the best movies never made

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McMafia-A documentary that heavily criticised the McDonalds burger chain to such an extent that the company sued the makers. They won their legal case but lost in the court of public opinion and many people stopped buying their food.
 
Return To OZ: Sequel to the classic 1939 film, Judy Garland reprises her role as Dorthy only now 15 years older than the last movie, plot follows those of The Marvelous Land of OZ, Dorthy and The Wizard of OZ, and The Emerald City Of OZ. The Film was a critical and financial success for MGM.

Spider-Man 4: After the events of Spider-Man 3, Sheld has interest in Peter Parker’s antics and is watching his every move. Peter is unaware until Nick Fury (Played by Samuel L. Jackson) approaches Peter to join The Avengers. The villain of the movie is The Lizzard (formerally Dr. Conners) who just like the comics has tried to regrow his arm. The movie was a success and launch Spider-Man into the MCU.

Batman; Vengence: The threequel to Tim Burton’s Batman movies as Bruce has to deal with Harvey Dent becoming Two Face and having a sidekick in Robin. The movie was a moderate success, fans were lukewarm while the critics gave positive reviews.

Superman IV; The Death and Return: The fourth Superman movie that saved the franchise, the movie adaptats the plot of the comic. The movie was praised by both fans and critics.

Superman and Batman; The World’s Greatest: Staring former Superman George Reeves and then current Batman Adam West as they unite to fight both Lex Luthor and The Joker from taking over Metropolis.
 
Return To OZ: Sequel to the classic 1939 film, Judy Garland reprises her role as Dorthy only now 15 years older than the last movie, plot follows those of The Marvelous Land of OZ, Dorthy and The Wizard of OZ, and The Emerald City Of OZ. The Film was a critical and financial success for MGM.

Does this feature Stop Motion animation by either Willis O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen?
 
Night of Fangs - docudrama depicting *that* moment in 1994 when the Werewolf-Vampire conflict became know to the Human population during the Popes visit to the UK.
 

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Sons of Anarchy-Documentary about the top bankers who are so important to the entire financial system that they can often get away with quite serious crimes that would land almost anybody else in prison.
 
Spider-Man: A 1983 movie about popular American superhero Spider-Man Peter Parker (Micheal J Fox) a nerdy high school student gets bit by a radioactive spider during a school field trip after initially using his powers for profit and his own gain and winning a cash prize against ''Crusher Hogan'' (Hulk Hogan) his world ends when a gangster (Clint Howard) shoots his uncle Ben (Fred MacMurray) in a carjacking after the match leaving Peter alone to care for his aunt May (Margaret Hamilton) thus he decides to take up the mantle of Spider-man during his first recuse he happens to recuse one of his classmates Mary Jane ( Ally Sheedy) and this also attracts the attention of Mysterio (Robin Williams) a disgraced science television host jealous of the web head taking all the attention from him.
 
Superman III: A 1983 movie and the sequel to Superman II, it is the continuation of the Superman film franchise. Gus Gorman, a computer technician played by Richard Pryor, ends up looking for a way to revolutionize computional technologies and he discovers a strange peice of wreckage in the woods. He salvages the parts and uses it to upgrade his computer. Meanwhile, Clark Kent goes to Smallville for the summer reunion and helps out an old friend while trying to learn more of his past. Clark discovers soem logs left by his biological parents, one of which was his father dealing with a Kryptonian supercomputer which was built from the mind of an offworld criminal for his punishment, a Coluan super scientist named Vril Dox. The log noted on Dox's obsession with knowledge and that before the ruin fo Krypton, the supercomputer program disappeared throug a satellite, later revealed to be the one that crashed into Earth. Meanwhile, Gus presents the new better computer he made and dubs the A.I. Brainiac. However, he has been noting the computer's odd quirks and writing them down in the event of a disaster. Brainiac goes on-line and takes control of much of the computional software, including former Lexcorp robots to try and built himself a suit. He announces his plan to obtain all knowledge before ruining the Earth. Gus contacts Superman and the two work to stop it. While Gus successfully hacks and stops Brainiac from launching the weapons, Brainiac still succeeds in uploading his mind to a robot, leading to a battle with Superman. The A.I. is able to predict every move by the Man of Steel until Gus uses the backdoor he left in to tamper with Brainiac enough for Superman to counterattack and stop it. Gus becomes an ally of Superman and later invited to work for the government while Superman wonders what other Kryptonian secrets remain.

