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Poll
Question: If you could only watch one off movies or Franchise/Series/Trilogies
Option 1: I'll watch only One Off / Stand Alone films votes: 9
Option 2: I choose Series/Trilogies/Franchises. votes: 11
Title: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: mongers on May 22, 2014, 05:30:19 PM
You have to choose between which two types of films to be limited to watching in future.

Which is it, only one off/stand alone films or Franchise/Series/Trilogies

This includes all films not just future releases. 

Wanna watch 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' or 'The Third Man' then no 'Star Wars' or 'Godfather' films for you.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: garbon on May 22, 2014, 05:35:14 PM
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!11111
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 22, 2014, 06:01:21 PM
I'll take the franchises. Any halfway decent action/adventure movie gets a sequel. I like Oscar-bait movies too, but not as much.

Be much easier to give up comedies.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: crazy canuck on May 22, 2014, 06:15:40 PM
I couldnt give up the Godfather I or II so the decision is easy.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Monoriu on May 22, 2014, 07:26:39 PM
The length of a one-off film is usually not sufficient to tell a great story.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Ed Anger on May 22, 2014, 08:17:19 PM
I punch the person trying to make me choose.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Monoriu on May 22, 2014, 08:41:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 22, 2014, 08:17:19 PM
I punch the person trying to make me choose.

That's even better  :yes:
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 22, 2014, 08:44:45 PM
Probably wouldn't be the first time Mongers got punched over something he posted online.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Ed Anger on May 22, 2014, 08:49:07 PM
Right in the balls.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: grumbler on May 23, 2014, 12:22:03 PM
Since nearly every stand-alone will be followed by a remake or sequel before too much longer, not a hard choice.

Think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid won't be part of a franchise?  Think again.  It will be rebooted soon with 4 sequels.  They'll all be crap, but we can still watch the original.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: celedhring on May 23, 2014, 12:25:29 PM
Do we get to keep TV series? I'm willing to give up franchises *only* if we keep TV series.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Savonarola on May 23, 2014, 12:39:07 PM
Are Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" movies a franchise?  :unsure:

;)
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: The Brain on May 23, 2014, 07:27:33 PM
Well I can always make sequels to my favorite stand alone films. Destroying all copies of sequels seems harder.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: 11B4V on May 24, 2014, 01:50:01 AM
Quote from: grumbler on May 23, 2014, 12:22:03 PM
Since nearly every stand-alone will be followed by a remake or sequel before too much longer, not a hard choice.

Think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid won't be part of a franchise?  Think again.  It will be rebooted soon with 4 sequels.  They'll all be crap, but we can still watch the original.

:o Noooooooooooooooo, you lie.  :mad:
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: 11B4V on May 24, 2014, 01:52:38 AM
Fucking balls!  :mad:



http://www.showbizspy.com/article/270114/matthew-mcconaughey-and-woody-harrelson-to-remake-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid.html

Quoteccording to a report, the duo — who worked together on True Detective — are talking about a remake of the Western classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

"There's already a script in development," a source told America's Life & Style magazine.

"Matt wants to turn a whole new generation of moviegoers into fans of the bandits."

The 1969 flick starred Paul Newman as Butch and Robert Redford as Sundance.

"Matt would play Sundance and Woody would play Butch," the insider says, adding that "he hopes Robert wants to direct!"

Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Ed Anger on May 24, 2014, 07:39:29 AM
Teehee
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Duque de Bragança on May 24, 2014, 07:47:00 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on May 23, 2014, 12:39:07 PM
Are Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" movies a franchise?  :unsure:

;)

What's next? Rohmer's Moral Tales or Tales of the Four Seasons ? I can live without Rohmer's work, except Triple Agent, but it would still be a loss for the kitsch appeal of Perceval.  :(
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 24, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 24, 2014, 01:52:38 AM
Fucking balls!  :mad:

You really shouldn't get worked up over the industry rags like that;  half the time, it's a leaked pitch to gauge interest.  When it's on the front page of Variety, then it's time to worry.  BIG BUCKS FOR BOFFO BUTCH REBOOT
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Razgovory on May 24, 2014, 04:27:28 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 24, 2014, 01:52:38 AM
Fucking balls!  :mad:



http://www.showbizspy.com/article/270114/matthew-mcconaughey-and-woody-harrelson-to-remake-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid.html (http://www.showbizspy.com/article/270114/matthew-mcconaughey-and-woody-harrelson-to-remake-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid.html)

Quoteccording to a report, the duo — who worked together on True Detective — are talking about a remake of the Western classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

"There's already a script in development," a source told America's Life & Style magazine.

"Matt wants to turn a whole new generation of moviegoers into fans of the bandits."

The 1969 flick starred Paul Newman as Butch and Robert Redford as Sundance.

"Matt would play Sundance and Woody would play Butch," the insider says, adding that "he hopes Robert wants to direct!"

Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid vs horrors from beyond time and space is probably something Tim would pay to see.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Capetan Mihali on May 24, 2014, 05:37:45 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 24, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
When it's on the front page of Variety, then it's time to worry.  BIG BUCKS FOR BOFFO BUTCH REBOOT

:lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: dps on May 24, 2014, 06:05:52 PM
Quote from: grumbler on May 23, 2014, 12:22:03 PM
Since nearly every stand-alone will be followed by a remake or sequel before too much longer, not a hard choice.


Brings up another point, though.  Most of the time, when a movie comes out, how would you know if it's a stand-alone or the start of a franchise?  Sure, sometimes we know ahead of time that there are going to be follow-ups (Lord of the Rings, f.e.), but lots of time we don't until later.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: The Brain on May 24, 2014, 06:06:32 PM
Quote from: dps on May 24, 2014, 06:05:52 PM
Quote from: grumbler on May 23, 2014, 12:22:03 PM
Since nearly every stand-alone will be followed by a remake or sequel before too much longer, not a hard choice.


Brings up another point, though.  Most of the time, when a movie comes out, how would you know if it's a stand-alone or the start of a franchise?  Sure, sometimes we know ahead of time that there are going to be follow-ups (Lord of the Rings, f.e.), but lots of time we don't until later.

I already covered that.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Sheilbh on May 24, 2014, 07:17:11 PM
One offs.

There's sequels and there's franchises I love. But I couldn't lose Mel Brooks and Hitchcock, or (many) Westerns and Wilder. That would make me sadder.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Sheilbh on May 24, 2014, 07:18:30 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 24, 2014, 01:52:38 AM
Fucking balls!  :mad:
You've got a True Grit remake as your picture :P

It could be good.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: 11B4V on May 24, 2014, 09:56:44 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 24, 2014, 07:18:30 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 24, 2014, 01:52:38 AM
Fucking balls!  :mad:
It could be good.

Like the Lone Ranger movie.  :yucky:
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Ed Anger on May 24, 2014, 09:57:44 PM
Johnny Depp should be tossed into the Tiber.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Scipio on May 24, 2014, 10:05:37 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 24, 2014, 09:57:44 PM
Johnny Depp should be tossed into the Tiber.
Quote from: Eliot NessIn roman times, when a when a fellow was convicted of trying to bribe a public official, they would cut off his nose, and sew him in a bag with a wild animal, and throw him in a river.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: Ed Anger on May 24, 2014, 10:09:28 PM
Sew him into a bag with Tim.
Title: Re: Movie - Choose Between Watching One Offs and Trilogies/Series/Franchises
Post by: celedhring on May 25, 2014, 08:02:37 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 24, 2014, 07:17:11 PM
One offs.

There's sequels and there's franchises I love. But I couldn't lose Mel Brooks and Hitchcock, or (many) Westerns and Wilder. That would make me sadder.

You'd lose Psycho and The Birds, though.