https://www.cnet.com/news/disney-confirms-harrison-ford-will-return-in-indiana-jones-5-his-final-adventure/

Cmon... can we just stop this already? The guy is close to 80. He had a great run. He was the man women wanted to be with and other guys wanted to be. I don’t know why Hollywood has started rebooting or sequeling everything instead of making new amazing movies.

Look at the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Watch the original Ghostbusters. That movie is still hilarious all these years later. Or the Matrix. Amazing flick. The Godfather? Not bad eh?  Where are the new, amazing, innovative blockbuster movies? All I see is a never ending slew of comic book movies, horrible reboots and sequels.

Everything has been made already, it seems.

At least the new Indiana isn’t Shia LaBoeuf... please tell me they didn’t bring back Shia LaBeouf.

NooneOfConsequence wrote on Dec 13^th, 2020 at 7:28pm:

At least the new Indiana isn’t Shia LaBoeuf... please tell me they didn’t bring back Shia LaBeouf.

Yes, this!  And also leave out alien stuff with powers that don't make sense.  And giant ants that are way too intelligent.  And crazy chase scenes with way too much CGI.  And...I'll stop now.

I'm so glad they only made 3 Indiana Jones. 2 Terminators and 1 Matrix. Imagine the absolute cluster$&@" if they had kept producing them?

There are more coming. Remakes of Back to the Future, Highlander, and a continuation of the Arnie Conan movies.

All I can say is I hope Arnie swings a mean walker in the new Conan...

slingbadger wrote on Dec 14^th, 2020 at 6:54am:

There are more coming. Remakes of Back to the Future, Highlander, and a continuation of the Arnie Conan movies. All I can say is I hope Arnie swings a mean walker in the new Conan...

Wait are you serious? Arnold is coming back for Conan?
It's worse than I thought than.  ::)

Morphy just think of those poor executives. Currently they're only multimillionaires, but, thanks to the wringing out of already tired franchises, they could become multi multi multimillionaires. Just think how many yachts they could snort cocaine on then! Almost brings a tear to the eye just thinking about it and all it will cost is creative integrity.

Kick wrote on Dec 14^th, 2020 at 7:58am:

Morphy just think of those poor executives. Currently they're only multimillionaires, but, thanks to the wringing out of already tired franchises, they could become multi multi multimillionaires. Just think how many yachts they could snort cocaine on then! Almost brings a tear to the eye just thinking about it and all it will cost is creative integrity.

Oh I do my friend. I grieve for them. The other day I heard one of the execs could only snort two lines off a dead hooker. Cried my self to sleep.

https://i.imgur.com/6XzGCd9.jpg

Just think... with deepfake technology, we’ll never need a new actor ever again!  The same ones can just keep coming back over and over and over, and they won’t ever get older or miss a line, and no level of selling out will ever be too low.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8TmqvTVQFQ

Don't need the old actors either.  Animals can be put in everything!  :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0leemCC_8

Oh, one more I forgot. Redoing Princess Bride. Teen heartthrobs will be in the main roles.

slingbadger wrote on Dec 15^th, 2020 at 11:03am:

Oh, one more I forgot. Redoing Princess Bride. Teen heartthrobs will be in the main roles.

That's a straight up war crime.

slingbadger wrote on Dec 15^th, 2020 at 11:03am:

Oh, one more I forgot. Redoing Princess Bride. Teen heartthrobs will be in the main roles.

Just googled.  This was back in June.  The response was overwhelmingly against and there's no current rumors.

There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a shame to squander yours on a remake.

If they actually remade Princess Bride, it would have to have a different title... and a different plot... with completely different characters.

Just watched the last episode of The Mandalorian season two... They’d better stop there and not make a season 3.

NooneOfConsequence wrote on Dec 18^th, 2020 at 11:50pm:

Just watched the last episode of The Mandalorian season two... They’d better stop there and not make a season 3.

Disney is going to ride that horse to death. Think Walking Dead in space.

https://bit.ly/34s8hVq

(Original link too long for the forum)

https://babylonbee.com/news/heres-an-exclusive-inside-look-at-15-new-star-wars-shows

Meh, I don’t get why people hate sequels.
One of my favorite movies (Trainspotting) got a sequel (Trainspotting 2) 20 years later which I consider to be one of the worst movies ever made. I wouldn’t mind a Trainspotting 3. As long as it was good.

