Continuing my month-long binge of first (and often only) sequels, this week’s offerings are Killjoy 2 (2002), a follow-up to a movie that no one wanted followed up, and Excessive Force 2: Force on Force (1995), a follow-up which is in no way a follow-up to the movie it follows up.
#1 by Tom Meade on May 22, 2008 - 1:16 am
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He looks alarmingly like the Grinch, but with Alice from Dilbert’s hair. This is one of those looks which is silly in a film, but which would scare the shit out of me in real life.
#2 by Matthew Fudge on May 22, 2008 - 4:17 am
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Well at least Gene Simmons is still getting work
#3 by Nathan Shumate on May 22, 2008 - 5:55 am
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Tom: Yeah, but in real life there’s no way you could ignore the poorly-blended seams in the latex appliance.
#4 by Ed on May 22, 2008 - 9:28 am
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There’s always a bit of a giddy flashback to when I’d rent any video tape laying around my usual video store whenever I come across a review of a cheesy action film and realize that I’ve seen it. This happened with Excessive Force 2, along with the realization that I’m probably one of the few who has seen both Excessive Force movies. Granted now it’s basically the same thing, just with DVDs.
#5 by Nathan Shumate on May 22, 2008 - 9:52 am
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That’s better than what I do too often: read to the end of a review and ask, “Wait — have I seen that?” (What’s worse is when it turns out I’ve not only seen it, I’ve reviewed it.)
#6 by hman on May 22, 2008 - 12:18 pm
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I would’ve thought that reviewing a movie would guarantee a place for it in one’s long-term memory. Turns out that I’m wrong about that.
#7 by Ed on May 22, 2008 - 1:22 pm
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It depends on the film. I did a piece on Submerged for The Agony Booth and thankfully enough, I’ve forgotten most of it save for the fact that it’s an action movie where not a hell of a lot happens. Sadly enough, this is reflected in the recap.
#8 by lyzard on May 22, 2008 - 4:49 pm
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The few Sci-Fi movies that make it here are, for some reason, usually re-titled. I keep getting about a third of the way through a film and becoming convinced I’ve seen it before….and then I realise that I’ve just read Scott Foy’s review of it under another name.
#9 by hman on May 22, 2008 - 5:16 pm
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Some movies retain their original filming title when they make it here. The title card for the Rock’s “The Rundown” reads “Welcome to the Jungle”. Same thing goes for JCVD’s “Double Team”, which retains the original title, “The Colony” down here.
#10 by hman on May 22, 2008 - 8:39 pm
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“The few Sci-Fi movies that make it here are, for some reason, usually re-titled.”
I noticed this here in Brazil, too, Lyz. The English title to some of them have “Man” in them: “Larva” is called “Morph Man”, “Mansquito” is “Mosquito Man”, and “Snake King” is called “Snake Man.” I think the only one where the two titles matched was “Skeleton Man.”
#11 by Elizabeth the Ferret on May 23, 2008 - 5:37 am
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Well, at least the clown doesn’t look like the love child of Pennywise and Pipi in the sequel.
#12 by Nathan Shumate on May 23, 2008 - 6:10 am
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That’s right. In the sequel, it’s more like the lovechild of Pennywise and Leona Helmsley.
#13 by KeithA on June 3, 2008 - 12:10 pm
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I’ve been gone the past two weeks, but I think there’s a major typo in your review. You see, you typed KILLJOY 2, and that can’t possibly be right, because there’s no way a KILLJOY 2 would ever be conceived of, much less made.
#14 by Nathan Shumate on June 3, 2008 - 1:41 pm
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Oh Keith, Keith, delightfully naive Keith…