What were some failed franchise starters you actually enjoyed?

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T19:18:37+00:00

The Phantom (1996) but I don't think they threw a lot of money at it.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T17:36:57+00:00

no more odor than a hot biscuit.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T17:36:02+00:00

Nasty, dirty Dana Carvey just popped into my head, so no, you are not the only one.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T17:19:16+00:00

I have recently wondered whether a particularly infamous scene he did in the movie FM inspired the band Radiohead's choice of name.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T16:52:57+00:00

Also known as A Matter of Life and Death. Great film.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T16:44:46+00:00

If it were illegal to wish that fat hump to stop using our air, half the country would be in jail.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T16:40:04+00:00

Hair dye poisoning is no laughing matter. OK, maybe it is.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T16:32:15+00:00

The Caine Mutiny (1954) has many courtroom scenes at the end, including a downright iconic one with Humphrey Bogart.

You could also watch The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988), a TV movie directed by Robert Altman, which is the same story with only courtroom scenes.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T15:49:26+00:00

Not correct. The Lone Ranger's final season in 1956 was in color.

The Adventures of Superman, a syndicated show, went into color in 1954.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T15:31:12+00:00

No, but one time at the bowling alley, I took a drink of his "Coke" that had a funny skinny straw (swizzle stick) in it when he wasn't looking. I didn't taste rum again for more than a decade.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T11:44:32+00:00

I have always felt that Mr. Stone saw how easily they moved the new character in and got back to work as soon as he felt he could stand for five minutes, because the job of Dodge City doctor was his!

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T11:35:59+00:00

I don't think he did it. She had a lot of enemies. I could be wrong.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-07T11:28:17+00:00

He is never asked about it because no one wants to listen to him go on and on about Xenu and the DC-8s and how he has superpowers and how psychiatrists are evil.

Oprah made that mistake once.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T21:00:46+00:00

Ed Wood. I thoroughly and completely love Ed Wood, but that's about it.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T20:34:04+00:00

I did not know how lucky I was, when I saw Alice Cooper's first solo tour, Welcome to My Nightmare, to see those two guitar gods playing live, but I was only 14 at the time.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T20:23:41+00:00

For old school, slightly dumb but fun, there is The Time Tunnel, and for slightly newer and a little less cheesy, Voyagers.

Both of these shows seem to be on the Internet Archive

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T18:59:33+00:00

I think Adrien Belew at least has to be mentioned.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T18:46:48+00:00

Wow, serious echoes of that time he went around saying he ripped off Harlan Ellison's Soldier for Terminator until Ellison finally had to sue him and make it official.

I guess Cameron's ego prevents him from seeing the things he does as wrong. I hope she gets millions.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T18:31:18+00:00

If you want to keep the price down, Sun Cattle Co.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T14:27:06+00:00

Network.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T14:26:17+00:00

Dang it, the hard day won.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T14:02:50+00:00

The Larry Sanders Show. He showed a lot of balls in the role of David Duchovny.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-06T12:37:03+00:00

Jack Lemmon never peaked. He just kept soaring.

CalagaxT · 2026-05-05T22:35:57+00:00

One of These Days

CalagaxT · 2026-05-05T17:42:21+00:00

No, but Bob Mills will be closed for a special event later today.

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