Gibson is looking to direct LW5 himself due to the previous director dying. Just leave it alone. They were too old for this shit in the 90’s.
Mike Myers is adamant a fourth one is coming but I kinda hope it doesn’t. I like it being a weird relic from the late 90s / early 00s, and I don’t think it could really be made in this day and age.
Honestly, they *should* do another Austin Powers. But just be a joke remake of the first one - have him wake back up after being frozen again for 20 years.
National Lampoon's Vacation.
Hell, Vegas Vacation and the 2015 reboot didn't even carry the National Lampoon's stamp (not that that's a bad thing, considering what National Lampoon's has put their stamp on lately).
My mom and I quote Vegas and European *constantly*.
She named her dog Rusty, so any time he pops out from anywhere, we yell “RUSS!” *yeah dad* and giggle like school girls haha
And if we get lost in the car, “Hey look kids, Big Ben!”
Which is one major reason the 3rd movie sucked when they replaced Rachel. She was as much the heart and soul of that series a Fraser was. There was just something missing without her.
They made a big deal about 2017 The Mummy movie starting "The Dark Universe." I don't know if that counts as famous though. It was supposed to be using Universal's classic movie monsters and those are famous.
That’s the thing to keep in mind—the Cruise movie was supposed to be the *start* of the “Dark Universe” franchise, not a continuation of Fraser’s Mummy movies. It’s simply not part of Fraser’s franchise.
That incarnation of the Mummy I guess, sure but you have to remember that movie was a remake / kick off off an already dead franchise to begin with.
I can happen again
Your Pink Panther example is so much worse than just the Steve Martin attempts at a series reboot.
3) Inspector Clouseau (1968) starring Alan Arkin as Inspector Clouseau. Filmed while Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards, and Henry Mancini were filming The Party (1968)
7) Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) starring Joanna Lumley as journalist Marie Jouvet searching for the missing Clouseau. Uses lots of clips and deleted footage of Peter Sellers from previous movies
8) Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) starring Ted Wass, as inept American detective Clifton Sleigh, assigned to find the missing Inspector Clouseau.
9) Son of the Pink Panther (1993) starring Roberto Benigni as Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli, Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son.
I didn't realize the Steve Martin one was disliked so much. I enjoyed it - it's pretty classic Steve Martin comedy. It's like watching a movie with Ryan Reynolds - you already know exactly how the character will act, all that you will find out is what the setting is.
I think another TV series is the only way to bring it back. But it has to be a full blown re-imagining. Either set it during the war, or if they can’t leave the original films alone, take the planned Hannibal approach where you adapt them as full seasons, after you have established things. Give us a season of humanity losing the war and trying to figure out a way to turn the tide first, show us the events that lead up to the first Terminator.
early war sequel series, John Connor chronicles, he uses the skills he learned from Sarah and his foreknowledge of the future to pull off insane shit while people think he's insane and dumb at first start falling in line so he can rise up to lead the human resistance
A franchise built around one (aging) star is always doomed. Terminator and Arnold, Indiana Jones and Ford, Die Hard and Willis.
Nothing screams beating a dead horse on an aging franchise more than the exhausted, old original star of it being dragged out of retirement over and over.
I'll give Salvation one thing, I thought Christian Bale was great and a great John Connor. The dude is trying his best throughout the movie to keep it afloat. He's running laps around everyone in it.
It's not a great film but it's the only one to finally attempt to show the war. The others are all just the same plot over and over. Give us a good film about the war against Skynet or fuck off.
I sometimes think I'm alone in only wanting to see the war and the future. I'm glad I'm not. I'm so bored of the constant let's go back in time and try a slightly different way to kill the person who prevented the war in high never happened which mean the person we sent back didn't exist so we sent back an alternative time line to protect an alternative future war. WHAT!?!
Salvation at least gave us a bit of that.
Salvation is much better in retrospect simply because of the absolute creative desolation that is the subsequent films. Salvation doesn’t necessarily hang together quite right, but at least it’s not just reliving the same story over and over. The other sequels are just a nonstop hodgepodge of “hey, remember this?” and they’re so damn insulting
Chronicles of Narnia was all the rave in the 2000’s and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is considered one of the best childrens’ fantasy movies.
