Movie Couples that you'd love a sequel to see what they are doing today.

[LynneSin]

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Yesterday in a moment of vegging I found 'Say Anything....' on HBO. I love that movie and I hadn't seen it uncut in ages so I kicked back and watched it.

And everytime at the end I keep wondering "I wonder what Lloyd Dobler and Diane Cort would be doing today?". I mean the movie ended with Lloyd & Diane flying to England and it cuts out after the 'No Smoking' sign is lit. But that movie is now 22 years old. So I would a sequel to see what happened to them. Did they end up marrying, did they have kids, did their marriage last, did Lloyd figure out what he wanted as a career or did he end up selling something bought or processed, buying something sold or processed or processing something bought or sold.

What famous movie couples would you like to see 'What are they doing today'

[ohiosmith]

1. Don't make fun. Okay!

Joe and Patricia:

[GoCubsGo]

2. I won't make of that if you don't make fun of this one...

Speaking of Tom and Meg...

Joe and Kathleen:




I loved "Joe vs. The Volcano", BTW. I thought "You've Got Mail" was hokey, but I liked the happy ending. It would be interesting to see if those two stayed together.

[hlthe2b]

3. He left her, became a slow-witted ping pong champion and life became a box...

of chocolates...

[LynneSin]

8. And she decided to go into the witness protection program by...

.....get a whole new face



She was so beautiful. I realize people age but seriously, she needs to lay off the botox and whatever the hell they are injecting into her lips

[hlthe2b]

10. Oh my... First photo I've seen of her in some time...

Yikes...

[LynneSin]

11. She's got the worst case of trout lips

I don't know who tells these women that overinflated lips are attractive. I mean it's one thing if you're born with lips like that (aka Scarlett Johannnson) but to make them oversized is fucking ridiculous. What's worse, the injection is only temporary which means in about 6-12 months you'll be walking around with 2 deflated tires as your lips.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

19. Botox and LOTS of fill --

Lips, nasal lines, cheeks -- she has had it ALL plumped up with various fillers. One of the sadder Hollywood faces out there.

Billy Crystal's character in "When Harry Met Sally" commented that he loved it when her forehead crinkled -- not anymore, Billy, not anymore....

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. Guess who this is --

If I hadn't read the photo description, I would have never known.

[hlthe2b]

22. Oh! I cheated and read the name from the jpg properites...

My heavens... I definitely did not recognize her and clearly not merely because of the change in hair color.

[LynneSin]

28. OMG that's horrible

Women need to stop listening to people like Rachel Zoe and just let their body age normally.

I'm 40 years old and I barely have any wrinkles on my face. Never smoked, stayed out of the sun and used moisterizer. Sure the face products I use have increased but nothing gets injected into my face.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

33. This is how it's done --

I just saw her recently in Cedar Rapids -- no nips, no tucks, not a hint of botox anywhere - and she was beautiful.

[LynneSin]

37. She is one of the most gorgeous women over 40 in Hollywood

I hope she never touches a thing.

[kaitcat]

52. Let me add the stunning Helen Mirren to this club of doing it right.

[LynneSin]

56. Meryl Streep has aged just as well

I loved that the movie "It's Complicated" her ex-husband was someone 15 years younger than her (Alec Baldwin) and her suitor was someone 10 years younger than her (Steve Martin). Yet they all looked the same age because Meryl has aged so beautifully.

[Burma Jones]

4. Liam and Jesus

[LynneSin]

5. One would hope Jesus is on a sex offender's list somewhere

[deutsey]

69. LOL

[Denninmi]

6. Edward and Vivian from 'Pretty Woman'

What happened after he took her away from Sunset Boulevard?

[HopeHoops]

7. Benny and Joon.

[Wait Wut]

13. One of my favorites!

I would imagine they're doing great. And they've bought a new iron for making sandwiches.

[HopeHoops]

15. I would imagine the first has become a little sticky by now.

[LeftinOH]

9. These two:

"Danny" & "Sandy" in Grease III. Set 34 years later (same amount of time since the film was released) , it is now 1992 - and with their old LA neighborhood is torn apart by race riots, the T-Birds and Pink Ladies reunite and try to find a way to bring the community together ....with a dance-off in the old school gym.

