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2018 ***1/2 It's 1986 for some reason, and a team of paranormal investigators are making a big name for themselves all over Scotland. ...
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I’m sure none of you except for JPX knows that I’m a bit of a germ-a-phobic. It’s annoying, but manageable. Though, since I met JPX and list...
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Okay, so a "trailer preview" is pretty much exactly what it promises, showing bits of the bits of the movie they're going to show tomorrow.
Ah, I'm still excited.
I've said this before about sequels: I love when they give a movie (that nobody's even thinking about sequelizing yet) some kind of crazy or outlandish or dramatic ending, and then, when you come back for the sequel, they're forced to call their own bluff and actually show the thing that they had hinted came next (with impunity, since it was the end of the movie) and they just make it awesome anyway.
Examples:
1) Batman Begins ends with Wayne Manor burned down; The Dark Knight has Wayne living in a penthouse apartment and using a huge hidden industrial sub-basement as a replacement "bat-cave"
2) The Godfather ends with all the characters talking about making "the move to Nevada" (right out of the book) and the final sequence shows moving trucks loading their furniture (which corresponds to the final chapter of the book); The Godfather Part II actually takes place (mostly) in Lake Tahoe, Nevada (at the Corleone's vast new estate)
3) Lethal Weapon ends with Murtaugh's garage getting destroyed; in Lethal Weapon 2, he's building a new garage (minor example)
4) Iron Man (SPOILER WARNING) ends with Tony Stark saying "I'm Iron Man"; Iron Man 2 obviously takes place in an environment where everybody knows Stark is Iron Man (see the trailer of the trailer) and it's still clearly a coherent story
Any others?
5) Alien ends with Ripley alone in the Nostromo shuttle, speculating that "with any luck the network will pick [her] up" before going into hypersleep; Aliens starts with the network picking up the shuttle
6) Back to the Future ends with the outlandish return of Doc Brown from "thirty years in the future," saying that Marty and Jennifer's kids are in trouble, and exclaiming "in the future we don't need roads" before flying them away in the Delorean (as they admit on the DVD, an ending put together for sheer fun spectacle); Back to the Future Part II actually goes to 2015 (where all the cars fly) and begins with a plot to save the kids
7) Die Hard (during which John McClane spends the movie complaining about California, and explains to the chauffeur why he did not follow his wife to the West Coast when her career took her there) ends with the McClanes reconciling; Die Hard 2 depicts John McClane as having dutifully moved to Los Angeles and joined the LAPD
I was going to include the end of Casino Royale (where Bond shoots the dude in the leg) and the beginning of Quantum of Solace (where it's like twenty minutes later and Bond is driving the Aston Martin along the Italian coast, wearing the same suit, with the dude in the trunk, his leg bleeding) but it doesn't really count, because they knew there'd be a sequel; you could bet your life on it.
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