Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2020

i didn't see airplane! for the first time until maybe eight years ago and few things have made me laugh more but i know that's not the same thing

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, January 2, 2020 11:43 AM (thirty-two seconds ago)

Brad how is it that Airplane made you laugh, I tried to watch it around age 19 and we turned it off because it was so bad, should I try again now that I'm old (30)?

I mean even if I should I probably won't

anyway voted Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard because that's a worse name than Ruth's Chris Steakhouse

I'm honestly struggling to think of a theoretical remake/sequel/adaptation I could potentially get excited about these days. A resurgence of George Miller's franchises, maybe (a third Babe would be delightful)?

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Brad how is it that Airplane made you laugh, I tried to watch it around age 19 and we turned it off because it was so bad, should I try again now that I'm old (30)?

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, January 2, 2020 12:44 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk it's possible we have different senses of humor. the recurring "looks like i picked the wrong day to stop [x]" joke is the peak of all comedy for me

When I saw it I was 15 and the film itself was 20 years old, I thought it was hilarious

The other Komedy Klassik that left me completely utterly cold as a teenager was Animal House, what a turd

Oh I’m with you there

The guitar smashing bit made me laugh, found the rest tedious as hell

Now all entertainment is owned by like 3 companies maybe we could have a moratorium on all sequels/remakes/franchises every other year.

I saw a comedy double bill of Airplane 2 the sequel/Monty Python Holy Grail in 1986. When I was laughing at stuff I kept catching this ugly glaring spectre just out of my line of sight - it wuz me!

Wouldn't have thought Airplane/Police Squad/Top Secret et al would have aged particularly badly as the comedy is daft/silly rather than timely

Hot Shots! > Top Gun

I have very little memory of what happens in Airplane from my attempt to watch it but I do remember when we turned it off during a flashback(?) to a dance sequence(?) in a tropical locale(?), possibly before any airplanes had taken off

my kids liked Airplane - they're still laughing at the "what's the vector victor"/"Roger Roger" exchanges

Sonic, probably. I don't care how much better they made him look, this is easy Razzie material. I'd much rather have a Mega Man movie.

Purge 5, because its politics are stupid and the movies are a damn drag

Mulan may be great

Keep wanting to revisit the Naked Guns and then remembering that one cast member whose presence is likely to make revisitation much less fun.

The Doolittle "What a Wonderful World" cover is hilarious because it understands 0% of what made the tune great

Purge 5, because its politics are stupid and the movies are a damn drag

The last one, the only one I've seen, was good!

looking forward to Mulan's working in of PRC talking points about Uighurs and Hong Kong

not that it'll be the worst, but I have no idea why they're bothering with another Green/McBride Halloween

The guitar smashing bit made me laugh, found the rest tedious as hell

― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Thursday, January 2, 2020 8:12 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't remember much about Animal House, but Donald Sutherland sweater scene is all-time.

The third one was decent only because it embraced its stupidity up until the horrible ending.

The 2nd one was doodoo.

I stopped going

Xxxpost. To what film? Ill never tell

You mean Simpson xp? idk I can still watch lost highway (& nordberg(?) is p hilarious in the few scenes he’s in iirc)

God the Halloween reboot was so forgettable, it’s smash status is almost as baffling as it to me

the Mulan trailer played in front of Ip Man 4 and the title card blindsided me. So at least they're not Xeroxing the original for a change, I'll give 'em that.

Aw there's an Ip Man 4?

there is! (it's fine)

I have no clue what the Impractical Jokers movie is even gonna be but if it's like the Jackass movies in that it's just a bigger & more explicit version of the show then it'll probably be pretty funny

Airplane! is my favorite comedy film as well

this is honestly too hard

My favorite comedy film is probably "A Hard Day's Night" but "Airplane!" is in the pantheon for me.

I voted for The Conjuring 2: The Devil made Me Do It, in anticipation of it being 100% unwatchable, but among the big-studio huge-budget contenders I expect the Dr. Doolittle movie to be the most dreadful-per-dollar-spent.

I have very little memory of what happens in Airplane from my attempt to watch it but I do remember when we turned it off during a flashback(?) to a dance sequence(?) in a tropical locale(?), possibly before any airplanes had taken off

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, January 2, 2020 1:27 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

silby! this is so goddamn early in the movie

It felt like years

not that it'll be the worst, but I have no idea why they're bothering with another Green/McBride Halloween

― Number None, Thursday, January 2, 2020 1:32 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bc it made a ton of money

too bad as it's the worst possible use of both Green and McBride's time

These yearly threads don’t even cover a phenomenon that is even more weird (and weirdly dispiriting) to me, which is 10-40yo films rebooted as shows as the various streaming platforms desperately pan for content: exorcist, lethal weapon, rush hour, scream, get shorty... really feels like these things are selected by dartboard

i agree! the dgg halloween is a movie i like less the more i think about it. also the editing was godawful xp

Yeah - in my head I associate it with the it remake cause they were both instantly among the most successful horror films *ever* despite not being very good (and very similar faults: you can feel the 50 or so scripts badly stitched together over the years of development, way too long, whole characters just disappear from the film)

It's The Conjuring 3, keep up!

No Time to Die wins my award for 'title that sounds the most like one of the fake movies from Seinfeld.' Runners up: P.S. I Still Love You and Halloween Kills.

Craig looks so fucking tired in the poster, like even more than usual

"I wish I had time to die"

Is this the first year without a star war since these threads started? That’s normally my default pick, dunno what to plump for now. Maybe 2020 golden bear winner birds of prey

bill and ted could be fun, i think. i'd probably see the bob's burgers movie tho i'm not sure why it needs to exist.

saw trailers for ghostbusters and peter rabbit the other day and couldn't decide which i hated more, ghostbusters for existing entirely to pander to the worst ppl on the internet or peter rabbit for pissing so obnoxiously all over the legacy of beatrix potter.

Brahms: The Boy II

I have no idea what this is, but I've decided it's a series of biopics that depicts the life story of the German composer with a Robert Caro like obsession with detail. This is actually the fourth Brahms film after Brahms: The Ancestors, Brahms: The Parents and Brahms: The Boy I. The big thing this time is Brahms learning to play the piano. It's four hours long, of course. And the hands of Brahms is portrayed by Hyung-ki Joo, who really has remarkably small hands.

Oh, and I voted for Dolittle.

i can't help but imagine "wonder woman 1984" as either a bizarro mashup where wonder woman visits the world of orwell's 1984 or a lame reboot from the actual year 1984, like "GODZILLA 1985."