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There was a rumor many, many years ago of Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2
well now they won’t have to make that one i guess.
Well, this is certainly not something I expected to see today. Not sure how I feel about it. Amazon has a great history of ruining things they touch.
Didn’t they do History of the World Part 2? That was a trainwreck.
that was hulu.
Is this the general consensus of this show? I thought it was great.
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Curious what you consider they’ve ruined? I’ve liked a lot of the stuff they’ve put out compared to other services.
And MGM is no slouch.
The Expanse
While I wouldn’t say they’ve “ruined it” it felt like a significant drop in quality the moment Amazon took over.
Except Alcon was still making it and the budget didn’t change. Season 6 got cut down to 6 episodes due to Amazon, though.
That and the whole there being three other books worth of material that the series just noped the fuck out of because amazon didn’t want to keep making the series. They did the same thing with The Wheel of Time.
well that’s not something they can really do with a single movie like Spaceballs 2.
Actor contracts etc the longer a show goes on($$), and the time lapse between book 6 and 7. Still would be more than amazing to see on screen. And if one has seen the show and not read the books I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Uh one of the main actors got in shit for sexual abuse, that ended any chance of having future episodes.
Amazon wouldn’t have left that cash cow behind, but there wasn’t going forward with that actor, or even rewriting them.
You can see how they went back and changed the end of the season already filmed scenes to rewrite the cancelation story in.
There was also a massive time shift coming up, it just wouldn’t work.
There’s a 30 year gap in between the last episode and when the story starts again. That’s a perfect place to end the show, and then pick it back up down the road.
Masbe that was the core of the issue.
Lord of The Rings
That is a very fair answer, if not them someone else unfortunately though. It was doomed to get more content eventually.
side-eyes Invincible
…almost everything. Kinda bummed we didn’t get a Spawn cameo but, I get it.
Fallout and The Boys are also very good. Also continued The Expanse well.
The Boys was great. For about 1.5 seasons and then became an expensive, repetitive, gratuitous mess that made no effort to keep changing the formula. I actually convinced myself it was okay enough to get through the whole series then looked back and thought “I can’t remember a single significant plot development that led to anything real beyond the first season.”
They almost ruined that series with the budgeting/ animation. They saved it with the finale. I’m not going to hop the animation hate train, though. It definitely came down to budget/ time constraints.
What do you mean? Invincible handled the animation perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhndpv7sEqE
I think they do a good job of choosing when to turn the heat up on that budget and when to dial it back.
I don’t think they had that as well dialed in during Season 2, but I couldn’t complain much about the Conquest fight. It could be miles and miles better, sure.
I’ll take rough animation over that cgi trying to look like animation crap that never looks good.
Oh god, no!
History of the World Part II was honestly fucking great. It also had very little to do with Mel Brooks. It had brilliant comedians at the helm writing and steering everything: Ike Barinholtz, Nick Kroll, and Wanda Sykes. A goddamn DREAM TEAM, and they pulled it off regardless of the reviews.
This outing had better heavy hitters really leaning hard into the comedy. I’ve heard good things about The Naked Gun remake which is a lot of people in this same arena, plus Seth Macfarlane. That’s quite a big team.
Please don’t ruin this great movie with a sub-par sequel.
Rick Moranis, I’m speaking directly to you because I know in my heart you are using Lemmy.
You better fucking show up.
He’s already signed on, along with Bill Pullman
you just made my fucking day. thank you
What about Michael Winslow?
It seems like he’s expected to return as well.
My kids will never understand why I’m excited about this, but I am
If Rick Moranis isn’t in this one, then it’s going to flop.
From what I remember, he left acting in the 90s to raise his children, but I’m pretty sure all your kids have grown up and moved out by now, Rick. Don’t let us down.
Name one reboot, rehash, sequel, etc in the last twenty years that have included a star from the original movie as an attraction to make it cool that wasn’t shite.
Easy: Indiana Jones and Star Wars.
They’re grown up, but its possible they might be shrunk down.
Rick Moranis, I’m speaking directly to you because I know in my heart you are using Lemmy.
hi it’s me rick thank you for continuing to believe in me it’s children like you that keep the christmas magic alive
The REAL Rick Moranis wouldn’t have horrible grammar and punctuation. He’s Canadian.
Get outta heeeeeeere ✊
It better be “The Search for More Money”
I was honestly disappointed we didn’t get Spaceballs: The Sequel
Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
Has to be!
Hey at least Mel Brooks won’t have to wear makeup to play Yogurt. Dude is 98.
He’s 99 end of this month 😲.
I just want him around long enough to see this made, and to get his parts in for Yogurt.
I’m hoping his soul refuses to rest until The Search for More Money is completed!
I keep thinking, will he even make it to the release? 2027 is a long way away for someone that’s 99. It’s also crazy to think that he was still in his 60’s when the first was made.
Ya heard of me?
Who hasn’t heard of…(Stop now before I type out the script).
He was hilarious, but I hope he knows he probably can’t do it quite the same and maybe get replaced by the novice, homogenized milk. I really got no idea what fat content of milk is used for yogurt but think you get the idea. He could even be quite fabulous.
Damn. Mel brooks is looking spry for 99.
