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wikipedia has pages for franchises with 2, 3, 4....11+ films here. -- (link) - Max Oct 22, 11:26 1
- There at 13 "Land Before Time" movies?! -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 11:28
Your "it was inevitable" headline of the day -- (link) - Reagen Oct 22, 11:23 2
- Does Nic Cage have an alibi? -- nm - Deevil, crying Oct 22, 11:35
- i hate when they kill animals when this stuff happens. "oh, look the bear acted like a bear." -- nm - Andie Oct 22, 11:27
a perhaps more challenging one - name franchise killers, like Clooney in Batman -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:23 14
- puberty killed Home Alone -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:27
- I would say he saved it. By making it so bad they had to reboot. -- nm - AJRimmer Oct 22, 11:25 1
  - good point -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:27
- Ben Affleck -- nm - big time shamu Oct 22, 11:25
- Joel Schumacher. -- nm - Will GhostHunting Oct 22, 11:25
- I don't think it was Clooney so much as Burton. (nm) - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:24 4
  - Burton was faithful. Schumacher brought the nipples -- nm - big time shamu Oct 22, 11:25 1
    - Nobody remembers it now but Batman Returns was considered a franchise killer and Batman Forever was praised for being a step in the right direction. -- nm - David Oct 22, 11:28
  - uh, that was Schumacher bub -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:25 1
    - My humblest apologies, I realized that about a minute after I posted. - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:26
- Hannibal Lecter -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 11:24
- how can you kill something that's already dead? -- nm - big time shamu Oct 22, 11:23 2
  - you don't want to go there -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:24 1
    - Clooney took the source material as far as it would let him - big time shamu Oct 22, 11:25
I can see this kind of thing working in a lot of cities, I just don't know that it would have that big of an effect here. -- (link) - znufrii Oct 22, 11:20 5
- I would have appreciated paying less for midnight weekend G trains that come every 45 minutes. - Hotkiss Oct 22, 11:26 1
  - My brilliant idea is to simply make all late-night service free of charge system-wide - znufrii Oct 22, 11:29
- I expect it's about enabling the MTA to eventually increase prices for peak-hour fares -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:24 2
  - that would be the end result, without question. - znufrii Oct 22, 11:25 1
    - Probably not - which is why they should charge more :) Basic price discrimination -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:30
can we make a rule that two movies do not count as a franchise? -- nm - zork Oct 22, 11:20 5
- No - Bruce Willis: Die Hard, Look Who's Talking and The Whole X Yards -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:20
- i'm pretty sure it's a littttttle late for that -- nm - prayforEscapefromUndeadmojo Oct 22, 11:20 2
  - "Little"? Rick Moranis: Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Ghostbusters! - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:23
  - nice things, us not have. -- nm - Reagen Oct 22, 11:22
- Well hell, that changes everything! -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 11:20
Have we stated Charlie Sheen for Major League, Hot Shots, and (a stretch) Scary Movie? - GWAA Oct 22, 11:18 3
- Sandra Bullock - Speed and Miss Congeniality -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:21
- The fact that there's STers across North America racking their brains about this is amusing to me -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 11:21
- stop ruining diva's special birthday -- nm - big time shamu Oct 22, 11:20
apparently This Is It! is going to have a good run -- (link) - zork Oct 22, 11:18
Chris Tucker: Rush Hour and the Friday movies. Ice Cube: Friday movies and Barbershop movies. (nm) - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:15 8
- Banders - Shrek, Zorro, Desperado/Once Upon a Time in Mexico -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:18 1
  - heh - and Spy Kids -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:22
- what are the Friday movies? -- nm - zork Oct 22, 11:16 2
  - You know. Friday, Next Friday, Last Friday, the Friday before Last - kilboooo! Oct 22, 11:18 1
    - The first one was really damn funny. - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:18
- Hi! -- nm - the bottom of the barrel Oct 22, 11:16 2
  - Ben Affleck: Kevin Smith movies and Daredevil. (nm) - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:18 1
    - I think you mean Jason Statham - Transporter and Crank -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:19
Some aspects of celebrity watching culture confuse me more than others. - Reagen Oct 22, 11:10 8
- and the papers want to know whose shirt you wea-ar. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 22, 11:16 1
  - at least Major Tom had been to space. -- nm - Reagen Oct 22, 11:17
- How else am I going to become a famous celeb unless I eat what they do? -- nm - Max Oct 22, 11:15
- One of Kim's co-workers... - David Oct 22, 11:15 2
  - I feel like Stephanie Meyer has set the women's movement back 20 years. -- nm - Reagen Oct 22, 11:24
  - that's... something. -- nm - b.oo! Oct 22, 11:20
- Vampires don't eat food. This is news. -- nm - jnine Oct 22, 11:14
- Vampires *are* notoriously fickle in their music listening. (nm) - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:12
A guy at work who has missed 2 meetings with me over his cat issues sent me this: - Deevil Oct 22, 11:09 14
- We had to let an employee go because he took 2 weeks leave after his cat died - GWAA Oct 22, 11:16 10
  - I wonder if the cat died from eating a bad bagel. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 22, 11:28
  - so not the cause. ugh. -- nm - b.oo! Oct 22, 11:21
  - Did you even consider that the cat was jewish and the guy was the one who killed it? (nm) - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:21
  - whoa. mwrowr! -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 11:19
  - I was distraught after my cat died, but I can tell you having a cat die doesn't make you anti-Semitic -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:17 5
    - Unless the Jews killed it. But even then. -- nm - Reagen Oct 22, 11:18 4
      - even then, it wouldn't have been the fault of *all* the Jews, just the one who did the deed. -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 11:21 3
        
