After catching a recommendation to DA to watch ‘The Call’ I thought I’d give it a watch. Have to give it a thumbs up also. The strong female role modelling and pre-disposal to the female characters to make the crucial and final decisions would have pleased Quentin Tarantino very much.

As the villian in ‘The Call’ unfortunately is left to live, the thought of Tarantino enjoying this made the idea of his creating a sequel in which the characters from Death Proof return and happen across our poor unfortunate villian. For my money the combination of the Faux B-grade style of Death Proof would lend itself perfectly to excusing the unlikelihood of this occurring to the original plot and simply be an excuse to perpetrate a trail of QT-Ladies vengance that would leave the memory of the Blues Brothers car chases fading in it’s dust.

Anyway, now that I’ve exposed you to a sample of my critical thought process, I thought I’d offer the premise as a forum thread.

If you were to produce a sequel to any movie, who would direct, who would star, why?

Riff-in-Thyme said:

After catching a recommendation to DA to watch ‘The Call’ I thought I’d give it a watch. Have to give it a thumbs up also. The strong female role modelling and pre-disposal to the female characters to make the crucial and final decisions would have pleased Quentin Tarantino very much.

As the villian in ‘The Call’ unfortunately is left to live, the thought of Tarantino enjoying this made the idea of his creating a sequel in which the characters from Death Proof return and happen across our poor unfortunate villian, seemed pretty amusing. For my money the combination of the Faux B-grade style of Death Proof would lend itself perfectly to excusing the unlikelihood of this occurring to the original plot and simply be an excuse to perpetrate a trail of QT-Ladies vengance that would leave the memory of the Blues Brothers car chases fading in it’s dust.

Anyway, now that I’ve exposed you to a sample of my critical thought process, I thought I’d offer the premise as a forum thread.

If you were to produce a sequel to any movie, who would direct, who would star, why?

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Are there and explosions and gratuitous nudity.

Peak Warming Man said:

Are there and explosions and gratuitous nudity.

It’s Tarantino isn’t it? I just wish I could work out a way to work Hans Landa into the plot. ;)

> If you were to produce a sequel to any movie …

… I’d be doing a sequel to Microcosmos. The pornstars would be the slugs, four centimeters of rippling muscle.

> If you were to produce a sequel to any movie …

… I’d be doing a sequel to Microcosmos. The pornstars would be the slugs, four centimeters of naked rippling muscle.

Most movies don’t deserve sequels, and most sequels/threequels should not be made!

mollwollfumble said:

> If you were to produce a sequel to any movie …

… I’d be doing a sequel to Microcosmos. The pornstars would be the slugs, four centimeters of naked rippling muscle.

gets salt

Divine Angel said:

Most movies don’t deserve sequels, and most sequels/threequels should not be made!

Agreed. But sequels often fail because the writer tried to suck more success out of the original premise. The freedom here is to be able to aesthetically adjust the production so it makes more entertainment sense than to ultimately be taken seriously as an individual construction.

poikilotherm said:

gets salt

HEY!! NO SNUFF!!!!!

The Hobbit does NOT need to be a trilogy!
/rant

Divine Angel said:

The Hobbit does NOT need to be a trilogy!
/rant

What use are our budding generations if we can’t milk every cent out of them?

An animated movie of The Hobbit came out in 1977 and is available free.

This movie’s fucking retarded. Why does Hollywood insist on making female characters so fucking stupid?

Are you referring to “The Call”?

Divine Angel said:

This movie’s fucking retarded. Why does Hollywood insist on making female characters so fucking stupid?

stupidity isn’t gender based in a lot of scripts. it is just pivotal to the lead characters ending up in bad situations. they can’t get into dumb situations by predicting everything can they?

You’re not supposed to use every cliche in the book. I’m siding with the killer on this one. Good to see Abigail Breslin though, I just love her.

Oh that was HILARIOUS! Laughed so hard I scared the dog! Awesome work :)

Riff-in-Thyme said:

Divine Angel said:

This movie’s fucking retarded. Why does Hollywood insist on making female characters so fucking stupid?

stupidity isn’t gender based in a lot of scripts. it is just pivotal to the lead characters ending up in bad situations. they can’t get into dumb situations by predicting everything can they?

I know, I know. It just seems to be unfairly directed towards every female in movies.
You need narrative conventions, but they don’t have to be cliche. “We’re fighters, Casey.” Blergh.

Divine Angel said:

Riff-in-Thyme said:

Divine Angel said:

This movie’s fucking retarded. Why does Hollywood insist on making female characters so fucking stupid?

stupidity isn’t gender based in a lot of scripts. it is just pivotal to the lead characters ending up in bad situations. they can’t get into dumb situations by predicting everything can they?

I know, I know. It just seems to be unfairly directed towards every female in movies.
You need narrative conventions, but they don’t have to be cliche. “We’re fighters, Casey.” Blergh.

