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There's a thread in GD about the new Star Wars series and the complications that Harrison Ford's injury might create.
One poster, when referring to the Star Wars Episode 1-3 prequels, said he/she simply pretended those never existed.
I have to say there are some movie series where I wish a sequel never existed.
For example, I loved the first Austin Powers movies. I found it genuinely funny and charming. However, the second one was horrible, and the third one, while not as bad as the second, was still pretty bad. I much rather pretend that they left well enough alone.
Blair Witch 2--yeah, that never happened.
Meet the Parents was fun. Meet the Fockers and whatever the third one was called is horrific.
I only saw Airplane 2 once. Because the first Airplane was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, I've decided never to watch Airplane 2 again.
The Hangover 2 was completely redundant, and the third one really didn't add anything to the mix.
So what about you? What prequels/sequels have you mentally blocked out of your mind in order to preserve the integrity of the original or other films?
I'm sure Indiana Jones 4 is on many a list. The Jaws sequels also. And the Matrix, perhaps?
GermanDem
(168 posts)I already had enough after the first one! Pirates of the Caribean was fun the first and second time, but after that it got kinda boring.
Yavin4
(35,310 posts)OMFG!!! I guess Coppola needed the money.
The first two were all time great movies, and Part 3 was just meh, at best.
hunter
(38,240 posts)J.J. Abram's Star Trek needs to be tossed into a black hole, to be rebooted again. The new actors were excellent but the story was not Star Trek. Galaxy Quest did a better job as a "sequel." I enjoyed Galaxy Quest.
I think it's possible Star Wars could be reworked into something fabulous, each episode as gritty as the original Star Wars (Episode IV) and Empire Strikes Back (Episode V.) Suppose the Ewoks were not cute teddy bears, but ferocious, incredibly strong and blood-thirsty piranha-like creatures when they were agitated, sophisticated and at balance with both sides of the force.
Maybe someday a movie like Star Wars will be released as an "Open Source" project, with all the live footage and digital models made available for anyone to rework as they please. There might soon be as many versions of Star Wars as their are Linux, and in most of them Hans would shoot first, and Anakin Skywalker would be a dashing, dangerous, and charismatic scoundrel, not Padmé Amidala's whiny loser boyfriend.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I still feel the second half of the film is a superb long action sequence, without a moment to catch your breath...I even don't really dislike Indy IV, maybe because I saw it being filmed...
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)when they released the 2nd one.
It was probably one of the most offensive movies out there and I can't believe any of the 4 stars of the SATC series (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristen Davis, Kim Catrell, Cynthia Nixon), 4 very progressive women in RL, actually allowed this shit to be made.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...just a dull reprise of #1...blecch.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Electric Boogaloo.
It had to be done.
bluesbassman
(19,274 posts)Caddyshack is in my top 5 all time favorite comedies. While I enjoy Jackie Mason in measured doses, he got annoying real fast in Caddyshack II, as did pretty much everyone else in that bomb.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)You can't really compare some of the crazy antics from Bill Murray & Rodney Dangerfield in that first movie to anything in the second.
Yavin4
(35,310 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)absolutely loved the first Caddyshack - it's probably one of his all-time favorites to this day. However, he was actually distraught over how bad Caddyshack II was, so I never went to see it.
bluesbassman
(19,274 posts)The ad-libbing of those two, and Harold Ramis' uncanny ability to herd cats never ever gets old.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)And then Superman 4, which makes Superman 3 look like Superman 2.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)Alien - Great film
Aliens - Probably the best sequel ever made.
Aliens 3 - OMG what a horrible mess.
Alien Resurrection - Good, not great.
Alien vs Predator - God awful.
Prometheus - Meh
sarge43
(28,935 posts)What a sad mess
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)compared to the excellent first movie.
sakabatou
(42,070 posts)The Ring 2
Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The Hobbit (2012)
Xipe Totec
(43,866 posts)What an absolute disaster of a sequel.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)Actually I didn't think this was a bad movie. I liked it. But it's nowhere in the ball park of 2001 A Space Odyssey. That was a masterpiece.