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Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002)
Topic Started: Jul 17 2013, 12:11 AM (257 Views)
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The child who could start fires with her mind is all grown up and still trying to find out the truth about what happened to her in this made-for-TV sequel to the sci-fi fantasy Firestarter. Nearly 20 years ago, Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Marguerite Moreau) was trained by a mysterious government organization who wanted to exploit her special and very dangerous gift, though Charlie learned the government operatives were not to be trusted when they murdered her parents. Charlie ran away from them as a child, but now in her mid-twenties, she's decided she wants to know more about the people who shaped her strange destiny -- just as Rainbird (Malcolm McDowell), the man who shaped Charlie's pyrotechnic gift years before, finally finds her after years of search. To Charlie's horror, she discovers a number of other children with bizarre talents.
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yeah i think i seen this before
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^I think so too. It doesn't look interesting to me, so I don't know why I did lol.
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I watched a part of it and just couldn't get into it. It was boring, tbh.
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This movie doesn't look interesting
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I got about ]30 minutes in and stopped. The refilmed footage of scenes from the first movie just completely killed it. What they couldn't get the rights to the original footage? Or was this really a remake disguised as a sequel? Very distracting.
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Ew. I hate when movies do that (Evil Dead 2, anyone?). I'll stick with the original (which still wasn't even THAT good), thanks.
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Yeah the random new reshot footage really killed it . So pointless.
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Bitch looks stupid. Sounds horrible from what you all are saying
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I had the misfortune of watching this just after watching the original Firestarter. (I had a two-disc set that contained both movies.) The original isn't a classic, but it's still a solid movie. This one, though, takes everything that was good about that film and takes a giant steaming shit all over it. It's not a sequel so much as it is a reboot, one that throws out all the interesting parts of the first movie (Charlie's conflict over her powers, Rainbird's fear of Charlie and of psychics in general) as well as any sense of continuity. It was like whoever made this had never seen the original film or read the book. The acting is terrible; as much as Malcolm McDowell and Dennis Hopper embarrass themselves here, they're still the best actors in this film by default. Marguerite Moreau, who plays Charlie, is the worst offender by far; when she's setting shit on fire, she just has this blank expression on her face, with no intensity or really any kind of emotion. I seriously think she might've been worse than Rooney Mara in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, and (pardon the pun) she certainly can't hold a candle to Drew Barrymore.

Even the action and special effects weren't as good as the original, which surprised me given that this was pretty much a cheesy B-movie miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel. You'd think that's where they'd focus the effort if they didn't make an interesting story or characters, but they can't even do that right. The best example of this is the scenes in The Shop where they're testing Charlie's powers. In the original, it was truly intense, and you could feel and understand the scientists' fear of Charlie. In this movie? Those same scenes, reshot as flashbacks, feel completely half-hearted. (Oh, and another thing: the amount of flashbacks in this movie was just insanity.)

My full review of both films is here.
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This really ISN'T that bad of a movie. It's a TV movie, and yes, there's a scene where she accidentally causes a fire because she's so aroused by getting sexed up, but... It's a decent b-grade TV movie sequel.
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I got about ]30 minutes in and stopped. The refilmed footage of scenes from the first movie just completely killed it. What they couldn't get the rights to the original footage? Or was this really a remake disguised as a sequel? Very distracting.
It's a sequel. I think they re-shot several scenes to incorporate Malcolm McDowell, and older Charlie interacting with her younger self in a vision. But this also results in continuity errors with the original. It's another example of a sequel to a remake that doesn't exist.

The funny thing is Universal made both of these.
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