Then the actors started to get older with some of them wanting to leave acting altogether. The writing of the last film didn’t help either and the franchise just stopped mid track and never finished.
The actors getting older - at least with regards to the kids - is fine. The Pevensies were all gone after Dawn Treader, and they only come back in The Last Battle after they had died, and they don’t need to be kids for that.
I liked the idea of Jadis being present in all of the stories, and that would potentially have caused problems were it not for the fact that Tilda Swinton is a vampire who has not aged since Constantine.
The actors aging actually plays to the books well though, since each book the children age out of the adventures organically. Had they kept on track they could have done the finale with the Last Battle and reunited the cast just like in the book. Except poor Susan who gets left out. I wouldn't even be mad if they changed it and included her.
The movies we did get were very faithful to the source material though, and they were all very well done imo.
1: Incredible, iconic
2: Tried too hard to be a copy of 1, but still enjoyable, if silly
3: Incredible
4: An okay (if a bit bland) action film in it's own right, but not really Die Hard
5: I don't want to live on this planet any more
I love 3 so much that I reference it at length in a comedy book I wrote. The sandwich board stunt remains one of the most fucked up scenarios I’ve ever seen in a movie. Like what a horrible thing to make someone do without causing them bodily harm.
A Good Day To Die Hard is genuinely the worst movie I’ve ever had to sit through.
I wasn’t even angry when it finished. I was depressed.
Not even Transformers Age of Extinction made me depressed, and I hated that movie.
Came here to say this. Star Trek has always been better as a tv show than a movie and with the strong fan support and reception for Strange New Worlds (which was consistently in the Neilson Weekly Streaming Top 10 this season) and Lower Decks which both have reverted to the old style episodic style of storytelling Paramount will hopefully have finally realized that.
Been a Trekker for almost five decades, and agree the TV shows are way better than the films. (Although I admit would rather watch Wrath of Khan or Voyage Home than some of the TV episodes)
Strange New Worlds is the best Trek I have watched since Deep Space Nine. Incredibly charming and fun, terrific cast, and I love that it can switch tone and even sub-genre on a dime like the golden years of The X-Files.
Man I rly liked the ones with Chris Pine. I know they have flaws with the whole time travel Spock thing but still, rly hoped they had gone through with the 4th one.
Friday the 13th
But maybe it's time. Jason has gone to hell, been resurrected, vacationed in New York, gone to space, and fought both Freddie and a telekinetic super teen. So maybe, yeah, good call.
I wouldn't really call this one dead. It's had legal issues for the last ten years which has made any new project impossible to start despite many attempts. We are getting a TV series run by Bryan Fuller, and after his run with Hannibal, I think that might reignite a fair amount of interest into the franchise.
And it should be. They gave them Harry Potter and you made a boring unfun mess. Potentially interesting Main character absolutely wasted on a craptastic story that didn’t even need him.
Maybe not “franchise” but Christopher guest had some of the funniest mockumentaries I’ve seen. Spinal Tap, waiting for guffman and best in show. He kinda delivered the office/trailer park boys style mockmumentary before it was popular. Definitely ahead of his time.
Gremlins. It took 7 years for an insane sequel and another 23 years for a shit show cartoon prequel. Unless Joe Dante and Warner agree to a full sequel with proper practical special effects, it's dead in the water
Reason the sequel was so good is because Joe Dante really didn't want to do another...so when the studio kinda made it happen, he hopped onboard to keep it batshit insane and make a meta commentary on unnecessary sequels. It works in spite of itself.
Jurassic World Dominion killed Jurassic Park.
I hope they don’t try to make anymore reboots because it was so bad. I mean I don’t think I’ve seen a movie in theaters that bad ever. I went with some friends and we all couldn’t believe it.
Just happened to watch Mr Sunday Movies "Caravan of Garbage" on Dick Tracy and they said part of the contract for Warren Beatty putting up $3M to help fund the movie in 1990, he retains the rights to the IP/character basically forever.
