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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
One of his “royal bathers” was phenom. I would have taken her all day over that McDowell’s lady. Hell there were hotter women at the sexual chocolate bikini contest

“The Royal Penis is clean, Sire”

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Originally posted by SigLaw:

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
It sucked! ... Tenet has been the only solid release in a year now. Worst film drought of my life.

I disagree, Tenet was garbage and Coming 2 America was fine. Was it great? No, but it was a good enough light hearted watch not filed with violence and foul language.

Its good to have options

Not to me. Christopher Nolan is one of the best directors around. He goes to great lengths with his cinematography, plots, lines, music, name it. A premier film maker. Tenet was phenomenal.

This Coming to America sequel was just a cash grab and they woked it to boot. The first one had titties, and cuss words, and was foul. The “foul” is what made it so damn funny. If you don’t want violence or foul language there is always Disney content.

I can't take anymore PC bullshit rammed down my throat!
Won't be tuning in to this.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
The first one had titties, and cuss words, and was foul. The “foul” is what made it so damn funny. If you don’t want violence or foul language there is always Disney content.

Exactly. I have no interest in this sequel if none of that is present. None whatsoever. The first one was perfect.

Decades ago, SNL had a recurring skit called The Chris Farley Show, where Farley would interview different celebrities. The gag was that Farley was a nervous, star-struck interviewer, and that his interviews amounted to, "Remember that time when you ___? That was awesome!"



That formula pretty much sums up Coming 2 America. The sequel has a hair strand plot that is nothing but an excuse to string together a series of recycled jokes & cameos. It's a repetition of, 'Remember that joke or character from the first movie? That was awesome. Now here it is again.'

And just to make sure everyone gets it, we're hammered over the head w/ a flashback from the first movie to remind us.

I haven't seen that much recycled material since The Force Awakens.

The original Coming to America was on Paramount last night and my wife and I watched the first 15 minutes or so but I decided to record it and watch it with her later (She's never seen it!)

What struck me is how relatively much slower movies were to develop the storyline back then compared to now. In 15 minutes now, we know all about most of the characters and the gist of the story but in 1988 it was done slower and more deliberately.

I thought it was entertaining enough. Not something that kept my attention glued to it but it had plenty of throwbacks to the original movie. I think the storyline was more of a adaptation of the original. It followed a similar progression and ending.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
I thought it was entertaining enough. Not something that kept my attention glued to it but it had plenty of throwbacks to the original movie. I think the storyline was more of a adaptation of the original. It followed a similar progression and ending.

It's a Fan Service movie

My wife and I had to turn it off after many groans about 15 minutes in. We tried; it failed.

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I think I got about 30 min in , turned it off. A lot unlikable characters

Huge fan of the first one

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Originally posted by PASig:

It's a Fan Service movie

It's more like a Fan Disservice movie. The Kobrai Kai series qualifies as Fan Service.

I saw it just last night and I'm trying to remember the main story. It's like two stories spliced together. They had to bring Eddie Murphy back to America so they come up with a bastard son.

Wesley Snipes needed some money badly so they give him a part.

Then let's just tie up the loose ends somehow and we can say we did a movie.

Not to me. Christopher Nolan is one of the best directors around. He goes to great lengths with his cinematography, plots, lines, music, name it. A premier film maker. Tenet was phenomenal.
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I love Tenet though it helps to rewatch it. I just can't quite bring myself to watch Coming to America 2 but I loved the original.

Nowhere near as good as the first, but I made it through. Nice time-waster, that's about it. I liked the little in jokes and references to the first movie (the twin rappers made me LOL).

Not sure why anyone is surprised - when is the last time a sequel was as good if not better than the original?

Maybe Terminator and T2

But in the past 30 years the stupid has grown stronger and it’s nowhere more apparent than in the ‘entertainment’ industry.

The original was a real hoot!
“2” was poor at best. Thank God I didnt pay anything to watch it!

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Not sure why anyone is surprised - when is the last time a sequel was as good if not better than the original?

Maybe Terminator and T2

But in the past 30 years the stupid has grown stronger and it’s nowhere more apparent than in the ‘entertainment’ industry.

Hey, now...some of those Pixar movies have had terrific sequels.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Not sure why anyone is surprised - when is the last time a sequel was as good if not better than the original?

Blade Runner 2049.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Not sure why anyone is surprised - when is the last time a sequel was as good if not better than the original?

The Empire Strikes Back
ST II: The Wrath of Kahn
The Godfather Part II
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

^ Three of those are movies that aired before Terminator 2.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Not sure why anyone is surprised - when is the last time a sequel was as good if not better than the original?

The Empire Strikes Back
ST II: The Wrath of Kahn
The Godfather Part II
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Aliens
Road Warrior
Dark Knight

Finally got around to watching Coming to America 2 in its entirety after several fits & starts..its not good.

It plays like a made for TV movie, everything is forced, there's a handful of moments that get a chuckle but that's the extent of it. Not sure what's beyond fan service but, this movie drove that concept into the ground, instead of building upon the first movie, they kept returning back to the old examples. After the first hour, you think this was a jobs program for every actor that got any screen time in the first movie, right down to Randy Watson's bandmates; the only thing that was missing was Eric LaSalle and Soul Glo.

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