The film got surprising positive reviews and while Pryor's inclusion was seen as a negative, he surprised critics by exploiting his image as a comedian to play a "sad clown" everyman who uses comedy to deal with life's troubles, alongside being a minority and not feeling understood, which helps further connect him to Superman. It would him an Oscar nommination for Supporting Actor
 
The last days of Pompeii
A drama set in costal equatoral resort city of Pompeii on Alderan. It follows the lives of residents and visitors just before the Death Star arrives and detailing how a few managed to escape.
 
Superman IV: Quest For Peace- A 1987 Superman film and the final in the initial series. Christopher Reeves returns as an older Superman who has begun wondering his impact on Earth. How to best achieve world peace... After all, he has defeated many supervillains in the past, but he feels he needs to do more. Lex Luthor meanwhile has escaped from prison and has become a changed man. Older, fiercer, more bitter... determined to finish his fight against Superman. To that end, he works under an alias to promote nuclear disarmament around the world, which Superman supports, unaware that the man he is helping is Lex Luthor. All the while, Lex Luthor has been disarming the nukes, but managing to have a fake company buy the uranium. Superman ends up finding out thanks to some help from Gus (who appeared in the last movie) pointing out hidden instructions within the emails along discovering transaction information. Superman also gets help when Jimmy gets a tip about how some local papers reported thievery, but were surpressed. Superman eventualy faces Luthor and Luthor goes on a speech to end Superman while blaming him for all the problems. Superman shuts down Luthor by pointing all the faults were of his own doing or beyond his control, all while tricking Lex in revealing his disguise and his master plan of gaining wealth and political control through arms manufacturing and continuing the war just so "men like him" can pocket the whole thing. Luthor then unleashes a new "mega-suit," powered by exotic forms of radiation to fight Superman.

Superman wins, but has absorbed so much radiation, he needs to leave Earth to try and find a way to burn it without hurting anyone. He leaves a messege in the lab, carved in heat vision, over for people to better themselves, to never give up and to keep going on the bright path he knows they can do.
 
Batman & Robin: The sequel to Batman Returns, it has Micheal Keaton return for the role of Batman as the tone of the movie was made a bit lighter to deal with parental complaints yet at the same time, did not shy away from serious subject matter. The latter was reflected with the introduction of Robin, an acrobat turned orphan adopted by Mr Wayne and who is trained to become Robin, providing an interesting perspective on crime-fighting while also highlighting the serious tone Batman can have. Batman and Robin team up to fight Scarecrow (who used the fear gas to kill Robin's parents), as a professor turned hitman along with his accomplice Poison Ivy, a former university student who gained strange plant-like cabailities from an experiment by a colleague of Scarecrow. Barbara Gordon also appears, as a student and witness who flirts a bit with Robin.

Batman Forever: The sequel to Batman & Robin, and the final movie of the Keaton quadrology, it has Batman beginning to feel his age after years of Batman. By this point, Robin has graduated to becoming Nightwing while also dating Batgirl, who's introduction was teased in the prior film and her costume shown in the stinger. Batman recalls many past villains put away and he wonders what will be his legacy as he feels he doesn't know if he has made process. However, he soon ends up lighting up when he meets Andrea Beaumont, an old friend from his past who he re-lights a relationship with to their past tragedies. Meanwhile, a mysterious doppelganger has begun targeting many of the authority figures of Gotham in a Batman-like manner. Batman and Robin end up discovering it to be Wrath and Scorn, a pair of villainous doppelgangers who lost their criminal parents to cops and wish to upset the order. The fight is equal up until Batgirl gets into the picture. The evil duo swear they will have vengeance. It is later discovered their backstory while wodnering made this way. Meanwhile, Bruce's stress forced him to see a psychologist, Hugo Strange (played by Robin Williams) who figures out he is Batman. It turns out Strange used hypnotherapy and brainwashing to have the to criminals become an anti-Batman and Robin and to prove his superioirty, does the same to Andrea to turn her into the Phantasm. During the fight, Batgirl switches with Batman and finishes off Scorn while Robin defeats Wrath and restores confidence in himself after wondering if he could become Batman when Bruce retires. Bruce is able to snap Andrea back and they're able to use the tactics on Strange, robbing his memory of Batman's identity while he confesses to everything. Bruce decides he must retire as Batman and to enjoy his life with Andrea, entrusting the future to his enw proteges. While Bruce may live his life on, Batman will live forever, best seen in the epilogue when Dick appears in a new Batman costume alongside Barbara (as Batwoman) and the new Robin (heavily implied to be Tim Drake) and a new Batgirl (implied to be Stephanie Brown.)
 