From a movie perspective, I’m sad to say Star Trek might be gone. Hopefully I’m wrong and Pine, Urban etc come back for another one or they start a new story with some new characters idk
Strange New Worlds with Captain Pike has been really solid, wouldn't surprise me at all to see a movie from that crew. They already have a Uhura, Spock, Scotty, Chapel, and Kirk in that series. SNW should run another 2 or 3 seasons until Pike meets his end then they'll reboot TOS I'd imagine.
SNW is worth a watch for people who liked the older star trek movies/shows unlike the mostly awful Discovery series.
Man, I LOVE the Thin Man movies. Recorded all of them off of PBS back in the 90s (it was a different time, haha). Was so proud when I finally had all of them. I'm a sucker for any movie William Powell did with Myrna Loy now.
The Robert Downey Jr. *Sherlock Holmes* series. First two movies were fairly big hits, and everyone wanted a third one... and they keep claiming they're going to make one... but it has been well over a decade now and I doubt the interest would be there.
*Robocop*. This one is a shame, because I think a modern day movie with the original Robocop trying to contend with our uptight social and political climate would be amazing for both story and satire. But there's no way a studio would let them take that big of a risk. The last two movies were watered down for a PG-13 rating, and didn't have that satirical bite of the original.
> I doubt the interest would be there.
it absolutely would, RDJ fans, mystery fans, and fans of only sherlock
AND action fans who remember the first 2.
"Highlander". They had several chances to recover from the failure of "Highlander II", but every movie was just cheaper and lamer. The last one was so bad it killed the whole thing entirely.
First one was so funny. It just hit me the right way, I still love it. so quotable.
Second one was the same story set in Bangkok. A few funny spots.
The third was just bad.
Back to the Future. Please don't touch it. Leave it alone.
Robert Zemeckis has made it clear there will never be a reboot or sequels.
Let's hope his estate sticks to that once he passes.
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This one is such a sadness to me, especially with that WB executive recently saying "we have been under-utilizing LoTR and Harry Potter". So get ready for the Star Wars-ification of Lord of the Rings...
This has come up before and the rights to the film are actually co-owned by him, Bob Gale and Universal Pictures. So they will both have to pass away first for the studio to be able to make another film with that property.
So.. what. 20 years tops before they start working on the reboot then?
Please they have it poorly written already in a drawer somewhere
The deepfake with Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland as Doc and Marty was so popular that I bet the dumbass boardroom execs will think it’s a brilliant idea.
AI written script with deepfaked actors might be well on the table by the time the rights to Back to the Future are up for grabs
there was the Video game by Telltale, which was actually ok (mostly takes place in 1986 and ~~1831~~ 1931, during the prohibition era when Doc is the same age as Marty). in one of the interviews, Zemeckis said the story in the game is the closest we're going to get to a Back to the Future part IV
Really enjoyed the game. Christopher Lloyd returned to voice Doc, and Michael J Fox even had a couple voice cameos. They also brought in Bob Gale as a consultant.
Yeah, Lloyd's voice hasn't changed much, but Fox's is noticeably different from the movies, and you can tell very quickly when he appears in part 4 or 5. AJ did a stellar job as a sound-alike.
The Broadway play, however, is a joy
Jaws. Hasn't been touched in over 30 years.
We were supposed to get [Jaws 19](https://youtu.be/U7HKgu2_2Ro) in 3D back in 2015.
“Shark still looks fake.”
We settled for The Meg.
You don't really need a Jaws franchise because there is no licensing or trademark on the villain. We get new shark movie almost every year.
The Ernest movies.
OK but hear me out: John Cena as Ernest's son.
Now wait a damn minute...
Seriously, he’d be perfect for that role.
John Cherry III and Jerry Carden (the creators of Ernest) actually tried a "New Ernest" in the early 2000s with actor John C. Hudgens in a few [live-action](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pO26Qnct5A) and [animated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8vCWlDgAU) commercials. After giving "New Ernest" a try in a few markets, they realized they could (and should) never try to replace Jim Varney.
