Burton and Keaton totally MADE that film!

Who in their right mind would even pay to see what they piss out and call a sequel, I wonder?

I mean – he was so desperate to do it again (and it’s not like his career is above direct-to-DVD at this point) — so why isn’t he stepping up to the plate?

However, I wonder if these movies actually feature the same characters as the originals. I mean a movie like Training Day I would imagine it’s the same setup but with new characters.

Well Grindhouse is supposed to be a tribute to movies that have low production value, and that exploit sex and violence for entertainment’s sake. Which is EXACTLY what these sequels are doing. People think one is cool, but not the other.

As for Wing Commander and The 3 Ninjas… I think they’re pretty exploitational. They don’t have sex, but they are definitely just a marketable product. (By the way, I didn’t know there were that many sequels to 3 Ninjas, but I definitely remember the sequel where they teach the asain girl baseball in exchange for karate lessons.)

However, these – like the direct-to-dvd sequels – are going to be the movies that screen at like 2am on a saturday evening, and some kid will sneak into the living room and watch them, and they will be a part of their childhood. So I don’t really get why you would think that The Stuff or similar movies are cool, but these movies aren’t. Except for the fact that they are *exploiting* a franchise name.

Anyway, I don’t want to piss everyone off. And I am trying to figure out where the line is for what I can say without being labeled hyperbole by Goon. Bottom line is, I don’t really have a problem with this, and I think even if they did do it to movies that I love, I wouldn’t feel invaded or violated. I know it’s not for me, and I like plenty of movies that have had bad sequels, prequels and other spin-offs.

They don’t release crap like this in theatres because they’re not worth the effort, but nowadays they can get some good mileage out of DVD sales and rentals, which means these movies will not necessarily be quickly forgotten and swept under the rug, which is what I think you’re implying.

Either way, it still doesn’t change the fact that they are somehow degrading the originals. Obviously that’s a subjective thing, and if you don’t care for any of the originals then you won’t care about this either. But I’m sure if one day they decided to do a direct to DVD sequel for some Kubrick movie you’d be going on about how they don’t respect the vision of true artists nowadays, or something to that effect. Just sayin’ is all.

…and the Henrik Hyperbole Train arrives at the station again with the nice little gem of “gimmicky tribute trash’

lame.

That’s the other reason I can’t really be irate about this. I would much rather they release their shit on DVD instead of in theatres.

But if they are really willing to do another Space Jam, I think they should go further and make sequels to movies like The 3 Ninjas (three white kids, one fat!), Street Fighter and all the other trash stuff I liked as a kid. Or even something like Wing Commander, which was a kickass movie with the scooby-doo gang, or Lost in Space with Matt LeBlanc and (spoiler!) Gary Oldman as a CGI Spider-Monster. All these trashy movies that were great, but never got the franchise it deserved. Just give us the trash on dvd man. I would rather they actually release real trash and let it have a life, instead of gimmicky tribute trash like Grindhouse or Slither.

Hero was presented by Quentin Tarantino in North America because Miramax had the rights and they were sitting on it because they didn’t think people would want to see it. So Tarantino came along and said “Just release the damn thing already, put my name on it and people will come!”.