The Off Topic Topic

[CountDeMoney]

Why is Ocean's Eleven/Planet of the Apes counted as sequel and not as adaptation?

Good point, but it still highlights the increasing lack of imagination in Hollywood.

But can you imagine the box office for a Golden Pond sequel, though?  Return To Golden Pond: Dead Old People.

[Grey Fox]

Yep, that's the world we live in where movies are 15$ & you get to spend 2h being annoyed by kids texting their friends with their iphones.

[Barrister]

Why is Ocean's Eleven/Planet of the Apes counted as sequel and not as adaptation?

Hell - On Golden Pond won the Academy Award for best Adapted Screenplay - I think it was a play beforehand.  And I totally knew that beforehand, and didn't have to google it at all.


I thought this perhaps carefully selected the years for comparison.  The general trend probably holds true, but 2010 looks a little bit better with three original titles and two adaptations:

1. Tory Story 3 (Sequel)
2. Alice in Wonderland (Adaptation)
3. Iron Man 2 (Sequel)
4. Twilight: Eclipse (Sequel)
5. Harry Potter Deathly Hallows 1 (Sequel)
6. Inception (original?)
7. Despicable Me (Original)
8. Shrek Forever After (Sequel)
9. Hot To Train Your Dragon (original)
10. Tangled (Adaptation)

Heck even 2012 looks better (to date):

1. Avengers (sequel)
2. Dark Knight Rises (sequel)
3. Hunger Games (adaptation)
4. Amazing Spider Man (Sequel/ReBoot)
5. Brave (original)
6. Ted (original)
7. Madagascar 3 (Sequel)
8. The Lorax (adaptation)
9. MIB 3 (Sequel)
10. Ice Age: Continental Drift (sequel)

[Syt]

Why is Ocean's Eleven/Planet of the Apes counted as sequel and not as adaptation?

Good point, but it still highlights the increasing lack of imagination guts in Hollywood.

fyp

I think it's less an issue of lacking imagination than "playing it safe". Heck, you can also look at computer games and their AAA titles - how many sequels vs. new properties?

[MadImmortalMan]

Market price of pork and temporary arrivals of the McRib.

[CountDeMoney]

Wow, Russell Train passed away at 92.

[Barrister]

Market price of pork and temporary arrivals of the McRib.

Heh - I just saw that article today.

[lustindarkness]

Hope it shows. 

[DGuller]

   We need to invite every one of those guys to Languish.  We don't have enough punners here.

[Caliga]

 

[garbon]

  We need to invite every one of those guys to Languish.  We don't have enough punners here.

[Josquius]

Wow.
So, it seems a friend of mine is a dad.
Not just some random guy I knew from school (tonnes of those lumpens have spawned), an actual childhood friend, a guy born a few hours after me and whose mother shared a room with mine at the hospital. It seems only yesterday we were playing pokemon together....
This....scares me.

Its with some Colombian/Venezuelan/somewhere around there chick who doesn't even live in Britain (he met her when working in the US). He is to support her with 300 quid a month. Now that could go a long way in latin America....you could live off it even.... I suspect: a trap.

[CountDeMoney]

Wow.
So, it seems a friend of mine is a dad.
Not just some random guy I knew from school (tonnes of those lumpens have spawned), an actual childhood friend, a guy born a few hours after me and whose mother shared a room with mine at the hospital. It seems only yesterday we were playing pokemon together....
This....scares me.

You get over it.

[Scipio]

How is it that I missed the collaboration of Cee Lo Green and Hall and Oates?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF8wIjtPcfs&feature=related

[Caliga]

I like the Chromeo-Hall and Oates 'I Can't Go For That' better, but this one is also fantastic.