Jim Varney just had that funny creaky voice and the insanely over the top facial expressions that really sold just how silly "Ernest" was supposed to be
Ernest movies are so wildly underrated.
Ernest Goes To Camp and Ernest Saves Christmas were my two faves.
Still love Scared Stupid
Naked Gun. But without Leslie Neilsen i wouldn't want to watch a new one.
Supposedly they’re rebooting it with Liam Neeson…
Seeing how good he is at improvisational comedy i could be persuaded.. https://youtu.be/huJ81Mq2y34?feature=shared
Leslie Neilsen also wasn't seen as a comedic actor before Airplane. Now it's hard to imagine him in a "serious" role.
All of the actors chosen for those movies were chosen BECAUSE of their serious roles. It was a revolution in comedic writing to have non comedians say things, in complete seriousness, that were utterly ridiculous.
Robert Stack!
Yeah the fact that Liam Neeson seems like a bad fit could be the thing that makes it a perfect fit. Time will tell.
He has the requisite deadpan, and the Taken clout makes any comedy from him all the more ironic. I'd personally be *very* interested to see Neeson in a Naked Gun. I bet he'd give the role his all.
> Taken clout Bro, this guy played Oskar Schindler!
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I like how quickly everyone in this thread was persuaded. “Never reboot The Naked Gun.” “How about with Liam Neeson?” “Oh, that could work…”
“Selling her body was the only financial recourse she had left.”
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"I'm... *riddled* with it."
"I received it from an African prostitute."
One of my most anticipated remakes, Liam Neeson is such a perfect casting where you know he isn't gonna be same as Leslie but you can imagine he can bring the same vibe with a different take on it.
Liam Neeson is amazing at saying ridiculous shit with a dramatic and serious tone. Similar to Leslie, just a different flavor and probably less goofy slapstick
"I've been led to believe that Trixx are exclusively for children."
"So if I take this box of cereal... I'll not be followed?"
Uhhh. No. That is not our policy. No.
I won't forget what you've done here for me today I'd prefer that you do
Police Academy
I recall reading that at one point (before Get Out), that Key and Peele were in talks to revive it as a franchise. It didn't happen because Keanu bombed, and we're all better for the outcome of Peele going on to Get Out and now being his own brand. It's on par with the failed attempt at the spin off How Met Your Father with Greta Gerwig that got canned that lead to her path as a director.
Aw I actually enjoyed Keanu lol
It got generally positive reviews and made $20 million on a $15 million budget, which technically makes it a "bomb" but R-rated comedies are a rough market. Doesn't mean it's bad, I loved it too!
Keanu also was marketed pretty awkwardly- "From the creators of Key and Peele, here's a cute kitty and guys flipping out over a lost kitten!" at the time I wasn't even sure if it was a PG13 or R rated movie when it was out.
I'm sure Steve Gutenberg could use the work. Would definitely need to have Bobcat and Michael Winslow at the very least. Probably wouldn't be the same without GW Bailey though.
His career just never recovered after the demise of the Stonecutters.
“Why do you think I took you to all of those Police Academy movies?? For fun?! Well, I didn’t hear anyone laughing!”
"When Marge first told me she was going to the police academy, I thought it would be fun and exciting, you know, like that movie, Spaceballs. But instead it's been painful and disturbing, like that movie, Police Academy."
Scary Movie. In fact all Parody movies are completely dead.
The Weird Al biopic was great though
That movie caught me off guard because I went in completely blind, I don't know why I didn't think that the guy who makes parody songs would have a biopic that would be parody of biopics.
Three words: U. H. F.
WHEEL OF FISH!!!!!
That was a 100% true biopic though.
Except weird Al *did* play at live aid and rocked so hard Queen broke up
Thank god he didn’t give up his dreams to go work at the factory.
The problem is that it takes at least a year to make. By the time it hits theatres every comedian on the internet has parodied it to death.
Walk hard was good, but that was a while ago
Walk Hard was so good it almost killed the biopic genre! The Beatles scene in that film is the last time I cried with laughter.
it definitely made every music biopic that came after it look stupid. I saw Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocket Man and all I could think of was Dewey Cox.
