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I heard rumors of a sequel to Labyrinth and some wishful thinking for a sequel to Willow. I like both of those movies but sequels? Even with Frank Oz David Bowie and Warwick Davis/ Val Kilmer they'd most definately suck :p

 

True.

Labyrinth was great, but i'm not sure it would work outside the 80s. That said, hoggle rocks.. but CGI hoggle???

 

The only good thing about willow was Val Kilmer's character (and his missus).. other than that it was pretty generic sci-fi that existed only to show of the new special effects (morphing). And those effects aged faster than Solid Snake. A sequel would be pointless.

 

PS/ Was tat the last good film val kilmer ever did? Oh hang on, there was Heat...

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All this focus on remakes and rehashes and sequels upon sequels simply conveys to me that most movie producers have run out of ideas.

 

They seem to have a checklist for movie making in Hollywood these days...

 

Overuse of CGI effects - check

Villain with English accent - check

Lots of explosions - check

Car chase sequence - check

Humorous one-liners - check

WWE 'star' to kick ass - check

Bullet-time - check

Switch camera view every 10 seconds for people with low attention spans - check

A decent actor - negotiable

A decent plot - not needed

 

90% of the stuff they make these days is recycled crap. Remakes are usually 10x worse than the original movies because you can't remake a classic. Very few sequels manage to be as good as the first movie - and a third in the series is almost guaranteed to suck. Movies of old TV shows and games should simply stop production immediately because most of them up to now have just been incredibly bad.

 

Sometimes Nostalgia is a really bad thing, and the movie industry should take note of the fact. It's time to move on and explore new territory.

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Overuse of CGI effects - check

Villain with English accent - check

Lots of explosions - check

Car chase sequence - check

Humorous one-liners - check

WWE 'star' to kick ass - check

Bullet-time - check

Switch camera view every 10 seconds for people with low attention spans - check

A decent actor - negotiable

A decent plot - not needed

man i know that movie! is xXx(Triple X?)!!..Anyway im keeping to japaneese films, "The bird people of china" or "Ichi the killer", etc and many manga movies (like..Steamboy) are pretty good movies, not every japaneese film is an horror film.

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