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Post by wheels128 on May 3, 2006 7:34:06 GMT -5
Just thinking... are there enough franchises for a charts page, and if so, what counts as a franchise? Terminator movies? El Mariachi/Desperado/OUATIM?
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Post by JenGe on May 3, 2006 7:45:31 GMT -5
The problem is that none of them but Lethal Weapon (I think) are complete with all of the films counted in a given Franchise. Personally I think it silly to start that chart unless more of them are done. Of course that is only my opinion. If the board feels differently than I'm open to the idea. I just would like to get more of them competed first.
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Post by JenGe on May 3, 2006 7:56:02 GMT -5
Franchise Films = A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters or setting of an original film, video game, or work of literature. Generally a whole series of films, video games, and/or books is made, along with merchandising and endorsements. Multiple sequels are often planned well in advance and, in the case of motion pictures, actors and directors often sign multi-film deals to ensure their participation.
Some media franchises are accidental, such as the Ma and Pa Kettle series of films (the title characters of which broke out of the 1947 film The Egg and I), and some are pre-planned, such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The most profitable film franchises include Star Wars, James Bond, Harry Potter, and The Lord of the Rings. - Media franchise @ WikipediaListing of Film Series @ Wikipedia
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Post by davethejew on May 3, 2006 15:44:23 GMT -5
I will gladly do every james bond film, being that i own most of them, and the 2 unofficial ones and the tv movie
i just want finals week to be over...
until then i will just do the 16 plus horror movies i bought off of ebay last week
also i think the whole franchise thing would cause more argument in our little happy community, like with the sin city thing, being that some films are official/non official, remakes, sequals etc etc etc
with the james bond movies you have the 20 odd or so official MGM Eon productions, then your have the unofficial Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again which is a remake of thunderball, and then you have the BBC 1 tv movie Casino Royale and it just gets shitty
or night of the living dead
you have NOTLD, then you have dawn of the dead, then day of the dead, then land of the dead, however do we count all 3 of the Return of the Living Dead movies, having been partially serious and the 2 direct to DVD ROTLD movies which were total jokes, along with the Savini directed NOTLD remake and the Dawn of the Dead remake, do we count these as part of the franchise?
and even more, what about seperate movies that feature the same character? do those count as franchises? Examples are the Vega brothers from reservoir dogs and pulp fiction, the sheriff from dusk til dawn who shows up in kill bill. Do we count these?
Making a franchise category would be bad, and should only be done for the huge franchises that have 3 or more movies(terminator, el mariachi, LOTR, james bond, friday the 13th, maybe even batman/superman)
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Post by JenGe on May 3, 2006 19:33:46 GMT -5
But I've planned on making a Franchise chart from the very beginning of the site. See it has a pending space on the "Top 30" page...I don't think that it will be a problem at all except for those who make it into one. BTW, no "TV" movies on these counts!!! They have to be theatrical releases (wide, limited, foreign...)
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Post by wheels128 on May 4, 2006 22:28:38 GMT -5
With the Romero series, Night (1968), Dawn (1978), Day (1985) and Land (2005) would be the franchise. I'd presume remakes do not belong in franchises. And just because completely different movies feature the same character does not make them part of a franchise, so Tarantino/Kevin Smith's love of putting the same characters in different films probably wouldn't count.
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Post by davethejew on May 4, 2006 23:45:16 GMT -5
if remakes dont count, if we do bond, what about casino royale and never say never again, on the case of tv movies, there are several tv/hbo movies that are notable(several of woo's) so i will be doing those, it really has nothing to do with franchises but i wanted to add that
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Post by JenGe on May 7, 2006 0:42:05 GMT -5
Fine dave if you insist on creating counts for TV films or series I'll just create a new board as a holding pen for those threads. Maybe someday pages will get made for them but then maybe not...
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Post by davethejew on May 7, 2006 17:38:46 GMT -5
I dont mean it like TV films, you totally took it literally. Some films are made for cable and released on video with a rating(once a thief remake, blackjack) or the pilots are released on video with ratings, so they dont deserve their own category
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Post by wheels128 on May 8, 2006 1:19:59 GMT -5
I presume Jen is talking about telemovies/miniseries, while Dave is talking about Direct-to-TV movies (similar to Direct-to-video). Surely we don't count TV miniseries, but we have to count actual films that start on TV before they get a video release.
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Post by JenGe on May 8, 2006 6:28:00 GMT -5
Here is a way to tell what I am talking about. On Imdb if (TV) follows a title/date I am not adding that film currently on the site. Example. The original Boune Identity was a made for TV film in the 1980s. See the (TV) next to the title & date... imdb.com/title/tt0094791/I will though start a seperate board if any of these do end up getting counted.
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Post by JenGe on May 5, 2007 17:29:02 GMT -5
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Post by JenGe on May 5, 2007 19:29:45 GMT -5
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Post by JenGe on May 9, 2007 13:20:51 GMT -5
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Post by Amie on May 9, 2007 22:08:59 GMT -5
Yey! Three --almost four--of my babies are up there! ;D Thanks a bunch, Jen! Jen, I put up the character kills for LotR RotK in Corrections and Disputes. I didn't know where else to put it.
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Post by ronnoc on May 15, 2007 14:49:40 GMT -5
Yay Franchises! We best be getting a Lone Wolf and Cub page when I finaly finish all dem buggers. (That is, when I pay off my huge-ass fine at the rental store).
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Post by JenGe on Jun 17, 2007 20:29:45 GMT -5
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Post by JenGe on Jun 17, 2007 20:52:14 GMT -5
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Post by rgd51 on Mar 8, 2009 19:27:08 GMT -5
star wars franchise should be done, it has a pretty big bodycount
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Post by davethejew on Mar 10, 2009 0:41:36 GMT -5
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Post by rgd51 on Mar 11, 2009 1:10:06 GMT -5
k dude i see, chill out
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