Hollywood is bringing us another year full of remakes, adaptations, and sequels! Nevermind seeing something original, when you can watch the same crap you've been watching for years. Along with "American Reunion", which I passed in this "Pass or Fail", they have decided to bring the public updates to franchises that were thought dead for nearly a decade. Here are two of them!
Pass: The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey
Development Hell wasn't very kind to "The Hobbit", and to be fair, this isn't a sequel, but you knew that already. Different directors were slated to work on it, and at one point it seemed like New Line had dropped Peter Jackson from the project altogether. Here it is nine years after "Return of the King", and we finally have "The Hobbit"! It looks like it is going to be as fun as the early scenes in "The Fellowship of the Ring" were. Ian McKellen returns in his Oscar-nominated role of Gandalf, and it looks like a lot of the "LOTR" cast will be making cameos (I guess so notto confuse the passing fans). I hope this lives up to Jackson's adaptation of the "Rings" trilogy.
Fail: Men in Black III
The summer of 1997 saw the release of an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic book, that became a massive hit, and continued to launch Will Smith into super-stardom. 2002 gave us a really bad sequel. A decade after that, and Columbia Pictures is throwing us the sequel nobody wants. With "Seven Pounds" and "Hancock", Smith proved he could be in bad movies, and hasn't been in one since. Believe me, there isn't anyone who wants to "slap the shiz-nit out of Andy Warhol" as much as I want to, but I don't think this is the film I want to see it happen in.
Extra Pass: Daft Punk - Derezzed: I would put the whole film on here, if I could, but I'll go with Daft Punk's awesome single to this sequel that took almost three decades to get on screen. And yes, this should have been on last Friday's list. Any video with light-cycles deserves to be called the best.
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