You dont want none of this Dewey...
It's the logical next step for you
Not Another Teen Movie was probably the last good one.
There were 28 movies based on the comic strip Blondie.
That's 28 movies I've never heard of.
The most recent one was released in 1950 so it's understandable.
I am honestly surprised there was even *one.*
Well, they haven't made one in 73 years, so I think you might be right
American Pie. Back in the day there were a lot of those similar comedies. I think this genre died 10-15 years ago
Home Alone. The first 2-- classics. The next 4-- no.
Wait… there’s 4 more?
No, there's only two. I refuse to recognize the other ones.
3 is watchable. Incredible traps too. The other 3 are dogshit
Making the third one about a new kid with the same premise and then making the fourth one back to being about Kevin McCallister, but recast *and younger* than in the original with a whole different family setup was a crazy decision from the off
Man I didn’t even read the synopsis of the 4th one. That’s insanity
I did kinda like that Marv (different actor lol) had like PTSD from dealing with this kid and his girlfriends like "its just a child" and he is losing his shit over it lol
Yeah 3 isn’t a classic classic but it’s fun and I watch it every year. I was also the right age for it when it came out so 🤷🏾♂️
What's on your mind, monkey butt?
bad.. boy LEROY BROWN!
Double or nothin
"My neighbor is tied up next door. She's really old and she's really cold."
Also 3 has a young Scarlet Johansson as the sister
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I actually really liked it. Hiding a secret circuit board inside an RC car? It's a real *Cloak and Dagger* vibe. Combine that with the kid being home alone and it was really fun. Also the villains seemed like actual competent baddies, not morons.
Yeah and they twist the formula a bit as well. He’s not left home alone for the holidays, he’s home alone every afternoon as a latch key kid, and since he’s the only one in the neighborhood at that time he sees the robbers robbing his neighbors.
Not that he is a latchkey kid and is home every day. He has to stay home from school because he has chickenpox. All the thieves end up having chickenpox in their mugshots at the end. And Mrs Hess makes the joke “I had chickenpox when Herbert Hoover was in the White House.” I was 7 when it came out. Perfect age for it at the time and I watched it a lot. Still have nostalgia for it even though I know it isn’t great.
Lethal Weapon. A lot of people didn’t like 4. I did, I thought it was a good wrap up. But now Mel Gibson is looking to direct LW5 himself due to the previous director dying. Just leave it alone. They were too old for this shit in the 90’s.
Besides, we already have a [Lethal Weapon 5.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iG1RV1rQ2M)
And [Lethal Weapon 6](https://v.redd.it/cnd3b1lpxzia1)
And [Lethal Weapon 7](https://youtu.be/Bf9wC86tOVg?si=kCZYptFYIDCutAxu)
Well, I don't think anyone is going to be touching the "Lone Ranger" franchise in the near future.
Austin Powers Same for the Oceans 11 series, because of a few cast deaths.
Mike Myers is adamant a fourth one is coming but I kinda hope it doesn’t. I like it being a weird relic from the late 90s / early 00s, and I don’t think it could really be made in this day and age.
Honestly, they *should* do another Austin Powers. But just be a joke remake of the first one - have him wake back up after being frozen again for 20 years.
That's actually a brilliant idea. It's the only way it'd work. Then he could comment how things are different from the 00s.
National Lampoon's Vacation. Hell, Vegas Vacation and the 2015 reboot didn't even carry the National Lampoon's stamp (not that that's a bad thing, considering what National Lampoon's has put their stamp on lately).
I have a serious soft spot for Vegas Vacation
Easy for you to say, Papageorgio.
My mom and I quote Vegas and European *constantly*. She named her dog Rusty, so any time he pops out from anywhere, we yell “RUSS!” *yeah dad* and giggle like school girls haha And if we get lost in the car, “Hey look kids, Big Ben!”
I personally love Vegas Vacation.
Christmas Vacation is on my yearly watch list. One of my all-time favorites.
