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In the world of movies, the smart money is always on sequels failing to live up to the film that inspired them. Decades of cinema history offer pretty concrete evidence that the odds are always against sequels. In fact, some of the very best movies ever made have led to some of the worst sequels ever made, something we explored at length on a recent list. Now it’s time to test the odds in the opposite direction, and to take a look look at sequels that were not only good, they were actually better than the middling to outright badmovies that preceded them. These sorts of films are rare — far ra...
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The following post contains SPOILERS for literally every single Planet of the Apes movie ever made, so listen up you maniacs: If you don’t want to know how these movies end, stop reading now. Everything past this point is the Forbidden Zone for you. It’s one of the most important unwritten rules of Hollywood — not to mention one of the great songs by the O’Jays — you’ve got to give the people what they want. And what most people want is to leave the movie theater feeling good. Audiences have enough tragedy in their own lives. If they come to the multiplex and plunk down their hard-earned money...
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Movies and television, despite the fact that both are mediums where actors reenacting usually fictional scenarios are recorded on cameras and screened for rapt audiences, are not the same. They’re completely different mechanisms for storytelling — one is obviously longer than the other, with more of an emphasis on character and story evolution, while the other tells an immediately compelling plot in a more economical amount of time. All those people back in the day who kept talking about how Game of Thrones is just a “long movie” were talking nonsense. That doesn’t mean that the two can’t cros...
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The old saying goes “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” That is especially true in the world of movies. There isn’t a film out there that everyone universally loves or everyone universally hates. There are people who think The Godfather is overrated and people who think Gigli is a misunderstood classic. Cinematic beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder. For proof of that, check out the 30 films below. They are all personal favorites of mine that, according to the wider general consensus, were flops, bombs, and stinkers. Not to me! If you ask me, all of these titles deserve a seco...
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Prequels are having a moment. 2024 sees the release of The First Omen (which, somewhat confusingly, is actually the sixth movie in The Omen franchise) as well as the first prequel from the Mad Max series, Furiosa. This year also marks the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest prequels in film history, Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. These are all high-profile projects, but prequels often mark the last, desperate act of a dying franchise. Having exhausted all other creatively promising options, and/or having lost key stars or filmmakers to other projects, they have no choice but to ...
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be movies: and there were movies. And then God said, Hey, y’know, we could make a lot more money with these things if we made sequels. And there were sequels. And then those sequels started crossing over with other sequels. Then things really got cooking. Today, the movie world has become a veritable cinematic universe where individual film series cross over with one another ...
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The only thing wilder than someone remaking Road House in 2024 is the fact that the original Road House from 1989 exists in the first place. In its day, the film — a Patrick Swayze vehicle about the world’s most badass (yet soulful) bouncer — was mostly a punchline. It was nominated for five Razzie Awards and grossed only $30 million in theaters, less than half the total of Swayze’s previous hit, Dirty Dancing. Today … well, okay, today it’s still a punchline. But it’s such an incredible, unbelievable punchline that Road House has accrued a large cult fanbase of appreciative viewers (like myse...
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The Oscars are the unofficial conclusion to a year of movies. Yes, a calendar year technically ends on December 31. But for cinephiles, the year is not done until the thousands of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have their say, and name the winners of their annual awards. Only then can we all collectively move on to the new year’s crop of movies. But history gets the true final word on any and every film, not the Academy. Just because a title wins Oscars — even if a title wins the prize for Best Picture of the year — doesn’t mean it will graduate to canonical masterp...
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Letterboxd’s database categorizes movies into 19 different genres: Action, adventure, animation, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, mystery, romance, science fiction, thriller, TV movie (is that a genre?), war, western … and comedy. In each category, users can filter and arrange the movies in a myriad of ways: By decade of release, by where and how the films are available to rent or stream, by how popular they are on the site, alphabetically, or according to how Letterboxd’s millions of users have rated them using the site’s zero to five-star scale. The site’s ...
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There’s no formula for making moviegoers cry. But when I think of tragic moments that brought audiences to tears (okay, fine, me to tears — are you happy now), the ones that jump to mind are usually the deaths of beloved film characters. Simba standing over the body of Mufasa in The Lion King. Tony Stark snapping his fingers in Avengers: Endgame. Jack freezing in the water at the end of Titanic because Kate Winslet did not want to share that damn door with him. It’s rarer — though in some ways even more tear-jerkingly satisfying — when a movie makes you cry without the death of a character. In...
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