[J.F.K.]

Maybe it's me, but it just struck me while I was at the cinema recently, that all the movies I want to see this year are sequels. LotR 3, Matrix 2 and 3, Shanghai Knights (I love Jackie Chan ), and X-Men 2. Anyone else similar?

[Turnsky]

ditto:nod:

[J.F.K.]

Oh, and I went and saw Cradle 2 The Grave too, Jet Li never ceases to amaze me. It's got a 2 in the title, it's almost a sequel.

[Razor]

Yeah well, this will have to be one of the best movie years I guess. There are so many cool movies to see. I also heard that there is Jackass the movie , coming to cinemas here in a few weeks.

[Turnsky]

i dunno, watching people intentionally try to injure themselves on the screen isn't as funny as seeing it in RL... (particularly if you know they're already insane to begin with.. )

[kode]

Originally posted by J.F.K.
Maybe it's me, but it just struck me while I was at the cinema recently, that all the movies I want to see this year are sequels. LotR 3, Matrix 2 and 3, Shanghai Knights (I love Jackie Chan ), and X-Men 2. Anyone else similar?

yes. I've noticed. But I think it's gonna be great.
Terminator 3, 2Fast 2Furious, ...

I'm gonna ruin myself by watching movies this year

[Turnsky]

*looks at all this year releases* Hommina, hommina, hommina

[Gortef]

Yep, looks like this year will be a good Movie year

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by kode
yes. I've noticed. But I think it's gonna be great.
Terminator 3, 2Fast 2Furious, ...

I'm gonna ruin myself by watching movies this year

Completely forgot about T3!

Me too, each one of those movies costs me $10, that's at least $60 blown on 18 hours worth of watching (then again, probably with the Matrix sequels and Return of the King, I'll watch them twice or three times). Actually, thinking of it that way, that's 'better value' than Freelancer, which I played for 16 hours and paid $90 for.

[neo_hermes]

I can't wait till T3...just can't wait.
*Builds Time machine-sits in chair winks out of this spacetime*

[karajorma]

Well LotR was always going to be three movies so I`m not really classifying that as a sequel (as far as I`m concerned a sequel is made after the first one to cash in on the first ones success).

By that logic the two extra matix movies aren`t really sequels either cause it was always planned as a trilogy too.

That said there are an awful lot of sequels coming out this year.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by J.F.K.
LotR 3

There is so much wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin...

Originally posted by karajorma
Well LotR was always going to be three movies so I`m not really classifying that as a sequel

This is also pushing it.

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Diamond Geezer thought E:FC really went downhill after the first series

[Razor]

Originally posted by neo_hermes
*Builds Time machine-sits in chair winks out of this spacetime*

[karajorma]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
This is also pushing it

I don`t think so. RotK isn`t really anything except a continuation of the first two movies. In fact the first movie ended at a point where most people who hadn`t read the books expressed surprise that it was over.
It isn`t a sequel because the previous film didn`t end the story in any way, shape or form. It just simply ran out of time.

It's the same with the books. They even stop in weirder places. At least the first movie ends with Boromir dead and Pippin and Merry captured.

 In the book Boromir just runs off and only gets killed in the second book.

LotR is meant to be read in one sitting not read fellowship and then a couple of years later read The Two Towers. Too much of the storyline is left unresolved for me to feel that any of the movies are actual sequels.

[diamondgeezer]

I meant that the word' sequel' shouldn't be used anywhere near the LOTR, in any of its guises. As I suspected, you know full well that Tolkien never set out to write a trilogy, he just published it in three helpings. Calling ROTK the sequel (or threequel, if you will) anoys the hell out of me since it reminds me that many people have never read the real thing and will probably assume that they're seeing cannon Tolkien.

Oh hell, I feel a book vs film rant comming on...

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Diamond Geezer needs a new hard disk

[Stunaep]

To quote PJ on Two Towers:

"It's not a sequel. It's the second act of a three-act play"

[diamondgeezer]

This the same PJ who stuck all that rubbish about Aragorn falling off the cliff in the film?

[Stryke 9]

Bleh. Sequels. It's okay in things like cheesy horror movies, where all you're asking for is more camp, and hence it actually gets better with more sequels, but what's with the compulsion to rape a perfectly good movie? They pretty much never come out nearly so good as the first, and when they suck that 90% of the time, they're so bad that they ruin the first one.

Particularly with the current trend. Same thing's happening to movies that happened to Disney- they just plain ran out of ideas, and so decided to remarket 400 soulless formulaic corporate sequels and rake in some cash.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
This the same PJ who stuck all that rubbish about Aragorn falling off the cliff in the film?

would you prefer the animated version?

[diamondgeezer]

Never seen it. Perhaps I'll, I dunno, read the book again.

Originally posted by Stryke 9
They pretty much never come out nearly so good as the first, and when they suck that 90% of the time, they're so bad that they ruin the first one.

Terminator 2, Aliens, Empire Strikes Back, very probably Terminator 3 and quite possibly the Matrices