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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What’s next?

Full Metal Jacket remake featuring the Rock and Ryan Reynolds?

One Flu over the Cuckoo’s nest 2: it was all a dream

Sophie’s choice 3D: triple jeopardy

Every dead IP is just waiting to be plucked up by another greedy CEO waiting for another payday.

None of your examples are parody movies from companies with a long history of tons of sequels and dumb jokes. This is the fourth movie in a series. It’s basically been in development hell since the early 2000s. I’m not going to say this is quality; it’s not dead IP and it’s not a Kubrick. This is more like beating a dead horse (possibly) that resurrecting something.

If you wanted to make your point, something like Airplane 3 or Men in Tights 2 would have been more apt. AFAIK neither of those have been in development and they’re both from the same vein of late 20th century parody movies. The movies you mentioned would be good responses if a studio rebooted, say, Platoon as a 2000s war movie. Some movie collections like Naked Gun, Scary Movie, Police Academy, and National Lampoon are intended to stick around for a long time (even if they’re just getting progressively fucking worse).

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

While we are dumb enough to keep making them profitable they will keep doing it

Tbh I'm just enjoying trolling my mate with this movie because he can't stand Liam Neeson