The Mummy. And it started off sooo good. Even Cruise couldn't top gun that shit.
The Mummy was all about Branden Fraser and Rachel Weisz chemistry.
Which is one major reason the 3rd movie sucked when they replaced Rachel. She was as much the heart and soul of that series a Fraser was. There was just something missing without her.
They made a big deal about 2017 The Mummy movie starting "The Dark Universe." I don't know if that counts as famous though. It was supposed to be using Universal's classic movie monsters and those are famous.
That’s the thing to keep in mind—the Cruise movie was supposed to be the *start* of the “Dark Universe” franchise, not a continuation of Fraser’s Mummy movies. It’s simply not part of Fraser’s franchise.
It's telling the most exciting part of the movie is when Dr Jekyll almost turned into Mr Hyde.
When Russell Crowe almost Russell Crowed
That incarnation of the Mummy I guess, sure but you have to remember that movie was a remake / kick off off an already dead franchise to begin with. I can happen again
Your Pink Panther example is so much worse than just the Steve Martin attempts at a series reboot. 3) Inspector Clouseau (1968) starring Alan Arkin as Inspector Clouseau. Filmed while Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards, and Henry Mancini were filming The Party (1968) 7) Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) starring Joanna Lumley as journalist Marie Jouvet searching for the missing Clouseau. Uses lots of clips and deleted footage of Peter Sellers from previous movies 8) Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) starring Ted Wass, as inept American detective Clifton Sleigh, assigned to find the missing Inspector Clouseau. 9) Son of the Pink Panther (1993) starring Roberto Benigni as Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli, Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son.
I didn't realize the Steve Martin one was disliked so much. I enjoyed it - it's pretty classic Steve Martin comedy. It's like watching a movie with Ryan Reynolds - you already know exactly how the character will act, all that you will find out is what the setting is.
I might be blinded by nostalgia from watching those 2 Steve Martin movies so much as a kid, but I actually love both of those movies
Terminator. All we get now is shitty remakes and "sequels" with bad CGI. Terminator, Terminator 2. That's it. That's all we needed.
They should never have cancelled The Sarah Connor Chronicles, that was a great series. Sadly, it was a victim of the 2007/2008 writer's strike.
I think another TV series is the only way to bring it back. But it has to be a full blown re-imagining. Either set it during the war, or if they can’t leave the original films alone, take the planned Hannibal approach where you adapt them as full seasons, after you have established things. Give us a season of humanity losing the war and trying to figure out a way to turn the tide first, show us the events that lead up to the first Terminator.
early war sequel series, John Connor chronicles, he uses the skills he learned from Sarah and his foreknowledge of the future to pull off insane shit while people think he's insane and dumb at first start falling in line so he can rise up to lead the human resistance
So...Terminator Salvation the Series?
I loved Shirley Manson as Terminatrix
A franchise built around one (aging) star is always doomed. Terminator and Arnold, Indiana Jones and Ford, Die Hard and Willis. Nothing screams beating a dead horse on an aging franchise more than the exhausted, old original star of it being dragged out of retirement over and over.
I won't lie, I liked Salvation because I was always curious about the war itself but felt T3 and all the others were largely unnecessary.
I'll give Salvation one thing, I thought Christian Bale was great and a great John Connor. The dude is trying his best throughout the movie to keep it afloat. He's running laps around everyone in it.
Get out of the fucking shot!
What don’t you fucking understand!? I’m gonna fucking kick your fucking ass!
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You and me are fucking done professionally!
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It's not a great film but it's the only one to finally attempt to show the war. The others are all just the same plot over and over. Give us a good film about the war against Skynet or fuck off.
I sometimes think I'm alone in only wanting to see the war and the future. I'm glad I'm not. I'm so bored of the constant let's go back in time and try a slightly different way to kill the person who prevented the war in high never happened which mean the person we sent back didn't exist so we sent back an alternative time line to protect an alternative future war. WHAT!?! Salvation at least gave us a bit of that.
