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| For all those out there who dread the Hollywood sequel and its accompanyment of cliches, take heart: the "prequel" comes to the rescue! Just look at what the latest Batman and Superman (okay, this wasn't really a prequel, but the outcome is the same) movies have done: both superheros return to the silver screen in astounding fashion and wow us with the best movies of either series! The prequel allows movie directors to flush the old movies and start over virtually from scratch with fresher, newer material that should lead to better "Phase II" sequels. Even the latest James Bond movie, Casino Royale, has jumped on the prequel/remake bandwagon by switching from the Cold War Bond to the post-9/11-world Bond.
Maybe there's hope for Hollywood afterall?
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Location: Dallas, Texas | indeed, this is a trend that seems to be working but for how long? soon we'll be seing crap prequels like The Hobbit without PJ! |
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Location: Irving, TX | Superman was more of a "midquel", taking place between II and III. |
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Location: Sacramento, California | Those examples you named worked out well, but I fear that it won't always be so. Hollywood lacks imagination, so that new ideas come with a fight. Even these "re-boots", while imaginative takes, are still using well established characters.
I would very much like to see new SF ideas in Hollywood. That's why Firefly was so lovely to me, because it was SF done in a previously unseen way. I doubt anyone is going to come up with something that absolutely has not been seen before, but to re-arrange old SF themes using new ideas, new characters, and good scientific thinking, that would be grand. |
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Location: London, U.K. | Totally agree on Firefly, I was sad to see that leave the small screen. And sadder still to see the movie kill off some of the best characters!
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Location: Dallas, Texas | ah, you're all forgetting about that bastion of science fiction excellence The Sci-Fi Channel! they've gone out and made a ton of movies with fresh themes and new ideas. for example: MegaSnake When Duff Daniels steals an ancient snake, the Unteka, from Native American snake proprietor Screaming Hawk, he is given three rules to follow: "don't let it out of the jar, don't let it eat anything living, and never fear the heart of the snake."
Basilisk: The Serpent King
The movie is about an ancient Basilisk which terrorizes the town of Pueblo Springs, Colorado after it is awakened from its 20,000 year long sleep.
The Snake King
Anthropologists deep in the Amazon uncover the remains of a man they come to determine was approximately 300-years old when he died. This leads to a second expedition to discover the reason behind his longevity, but there's a major problem in the form of an Amazonian tribe that guards the proverbial fountain of youth and the giant, multi-headed snake they worship. some others of non-interest:
- Snakehead Terror
- Boa vs. Python
- Fire Serpent
- Frankenfish
- Ice Spiders
- Mansquito
- Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy
- Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York you can't deny the variety and originality. - dave
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Location: Sacramento, California | Funny that you went with the snake theme, since the Sci-Fi Channel is now producing Anaconda Part III & Part IV as direct to TV movies. Yikes. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | more snakes! my god, who do they have writing for them? who's saying "what we need is more snake movies!"?
i find Sci-Fi's snake fixation rather informative. juvenile thrills. gives you some idea of their target audience. they are aptly named Sci-Fi in the "Skiffy" sense - if you buy into the "Sci-fi is a derogatory term" argument.
the best that can be said is that at least they're somewhat sci-fi related. it's all crap, of course, but it's better than a lot of their other programming. paranormal BS and professional wrestling?!
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Location: Sacramento, California | As a comment to the whole "Sci-fi" term, I personally use the term sci-fi when speaking of movies or Tv, and SF when speaking of books. I think that I started doing that because if you say SF to most people, they scratch their heads, or think of San Francisco. Yet if you say "sci-fi" towards books, some people get all snippy. So I just use the two terms for the two distinct mediums. |
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Prequels: Hollywood's second chance!