And Then I Died A Little Inside...

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**Ahtman**

It's a Wonderful Life Sequel Coming in 2015

**CthuluIsSpy**

See, now Hollywood is just getting desperate.

**Medium of Death**

What a terrible idea, only made worse by the apparent twist in this version...

how much better off the world would have been had he never been born

Really? That's their angle? That's horrible.

**kronk**

It sounds a lot like the 150,000 Christmas Specials that circulate on the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Network, and TNT between Thanksgiving and New Years. I'll pass.

Unless there is full frontal, naturally.

**Alfndrate**

kronk wrote:
It sounds a lot like the 150,000 Christmas Specials that circulate on the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Network, and TNT between Thanksgiving and New Years. I'll pass.

Unless there is full frontal, naturally.

Agreed, I prefer my Christmas specials to have plenty t&a

**kronk**

Sex and the City had the best Christmas episodes.

**fishy bob**

kronk wrote:
Sex and the City had the best Christmas episodes.

And that should tell you something about Christmas episodes.

**hotsauceman1**

Didnt Nostalgia Critic anf Fairly Odd Parents do this already. Now this can be good, if it is a parody

**TheCustomLime**

Do you think they'll start making remakes of sequels and sequels to remakes of sequels to remakes?

**jeeb_sound**

touched by an angle. thats not a typo

**Platuan4th**

TheCustomLime wrote:
Do you think they'll start making remakes of sequels and sequels to remakes of sequels to remakes?

They already did. The entire "of the Dead" series from the 2000's is remakes of the original sequels and then sequels to those sequel remakes.

**TheCustomLime**

Platuan4th wrote:
TheCustomLime wrote:
Do you think they'll start making remakes of sequels and sequels to remakes of sequels to remakes?

They already did. The entire "of the Dead" series from the 2000's is remakes of the original sequels and then sequels to those sequel remakes.

And then they'll make remakes of those sequels and sequels to those remakes. Now we are potentially getting into a recursion of sequels and remakes.

**reiner**

Eventually, if you create enough sequels, a pattern emerges...

**spiralingcadaver**

I don't even particularly like the movie, but that's just a travesty.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Needs more Predator.

**kronk**

reiner wrote:
Eventually, if you create enough sequels, a pattern emerges...

I don't understand any of this...

**d-usa**

It means that the velociraptors escaped.

**hotsauceman1**

reiner wrote:
Eventually, if you create enough sequels, a pattern emerges...

AHHHH MATH *Starts Chanting In tongues and tries to exorcise the math from thread"

**Easy E**

I...just.... why?..... [head explodes]

**Bromsy**

Yeah, as much as any enjoyment of this film has been ground down by repeated viewing; this is pretty sad. And it's going to do great, because people are idiots. And then even more of this sort of crap is going to happen.

Aside from Christmas Vacation, holiday movies can just suck it.

.... and if I am drunk enough, Jingle All the Way.

**wowsmash**

What the 15th batman remakes not enough? You got to ruin our Christmas classic's too?

**Ma55ter_fett**

Wasn't this the film that only became a classic because no one bothered to copywrite it properly so the networks could show it every Christmas for free?

**Forar**

Alfndrate wrote:
kronk wrote:
It sounds a lot like the 150,000 Christmas Specials that circulate on the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Network, and TNT between Thanksgiving and New Years. I'll pass.

Unless there is full frontal, naturally.

Agreed, I prefer my Christmas specials to have plenty t&a

Which is yet another reason Die Hard remains one of the finest Christmas movies ever made.

**Talizvar**

To derive from a known success is all the "risk" they can handle these days.

You leave the new ideas to all the independent videos out there, or freaky people on YouTube.

In the past they depended on the word of mouth to take at least a week before everyone knew it was garbage, just in time to make their money and a bit of profit. I suspect heavy advertising with "see it now!" before you find out it sucks!

**gorgon**

I'll take somewhat of a contrary opinion and say that Hollywood sometimes shows too much tolerance for risk. Disney shouldn't have given movies like John Carter and The Lone Ranger $250 million budgets, for instance.

**Bromsy**

gorgon wrote:
I'll take somewhat of a contrary opinion and say that Hollywood sometimes shows too much tolerance for risk. Disney shouldn't have given movies like John Carter and The Lone Ranger $250 million budgets, for instance.

I wouldn't define building off of a pre-established IP a 'risk', exactly. I would just chalk that up to poor market research/making bad movies.

And reposting my opinion from Facebook here - The only way this could be worth watching were if it was directed by David Lynch and Toto was doing the soundtrack. And young Arnold Schwarzenegger was playing George Bailey. And the Angel was played by Olivia Wilde. And it had a totally different storyline.

**Noir**

Every time they remake a classic I think they must have a tiny sack, or they remake Blazing Saddles. Think about the free ads, paid for by every uptight no humor Rights Group there is. The gak storm would be great.

P.S. Did anybody really like It's a Wonderful Life, it is almost as bad as the one with Santa kicking the kid down the slide.

**Platuan4th**

Noir wrote:
the one with Santa kicking the kid down the slide.

Which also has a recently made sequel.

**DarkTraveler777**

Noir wrote:
P.S. Did anybody really like It's a Wonderful Life, it is almost as bad as the one with Santa kicking the kid down the slide.

For shame! A Christmas Story is great! Granted, TBS running it for 24 hours is a bit much every year, but as far as holiday movies go its on my short list of not-crap movies.

I am going to go turn my Leg Lamp on when I get home and offer a prayer up to the Italian god Fragil-e!

**Alfndrate**

Platuan4th wrote:
Noir wrote:
the one with Santa kicking the kid down the slide.

Which also has a recently made sequel.

Too bad the people that did that movie didn't do their research, or else they would have known that Christmas Story already had a sequal

DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Noir wrote:
P.S. Did anybody really like It's a Wonderful Life, it is almost as bad as the one with Santa kicking the kid down the slide.

For shame! A Christmas Story is great! Granted, TBS running it for 24 hours is a bit much every year, but as far as holiday movies go its on my short list of not-crap movies.

I am going to go turn my Leg Lamp on when I get home and offer a prayer up to the Italian god Fragil-e!

I can't stand A Christmas Story, I realize that saying that I'm basically worse than Hitler and spitting on one of the few things that Cleveland has to be proud of, but TBS fething ruined it for me by showing nothing but that movie for 24 hours. Do you know what's on at 3 to 6 am on Christmas? That and crappy infomercials. ugh, just because a kid can't sleep on Christmas doesn't mean you have to torture him with bad tv!