Sequels that had no business being made

[ShutUpLutz!]

It's going to be interesting to see what the upcoming sequel to Top Gun will look like. I had an idea for a story that could work, but I also had zero connections to anyone in Hollywood and zero inclination to spend a zillion hours trying to write a screenplay.

What has always astounded me is that Top Gun made a bazillion dollars at the box office and the soundtrack sold a billion copies and that same year there was another movie with a kinda similar story involving the military and fighter jets, except this one focused on the sons and daughters of the pilots and was called Iron Eagle. I've actually watched it three or four times on video (for free 'cause I worked at a vid rental store) and...despite Louis Gossett Jr's prescence, this is not a good movie and audiences thought so too 'cause it only made about $24,000,000 in the US.

The first, original Iron Eagle.

The three!!! sequels however, did not make that much money.

3 sequels.

William Goldman was right, no one in Hollywood knows anything.

[Reclaimedwg]

Cruise going to learn to fly a jet fighter for real so he can make the action scenes more realistic.

Just like in Mission Impossible: Fallout, he learned to fly a helicopter for real.

The ending sequence with the helicopters aerial chase was not CGI, it was real with Tom really piloting a helicopter.

[ShutUpLutz!]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

Cruise going to learn to fly a jet fighter for real so he can make the action scenes more realistic.

Just like in Mission Impossible: Fallout, he learned to fly a helicopter for real.

The ending sequence with the helicopters aerial chase was not CGI, it was real with Tom really piloting a helicopter.

He's always had that adrenaline thing going, he's like Jackie Chan and does almost all of his own stunts, but makes sure the stunt guys get paid anyway as he spends a good bit of time planning, prepping and rehearsing the stunts before the camera rolls.

He was into racing cars before he was into flying, thanks to Paul Newman, who raced very competitively for over 30 years, but then Tom got the flying bug.

[Reclaimedwg]

He had a few close calls during the filming of the Mission Impossible movies and in the last one, he broke his ankle jumping from one building to another.

[cginok]

"Sequels that had no business being made" 90% of them.

[IC Hunt]

Originally Posted by cginok

"Sequels that had no business being made" 90% of them.

Yes. As Mel Brooks famously lampooned in SpaceBalls: "who knows maybe we'll all meet again in SpaceBalls 2 The Search for More Money."

[IC Hunt]

So funny: I was scanning my channels to see if there were any good movies on tonight and I came across a RoboCop marathon on Epix!

That's right RoboCop 1, 2 and 3 back to back at this moment!

Add RoboCop 2 and 3 to the list!

[tsunamiSD]

Originally Posted by cginok

"Sequels that had no business being made" 90% of them.

Sturgeon's Law:

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud. Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. is crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other art forms.

from talk by him at NYU in 1951

[fisherfella]

any more movies by Sly Stallone,,period

just stop it already!

[ball7]

Originally Posted by fisherfella

any more movies by Sly Stallone,,period

just stop it already!

I kind of agreed with you until he made Creed.