Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2017

It's looking rather PG-13.

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― jmm, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 4:09 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6wBV4AB7CQ

Really? Joke after the "worst film" thread?

No, really, I thought it was dull and pretentious and incoherent - but then I was never a fan of the original.

Are the three films in that 'cyberpunk collection' any good?

I only seen AD Police out of those three. Some interesting stuff in it but quite a lot of pandering with the sex stuff. But I still like the idea of an old cop turned robot whose only remaining original body part is his tongue, and he's losing his sanity. Probably quite juvenile. Most of that stuff was but I think Fist Of The North Star, Devilman and some of the other stuff had enough outstanding qualities to make up for that. A lot of it would probably be really embarrassing to watch now.

I accidentally said this on I love comics, but , saw Logan tonight, and it's easily the best Xmen movie ever made, and one of the best comic book movies ever made. I like pretty much all of the xmen movies too, even the kind of rubbish ones like the last one and X2. But this is next level; sedate, real story telling, and it works because the actors in all the primary roles: Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Merchant, and Dafne Keen and X23 Laura are all superlative and great. Stewart probably deserves an oscar nom for best supporting actor (not that that will ever happen).

daphne keen AS x23/Laura, I meant

Didn't know there was a Battle Angel Alita live action coming out. The actress isn't Japanese or white, so don't know how this will go down.

I saw Logan tonight and it was not just terrible but it was deeply unpleasant and stupid also.

It's not the worst movie ever made but I struggle to think of one I enjoyed less

strange, I saw it again for a second time last night and still loved it

dammit they are remaking jacob's ladder

http://www.slashfilm.com/jacobs-ladder-remake-michael-ealy/

^ No reason that needs to be remade at all

GITS is going to bomb imo.

I would like to point out that I have been otm in this thread

I saw it and can confirm that it deserves to fail.

tombot otm, but it's an otm on the level of 'the sun will rise tomorrow'

I have been otm in that thread too, for weeks

Walked out of Trainspotting 2. Horrible movie.

Fifty Shades Darker has made $378M wordwide on a budget of $55M. Who the fuck cares about this in 2017.

Thats a p strange post to ilx tbf, do you really think there's any crossover

Raggett isn't gonna take up that question and point u towards his Jamie dornan blog is he

http://www.tor.com/2017/04/26/upcoming-sff-sci-fi-fantasy-adaptations-movies-tv/

Not restricted to this year, most of this stuff will probably never come out but I'm amazed just how many things are in the works. Further down the list is stuff that's definitely happening.

Will all this create many new readers?

I don't know why they didn't save themselves some time and list the handful of books/comics that haven't been optioned yet.

This one looks the most promising*:

Extreme Universe, from various titles by Rob Liefeld

Extreme Universe Rob Liefeld BloodstrikeOriginally published: 1992, Image Comics
Optioned for: Film (Fundamental Films)
What it’s about: Spanning nine comic-book titles and nearly 100 characters, Liefeld’s universe includes such superheroes as Bloodstrike, Brigade, Lethal, Re-Gex, Cybrid, Bloodwulf, Battlestone, Kaboom, and Nitro-Gen.
Status: Liefeld will work with Akiva Goldsman and Graham King to develop the property, with the potential opportunity to make it into a film franchise.


*for me to poop on

Yeah that one was a surprise. But he got Prophet and Supreme to go places.

akiva goldsman is like the rob liefeld of film so it's a match made in heaven, really

Wouldn't that be Michael Bay? A Beautiful Mind and A Winter's Tale aren't very Liefeldian.

Piers Anthony was another surprise, they'd have to radically change so much.

Michel Faber getting more screen adaptations is also weird.

there are plenty of claimants to the crown of 'cinema's liefeld' but goldsman seems to have a similar level of ongoing success despite appealing to no-one i've ever met irl

Akiva Goldsman: A Class Act

Wow that list of upcoming sci-fi/fantasy projects pretty much veers between rubbish and remakes of stuff that's already been made, often both.

It's also completely meaningless - the majority of these will never see the light of day.

Wow that list of upcoming sci-fi/fantasy projects pretty much veers between rubbish and remakes of stuff that's already been made, often both.

― écorché (S-), Friday, 28 April 2017 03:08

How many of those books have you read? Some of them are just released this spring. Has to be plenty of good stuff in there that hasn't been adapted. We Have Always Lived In The Castle is good but it's just barely horror, with no fantasy elements.

Park Chan Wook's Stoker actually reminded me of it a bit.

Grant Morrison on Brave New World is interesting. Hasn't had much luck with TV/movie stuff though

I thought Trainspotting 2 was a good faithful sequel, what was the consensus?

I thought it was horrendous

Still haven't seen it, but the consensus is good to great (depending on whether you think we don't get enough exploration of male mid life crises).

It's dramatically inert and visually repugnant (has that same nauseating digital look that all of Boyle's latter-day work does) and 90% of it is half-hearted callbacks to the original movie. Felt almost aggressively pointless to me

Somehow I missed this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZwkStRlou4

Why

Because the script was probably written in 1992

Cop and a Half 2: Lou Diamond Phillips Has Some Expensive Landscaping in Mind

Is this Scorsese batman thing a hoax or what

Scouse I heard

Either I missed Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle when I was setting up the poll or (more likely) it wasn't listed on Wiki yet. Either way, it sounds awful (and racist), but I have to admit that I kind of appreciate that it apparently starts out as a Breakfast Club ripoff before developing a needlessly complicated plot about body-swapping avatars. More here:

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2017/12/jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle.html

Some of the reviewers giving extremely positive accounts of this travesty must have been paid off generously.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/movie-review-jumanji-2017.html