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Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Actually, the whole cast -- they'd be parents now, and their kids would be having similar (yet oh so different!) problems with their high school years. Surely there's a sequel there, but could any script/payday combo get Sean Penn back into some Vans? I'd have Spicoli grown into a serious businessman who had to rediscover his inner stoner when his kid--a geek--needed help with his SAT-related hypertension. And Phoebe Cates would surely be the greatest MILF...

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1. Indiana Jones -- No questions here.

2. Jake Gittes. End it as a trilogy. Make up for the lackluster The Two Jakes, and show us an aged detective on one final case.

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Hollywood Confidential 2.I would like to see Crowes
character come back hopefully with a new story written
by the author who wrote the orgininal.

The Mummy Returns Again-Bring them back since they worked so well together.

Ger

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Someone please explain to me something that I'm sure has been asked many times before. How did cool dude Ferris Bueller become the meek guy from Stepford Wives and The Producers? Then again, he gets to sleep with Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman. So maybe he is cool after all.

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Well, Truffaut's dead, so we'll never get to see Antoine Doinel as a grandfather...

I would love to see that rumored Bill and Ted 3, where they're early middle-aged losers who still haven't changed the world with their music.

If Ghostbusters 3 even had half a chance of being good, I would say that.

Odd one: I'd like to see Mike Leigh and David Thewlis revisit Johnny from Naked.

And we're overdue for Beavis & Butthead 2.

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Bring back "Dude" Lebowski. In "Farewell, My Memory," "The Bigger Sleep" (add other parodied Raymond Chandler title here.)

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I would love to see H.I. McDunnough and Ed from Raising Arizona again. Come to think of it, it might even be better to get John Goodman and William Forsythe back together and follow the Snoats brothers around.

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Mock if you must, but I'd love to see more with Brenda Vaccaro's Doris from "The Mirror Has Two Faces."

I'd also like to see more Dr. John Prentice (Sidney Poitier from "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner").

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Dante and Randall from Clerks.

Oh, wait.

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It looks like someone beat me to this, but every time I watch L.A. Confidential I find myself speculating as to what happens to White and Exley (Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce).

This doesn't happen with any other movie that I can think of.

At the risk of giving away an idea "with legs" for free, I always see White becoming sheriff of Bisbee, AZ, where he moved with Lynn at the end of the movie. And then years later a Big Case comes up (involving drug-smuggling?) which has L.A. connections and sees him teaming up with Exley again to crack it. But has Exley, with all the temptations as a powerful man on the police force of the country's fastest-growing city, stayed straight? And has White, far from the public eye in the middle of the desert in Arizona, kept a completely clean nose? We may never know...

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I'm gunna cop it for one of my guilty pleasures, however I was only about 14-15 when I first saw it.

Hudson Hawk 2, Bruce doesn't really look much older. Number one was only as bad or good as any Pee Wee Herman film.

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You know, until this moment I had never thought of it, but I can't think of a better answer than Honey Bunny and Pumpkin. Only on one condition: Inglorious Bastards must be finished first ;)

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Well, I´d like to see Russell back as Bud White from LAConfidential and Captain Jack Aubrey from Master & Commander.

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As a Patrick O'Brian fan, I have to agree with Sophie. We need more adventures of the swashbuckling Capt. Jack Aubrey from Master and Commander. There were 20 books in the series and plenty of material for a new film, this time with some romantic interests, of which there were plenty in the books.

Russell Crowe was memorable as the bluff, fearless, capable, Captain. What a nuanced performance!

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LA Confidential - Russell Crowe made the movie.

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Absolutely--if it was a good script--Russell back as Bud White from LA Confidential. Of course he wouldn't do it unless it was a good/great script. And of course, Russell back as Captain Jack Aubrey from Master and Commander. Both excellent and interesting characters.

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How about Maximus from Gladiator? Of course, he is now dead, but I would love to see some of his previous exploits, and how the love story developed between either he and his wife, or Commodus' sister.....make it a prequel. I am in love with the Maximus character, the movie ranks among my all-time favorites. And please - no other actor but Russell, his talent makes me weak at the knees.

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Terry Thorne

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Russell Crowe back as Bud White from L.A. Confidential, Maximus from Gladiator a prequel, Jim Braddock the years after boxing including his service in WW II, Capt. Jack Aubrey, Master and Commander earlier adventures.

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Russell Crowe as:
Bud White in LA Confidential (20 yrs later)
Jack Aubrey in Post Captain (earlier-on land)
Jack Aubrey in book 21 (and everything in btwn)
Maximus in Gladiator: Savior of Rome (he's not really dead, after all!!!)
Cort in The Quick and the Dead (what happens next?)
Andy in Proof (How do he and Martin get on?)
Terry Thorne in Proof of Life (his own K&R co.)
Johnny in The Crossing (10 yrs later w/or w/o Meg)
Steve in Breaking Up (do they EVER get together?)
Lachlan in For the Moment (what happens to them)
Sherrif Biebe in Mystery, Alaska (Charlie brings...)
Are you getting a sense of a pattern here?!?!

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