Us=cliche

Riff-in-Thyme said:

Divine Angel said:

Riff-in-Thyme said:

stupidity isn’t gender based in a lot of scripts. it is just pivotal to the lead characters ending up in bad situations. they can’t get into dumb situations by predicting everything can they?

I know, I know. It just seems to be unfairly directed towards every female in movies.
You need narrative conventions, but they don’t have to be cliche. “We’re fighters, Casey.” Blergh.

U.S.=cliche

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What movie are you watching DA?

Right. I watched The Call. SPOILER ALERTS

The second half was much better than the first half. My main problem with the film is that the females are not all there in the smarts department: what “veteran” of a 911 call centre would press redial? Make it an accident; her boyfriend comes in and his butt pushes the button. They both get into trouble from the far-too-calm supervisor. The premise is flawed to begin with- a 911 operator would never be allowed to see through the operation. There has to be a believable reason, a link between her and the killer.

There needs to be a reason for Halle to be involved. Make the guy her ex boyfriend or something. PTSD from a botched call where she was bring stupid isn’t a good enough reason. Why is she wandering around the killer’s place? Something needs to bring her there.

The guy freaking out in the trunk- leave that in, it’s hilarious!

Divine Angel said:

Right. I watched The Call. SPOILER ALERTS

The second half was much better than the first half. My main problem with the film is that the females are not all there in the smarts department: what “veteran” of a 911 call centre would press redial? Make it an accident; her boyfriend comes in and his butt pushes the button. They both get into trouble from the far-too-calm supervisor. The premise is flawed to begin with- a 911 operator would never be allowed to see through the operation. There has to be a believable reason, a link between her and the killer.

There needs to be a reason for Halle to be involved. Make the guy her ex boyfriend or something. PTSD from a botched call where she was bring stupid isn’t a good enough reason. Why is she wandering around the killer’s place? Something needs to bring her there.

The guy freaking out in the trunk- leave that in, it’s hilarious!

I’ll have faith in your schooling that any spoilers you include in this thread are non-damaging(I think you critiqued that nicely, thank you).

Also happy to share thoughts on Gravity :p

Egg-Eye personal anecdote

A life changing moment in my life involved being confronted with a teenage girl with an egg-eye. I would have been 17 and out at a small club in town when a steady stream of angry and injured began arriving from where they had been chased out of the botanical gardens by a ‘mob of “bombers”/aboriginal youth’ who had decided to reclaim some land for the night. One of the injured was a girl whose eye looked like someone had stuffed a tennis ball in it. The incident illustrated for me why I’d been relating so heavily to the lyrical content of GnR’s Appetite For Destruction album and overnight I gave up on trying to put myself through school to become a pilot and picked up the guitar.

(I kinda felt like that girl got some back at the end of that movie. Made up for the holes in it;)

Divine Angel said:

Also happy to share thoughts on Gravity :p

haven’t got to that one yet. Doesn’t seem enough reason to excuse the technical holes in it

Riff-in-Thyme said:

and picked up the guitar.

Do you know Robbie Stewart?

Michael V said:

Riff-in-Thyme said:

and picked up the guitar.

Do you know Robbie Stewart?

i just remember the toons

Riff-in-Thyme said:

Michael V said:

Riff-in-Thyme said:

and picked up the guitar.

Do you know Robbie Stewart?

i just remember the toons

Which tunes?
I had seen him play before, and was incredibly impressed, but Friday night he was awesome. Performed in two bands. A couple of numbers he hadn’t heard before. A few moments watching, going through the number with another performer (unplugged, on stage) and he was right in there performing.

Michael V said:

Riff-in-Thyme said:

Michael V said:

Do you know Robbie Stewart?

i just remember the toons

Which tunes?
I had seen him play before, and was incredibly impressed, but Friday night he was awesome. Performed in two bands. A couple of numbers he hadn’t heard before. A few moments watching, going through the number with another performer (unplugged, on stage) and he was right in there performing.

I have to look up the names if I can’t figure out how to play them and need to look up some tablature. I barely know the names of my favorite songs and artists ;)

Riff-in-Thyme said:

Michael V said:

Riff-in-Thyme said:

i just remember the toons

Which tunes?
I had seen him play before, and was incredibly impressed, but Friday night he was awesome. Performed in two bands. A couple of numbers he hadn’t heard before. A few moments watching, going through the number with another performer (unplugged, on stage) and he was right in there performing.

I have to look up the names if I can’t figure out how to play them and need to look up some tablature. I barely know the names of my favorite songs and artists ;)

Ah. No, this guy’s a local. Been around the scene here for yonks, apparently. But I can find out little about him. He seems to hide his light under a bushel. I have a couple of records where he plays, but his talent is not on show, so to speak. Gosh he can play, live. Awesome.

Ah well, I’ll just have to approach him at a gig some time and see what records he might have that display his talents.