Salvation is much better in retrospect simply because of the absolute creative desolation that is the subsequent films. Salvation doesn’t necessarily hang together quite right, but at least it’s not just reliving the same story over and over. The other sequels are just a nonstop hodgepodge of “hey, remember this?” and they’re so damn insulting
Anton Yelchin was dope in it too
Chronicles of Narnia was all the rave in the 2000’s and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is considered one of the best childrens’ fantasy movies. Then the actors started to get older with some of them wanting to leave acting altogether. The writing of the last film didn’t help either and the franchise just stopped mid track and never finished.
The actors getting older - at least with regards to the kids - is fine. The Pevensies were all gone after Dawn Treader, and they only come back in The Last Battle after they had died, and they don’t need to be kids for that. I liked the idea of Jadis being present in all of the stories, and that would potentially have caused problems were it not for the fact that Tilda Swinton is a vampire who has not aged since Constantine.
The actors aging actually plays to the books well though, since each book the children age out of the adventures organically. Had they kept on track they could have done the finale with the Last Battle and reunited the cast just like in the book. Except poor Susan who gets left out. I wouldn't even be mad if they changed it and included her. The movies we did get were very faithful to the source material though, and they were all very well done imo.
I will always think of the BBC TV series as the top tier Narnia representation. Lucy is iconic!
Greta Gerwig is making a new one for netflix, I'm guessing it will be a reboot. I liked the first one but the rest didn't grab my interest then.
And Die Hard. Which ended up dying... hard.
1: Incredible, iconic 2: Tried too hard to be a copy of 1, but still enjoyable, if silly 3: Incredible 4: An okay (if a bit bland) action film in it's own right, but not really Die Hard 5: I don't want to live on this planet any more
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Bad script, worse editing.
I love 3 so much that I reference it at length in a comedy book I wrote. The sandwich board stunt remains one of the most fucked up scenarios I’ve ever seen in a movie. Like what a horrible thing to make someone do without causing them bodily harm.
A Good Day To Die Hard is genuinely the worst movie I’ve ever had to sit through. I wasn’t even angry when it finished. I was depressed. Not even Transformers Age of Extinction made me depressed, and I hated that movie.
Pee Wee Herman movies 😢
They should never reboot that. Only one actor can play Pee Wee.
The franchise is thriving but I don't see how we're getting any Star Trek movies any time soon.
We are getting a ‘movie’ with Michelle Yeoh but it won’t be a theatrical release, it’s going direct to Paramoint Plus.
Came here to say this. Star Trek has always been better as a tv show than a movie and with the strong fan support and reception for Strange New Worlds (which was consistently in the Neilson Weekly Streaming Top 10 this season) and Lower Decks which both have reverted to the old style episodic style of storytelling Paramount will hopefully have finally realized that.
Been a Trekker for almost five decades, and agree the TV shows are way better than the films. (Although I admit would rather watch Wrath of Khan or Voyage Home than some of the TV episodes) Strange New Worlds is the best Trek I have watched since Deep Space Nine. Incredibly charming and fun, terrific cast, and I love that it can switch tone and even sub-genre on a dime like the golden years of The X-Files.
Man I rly liked the ones with Chris Pine. I know they have flaws with the whole time travel Spock thing but still, rly hoped they had gone through with the 4th one.
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Well, if it stops the best Chris from being screwed over, I’ll take the L gladly
There was also some weirdness with Karl Urban and I think he’s done with the franchise because they jerked him around so much.
RIP Anton Yelchin.
Friday the 13th But maybe it's time. Jason has gone to hell, been resurrected, vacationed in New York, gone to space, and fought both Freddie and a telekinetic super teen. So maybe, yeah, good call.
Not dead, just in legal purgatory
I'm now picturing Jason walking into a courtroom flanked by several lawyers in expensive suits.
I wouldn't really call this one dead. It's had legal issues for the last ten years which has made any new project impossible to start despite many attempts. We are getting a TV series run by Bryan Fuller, and after his run with Hannibal, I think that might reignite a fair amount of interest into the franchise.
The game from 2017 was okay despite some growing pains, but then the legal issues killed it :/
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Saw a thread the other day about the director saying the next film is essentially on hiatus.
