Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2019

Maybe Dumbo will have ornate gothic angel's wings for ears.

Jesus, he only took the project so that he could put his touch on 'Pink Elephants' didn't he.

cant wait for john depp to play dumbos cruel suburban dad in the backstory

there was some sad dad bullshit in the trailer, don't fear

burton peaked with pee-wee's big adventure

True.

I like most of Burton's 90s films, think he turned to shit around 2000, which is now almost two decades of bad moviemaking.

I think he's mostly good until Planet of the Apes, but it's fairly undeniable imo that he hit his highest high right out of the gate.

I liked Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Batman and Ed Wood at the time and imagine that I still would if I watched any of them again. I can’t find any justification for his career beyond that.

Nightmare Before Christmas is a minor classic

that was Henry Selick, tho

Big Fish is defensible.

whaaaat

I’m still fond of beetlejuice, an inevitable future star of this poll

I like Big Fish and Sweeny Todd, everything else since 2000 has been bad. Worst are the Alice films, could not get through either.

I liked Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Batman and Ed Wood at the time and imagine that I still would if I watched any of them again. I can’t find any justification for his career beyond that.

Batman is bad, recently saw Batman Returns for the first time and it's great

Also, wow @ Kingsman 3. Have not heard a single person say a single good thing about the second (and few who had a good word for the first).

I think this one was greenlit alongside the second. The prequal is surprising, as I'd only heard about the third one and a Statesman spin-off series.

These films are pretty critic-proof. I thought the second came and went, but still made 100 Mil domestic (against a budget of 104 Mil, but still...)

These would be prime Trump movies, except, you know, BRITISH.

Batman is bad, recently saw Batman Returns for the first time and it's great

Haven't seen BR since it opened. I mostly remember my friends and I leaving the theater feeling bummed out. It's reputation has grown in recent years, though, so it probably deserves a fresh look.

I can't imagine wanting to sit through it again, just seems like a slog. I guess it's got the same 126 min runtime as the first one but in my memory it's 30 minutes longer.

made a jfk-style fan thread for batman returns a few years ago -- batman returns (1992) -- but it ends w a twist cliffhanger that's yet to be resolved

the thread, i mean

What Women Want is such a random movie to remake

― jmm, Friday, January 18, 2019 2:36 PM

Seriously, this is one of the least bad ideas on the thread. I want a film about women reading the mind of Mel Gibson.

But even if it wasn't Mel Gibson, still more interesting than most everything else here.

Was already remade with Andy Lau and Gong Li
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhHqflh2kU4

Oscar Isaac as Gomez sounds great but since it's not live action it seems like a wasted casting choice.

John Wick 3, Pet Semetery and Hellboy are the only things I might see but probably wont see them at cinema.

Pet Semetary is by the folks who did Starry Eyes so I'm cautiously optimistic

batman, batman returns, beetlejuice are all wonderful

but his best work is sleepy hollow

sleepy hollow and ed wood both v enjoyable; after that he+depp should have broken up.

yeah

sweeney todd was rotten

otoh helena bonham carter has continued to be tremendous in his stuff imo, including even alice which is one of the worst movies i've ever seen.

Sleepy Hollow's where he fell off completely for me

tim burton's early stuff is mostly pretty good, up through ed wood at least, and some of his stop-motion films since have been good

I remember almost nothing about Sleepy Hollow or Sweeney Todd.

Saw the Pet Semetary trailer last time I was at the theater. Looks like good trash, will watch.

Todd could have been good w/ decent leads

xpost inasmuch as it felt completely empty and everything since has looked utterly terrible so I haven't seen it

curious about Big Eyes for Karazewski / Alexander script though

Big Eyes kind of sucked; beautiful set design for the home though. Script just didn't work great and that story should have been ore compelling. The Burton touch is very light.

I think the last film of his I enjoyed seeing was Sweeny Todd and not sure how I'd feel about that now. If Corpse Bride counts I'd say that's his last really good film.

pet semetary looks like fun. I'm all for a slew of King reboots and remakes.

oh wow this might be the grimmest one of these lists yet. i'm gonna have to ponder this.

I thought Big Eyes was pretty decent and a nice (sort of) change.

I hope the Playmobil movie sets up the Kinder Eggs trilogy like they've been teasing this whole time. Fan service or not, it's what I want to see.

I'm cool with the Starry Eyes peeps but having rewatched it recently I can confirm that Pet Semetary is hardly among the King adaptations begging to be remade.

Hey I know, even though it's only been a couple of years why not take a stab at a Dark Tower adaptation that somehow avoids being universally panned?

because the series itself is an actual car crash ending

I hated Burton’s Willy Wonka remake too much to be properly outraged by his Alice. Also, I only got about 30 mins into it.

Is it a 'remake' of the first movie or a new adaptation of King's book?

because the book is one of his best. No reason someone else shouldn't have a crack at it

Well, it's an unnecessary readaptation, then.

I still wanna know why no one's taken a crack at The Long Walk yet (possibly my favorite).

xpost

You bring up a good point. If this is another go at adapting a well known novel, than it shouldn't be here for the same reason that I didn't include Greta Gerwig's Little Women. I guess it comes down to determining whether the filmmaker is treating the source material as the novel or the earlier adaptations. In both cases, the popularity of these novels likely outweighs the popularity of any one film adaptation of either of them. I shouldn't have included it.

Stephen King is the franchise.

Hey I know, even though it's only been a couple of years why not take a stab at a Dark Tower adaptation that somehow avoids being universally panned?

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Glass was fairly hilarious. bring back two characters nobody's seen in almost 20 years, give them very little dialogue or purpose, and have most of the talking done by the psychiatrist sitting in a chair. 45% of the movie.

i believe sopranos has a similar idea

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Predicting now that the (correct) winner will also make the most money and get a sequel.