Comments on: Ferris’ new day off?

By: dagnabbitt

dagnabbitt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:32:20 +0000

Not to initiate a flame war, but WWTW, Y.I.S.

I counter that 1997’s “Batman and Robin” ‘likely spoiled any attempts at a decent sequel — permanently’, or so was the CW in H’wood for many years, and yet here we are, slightly more than only a decade later, looking at the second successful “Batman” having become the second all-time domestic gross b.o. film with $0.5 trillion. Keep hope alive….

~ Dagnabbitt

By: cftoto

cftoto — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:39:55 +0000

An “Aliens” sequel, done right, would be a natural, but the beyond awful “Alien vs. Predator” films likely spoiled any attempts at a decent sequel — permanently.

By: Dagnabbitt

Dagnabbitt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:59:43 +0000

I’ll second the FB sequel although I suspect that it, like Indy 4, can only succeed in the imaginations of its fans, because no practical story could match its charm. That stated, the Industry may be fronted by Liberals, but it mostly is Conservative, and the bottom line is the bottom line: sequels nearly are a sure thing, with regard to risk management.

I would thus put forth the Hughes Trinity: FB, 16C, and TBC, with latter offering Hall and Ringwald at a 2-for-1 resurgent career discount. It may necessarily have to skew more bittersweet comic nostalgia than straightforward fantasy hijinks, but each of the three should revisit the main characters – and classic minors, like Watanabe’s Long Duk Dong (hopefully CIO of Google Pacific Rim at this point) – in current time.

Skewing inversely, I would like to see a sequel to Cameron’s Aliens – disregarding as non-canon Fincher’s Alien to the third power and its sequel – with the logical story of the Aliens infesting Earth. In Cameron’s hands, it could the film that Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers failed to be.

And although Mr. and Mrs. Smith probably showed the likely story board, I personally would like to see a Grosse Point Blank II, if only to see Driver actually act again….

~ Dagnabbitt