[WolverineDG]

12. Sam & Annie

From "Sleepless in Seattle"

Hard to believe that came out almost 20 years ago..

[Wait Wut]

14. As Good As It Gets

I can't remember their names in the movie. I didn't see a long shelf life for that relationship.

[LynneSin]

16. Hopefully it lasted longer than Helen Hunt's acting career

Hers pretty much died after she won the Oscar and honestly, she really didn't deserve it. Should have been Kate Winslet or Judy Dench. I mean she was acting opposite of Jack Nicholson, my mother could have won the Oscar playing that part opposite of Jack. He was really on with that movie role and did such an amazing job that it made lessor actors like Helen Hunt look good.

You look at the other 4 who were nominated that year - Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Julia Christie and Helena Bonham Carter - all 4 of those women are some of the best in acting. All way more deserving then Helen Hunt.

[ohiosmith]

18. My vote would've been for Julie Christie. She was nothing short of brilliant.

[trof]

29. Yeah, how come she flamed out? I liked her.

[LynneSin]

30. I think she was just better in sitcoms then in movies

Some people just never transitioned well from TV to the Big Screen. At the time she was doing really well on the sitcom "Mad about You" that really worked well with her quirkiness and style. She won the Oscar because the part needed the same type of quirky actress AND Nicholson was just so on the money that he made anyone in a scene with him in that movie look good.

Ten Bucks says if she found the right TV show she would be back on top again.

[LynneSin]

17. Another couple I'd like to add: Jesse and Celine. We need an update! (with spoilers)

What's great about this movie is that director and 2 stars from "Before Sunrise" (Director Richard Linklater, Julie Deply and Ethan Hawke) decided that a sequel would be intereting since "Before Sunrise" and the couple promising to meet at the train station in 6 months (fade to black).

The results was "Before Sunset" and this time they had until sunset to spend time together before Jesse had to catch a plane back to the states.

And wouldn't you know it they cut us off at the end wondering if Jesse caught the plane or not.

THe last movie was 7 years ago. Come on - give us an update

[freshwest]

20. Jane Seymour and Joe Lando. Never saw them again.

No telling what condition these two or any of the cast of the program are in today. Although Seymour struck me as the feminine Dorian Gray, LOL.

[hlthe2b]

24. Jane Seymore is around and seems to be aging well...

She takes good care of herself (and as I recall is a real pilates addict)... While I'm sure shes had some plastic sx, I don't recall anything that was too dramatic. I've seen her on some jewelry store's commercials from time to time...

Here's from a commercial website of hers:


Definitely looks good there.

[freshwest]

27. I was interested in her as a teen. She did everything to stay healthy and preserve her looks.

I found her quite beautiful then. She explained that she had special pillow for sleeping and a routine for taking care of her facial and neck skin.

Prior to the Dr. Quinn series, she played a reporter in 'Oh, Heavenly Dog!' with Chevy Chase who played a P. I., but both of them were murdered by Omar Sharif.

They both went to the cats and dogs, haha, with Benji taking the part of Chevy and a lovely kitty taking Jane's place, and they strolled off into the sunset along the Thames together.

No surgery was required at all, I'd say. Quite a life she'd led, including having children and I believe earning enough to buy a castle in the UK. A nice role model in addition to being a fashion model. Her entire family had a fascinating history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour_%28actress%29

[yellowcanine]

23. Well they would be dead now but always wondered if Rhett and Scarlet patched things up....

Of course how does one take back, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."? Such a great line!

[hlthe2b]

26. My original thought re: this thread. I thought the "young-uns" would give me grief...

But, I know what you mean. I know there was an author that tried to write a follow-up to GWTW and they even filmed a tv movie from it, but I never read nor watched it, so I couldn't tell you what they imagined happening. For me, it is heresy to create a sequel without Margaret Mitchell's involvement, which is, of course, impossible.

[Shrek]

25. Baby and Johnny from "Dirty Dancing"

[PassingFair]

31. Benjamin and Elaine

[Art_from_Ark]

50. You beat me to it

They probably had a couple of kids and divorced after 10 years.

