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• 12/5/2011 2:10 AM fjjj wrote:
  Hey Brad, have you seen the Trancers series?
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• 12/5/2011 4:27 AM Max wrote:
  there are 4 watchers movies i own all of them and i own the book
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• 12/5/2011 8:17 AM Filip wrote:
  Nightbreed sadly never got any sequels. It was intended as the first part of a trilogy. Barker had envisioned it as "the Star Wars of horror". Ambitious.
  
  It's interesting. The majority of movie trilogies/franchises have been accidental. Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, Back to the Future, etc. A movie becomes a surprise hit, and the studio wants to make a sequel. Generally, sequels suck and are unnecessary. There are good sequels, sure, but even the best ones are still unnecessary.
  
  Nightbreed is an oddity in movie history... a movie that actually *needed* sequels, and didn't get any...
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• 12/5/2011 11:56 AM KiramidHead wrote:
  I've heard the Watchers movies really suck, but I haven't seen them. I've read the book, and that was great. Also, which Amityville movie had Kim Coates in it? I was reading up on the sequels and I thought it was cool that he was in one.
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• 12/5/2011 1:38 PM Jakob wrote:
  I have never been able to get any of the Radiodrome links to work. They just won't.
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• 12/5/2011 3:42 PM Timo wrote:
  The second Dungeons & Dragons movies does have Bruce Payne playing the same villain as in the first one. This being a fantasy setting, he returns as undead.
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• 12/5/2011 5:49 PM Walt wrote:
  Brad
  
  I've heard the "Night of the Living Dead" remake referenced several times in Radiodrome, where you say there's no indication whatsoever as to when the film is taking place. The NotLD remake specifices the exact date it takes place on - August 28, 1989 - over a radio broadcast near the end, and is the only official "Dead" movie to do so.
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  1. 12/6/2011 11:50 PM Zach wrote:
     Josh is the one who always says that. Brad has said that he always thought it took place in 89.
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• 12/6/2011 1:39 AM Justus Beraden wrote:
  Next up, baby geniuses 3! Face it, its gonna happen.
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• 12/6/2011 5:56 AM Handsome Pete wrote:
  I rarely have trouble playing these but when I do, I try a new browser and it's fine.
  A franchise is all about the license. Freddy Vs. Jason is in both franchises since it had to pay for both licenses; the Dungeons & Dragons movies are in the same franchise since they have the same license.
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• 12/6/2011 3:22 PM Nacho wrote:
  Radiodrome is simply awesome. Brad, Josh and Jerrid do a very entertaining show. I just wanted to let you know that your show reaches long distances. Saludos from Chile, South America.
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• 12/6/2011 3:31 PM HanSK wrote:
  What's the name of the song at the end?
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• 12/6/2011 10:31 PM lrb wrote:
  If this helps, Brad, Merriam-Webster defines the word franchise as:
  
  1: freedom or immunity from some burden or restriction vested in a person or group
  2
  a : a special privilege granted to an individual or group; especially : the right to be and exercise the powers of a corporation b : a constitutional or statutory right or privilege; especially : the right to vote c (1) : the right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory; also : a business granted such a right or license (2) : the territory involved in such a right
  3
  a : the right of membership in a professional sports league b : a team and its operating organization having such membership
  
  Only the second definition applies to what you guys were talking about, which means something is only a franchise if outside companies licensed the name or content. So you could say that Fright Night is a franchise if the comics were licensed by an outside company from the one who made it, but The Hidden is not and is only a series of two movies. Ghostbusters on the other hand is a franchise since outside the two movies and the PS3/Xbox game written by the movie writers that closes the story, you also have a cartoon, toys and comics where the name and intellectual property was licensed to make related products.
  
  The Wikipedia summary agrees: Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business, such as:
  
  Chain store, retail outlets which share a brand and central management
  An exclusive right, for example to sell branded merchandise
  Media franchise, ownership of the characters and setting of a film, video game, book, etc., particularly in North American usage
  
  
  
  So to conclude, for example, The Street-fighter is only a movie series unless someone licensed the right to make Sonny Chiba testicle-ripping action figures. I don't know if this helps or not or if you want to share with Josh, but here you go.
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• 12/7/2011 12:52 AM EpicFish wrote:
  Great episode you guys! I have to say Brad, in my mind, what I would consider the best example of a franchise is the Star Wars universe. It has movies, toys, video games, books, comic books so personally, I wouldn't consider something like Fright Night to be a franchise though I'm sure everyone's definition of what a franchise is to them varies.
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• 12/7/2011 1:02 AM John Bishop wrote:
  If Josh needs to know still, there are only two the Waxwork movies from 1988 and 1992, respectively. It never really got off the ground as a franchise. Watchers had more Wings...well, at least the third one did, because Wings Hauser was in it. There was the 1988 "Watchers" with Haim and Ironside followed by 1990's Roger Corman-produced "Watchers 2" with Marc Singer, Tracy Scoggins and Mary Woronov. But the most recent of the Watchers, "Watchers Reborn," came out all the way in 1998. It took them 13 years (and one truly shitty teen movie franchise)to borrow a similar title to loose another "Howling" upon us all, and there are eight of those in existence.
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• 12/7/2011 5:35 PM jaltesorensen wrote:
  I found your rants about the bootleg circuits and the used dildos very fun. Being on topic is nice, but the rants into whatever unrelated subject can be VERY funny. So i think you should do rants on random stuff sometimes.
  
  But im looking forward to next weeks "movies that might have been".
  
  Oliver Stone's Planet Of The Apes!!!!
  
  That sound interesting. And it makes me think of Kevin Smith's superman, Stanley Kubrick' s Napoleon movie, George Lucas flash gordon movie, the fantastic four movie from the 90ies and James Camerouns Spider-man movie also from the 90ies.
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• 12/8/2011 2:02 PM saulaxo wrote:
  Talking about movies that I'm sorry they were never made, the number one in my list is "Dune" directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Instead they gave it to Lynch who hated it.
  Greetings
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• 12/9/2011 11:28 AM Kevin Holsinger wrote:
  Never listened to this series before, but I must say it's quite good.
  
  Though, you DID forget to ask whether Machete is part of the Spy Kids franchise.
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• 12/12/2011 4:04 PM glenn wrote:
  I think Piranha 3D is a sequel to Piranha 2 pretending to be a remake of Piranha.There is no common ground between it and the Dante film, but it is very much in the spirit of The Spawning. The whole idea of film franchises is complicated by the intentions of the film makers. In a way I don't consider the Alien movies to be a franchise because the original was designed as a stand alone film. I think Aliens is great, but the alien is fundamentally different. There is nothing in the original to suggest a queen, as the alien itself is an egg layer and is supposed to be closer to a constantly evolving disease than an insect. Halloween is to me a failed franchise because Myers was killed in part 2 and the Season of the Witch failed to take off. The later films are just cash ins. To me The Dollar films, the Dead Films and The Dirty Harry movies are the best franchises because they were more than simple cash cows.
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• 12/13/2011 2:52 PM Lyle Huckins wrote:
  I tend to think that Movie Series are not a Series until it at least has three enties, this way you have a best, worst and at least one so so or standard entry that sets he norm. I do count remakes and reboots as part of a series as it is at least based on a same concept. You can technically count The Thing as a series, as we have the 50s Thing from Another World (good), Carpenters Thing 82(very good) and Thing 2011 (bad). Any thoughts?
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