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Sep 4
2008
04:27 PM ET
Make a case for movie sequels that wouldn't suck!
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Bill N. – If you make a sequel to “Grosse Pointe Blank”, you have to make a sequel to “Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion”. Both movies came out in the same summer, right when I was planning to go to my own 15th H.S. reunion, but after watching both movies, I decided I’d already experienced it without having to show up. In the sequel, Romy & Michele would be managing their Beverly Hills boutique (“Let’s fold scarves!”) and designing a line of fashions for Target. They both get married in a flashback scene (double ceremony – natch), and now they find out they’re both pregnant. They get all their advice from Jenny McCarthy’s baby book, “Belly Laughs”. Yes, I know there was a R & M prequel, starring…. wait for it…. Katherine Heigl as Romy (and “Willa” from the show “Dirt” as Michele). The sequel would have to have the original cast members, and maybe the Lisa Luder character could have an Ellen-style wedding and a baby, too.
Also I would love to see a sequel to the movie Mr. Brooks that Kevin Costner did. They mentioned on the DVD they planned it as a trilogy.
As far as Serinity, didn’t that movie tank almost as bad as the series did?
Either a sequel to Sixteen Candles or The Breakfast Club, set at a high school reunion and all taking place over either one day/night just as in the original. Come on, tell me you don’t want to know what happened to the Donger? Or how Bender survived those 8 Saturday detentions? (or was it 7?) And it’s not like anybody in the cast is currently unavailable….
The Last Boy Scout — sans the Wayans, but with a nicely grizzled Bruce dancing another jig and quipping the bad guys to death.
oh, yeah, and can I please get a decent version of this on DVD/Blu-Ray, Warners?
I know it was a TV show, but they should make a “Freaks and Geeks” movies. I would really like to see where all of the characters ended up. Plus, Judd Apatow and much of the cast are doing well in their careers, they could afford to spend the time on this.
“Airbud: Hole in Fun”: I know there about 8,000 sequels to that movie, but they still haven’t done golf yet. Can you imagine? Pure gold!!
A sequel i would like to see is for the movie Beerfest. Not nessesarily the mentioned Potfest at the end, that would be really, really great , but have the guys gather to defend the title
LOL!
HOLE IN FUN???
SERENITY!
30 days of night!
Bourne Identity(a new love interest..maybe with julia stiles!)
SErenity!
Independence day(only if it’s relevant dont’ mess it up just to make more money)
DID I SAY SERENITY???Firefly should come back..I’m still upset about that!
I think it would be cool to see another movie set on Skull Island, from Jacksons King Kong. He himself talked about what it could be like in modern time. Interesting possibilites.
I also kinda wish for a third X-Files movie, just to bring closure to the planned alien invasion of 2012. I liked I Want To Believe, but it didn’t fit into the mythology in the slightest. Mega-awesome seeing Skinner back though!
As one of the few people who actually liked the Miami Vice movie, I’d like to see more of Michael Mann’s gloomy, globalized crime saga. But it would make a fantastic HBO series more than a second movie.
Gotta admit…the idea of a new Jack Burton (Big Trouble In Little China) movie is a good one. Kurt Russell hasn’t lost that cool vibe at all, and Grindhouse proved it. Of course, John Carpenter could screw it up the way he did Escape From LA…
- Ghostbusters 3. It would seem obvious to throw together a new, young team, but what would be truly golden is if the original cast was rounded up for one more foray- old age, extra pounds and all!
- Matilda: The Professional. Natalie Portman is all grown up, and has led a sinful life- no thanks to her early exposure at the hands of Jean Reno. Now she mentors another vengeance seeking kid of her own.
- EI8HT. The sequel to Se7en.
I’ve been waiting for Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson to reprise their roles in Unbreakable for quite some time…um, 8 years.