Modern Sequels (Butterfly Effect 2, Mr.Ripley's)

I am watching (with GREAT GUILTY pleasure!!!) the original (and the
sequel to "Final Destination") writer-directors J.Mackye Gruber & Eric
Bress (FINALLY got their damn names straight!): the "Director's Cut"
side: "Ininfilm: Infinifilm Features: All Access Pass: Director
Commentary with.." commentary on the 2004 great ORIGINAL "Butterfly
Effect" and (Maxwell Smart, no relation to the oriiginal "Butterfly
Effect" and "Crank" costar Amy Smart..) loving it...

This sequel is OBVIOUSLY a cheap attempt to get a buck off the
(well-deserved) box office success of the first (which I thankfully got
to see in its open night IIRC and thankfully have on DVD) almost three
years ago..and I can tell everyone that all they had to do (the
filmmakers here,thankfully NOT the original cast/crew) was to use the
theatrcal (NOT directors cut, see Amazon.com :Butterfly Effect for the
reason!) ending and see if "Evan" (Ashton Kutcvher) & "Kayleigh"(Amy
Smart) somehow again being involved in another argument and Evan having
AGAIN to fix things up...

But the sequel from what I can see (saw the ad on "Mr.Cranky's
(Shadowculture) Site" www.mrcranky.com is awful,as sequels go.

I must admit I haven't a real clue as to how I would WRITE and DIRECT a
"Butterfly Effect" sequel that could be at least an alternative to the
DVD one for theatrical release, based on the movie version with the
original characters or how the team that did this one and "Final
Destination"s own sequel would approahc this but..moving on to the
other movie in thread topic title.

I had my own idea for a "The Talented Mr.Ripley" [1999] sequel and
instead of the "1970" setting with John Malkovich (sp?) which makes it
DAMN OBVIOUS there is NO "Matt Damon's 1999 murder of Peter Smith
Kingsley (Jack Davenport)Freddie Miles (P.S.Hoffman and Jude Law)
Dickie Greenleaf dismissed by that dectective but then AGAIN
investigated once he's off that boat" scenario,(as *I* planned) and
there is none such storyline------ nor is it even done by the same
studios (Paramount Pictures/Miramax,instead New Line Producitons.
\Thought I would use the DIRECT-afterwards with original actors playing
"surviving"-i.e.,non-mudered" Ripley-ites...with Paramount and MIramax
making the sequel, probaly I would be the guy for the job here..,then
so on continuing again in the mid to late 1950s, which was when the
original took place, (a year after the publication of the novel by by
series creator Patricia Highsmith.). I would have the (if I wrote and
directed which would be BETTER!) I would have Thomas Ripley (Matt Damon
again..) getting into THIS little scenario..

When we last saw our good friend and antihero (Damon as Ripley) he was
on the boat, miserable, cleared by doubt by dectective Al McCarron
(Philip Baker Hall) of ANY crime due to some shrewd investigation and
because of murder victim Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) being a pr*ck -in
right with another young man over some girl before at college (if I
recall right here) and also Detective McCarron (spelling?) recalls that
there were some suspion about the dead Freddy Miles (Phillip Baker
Hall, at the time of the movie in "Magnola" in a very different role,
but with the same recongizable voice! Anyone catch MI: 3 yet, he plays
a real villian.) 's corspe's life or death status. "Always CHECK the
fact before it BECOMES the fact" Nothing like a little American
detective work to save the antihero's skin! (And I just vicariously
llived through and loved that outcome.) Anyway, I'll just proceed to
near the ending for future watchers of this near 7-year-old- flick,
and it shows Ripley on a boat (I'm not giving away anything
else!).Well, there's some VERY anticlimatic depressing ending but you
know he has nothing to worry about legally or morally (esp.the latter
is HOPEFULLY, the reason I am considering this sequel I have in mind!)
on the boat but I am NOT giving any any more.

Anyhow some days later, on board, he hooks up with Meredith Logue (Cate
(sic) Blanchette) and finally fter calling himself Dickie reveals
himself, almost upsets her but he tells her the truth he had heard and
she is MORE than glad to be his girl and to forget the past identitty
he had--but then he gets off in New York City and Detective McCarron
(Philip Baker Hall----all actor names used fictiously as well as mine
here!) is now a lawyer on the side and a cop -- MARGE SHERWOOD...(for
lack of casting),..Dickie's girlfirned (Gweneth Paltrow) --- who had
found him out slowly in the actual 1999 flick is going to be VERY VERY
buys, INTERREGAITNG Him,, and, Dectective McCairon sighs.."So,
Mr.Ripley, I think you will have to come to criminal court.."

In short like the 1960 French version "Purple Noon:. I shall leave the
rest to OTHERS to finish..

Steve Carras

Oh, and one otehr thing while I was writing on the young "Tommy" (the
psycho kid) in the first doing a "Mystery Scinee Theatre 3000" like
wisecrack aloud at the movies in the rec.arts.tv.mst3k newsgroup, I
just thought for a HELL of a good use for crappy sequels like
these...at least renting them for a day/'night/day.."MST3K"-ing
them..making crappy commentary.."Look at that dumb seuql..Bring Ashton
Back..Amy Smart, where are you when we need you.." Butterfly Effect 2
seems not to even have lesser known regulars from the first, like Elden
Henson or Ethan Suplee, or Ashton and the kids playing his character
Evan's mother , Melora Walters. (But the new "Bring it on", having
Hayden Patteniere and Beyonce's sis, and RHianna,looks promsing..)


-Steve Carras

So There, Bear!

Steve Carras

Steve Carras wrote:

> Oh, and one otehr thing while I was writing on the young "Tommy" (the
> psycho kid) in the first doing a "Mystery Scinee Theatre 3000" like
> wisecrack aloud at the movies in the rec.arts.tv.mst3k newsgroup,

(..Yeah, just what the hell WAS that post all about, anyway?--
Did we pay attention to you at some point, and I missed it?) 0_o??

Derek Janssen (once Steve Carras convinces himself he belongs to a
group, it's cursed for life)

Derek Janssen