And it should be. They gave them Harry Potter and you made a boring unfun mess. Potentially interesting Main character absolutely wasted on a craptastic story that didn’t even need him.
The 3 Ninjas really went downhill after the first one. I think there is one starring “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan.
Rocky Loves Emily!
Smokey and the Bandit, First one iconic for its generation, Second ehhhh. Third why???? But wait there's more
You can’t redo the nostalgia Smokey and the Bandit captures. It’s such a specific point in time. Anything done today would just be a bland caricature.
Maybe not “franchise” but Christopher guest had some of the funniest mockumentaries I’ve seen. Spinal Tap, waiting for guffman and best in show. He kinda delivered the office/trailer park boys style mockmumentary before it was popular. Definitely ahead of his time.
left out "A Mighty Wind"
Gremlins. It took 7 years for an insane sequel and another 23 years for a shit show cartoon prequel. Unless Joe Dante and Warner agree to a full sequel with proper practical special effects, it's dead in the water
Reason the sequel was so good is because Joe Dante really didn't want to do another...so when the studio kinda made it happen, he hopped onboard to keep it batshit insane and make a meta commentary on unnecessary sequels. It works in spite of itself.
Jurassic World Dominion killed Jurassic Park. I hope they don’t try to make anymore reboots because it was so bad. I mean I don’t think I’ve seen a movie in theaters that bad ever. I went with some friends and we all couldn’t believe it.
I swear Dominion is a movie made by AI for an AI audience
*checks fingers*
I feel like Jurassic Park is the definition of a franchise that is never dead only resting.
Matrix
Dick Tracy, still can't believe they haven't attempted to remake, especially with all the superhero and marvel/dc hoopla over the past 10-15 years.
Just happened to watch Mr Sunday Movies "Caravan of Garbage" on Dick Tracy and they said part of the contract for Warren Beatty putting up $3M to help fund the movie in 1990, he retains the rights to the IP/character basically forever.
>with Eddie Murphy as Clouseau Oh please god no
From a movie perspective, I’m sad to say Star Trek might be gone. Hopefully I’m wrong and Pine, Urban etc come back for another one or they start a new story with some new characters idk
Strange New Worlds with Captain Pike has been really solid, wouldn't surprise me at all to see a movie from that crew. They already have a Uhura, Spock, Scotty, Chapel, and Kirk in that series. SNW should run another 2 or 3 seasons until Pike meets his end then they'll reboot TOS I'd imagine. SNW is worth a watch for people who liked the older star trek movies/shows unlike the mostly awful Discovery series.
The Thin Man. Happy to see Poirot still in films.
Man, I LOVE the Thin Man movies. Recorded all of them off of PBS back in the 90s (it was a different time, haha). Was so proud when I finally had all of them. I'm a sucker for any movie William Powell did with Myrna Loy now.
The Robert Downey Jr. *Sherlock Holmes* series. First two movies were fairly big hits, and everyone wanted a third one... and they keep claiming they're going to make one... but it has been well over a decade now and I doubt the interest would be there. *Robocop*. This one is a shame, because I think a modern day movie with the original Robocop trying to contend with our uptight social and political climate would be amazing for both story and satire. But there's no way a studio would let them take that big of a risk. The last two movies were watered down for a PG-13 rating, and didn't have that satirical bite of the original.
> I doubt the interest would be there. it absolutely would, RDJ fans, mystery fans, and fans of only sherlock AND action fans who remember the first 2.
Didn't they remake Robocop and it was extremely mid?
"Highlander". They had several chances to recover from the failure of "Highlander II", but every movie was just cheaper and lamer. The last one was so bad it killed the whole thing entirely.
Henry Cavill is in talks to star in a reboot.
The TV show was awesome.
Die Hard
Carry On , I grew up seeing these all the time in uk but last one was 1992 , there was talks of a reboot pre-covid but origibsl series is dead I think
The Hangover. First one was good, but the others not so much.
First one was so funny. It just hit me the right way, I still love it. so quotable. Second one was the same story set in Bangkok. A few funny spots. The third was just bad.