FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 30, 2022

so many sequels then

Return of Humanity CCCXIIIXLIVILL

Sequels and prequels I can deal with. I get frosted, though, when they don’t have enough creativity to do more than remake a movie that was most likely OK in the first place, and the re-boot is almost never as good.

Fox Trot, the sequel!

Where are the Clones? There ought to be Clones…

I haven’t seen most of these… i’m probably better off that way. Except American Pie 2 and Mummy 2. Also still relevant 21 years later as while the punchline is very 2001, the amount of sequels (and reboots since andy oepned that door with planet of the apes) has only increased dramtically in the last decade Case in point this year has had and will have (Cracks knuckles): Scream, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Top Gun Maverick, Doctor Strange: In The Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Jack#$% Forever, Prey, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Death on the Nile, Sonic the Hedgehog Too, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of why this franchis is still going despite being created by a TERF 365 days: NO NOT AGAIN, Marmaduke, Firestarter, Dowton Abby: A New Era, Hollywood Stargirl, Jurassic World: Dominon, Father of the Bride, Beavis and Butt-head Do The Universe, Minons: The Rise of Gru, The Batman, Orphan: First , Clerks III, Hocus Pocus 2, Halloween Ends, Disenchanted, House Party, Avatar the Way of Water, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story. And I didn’t even realize just HOW many till I went to the 2022 list. There’s been plenty of good original flims like nope, the lost city and everything everywhere all at once, but it is staggering to see just HOW many sequels, reboots, prequels and what have you came out this year and find it quaint that the simple 6 or so Andy mentioned was shocking at the time. Now it’s just a fact of life.

Reminds me of back when I worked at this one factory. I spent a day helping in the metal shop and was assigned to a punch press punching a hole in square tubing. I was told I could punch any side except the side with the seam as bending it in the next step in that direction could break or weaken the seam. True to form, I accidentally punched a tube on the seam side. I set it aside so it wouldn’t get used. When I told the supervisor that one was punched on the wrong side, she said they were going to use it anyway.

And the Mummy Returns premiered on the second Sunday in May.

“Muskrat Man”?

It is curious that people mock Hollywood for today’s sequels. In the 1930s and ’40s there were a plethora of sequels, such as those for Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, the Thin Man, & Bulldog Drummond.

Woah this is an OLD one!

You could spin it so that modern movies are so good that we want to see more of the worlds they build rather than just leave them in the past (there ARE some movies that are great but would only be hurt by sequels, but I would say that’s a minority)

I have a rule of thumb – never watch a movie whose title ends in a digit.

Can’t laugh at this one; too dated.