I genuinely thought he had passed several years ago, I had a real Mandela-Effect moment when I saw this trailer, I thought at first “There’s no way this will be funny without Mel leading it.” Then he appeared and seemed old but energetic and thought “there is no WAY they used AI to resurrect him, this is horrible!”
It took a few minutes for me to figure out what reality I was in and I still have my doubts about Spaceballs sequel, not because I don’t think it will be funny, but because the general population who discusses things and overanalyzes things get the loudest voice and review bomb movies that are supposed to be just fun and not a pointed social statement.
Dick Van Dyke is also still around and doing projects heading towards 100.
If keeping busy is keeping them around I look forward to each of their 150th birthday parties.
There are more and more promising trials of life-extension drugs, procedures and genetic tricks, It seems like we might be only a couple decades away from extending human lifespans* by around 30% from conservative averages.
I wonder how many of us are going to slide under that lowering Indiana-Jones door. And how many people are going to live on after seeing people they care for dying to a disease that we still think of as natural. and will look back at one day the way we look at how we lived before germ theory or antibiotics existed.
* in this case, “human” will probably mean wealthy white men, but it will be a start.
Definite proof that it’s good to be the king!
I know right? He turns 99 later this month! I hope I look that good.
We asked what the fans want. Instead, we’re making this movie.
nice
Classic Mel.
HOLY SHIT, RICK MORANIS IS COMING BACK!
(And a bunch of other original cast members too, which is also very cool, but Rick Moranis basically quit acting to be a stay-at-home dad three decades ago and this is the project significant enough to lure him back. It’s gotta be a pretty good script if it’s capable of that!)
WOW! After his wife died and he took a step back from acting - perhaps not shrinking his kids in the mean time - it has to be good if he’s in it…right? Though, due to all the previous reboots/sequels/rehashing of previous IP, it probably won’t be :(
I have a feeling it will be a disappointment. Not because the quality of the movie will have changed, but because all of us have changed.
What about John Candy though!!!
I didn’t think we have the technology to bring him back
We kinda do have it, but it would be wrong to do so. As much has I love to see John Candy in a new movie it just wouldn’t be him.
But they will do this with some dead celebrity for sure mark my word. Hell they done it before with shitter technology. Just look up the John Wayne Budweswire commercial from the 90’s if you want an example.
We sort of do but it will be a nightmare abomination of stitched together dead things.
(I’m talking about AI, not actual frankenstein tech, John probably would have been cool with that way of coming back.)
Gonna miss him as Barf. RIP
My wife says dogs don’t live that long so they can spin it that way 🙂↕️.
I’m worried he just got into the chocolate on the ship. I hope they got a really nice shoebox and a lovely plot in the yard for him. He was his own best friend after all.
My wife brought that up about chocolate. I prefer the age thing myself, seems more dignified to me.
I think John Candy would have found it funnier to not be dignified. But he’d also likely just be honored anyways to be included.
True, can’t wait to see how this turns out. Rick Morrison making his comeback with this movie is the greatest news I’ve heard in a long time.
God damn it, man. Sobs
I know right. If they don’t find a way to honor him I will be very disappointed. Better be big goddamn statue of him in that movie.
I want to see a super serious trailer with Dark Helmet a la Darth Vader… with an optional comedic break near the end.
He’s been trying to get back into acting for a while now. This is a great movie for fans to get to see him in.
I would love it if he and Dave Thomas reunited for more Great White North. They could be old dudes with Gen Z grandkids.
There’s an interview that he did recently floating around YouTube. He seems like he’s ready to be back.
I was wondering if he was coming back. Really the most important character
It would also be impossible to replace him. I’d say that imo it was his most iconic role.
Also the movie’s most iconic character.
Cartoon went largely unnoticed, missing the subtitle (so far) “the search for more money” and if they hit that release year Mr Brooks will be over 100 years old.
He also fought in WW2.
hahhaha! YES!
if Brooks is making it, sure.
A reboot of a beloved 1980s classic?
What are the odds it’s going to be any good?
Stranger things have happened.
Low
Other than what’s it’s parodying I’ll never understand the love for Spaceballs. Terrible movie in my opinion.
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, uhhhh, your opinion, man.
Do you like ANY Mel Brooks movie? Zucker Brothers?
Of course. The Mel Brooks films with Gene Wilder are classics. I can quote Airplane and Naked Gun until the cows come home. Just find Spaceballs pretty much unwatchable. Just my opinion!
It hasn’t aged as well as I think people remember. Did you see it when it came out?
Definitely agree with that. Probably first saw it on VHS a few years after it came out.
I mean when comparing Spaceballs to Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles, I can see the argument for it not being great.
It is definitely not one of his better movies.
I still kind of like it though and I will support almost any Mel Brooks vehicle. At least just for the off chance we get another glorious movie like Blazing Saddles.
You might be a tad on the young side. These kinds of movies were a product of their time and likely wouldn’t hold up for people who grew up in the age of Tiktok, Vine, youtube shorts, etc.
I wish that were the case.
I like the scroll mentioning all these sequels and spinoffs but then says there was only one Spaceballs this whole time…
I guess even Brooks himself has tried to forget the short-lived animated Spaceballs series.
Please let this be true