[PassingFair]

53. Wonder if he wound up in "plastics"? nt

[Art_from_Ark]

54. He didn't take the advice about plastics

Instead, he invested all their money in the Los Angeles Thunderbirds roller derby team ("Roller derby is the wave of the future!&quot and Elaine dumped him for one of the players

[CTyankee]

32. Wow, and I thought I had too much time on my hands...

[MichiganVote]

34. How about the group from 'The Big Chill'

[mysuzuki2]

35. Jack Lemon and Shirley Maclaine

from "The Apartment"

[hunter]

36. Fred and Laliari from Galaxy Quest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest

[taterguy]

38. Butch & Sundance

Very clever the way they faked their death in Bolivia.

What did they do next?

[bikebloke]

64. Blackthorn

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An elder Butch Cassidy in Bolivia, played by Sam Shepard. A nice minimalist western.

[7wo7rees]

39. Perry and Lydia from The Fisher King.

She has eyes that men adore so,
And her torso, even moreso.

[Rowdyboy]

40. I'd love to see "The Breakfast Club" crew 25 years later....

[LynneSin]

43. Judd should have removed the gramps glasses before the photo...

He looks like he could play the principal in the remake of the Breakfast Club

[Rowdyboy]

46. Great casting! I'm looking forward to adult Harry Potter returning to Hogwarts as a professor....

The tv series has to be "Welcome Back Potter" starring Gabe Kaplan as the crusty Headmaster.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

41. James Bond and at least 50 females....

I guess he'd be paying a LOT of child support.

[hunter]

44. I think that's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past...

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2385969945

[Va Lefty]

42. Easy A: Olive and Woodchuck Todd

[dimbear]

45. Fay Wray and Kong. They had it going on.

Could make it work in today's more permissive atmosphere, IMHO.

[Beaverhausen]

47. Annie Savoy and Crash Davis from Bull Durham

Oh my...

[trackfan]

48. Tony and Stephanie

from Saturday Night Fever. Their relationship seemed more real than any other I've seen in the movies.

[RZM]

49. Rosemary Woodhouse and Satan n/t

[HeiressofBickworth]

51. Magic of Ordinary Days

Recently watched this movie from 2005. It was set in 1944. It would be nice to see their post-war lives.

[Little Star]

55. Lt. Dunbar and Stands With A Fist...

of Dances with Wolves. Played by Kevin Costner and Mary McDonnell.

[zipplewrath]

57. But what do you want to see?

In many of these case, could compelling stories be written where they were happy and stable? It's going to take "conflict" of some sort, and in most cases it's going to involve, divorce, disease, or death.

The most compelling one in my book could be the "breakfast" club sequel, only because none of them ended "happily ever after" so the story could pick up in some sense with the concept of "how that day influenced their further progression".

But what will you do with Sam and Annie? Their house sinks in Seattle? The kid grows up to be a shock jock? Annie gets cancer so it's "round two" for Sam?

[LynneSin]

58. Look we know these movies are never going to happen but we could still create a list

But I think the bigger point is this - these are couples that we were endeared to that we could honestly say we'd like to see a sequel.

[zipplewrath]

59. I wouldn't be so sure

A common Hollywood business model is to "rediscover" characters from peoples youths and repackage them when they hit their '50s. So you get "remakes" of Adams family, Starsky and Hutch, etc. It isn't really beyond the pale to wonder if they'll ever do movies with the themes of "what happened to..." Breakfast club, St. Elmo's fire, War Games, Fast Times, Pretty Woman, etc. are all serious foder for this kind of business model.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

62. I disagree...I would NOT like to see a sequel

Sequels tend to destroy the legacy that the story of these characters have left behind. It's far better to leave the audience guessing then seek to continue the story in a way that it ultimately wrecks it, which is usually happens with sequels.

