On Sequels

[sorchawench]

Lost Boys 2. I have not seen it yet. When Demon mentioned it was out, my response was a rather severe foreboding look.

See, in my opinion, some things are better left to the originals. Stars Wars? Probably should have stopped at 3. Alien? Should have stopped before it turned into the Predator vs. Alien, Mall of America 3000. That's the episode where they each try to out do the other on shoe sales. The Breakfast Club? Can you even imagine?????? Do you want to????

Some things should just be left alone. Wanna make a vampire movie? Fine make one. Go to Hastings or Books a Million, or Barnes and Noble. Go to the romance section. There are at least 40 titles of assorted supernatural ideas there. Vamps, Were-animals, Witches...you name it, someone is writing soft core porn about it.

Once you have your romantic scenes in hand, wander over to the Horror section. DO NOT PICK UP A LAURELL K. HAMILTON book, no matter how much it cries and whimpers about how there really IS a plot in between all that sex. You already shopped for your a sex scene, and frankly, it's probably more entertaining than hers.

Seriously...LKH books:

Plot, sex, sex, sex, blood, angst, angst angst, sex, sex-angst, death, mysterious stranger, sex, sex, secks, sex, plot, end of book.

That's pretty much it. I may have skipped some of the sex scenes though. I lose count of how many vamps, weres, immortals, people, and guns are having sex with some of LKH's characters.

Find something truly dark and disturbing. Or find one of those more humorous novels dealing with supernatural detectives (THAT ARE NOT ANITA BLAKE). Seriously, the puns those books could transfer well, if done correctly.

Once you have a different idea, go make your movie. But stop taking things that are (eep) decades old and trying to rehash them for the modern generation. If the modern generation doesn't *get* the original Lost Boys because the specials effects aren't so special, then kick them in the head, hand them a copy of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and plug their connection to the Intarwebs back in, they are hopeless cases.

This also brings up the point of NBC's new-old series Knight Rider. Have we run out of ideas? Any day now it'll be remakes of CHiPs, Emergency. Which were really good....in the 80's.

I have fear about Lost Boys 2. I fear it won't live up to my adolescent dreams of sexy rock star beach dwelling vampires. No....I know it won't. And if it doesn't have a credible leg of it's own to stand on, I'll really miss those 2 hours.

Comments

[daddygod.livejournal.com]

Any day now it'll be remakes of CHiPs, Emergency. Which were really good....in the 80's.

I'd argue they were already dated by the 80's, but seemed pretty spiffy in the 70's when they came out.

[sorchawench.livejournal.com]

Heh, I remember watching them with Mom, growing up in the 80's, although it might have been the later 70's as well. Mom had a thing for Ponch.

[sorchawench.livejournal.com]

Also....I don't actually think I recall much of the 70's. In the beginning there was blackness, and then it was the 80's.

[daddygod.livejournal.com]

Fine, rub it in, young'un.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Lost Boys 2... Nope... Not interested... Yet.

And I used to love CHiPs! :D

[morgie.livejournal.com]

What can I say... hope sprung eternal.

Now it's sprung a leak. Oy.

[fimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Lost Boys:The Tribe. Direct to video. The only names from the first movie I recognize are Corey Feldman, Corey Haim and Jamison Newlander. The director's resume isn't terribly impressive either. Info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031254/

I'll pass. If it doesn't have Keifer, why bother?

[pooka.livejournal.com]

Haim and Feldman's feud was so bad that Haim's role was cut down to end-credits filler.

And it might be the best part of the movie.

There's a Sutherland in it, but not a half-brother from the same planet as Kiefer.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Lost Boys 2 - Don't do it, if I'm not too late.

Saw it last weekend and it was a major stinkeroo.

[morrigan716.livejournal.com]

The Lost Boys changed my life in 1987. Like a car crash, I'm going to have to see Lost Boys 2, even though I'm expecting it to be the worst movie ever made.

[otterphoenix.livejournal.com]

Chips oooh that takes me back used to like that.I agree most films should stick with the original like Dusk till dawn should have

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

AMEN.

Particularly to the LKH bits. ;)