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[DavidB6937]

I'd honestly forgotten the movie even existed until they made the sequel and I still didn't care then. It's a really strange choice of movie to do a sequel for.

[Lorne Malvo]

I think we're at the point now where anything that gets mentioned in the pub in a 'remember this film?' way is fair game for a legacy sequel. They're doing a Days Of Thunder sequel! I liked Days of Thunder but at no point since seeing that film have I thought 'I'd love to know what Cole Trickle is up to now'.

It's a Tom Cruise movie so chances are it'll still be good, but I'd much rather everyone put their time, effort and money into something original.

[HarmonicGenerator]

34 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

Some films just don't need a legacy sequel. Now this has come out I see a lot of talk about the original being some kind of cult classic, but I genuinely never hear anyone talking about it. Certainly not as much as the superior witchcraft films, Hocus Pocus and The Craft.

This has reminded me that Hocus Pocus got its own legacy sequel a couple of years ago - which I think was largely forgotten the day after it came out.

Edit: Although maybe not, because they're doing a third one?

Edited Monday at 12:33 PM by HarmonicGenerator
Focus

[Lorne Malvo]

4 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

This has reminded me that Hocus Pocus got its own legacy sequel a couple of years ago - which I think was largely forgotten the day after it came out.

Edit: Although maybe not, because they're doing a third one?

I'll be honest, I completely forgot about that too. And in looking it up, The Craft also had a 2020 sequel come out!

Perfectly obvious now that the reason they're doing Practical Magic 2 is because every other sodding witches movie has had a sequel years after the fact.

[tiger_rick]

I got dragged around Primark for an hour on Saturday and spotted Practical Magic merch. I thought it was the most baffling of their many baffling tie-ins because it's a film I barely remembered existed and only realised there's a sequel when I looked for the Coyote vs. Acme times last night. 

[BigJag]

it's a chick flick no? The ladies in our office are all looking forward to it.

[gmoney]

Yes. Coyote is a dreamy leading man.

[Chest Rockwell]

Ladies love the strong silent type. 

[tiger_rick]

He's dynamite between the sheets.

[Mr_Danger]

[Jazzy G]

Out of sheer morbid curiousity, and probably because I had such a blast watching the original the other day, I had a watch of Airplane 2025, originally known as Mile High Club. It's an Asylum production, which probably tells you everything you need to know about it. A girl is getting married off to a guy she's never met, and she's flying to the wedding with her friends, who've decided they all want to get laid on the plane. It's proper Channel 5 11pm stuff. It was presumably renamed when Asylum figured they'd get more eyes on it by trying to pass it off as a new Airplane movie around the time of the Naked Gun release. Oh, also it's set in the 70s, as evidenced by the presumably copyright free 70s style music soundtrack and weird 70s style scene transition effects.