I am reminded of how Andrew Lloyd Webber has butchered the Phantom of the Opera with a sequel. At the end of the original Phantom of the Opera, Raoul leaves with Christina off to a happy ending while the Phantom disappears with no clue as to his future other than the fact that he leaves flowers for Christina years later at her grave. It was the perfect ending with both a resolution and unanswered questions. But then Lloyd Webber decides to create a sequel with a corny premise of the Phantom moving to New York, Raoul turning out to be a drunk abusive husband and totally destroying some of the established canon of the original for a horrible sequel plot. Thus proving my point that some things are better left alone to allow the viewer to make his or her own guesses at what happens in the future rather than spelling everything out for them

[LynneSin]

63. If you read my subject line again....

I know these movies aren't going to be made. Geez, all you have to do is look at that crappy sequel to the legendary movie "The Last Picture Show" (that stinker was called "Texasville&quot

Remember this is DU. If I start a thread 'Hollywood starts I'd like to boink' that doesn't mean I'm gonna go track down and boink the people on my list. It's just wishful thinking. For me it would be neat to see what Lloyd Dobler and Diane Cort are doing today but I'm not knocking down Cameron Crowe's door demanding a sequel.

BTW sequels like that have been done and worthy of the original. That would be the "Before Sunrise" sequel with "Before Sunset". Richard Linkletter kept true to how the original was done and even got input from Ethan Hawke and Julie Deply, the actors that played the couple in both movies. In fact the sequel got an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. Rumor has it they are going to do another sequel again 9 years after the last one (the 2nd movie was 9 years after the original) and I think with that team they could pull it off again.

[glinda]

67. I wrote one involving several couples in one film. Someone pleeze contact me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

60. These are not movie couples

But I've had similar musings about characters from movies and TV from time to time so I'll include them here:

1. Molly Jensen from "Ghost". OK, so her partner has been murdered, has come back as a ghost and now has been taken up to Heaven in front of her. Her husband's best friend and, at one point in the movie a potential love interest, has been revealed as her partner's killer and has died in front of her. The eccentric medium that was pestering her claiming to be representing the interests of her dead partner has been exposed as being the real deal (at least in this case). So what happened to her now? Did she remarry or had she lost her one and only true love and remain single. Does she still live in her lovely apartment in New York or has she moved somewhere cheaper?

2. Cole Sear from "The Sixth Sense". OK, he's come to terms with his "gift" but now he's lost the one true friend (psychiatrist) whom he can explain all his troubles to and will take him seriously. Then again his mother now believes that he talks to ghosts. So does he continue helping the ghosts whom he encounters? Does his mother help? He's be about 20 now? What's his life like now?

Not from movies but
3. Alex Keaton from "Family Ties": The producer of "Family Ties" said that he imagined Alex Keaton would have been one of those "Republicans for Obama" in 2008. Michael J Fox disagrees, saying that he thinks that Alex Keaton would have become a corrupt Republican and would be serving prison time now. So what happened to him? And what happened to Mallory and Jennifer

[LynneSin]

66. If we go down that route, I'd like to know what happened to the "Wolverines"

After they fought back against the Russian/Cuba invasion of the United States (Red Dawn). Did our country survive, did it unify, did one of the Wolverines run for President.

And I'd be curious to know if Dalton found a new redneck bar to reform. (Roadhouse)

[Doc Holliday]

71. Actually....

...there was a fairly crappy "sequel" to Roadhouse. I say "sequel" because it had none of the characters from the original, and only made passing reference to the Dalton character. The lead character was supposed to be Dalton's son (??), presumably by the lady doctor, and Dalton died violently, if I followed the story (what I watched of it) correctly.

[Recovered Repug]

74. When Michael J Fox left Spin City,

his character went to work in DC. There he met a freshman congressman from Ohio named Alex P. Keaton.

[charlie and algernon]

61. Thelma and Louise

Did they stick the landing?

Are they sharing a hospital room in full body casts?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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And a big, "Yeah, RIGHT!!!" to LynneSin's post which included the following:
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If I start a thread 'Hollywood stars I'd like to boink' that doesn't mean I'm gonna go track down
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[sarge43]

68. Jerry and Osgood, Some Like It Hot. Fun couple n/t

[deutsey]

70. Ferris and Sloane

I like this movie but I always imagined Ferris growing up and becoming a coked-out Madison Avenue marketer.

[Doc Holliday]

72. Han Solo and Princess Leia

Although art just might have imitated life on that one....Carrie Fisher is not as easily recognizable as Leia as Harrison Ford would be as Han. Han might have ditched her something younger.

But her HBO special is hilarious and well worth watching.

[progressoid]

73. Ben and Elaine from the Graduate.

I've a feeling it didn't turn out so well.