The alien pre-/sequels were good too. I can’t wait for the next.

It’s not like there isn’t still being made original movies.

Slyngorm wrote on Dec 19^th, 2020 at 1:52pm:

Meh, I don’t get why people hate sequels. One of my favorite movies (Trainspotting) got a sequel (Trainspotting 2) 20 years later which I consider to be one of the worst movies ever made. I wouldn’t mind a Trainspotting 3. As long as it was good. The alien pre-/sequels were good too. I can’t wait for the next. It’s not like there isn’t still being made original movies.

That's the thing. Up until recently people didn't hate sequels. Actually sequels are as much of a sure thing as you can get in the movie business. If the original movie was very successful it's almost a slam dunk that the sequel won't be at least fairly successful and oftentimes more than the original even if it's subjectively not as good.

I personally don't hate sequels just because they are sequels. I hate them because they are being made for easy profit. They are taking precedence over new original movies. And they are often nothing more than thinly veiled reboots to begin a whole other round of movies within that particular universe.

@Morphy... spot on. Movies should first entertain and second make a profit so there is a reason to make more. If profit comes first, the movie loses its real purpose and it disrespects the audience.

NooneOfConsequence wrote on Dec 19^th, 2020 at 3:22pm:

@Morphy... spot on. Movies should first entertain and second make a profit so there is a reason to make more. If profit comes first, the movie loses its real purpose and it disrespects the audience.

What I see it as is the movie equivalent to a popular, expensive clothing brand that decides to start selling to Wal-mart for the increased distribution but ends up tanking people’s confidence in their brand.

In the short term that’s what Hollywood is doing. Making lots of poorly thought out movies for the quick and dirty cash. But they are sacrificing the growth of their industry for quick cash in the short term. Is that over thinking it?  ;D Well, that’s what I think anyways lol.

It doesn't matter what American consumers think though. China is a far bigger market and they can get their hands on all that delicious CCP money. Sure, they might have to edit out "undesirables" and have characters make inexplicable trips to China for no apparent reason and might have ignore the fact the land they're shooting on was cleared of Uigur muslims who were then moved to concentration camps, but they'll make SO MUCH MONEY.

Kick wrote on Dec 20^th, 2020 at 6:41am:

It doesn't matter what American consumers think though- China is a far bigger market and they can get there hands on all that delicious CCP money. Sure, they might have to edit out "undesirables" and have characters make inexplicable trips to China for no apparent reason and might have ignore the fact the land they're shooting on was cleared of Uigur muslims who were then moved to concentration camps, but they'll make SO MUCH MONEY.

Ugh. Case in point- The Transformers series. Holy crap please let it die already lol.

At least Transformers has always been that way, so nobody should be surprised. The 1980’s Transformers movie was effectively banned in the US in the 90’s because they killed Optimus Prime just to sell more toys and introduce new characters to the toy market.

Are they really remaking all those movies? Thats insane. Well i havent had TV in 5 years, even now our main entertainment is YouTube shows on my tablet. I dont watch very many commercials.  I tend to keep in my bubble. I havent set foot in a movie theater since 2008 `tropic thunder` thankfully they are not making a sequel to that. But i wouldnt know anyway. This forum is my main window to the outside world, outside of the town i visist once or 2 times a week.

You’re not missing much vet. There have been very few shows worth watching lately.

I use to visit my parents.  When i still lived i  NJ, They had tv. Most of  the time if i flipped though channels, i would usually turn it off, and read or go outside. I just go online to read some news, anymore.

Groucho Marx said something like "TV is very educational. Everytime i see what's on I go read a book."

We don't have a TV basically just because when we moved we didn't have a spare and we didn't want to buy one. Haven't missed it. We've watched a bit of TV like vetryan when at our parents places but it's just adverts (commercials). Adverts after adverts. YouTube adverts can be bad enough but at least there is a max of two in a row. There can be like 15 minutes of adverts! How do people even remember what show they're watching?

We watch alot of YouTube. When we have free time. We watch it mostly during the winterdue tono light to get things done, but i tend to catch up on my sleep as well. Usually passing out in my chair. I feel so old