Difference between revisions of "Examples of Late Franchise Buffoonery"
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* Adding the Leo Getz character to the sequels drove this action franchise further and further into the buffoonery zone. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHQnXZ45-w</ref> | * Adding the Leo Getz character to the sequels drove this action franchise further and further into the buffoonery zone. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHQnXZ45-w</ref> | ||
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| + | * Mr. Freeze's never-ending series of puns. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkTHtWX7CCY</ref> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 01:10, 6 January 2019
Late Franchise Buffoonery is a phenomena where a series of films starts out seriously but gets sillier and sillier as later installments go for the cheap laughs.
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Live and Let Die (1973)
- Sheriff J.W. Pepper shows up and hilarity ensues. [1]
Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Movie stops to let Rancor's keeper weep and be consoled for his deceased charge. [2]
- Chewie swings on a vine on the Endor moon while making the "Tarzan" yell. [3]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Marcus Brody transforms into a buffoon, completely un-doing the character we met in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". [4]
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
- Uhura, Chekov and Scotty are transformed into bumbling idiots madly leafing through Klingon translation books. [5]
Lethal Weapon sequels (1989 to 1998)
- Adding the Leo Getz character to the sequels drove this action franchise further and further into the buffoonery zone. [6]
Batman & Robin (1997)
- Mr. Freeze's never-ending series of puns. [7]
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cODPt3T0cHE
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmkGkSG1-d0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm1OaKO_fzw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6eDHaniB0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avH2K1iR8Oo
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHQnXZ45-w
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkTHtWX7CCY
