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"Batman Begins"

sequel /= prequel

6/11/2007 5:41:54 PM

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"How has no one mentioned the fact that Star Trek II > Star Trek"

Excellent question.

6/11/2007 5:42:37 PM

^damn i forgot about that one

6/11/2007 5:43:19 PM

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"matrix > matrix 2 & 3 combined times 10"

6/11/2007 5:47:11 PM

Major League 2 > Major League 1 > Back to the Minors (even though i doubt many ppl like these at all haha)

6/11/2007 6:03:33 PM

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"How has no one mentioned the fact that Star Trek II > Star Trek"

HUR mentioned it in the very first reply.

6/11/2007 6:07:34 PM

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"sequel /= prequel"

That's not entirely true. It all depends on the context. Within the frame of the overall plot, it's a prequel, but as a chronological body of work, it is also a sequel since it was made later than the original.


OED definition of sequel:

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"a published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one."

OED definition of prequel:

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"a story or film containing events which precede those of an existing work."

6/11/2007 6:09:50 PM

haha thanks kodiak

6/11/2007 6:13:39 PM

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"anyone who said aliens > alien is going to get hit by a car today. SO WHAT if there's more of em and more guns and marines getting slaughtered...the ONE alien of the first movie is scarier than all the aliens in the second movie combined."

i like aliens better, and you could argue which cast's situation is scarier/more desperate. would it be worse to be on a spaceship inhabited by a deadly creature you know nothing about and have no idea nor the means to kill it? or would it be more hopeless to be stranded on a space colony full of them and be undersupplied with no hope for rescue for weeks?

[Edited on June 11, 2007 at 6:43 PM. Reason : ]

6/11/2007 6:43:26 PM

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"Major League 2 > Major League 1 > Back to the Minors"

dude, you've gotta be high. i like major league 2 alright, but major league is one of the top 10 sports movies ever. ML2 tried too hard to be funny

6/11/2007 7:02:30 PM

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"alien 4 > alien"

this is the dumbest thing i think ive ever read.


alien is still the best.

6/11/2007 7:43:39 PM

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"Matrix 2 = far greater discussion, even better fight scenes"

a fight scene going on for 15 minutes does not mean it is good.

the car chase was fantastic, but the rest was a shit sandwich.


and Desperado is not nearly as good as El Mariachi, are you on crack

[Edited on June 11, 2007 at 9:18 PM. Reason : whoever said that]

6/11/2007 9:16:16 PM

A prequel is basically a sequel that takes place before the original work.

Batman Begins, however, is neither. It essentially ditched all the old material. It's as much a sequel to the 1990's Batman films as the 1990's films are a sequel to the Batman movie with Adam West.

6/11/2007 10:01:19 PM

^Well using the ditching of old material as a definition Matrix 3 isn't a sequel of Matrix 2.

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"wayne's world 2 is a disgrace to the first movie."

Agreed.

[Edited on June 12, 2007 at 8:49 AM. Reason : -]

6/12/2007 8:44:21 AM

Ace Ventura 2 > Ace Ventura



[Edited on June 12, 2007 at 12:26 PM. Reason : ...]

6/12/2007 12:21:58 PM

I have to agree with Aliens, Spiderman 2, Blade 2, Before Sunset and Babe: Pig in the City being the best sequels that improved on their originals - and why did it take so long for anyone to mention Blade 2? It was awesome.

Also:
Matrix 3 > Matrix > Matrix 2
El Mariachi was better than Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Spidey 2 > Spidey 1 or 3

Oh yeah, the forgotten:

Hot Shots! Part Deux >>> Hot Shots!

6/12/2007 2:33:51 PM

el mariachi is not better than desparado and if you think that then you're on crack
it was great for a small budget movie but desparado is so much better,

6/12/2007 4:56:35 PM

I like El mariachi better because it was before Rodriguez had a big enough budget to put comic book like effects into the fight scenes.

6/12/2007 5:12:51 PM

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"Well using the ditching of old material as a definition Matrix 3 isn't a sequel of Matrix 2."

wait, what?

6/12/2007 11:26:59 PM

Rise of the planet of the apes... watching now and holy shit so much better than the marky mark shit. (not sure if it's a "sequel" or not)

1/25/2014 10:26:16 PM

The only chance that reboot has is that Rise of is ostensibly a remake of the fourth original movie, Conquest of.

1/25/2014 10:46:26 PM

is that the one with the doomsday nuke?

1/25/2014 10:53:37 PM

No, that's the second one, Beneath. Conquest is set in 1991.

1/25/2014 10:58:32 PM

oh...is it the one where all the dogs and cats go extinct and they force apes to be pets with fire and whatnot?

1/25/2014 11:09:16 PM

Yes.

1/26/2014 3:19:11 AM

watching Aliens for the first time since i was a kid. the very first thing i noticed was the music reminded me of 2001. (after a wikipedia search, they did both use music from "Gayane's Adagio from Aram Khachaturian's Gayane ballet suite")

5/31/2014 6:06:57 PM

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"Major League 2 > Major League 1 > Back to the Minors"

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"dude, you've gotta be high. i like major league 2 alright, but major league is one of the top 10 sports movies ever. ML2 tried too hard to be funny"

The loss of Wesley Snipes really hurt the 2nd movie. Omar Epps is cool, but he wasn't Wesley Snipes. I still liked it though. Hell, I enjoyed all 3

6/1/2014 8:06:04 AM

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

6/1/2014 10:38:22 AM

all of the original planet of the apes movies > all the new planet of the apes movies. especially that marky mark shit. ugh awful.

also the one where the telepathic mutants worship the atomic bomb is the best.

6/1/2014 10:58:38 AM

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"Matrix 3 > Matrix"

wat?

6/1/2014 2:14:10 PM

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