Upcoming movie sequels

http://www.imdb.com/list/SFbTdquk0n0/

Looking forward to:

- Austin Powers 4. One of the few comedy trilogies that was actually hilarious the whole way through. Thankfully the plot lends itself quite well to sequels (a spy/agent can always have another case come up) so I'm cautiously optimistic about this one.
- Die Hard 5. Should be good.. The thing I like about Die Hard is it doesn't try too hard. Funny one liners, awesome action sequences, and somehow manages to come off as somewhat realistic imo.
- Dark Knight Rises, obvious reasons.
- Beverly Hills Cop IV. Could go horribly wrong, but will still be cool to see Murphy in his best role ever again
- Super Troopers 2.
- MacGyver. FUCK yes Almost assuredly going to be awesome. When the TV show was so awesomely cheesy they really can't go wrong imo.

And the "really not looking forward to"s. Pretty much the same objection for all these.. Just don't think the plots lend themselves well to sequels:

- Zoolander 2 (just cannot possibly be funnier than the first, so always going to be a let down)
- Hangover 3. Can't imagine what they're going to do here. They can't just keep having huge bachelor nights every time? :/
- Total Recall. A sequel starring Colin Farrell. Oh god.
- Bad Santa 2. Enjoyed the first one immensely, but the story was finished imo.
- Falling Down 2
- Kill Bill 3

Do you even watch the same Die Hard movies I do?







(Not to say I don't think Die Hard is awesome)

Kris

Bond 23 still more than a year away

Haha well obviously the action sequences themselves aren't; but I'm talking relative to the genre as an average The plot/characters of the Die Hards are substantially more engaging to me, they ring more true than others (like compared with the Transporter series for example).

Only really looking forward to the new batman.



Dunno about that, didn't think much of the a-team and miami vice remakes which reworked a similar era/genre.

Leonardo Dicaprio's live action version of Akira is apparently still going ahead, very sceptical about that one.. I loved the original akira.

Homer: I think the government has better things to do than to read my mail.
(cut to agents reading letters from a bag called 'Simpson Mail')
FBI Agent: Most people write letters to movie stars. This Simpson guy writes to movies. "Dear Die Hard. You rock. Especially when that guy was on the roof. P.S: Do you know Mad Max?"

A-Team was awesome, it's just that everyone totally forgot that the original show was cheesy as fuck too.

I don't think any of these will ever be made. It's either too hard to get a script that everyone agrees upon, costs too much money to secure the star and make the movie, or as in the case of Beverly Hills Cop, no studio will put down the money required for that now that no one will go to see Eddie Murphy in anything. Of course the star and the last director will always say they're working on these sequels, but these are too far gone from the originals for anything other than a re-boot (not a sequel), but they're not going to make it into production.

I'm actually cautiously optimistic about the Total Recall re-boot. While the version with Arnold was huge, I'm very open to another adaptation of the source material. I mean, the original Total Recall was going to be directed by David Cronenberg and star William Hurt, and that would have been every bit as awesome as the version with Arnold directed by Paul Verhoven.

Ya I thought it was great! Also MacGyver isn't really the same genre as A-Team / Miami Vice. They've got so much more action which brings with it a lot more difficulties with translating it to movie length imo. You've then got to write a script which justifies lots of explosions and chase scenes, and somehow have enough dialogue to make the characters relatable etc. But with MacGyver, it's basically a one-man show, and with his tools being ingenuity, resourcefulness, scientific knowledge etc (instead of masses of weaponry) there's far less room for error imo

What? A Team was the best remake in history!

Haven't seen Miami Vice so can't comment.

Aren't you worried the translation from MacGuyer to Movie MacGuyver will involve an order of magnitude increase in explosions and action scenes?

Except for giant f'n explosions...

Not really - there's already two feature-length MacGyver films, and I loved both of those, and they didn't go nuts for action scenes

What if I told you Michael Bay was directing, would that be something you would be interested in?

Then I would kill myself :/

gets me every. single. fucking. time.

I would really like to have something positive to say

but dear god look at that list

even batman sucks balls

no!

With a few exceptions sequels all suck balls

batman could have been so grand - it was not for lack of budget or talented cast and crew... but if you wanna take batman into the dark realms make it dark, not just in setting

It *was* dark you grumopy bastard!

My Gawd, that would have been awesome!!!

Not really gagging to see anything on that list aside from Batman

Yeah it was totally just sweetness and light wasn't it. :-/

Batman is the ONLY thing I am looking forward to on that list. Most sequels follow the law of diminishing returns unfortunately.

Yeah. Get Michael Haneke or someone similar in to direct..

I KNOW GUYS, LET'S GET TODD SOLONDZ TO DIRECT THE NEW SUPERMAN! :>

I can see Todd Solondz doing a take where Bruce Wayne is also a creepy pedophile and Robin a public masturbater...

http://exiledonline.com/american-movies-are-dead-so-party-down/

Batman is the only one I want to see.

Trust Bob d not to like the Batman sequels!



gc.

I wanted to like them - I'm a massive batman fan

wankers

SMURFS movie.. not really a sequel I don't think but looks cute!!

I'm looking forward tot he smurfs movie

take that haters

Too much time spent with the child methinks. That movie looks like a shower of shit. Terrible graphics, terrible acting... and that's just the preview!



gc.

Probably true

Kung Fu Panda 2 was adorable though.. awesome story and it held my attention and most of the kids in the theatre which is saying a lot.. most kids movieskids are up running around or crying or something annoying by about halfway through..

The horror.

The horror...