This is a fun game to play (and was a frequent late-night film school hobby, second only to the parody-pitches of “X meets Y”).
THX 1139
Bunny Lake 2: Still Missing
Investigation of Another Citizen Above Suspicion
Two Years Ago at Marienbad
When A Woman Comes Back Down the Stairs
La Jetee Redux [actually the same film as La Jetee…]
The Decalogue 2: the Decalogue With a Vengeance
Hasn’t Kelly gone out of his way to complain about the existence of DD2?
Yeah apparently, but that didn’t stop the greedy eyes of the studio.
I actually enjoyed Donnie Darko when I first saw it, but upon seeing the director’s cut with Kelly in person, it became clear that the things I liked about the film – the late 80’s political commentary and the family relationships – were just flukes that got emphasized in an edit he didn’t approve and all he really wanted to do was make a super hero film… I didn’t much enjoy him.
And I guess I’ll add one to the list:
Cleo from 7 to 9
I’m going to play devil’s advocate and push for a sequel. I loved Polanski’s The Ninth Gate. It’s a cheeseball movie in some respects but Depp’s Corso is so cool that I’d love to see him go on more smokey and gothic adventures. I know I know. The Chinatown sequel sucked lots but that was a bad idea; ya don’t fuck with a classic right? Well, just like bad books make good movies…maybe a (bad?) ok movie can make an even better one.
So that would be the Tenth Gate, then? Or 9th and a half gate (replace Depp with Rourke and drag in Kim Basinger as Satan)…?
The film is much better than the book, so your theory may well be true. And the Depp/Polanski pairing seemed to work very well. It felt like an echo of Rosemary’s Baby, which I like muchly.
No, it would have different titles like James Bond movies or whatever. It’ll be fucking Shakespeare.
For some reason, the words “fucking Shakespeare” reminded me of some graffiti at my old school. A literal interpretation. I need to sleep, this forum makes me hallucinate.
I literally typed “The Tenth Gate” before thinking “I want to avoid this hypothetical movie so much that I really should delete it. Just in case.” I saw 40 minutes of the original on tv once and it seemed like hackwork to me.
Gina, Cleo from 7 to 9 = brilliant.
Just wanted to toss out that Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull should put in question spielberg’s auteur title. I know that is a pretty far out statement but it was horrible. I mean paying homage to Tarzan is one thing but what was he still in war of the world’s mode.
Like with A.I., Indiana Jones brings up interesting issues of auteurship, this time Lucas/Spielberg rather than Kubrick/Spielberg.
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Dkaz brings up an awesome point. Remember that Lucas was still in his prime as a storyteller when Spielberg and him paired up to make Indy. Serial movie homages with high concept action; that were good. Also they were younger and had the hutzpah for spinning those kind of yarns.
The Spielberg/Kubrick pairing in my opinion is an interesting case I’d love to discuss. It’s a mystery to me as two where one picked up the story and the other left off.
Back to Indy, yeah, it’s not really a Spielberg movie as much as it’s a pairing of two forces. I know Spielberg likes his aliens but so does Lucas (duh) who’d planned the story for this movie eons ago. Ultimately, aliens or not, I think the question is: Can it be that Spielberg is just too old for this kind of juvenile shit? It was just head spinning how he was imitating Peter Jackson at times who in turn imitates Spielberg who in turn imitates a bunch of other dudes.
And in regards to Dave… to each his own man.
400 blows to the head
The Kid and his AK
Psycho Lesbians from Chinatown
Seven Samurai: eighties style…(oh wait…they’re making that one)
Mission Impossible 4: Totally impossible…We mean it this time.
The Divorce Crashers – Wilson and Vaughn find a new place to pick up chicks.
