The official SEQUEL thread

[mr.negativity]

[XvGojira]

Haven't seen Croods, but more Nic Cage is more Nic Cage!

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[Pkmatrix]

They're making a Croods 2? Did that movie really do well enough to justify that? I thought it had flopped?

*checks*

Huh, it did much better than I thought. Also, looks like it cleaned up overseas.

[klen7]

Croods was the reason Pacific Rim was the "highest grossing non-animated film not based on previous intellectual property" instead of highest overall

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[Dr Kain]

God, another Croods movie? YUCK!!

BTW, I did not know Dreamworks was owned by Fox. I thought they were owned by Paramount.

Sucks that Pixar has nothing coming out nex... this year. Why a year without a Pixar movie is a year not worth having at all.

Seriously though, this year looks worse than 2013. More sequels on top of more sequels with more friggin remakes. Oh yeah, and then more book adaptations that really stretch their source material (like that stupid Noah movie and I Frankenstein). Thank the gods we have Interstellar coming out. I don't know anything about the movie, but it has Christopher Nolan doing it, so it is bound to be at least as good as The Prestige if it isn't as good as Inception.

[lhb412]

^The 3 films I'm looking forward to:

The Wind Rises
Muppets Most Wanted
Godzilla

[jellydonut25]

Godzilla, Muppets, Apes, X-Men, Guardians, Cap 2, Interstellar...and this year looks BAD??? I swear...

[Dr Kain]

[jellydonut25]

21 Jump Street was great so 22 could be fun.

But yeah keep being a Grumpy Gus.

[Dr Kain]

[Hybrid Gojira]

[Dr Kain]

[jellydonut25]

I'm just so TIRED of the cynicism and whining. Not just from Kain, from EVERYONE about today's cinematic situation. A lot of the "classics" that so many people LOVE and jizz their pants over weren't even hits when they were released. We retroactively think the past was full of great films, but a lot of people didn't turn out to see the Carpenter classics we all love so much.

And I'm sorry but I call complete and utter BULLSH!T on you Kain when you say you want stuff that's character driven when I specifically handed you examples in the top films of 2013 that are very character driven (like Mud, and Don Jon, and Pan and Gain, and The Way Way Back) and your response was to say those movies look bad and you don't want to waste your time with them. Why is it wasting your time if the movie is the type of thing you're hoping to see?

[Hybrid Gojira]

[klen7]

[Dr Kain]

Here are my feelings from your list:

Godzilla - Godzilla fan, so of course I'm going to see it. I'm hoping that because I'm going in uncertain I will be blown away.
The Giver - Never cared for the book, so I'll probably pass on the movie.
Big Bad Wolves - Have not heard of before, will look it up.
Muppets Most Wanted - I haven't even seen the last Muppets movie. IN fact, to be honest, I am not a big Muppets person. I don't hate them, I've just never really sat down to watch them outside of the the Christmas Carol.
Blood Ties - Has some great casting, but didn't this come out last year?
Open Grave - Wasn't this 2013 too?
Snowpiercer - Post apocalyptic movies just aren't my thing. Again, I don't hate them, they just aren't my cup of tea.
Transcendence - Johnny Depp in a movie that is NOT Disney?! DEFINITELY!!!!!
Jupiter Ascending - Outside of everyone's ding dong, I'm not sure what is so exciting about this. Is it The Matrix Wachowskis or The Matrix Revolutions Wachowskis?
Captain America: Winter Soldier - Will see it, but I've seen this plot line before.
Guardians of the Galaxy - Know nothing about them outside of Raccoon, but I'm not really all that enthused
Interstellar - Christopher Nolan = MUST SEE!!!

Anyway, Jelly, I guess you are right. I have been harping way too much about the mediocrity of movies right now. My bad, I'll try to tone it down. It's funny, I got flamed on another board when I was into nothing but Bayplosions and CGI, and now, on this board, I'm getting flamed for being sick of it. Just can't win either way.

[jellydonut25]

Just to chime in on one thing: I don't take anything on here personally. We're here to discuss, often BECAUSE we disagree. Some of my favorite discussions have been with Kain (maybe not a ton, but some for sure ). There are people who annoy me, but that has more to do with the content of their posts and their attitudes than their actual opinions

[mr.negativity]

[mr.negativity]

"As soon as Peter's back from Middle-earth."

[Henry88]

[klen7]

Maybe it'll bring him out of hiding. Haven't seen him much lately

[mr.negativity]

[mr.negativity]

How will Joseph Kosinski pull off a historical car movie, and when is 'Tron 3?'