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Star Wars Episode V, Splinter of the Mind's Eye - The novel written by Alan Dean Foster in 1978 was written with the intent that it could be easily turned into a sequel to Episode IV on a fairly low budget. However, due to the runaway success of Episode IV, George Lucas decided to go a different direction with the saga.
 

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Skylark of Space - 1947 Republic Serial
A twelve episode space opera loosely based on the "Doc" Smith Skylark tales. The cast included: Clayton Moore as Dick Seaton, Walter Slezak as Marc Duquense, Linda Stirling as Dorothy, and Shemp Howard as "Sprocket". The somewhat larger budget allowed for special effects helped propel the series to surprising success. Kids (and some adults) came for the serial, but stayed for the feature, rather than the other way around. That success encouraged more studios to jump into the science fiction realm.
 
Star Wars: A Lost Cause - With the fall of Anakin Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi must watch over the son of Skywalker and protect the galaxies last hope. But trouble arises when a thought to be dead Darth Maul returns and hunts down Obi Wan leading to a final duel between the two. Ewan McGregor stars as Obi Wan, and Ray Park returns as Darth Maul. Liam Neeson makes a cameo as Qui Gon's force ghost.
 

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The Swords of Lankhmar - 1981
Ken Marshall as the Gray Mouser, Miles O'Keefe as Fafhrd. Based on Fritz Leiber's sword-and-sorcery series

Wind in the Willows - 1984
A live action take on Kenneth Grahame classic kids story, but moved to the American South.
Mr Toad - Bill Murray
Ratty - Eddie Murphy
Mole - Rick Moranis
Badger - Dan Ackroyd

Gene Siskel's review: "Someone seriously needed to put the cocaine away before they OK'd this bizarre concoction. What were they thinking?"
 
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Space Jam- An animated film created by Don Bluth, it's about an amateur band on Earth accidentally saving an alien from the government, with said alien being a music producer from the stars and taking them to become integalactic music stars and into a battle of the bands to decide the fate of the cosmos.

Boondock Saints- A religious comedy film of Catholics in the Philippines attempting to convert their villages up in the mountaints (bundok meaning "mountain" and where boondock comes from), all in their pursuit of sainthood.

Drop Dead Fred- the story of "Drop Dead" Fred, a man who has a supernatural ability of being able to will himself dead and back to life. A comcial-action film, he uses this power to wrestle control of his life back and stop the plans of a strange necromancer.

Freddy Gets Fingered - A satirical R-rated coming of age story that serves as many people's introduction to metamodernism; the story of how Freddy (short for Frederina), a seemingly lesbian tomboyish high schooler, ends up questioning her sexuality after a drunk stupor reveals that the first climax she ever got was from when a guy fingered her instead of it with her girlfriend. Said guy turns out to be her childhood friend and she undergoes a hilarious and referential adventure on the nature of sexuality and herself. It also served to launch the term "demisexual" into the mainstream, as Freddie realizes that she is demisexual, noting that she didn't have that many crushes and how her girlfriend was her female bestie first and foremost. The story ends on a positive note with Freddy ending up in an open relationship with her girlfriend and her childhood friend now boyfriend and her becoming a counselor when she's an adult, including noting other lesser-known sexual/gender minorities.
 
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Defective Detective, 1999, Dir. Terry Gilliam

When a hardboiled detective from New York is thrown into a fantasy kingdom he finds he must go from being a defective detective from a noir story to a more reasonable guy to try and find a little girl who’s lost in the fantasy land. By that premise alone it’s pure Gilliam but the film comes off as smorgasbord of Gilliam like moments ranging from Pynthonesque humour all the way to nightmare fuel of Brazil. Straight off the success of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas this film is an amazing rush of visuals, humour and also heart as the detective goes from being a hard arse to roguish saint.

The actors are great as well. Bruce Willis stars as the titular detective who is trying to find a young girl called Alice when he accidentally steps into a fairytale land. There he finds out that a gangster called Mr Bigg played by Benico Del Toro is working with a bumbling evil sorcerer Paul played by Michael Palin who is both affable and rather evil. On the detective’s side are the Grey Knight played by Jonathan Pryce and the fairy godmother played by Katherine Helmond with other hilarious or great characters played by Eric Idle, Harry Dean Stanton, Shelly Duvall and Ian Holm as the story bounces around between the Noir like New York to the wonderful fairyland.

My favourite scene is when the detective is rescued from Mr Bigg’s men by the grey knight and the godmother and through the power of magic travel between the bustling streets of New York to the quaint hills by jumping through a billboard in a scene that had me beaming from ear to ear.

From a story I once did here.
 
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