        it's supposed to be a happy card...*sob!!* -- nm - Deevil, crying Oct 22, 11:22 2
        
        meow! meow! -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 11:24
        
        luv ya, happy birthday :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:23
- hee, i laughed -- nm - Andie Oct 22, 11:10 1
  - so did I - it's perfect from him. -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 11:11
- Meaw? Isn't it Meow? -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 11:10
Oooh. I've got one. Keanu Reeves: Bill and Ted, The Matrix! -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 11:06 7
- Travolta - Look Who's Talking, Grease and the soon-to-be-franchised Wild Hogs -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:11 6
  - and Saturday Night Live/Staying Alive -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:13 3
    - And Get Shorty/Be Cool -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:15 1
      - good ones -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:15
    - umm, Saturday Night Fever -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:13
  - he wasn't in Grease 2. -- nm - Jim Oct 22, 11:12 1
    - huh, I thought he was. oh well -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 11:14
Amazon upped their game credit to $20... man I love this Amazon/Walmart price war -- nm - GWAA Oct 22, 11:02
I forget if I posted this, but a Georgetown Student places an absurd ad for a PA (he's a sophomore) and it has now made it to CNN -- (link) - MDH Oct 22, 11:02 5
- /remembers the PA who gets her own PA from a This American Life a few weeks back/ -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 22, 11:05
- "Making it to CNN" is the news equivalent of being a "real actress" in Hollywood because no one has made you do anal yet. -- nm - TFox Oct 22, 11:03 3
  - I'm out. -- nm - Jennifer Connelly Oct 22, 11:05 2
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      - oof. -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 11:12
speaking of Bring It On, I want to thank Proactiv for giving us regular doses of Gabrielle Union lately -- nm - zork Oct 22, 11:01 1
- God, I love her - con_carne Oct 22, 11:12
"Now bring me Wil Wheaton." -- nm - TFox Oct 22, 11:01 1
- Funny episode this week. -- nm - Subversive Oct 22, 11:02
Gary Oldman: Harry Potter and Batman -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 10:59 20
- Ving Rhames - Mission Impossible and the Lilo & Stitch series. - Dr.Vermin Oct 22, 11:07
- I believe that Reagen is about to request that you step inside his cave - prayforEscapefromUndeadmojo Oct 22, 11:05 5
  - it's more fun because it echos. -- nm - Reagen Oct 22, 11:15 1
    - That's what she said... -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 11:15
  - bah, Reagen/cave not so scary....dignan/cave, scary -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:07 2
    - ack. was supposed to be "pain cave" - prayforEscapefromUndeadmojo Oct 22, 11:08 1
      - I'll escape before he finishes sayd "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum" -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:09
- Asia Carrera: Where the Boys Aren't *and* No Man's Land. (nm) - David Oct 22, 11:01 6
  - I'm still in shock that my wife is friends with her. -- nm - Inigo Oct 22, 11:10
  - she ain't no Janine Lindemulder -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:02 4
    - But Janine has never appeared in No Man's Land...nor mastered a piano concerto. -- nm - David Oct 22, 11:03 3
      - knowing her name exhausts my knowledge on the subject, so I'll concede -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:05 2
        
        You didn't even introduce Sandra Bullock into the discussion! -- nm - David Oct 22, 11:06 1
        
        Jesse James, the common denominator! -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:06
- I got confused. Was it an actor who creates two franchises or actors who have been in two franchises? :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:01
- He's not Potter or Batman. C'mon. -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 11:00 4
  - I'm trying for ridiculous -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:01 3
    - and succeeding marvelously, I might add... -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 11:02 2
      - this is the holy grail for that particular endorsement. -- nm - TFox Oct 22, 11:02 1
        
