Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2018

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

why is crocodile dundee not on this list

― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Saturday, January 20, 2018 8:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so apparently it turned out to be a fake sequel/remake/franchise flick, and the hype (such as it was) was just to rope people in for a twist super bowl fake trailer where it turns out at the end that the whole thing is an ad for australian tourism. seems like a rather expensive and elaborate zing when they could have just... run an ad for australian tourism during the super bowl. whatever anyway, the poll is unblemished though so that's cool.

So bummed right now. Wanted to see how big a knife McBride would brandish.

Life of the Party (2018)

This--apparently a gender-flipped remake of Back to School (1986)--just came to my attention, and I wish it hadn't.

Melissa McCarthy as Deanna Miles, Dan’s wife, Maddie’s mother and Sandy’s daughter
Molly Gordon as Maddie Miles, Dan and Deanna’s daughter and Sandy’s granddaughter
Jacki Weaver as Sandy, Deanna’s mother and Maddie’s grandmother

I know these characters.

The existence of Pacific Rim Uprising initially puzzled me, as I was under the impression that the first one flopped, and according to Wikipedia it was "the rare English-language film in history to cross $400 million while barely crossing $100 million domestic." Makes more sense now--the studio is obviously counting on this making a killing overseas--but why is it being marketed so aggressively? I've seen more TV ads for it than for Ready Player One.

Hypotheses:
1. If you’re watching things other than basketball, ad space is probably relatively cheap this month
2. Given that ratio of domestic vs international earnings, probably easy to justify a much bigger US promo budget for the sequel

It's weird that the campaign is so faceless though. Most of the subway posters I've see are just robots (which don't have super memorable designs) and it's like, y'all know the star of your movie is famous, right?

I just this minute discovered that del Toro is not directing the new one.

I'm sure this guy's just as good.

Director (5 credits)
2018 Pacific Rim Uprising (completed)
2015 Daredevil (TV Series) (1 episode)
2009 Dollhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
2005-2007 Smallville (TV Series) (2 episodes)
2003-2004 Angel (TV Series) (3 episodes)

can a horror fan explain to me why The Strangers: Prey at Night?

― rob, Friday, January 19, 2018 10:27 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like I should report that I read a really positive review of this one yesterday. Maybe more franchises should stick a decade in between instalments

they're advertising the big bashy robots think a lot over here too. fuckers.

A couple ringers for next year's poll announced today: a M.A.S.K. movie by F. Gary Gray and a Gremlins reboot by Chris Columbus. Wheeeeeee(ze).

you missed the real note of dread: this is meant to expand the G.I. Joe films into a Hasbro Cinematic Universe

m.a.s.k. had a spirited and memorable theme song, and a couple of kinda neat toys, but really this is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff here

The M.A.S.K. theme rocks.

Can't wait to see Rocky Dennis singing 'Cuban Pete'.

The top 6 box-office grossers of the weekend (and 10 of the top 12) were sequels, so let's turn the lights out on this Hollywood shit, it was a fun century.

Keep shouting, man, I don't think that cloud has learned its lesson yet.

it was a fun century

yeah but was it tho, rly

seeya at The First Purge, Lunchie!

oh so you have no problem with PREquels

this seems like hollywood's worst summer crop in decades.

Leave No Trace, Three Identical Strangers, Won't You Be My Neighbour, Sorry To Bother You, Eighth Grade and Hereditary are all in wide release this week.

It's true that that only gets you six out of seven days filled with Moviepass, but as sequels go Ant-Man & The Wasp, But Not In Her Vagina is fun, Incredibles 2 is less eugenicist than the first, and I haven't seen any of the Hotel Transylvanias but apparently #3 is the first one that Genndy Tartakovsky has written? [googles: turns out the first one was written by Peter Baynham & Robert Smigel!]

GLASS

looking through previous summers, 2000 was bad year too -- the biggest hit was Mission Impossible 2 for instance. apart from that, I had to go back to 1976 to find a worse year.

it's been a great summer for movie watching for me, going back to May

Mary Poppins Begins

Where we discover that Mary's ultra-wealthy parents were killed by a thug in an alleyway before her eyes, causing her to dedicate her life to making Gotham London safe from criminals, flying to the rescue of innocents using her rocket-propelled umbrella.

Living her double life as a stripper where he bones dudes jessica jones style then kills them like a black widow only can

She