Rush Hour 4: Traffic Jam – Chan and Tucker are stuck in a traffic jam. haha
Harold and Kumar Go To Rehab
Dude, I’ve Found My Car
You’ve Got Served… Again
Passion of the Christ: Ressurection
TERMINATOR 4
“Groundhog Day”
the sixth element
weekend at bernie: the bony mummy
die hard 5 :die with a attitude
machine girl on planet terror
national tresaure 3 the golden hobo
rambo 5 armagedon
Fanny and Alexander visit Disneyland
Fanny and Alexander wants to go to Detroit to see Kiss
Fanny v.s. Alexander
Alexander fuck a pie
Fanny and Alexander are baby sited by Cheech and Chong
Fanny and Alexander, dinosaur killers
Wonderfanny and Spideralexander
Fanny and Alexander escape from Alcatraz
Fanny and Alexander almighties
Fanny and Alexander look at a strange dvd and one week later a little girl get out of the tv to kill them.
Rocky v.s. Fanny and Alexander
Fanny and Alexander; miracle on sesame street
The seventh seal 2: Death hit again
Wild raspberries
Saraband mou (Only the people who speak french will understand)
Clockwork banana
Forrest gump 2 : The man who ran on the moon and invented the microwave…
Duel 2: Hey man you forgot your wallet!
Wall-F
Olivier, Duel 2: classic :)
holy sh*t!! a clockwork banana the story of a gang of 4 women all dressed in white in the future …doing bad stuff.
Gereatric park: no country for old dyno
Ernest go to war
Natural born pastor
Gozilla vs the Cloverfield case
1985
i know what you did last winter
wacky wacko and his weapons factory
terminator 4 :election day
huge trouble in little china
300 days and 300 nights
the first action hero
Who cares if they make Donnie Dorko 2? It was so trying to be something about nothing that it certainly obtained its goal. It is nothing.
no one will stop bad sequels because no one is as smart as you.
Farenheit 450 or how I did not manage to burn this damned book
Comment je me suis disputé ma vie seuxuelle encore une fois
Dial N for Nudity
Ring ring ring (and I’ll get back 2 U)
Guess who’s coming for dinner… again.
The sequel to “Big”…
“Bigger!”
…and if you really wanted to make a lot of mullah, go for the trilogy: “Biggest!”
From the Life of Marionettes 2: No Strings
Live Free or Die Hard….oh, wait…
Being John Cusack
Fight Club 2: The Tournament
13 Monkeys
Brazil 2: Venezuela
A Zed and Two Noughts: Madagascar
…And God Created Woman 2: Who Cares? Bardot Does Full Frontal
Actually, We Just Caught Our Breath
Slumdog Billionaire
Chocolate Milk (Blaxploitation, obviously)
@Mathieu – I’m guessing Fahrenheit 450 is a prequel?
Re: SACREDCHAO
I couldn’t breath from laughing so hard at “Chocolate Milk.” Nicely done.
Thank you. I’ll be here all week.
The Untouchables 2: The Rod Blagojevich story.
… too soon?
Oops…(I did it again)
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I got news today that filming just wrapped on the Donnie Darko sequel, imaginatively titled Donnie Darko 2. Where does this impulse come from to follow up a film with a sequel? In some cases, most notably action and horror films, it seems de rigeur to pursue explosions with yet more explosions, more killing, less script, more one liners, less character development, until the entire thing becomes a shell of itself, a merchandising opportunity, a clothing line, a plastic doll product. There are of course exceptions to the entropy rule as it manifests in sequelism, most obvious being Godfather 2 and films conceived as trilogies. I understand that film as a medium often doesn’t have the advantage of time to develop or explore characters (unlike television: this was Lynch’s great point about Twin Peaks, that the episodic development allowed him room to stretch out with character), and this leads to a yearning for more. But… Donnie Darko 2? What next?
There will be more blood
Nagasaki Mon Amour
Indianna Jones 5: No Country for Old Men
Audition 2: Rehearsal
Marie Antoinette 2: This Time They Will Eat Cake
…add your own if you want. I’m jaded.