        I am honored -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:03
"The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain't spitting it out." -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 10:57
Oh, I guess it's time for the Halloween nick -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 10:56 2
- what about KILLbo? -- nm - zork Oct 22, 10:58 1
  - It just seems mean to Bo -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 22, 10:59
LIR: Thanks jnine! I love all my stalker stuff! -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 10:55 4
- Every time I see "Deevil", I initially think it's "David" and I get momentarily confused. - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 11:01 1
  - Just so we're clear: I. Would. Never. -- nm - David Oct 22, 11:02
- WTF? I *just* signed up this morning. How the crap did you get your package already!?! -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 10:56 1
  - i didn't know until today who stalked me this summer. -- nm - Deevil Oct 22, 10:58
Happy birthday to the trivia master! And happy New Parent Day to Mr. Bentley! -- nm - David Oct 22, 10:55
ST Deal Lookeroutters: Please keep an eye out for deals on (1) flutes, or (2) Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars. - JaxSean Oct 22, 10:55 4
- Rack Room Shoes has a buy 1 get 50% off 2nd pair deal right now, Chucks $30-35 regular. - Hotkiss Oct 22, 11:05
- I would like to get a clarinet someday. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 22, 10:59
- iirc, my sister sold her flute a few years ago... - znufrii Oct 22, 10:56 1
  - My daughter has decided to stay in band in High School. - JaxSean Oct 22, 10:59
I think some of those answers on B2 are a bit of a stretch, and in a lot of cases, esp. comedies, the actor is really the franchise, not the movies. -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 10:54 14
- while not the franchise actor for most of these, Christopher Lee was in multiple LOTR, Star Wars, Dracula, Fu Manchu, and Sherlock Holmes movies. -- nm - zork Oct 22, 10:59
- I'll stretch it even further Brad Dourif: LOTR and the Chucky movies, Neve Campbell: Scream and the Wild Things franchise -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 10:57 8
  - There was another Wild Things? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 22, 10:59 3
    - I think there were 3 -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 11:01
    - what did you think Where the Wild Things Are was all about? -- nm - znufrii Oct 22, 11:00
    - like you didn't buy the STV Wild Things 2 -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 11:00
  - Oh, Jackie Chan! - Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon etc, Armor of God etc, Project A etc, Police Story series -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 10:58
  - Kirsten Dunst: Spider-Man and Bring It On -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 10:57 2
    - she was in more than one Bring It On movie? -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 10:58 1
      - no, but it is a definite franchise she started -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 10:59
- Wait. Has the intergrity of the random TT poll been compromised!?!? (nm) - musubiafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 10:56 2
  - Urine tests, people! Chop chop! -- nm - David Oct 22, 10:57
  - of course not. - znufrii Oct 22, 10:57
- In many cases , the actor makes the franchise -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 10:55
For something completely different, here's a HWDYK on the S1 pilot of Friday Night Lights - prayforEscapefromUndeadmojo Oct 22, 10:53 1
- 13....I should totally watch this episode for the first time. -- nm - Will GhostHunting Oct 22, 11:00
ST Poll: Name an actor that has appeared in two different movies! C'mon, this can't be that hard -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 10:52 15
- When in doubt, I go with Borgnine -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 11:06
- are we allowed to use IMDB? -- nm - zork Oct 22, 11:03
- the great Pappy Shmeckberger from nineteen tickety two -- nm - pegleg Oct 22, 10:55 3
  - hee -- nm - big time shamu Oct 22, 10:57 2
    - He made six hundred films that year -- nm - con_carne Oct 22, 11:02 1
      - tickety two was a good year -- nm - big time shamu Oct 22, 11:06
- I don't think there are any. (nm) - musubeafraidofthingsthatgobumpinthenight Oct 22, 10:52 6
  - you're forgetting Clint Howard -- nm - prayforEscapefromUndeadmojo Oct 22, 10:53 5
    - Hmm, Clint Howard is on my tv right now. You're a witch! - David Oct 22, 10:57 1
      - I watched that last weekend. Great movie. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 10:57
    - It's ok, everyone does. (nm) - Clint Howard Oct 22, 10:54
    - Nepotism! I call foul -- nm - oblique Oct 22, 10:53 1
      - musubi is related to Clint Howard? -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 10:55
- How about that Harry Potter kid? Didn't they do a couple of those? -- nm - David Oct 22, 10:52
- Seth Rogen -- nm - GWAA Oct 22, 10:52

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