Top 15 Worst Movie Sequel Travesties
10 Cover Songs Better than the Original
Top 30 1970s Classic Rock Albums
Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time (Without the Word “Christmas” in the Title)
The Top 10 Most Dominant Athletes of the Decade
Top 10 Short Leading Men
Top 10 Actor Self-Portrayals in Film
Top 20 Hip-Hop Albums
Top 10 Most Underrated NBA Players of All Time
You take a chance, you produce a hit movie, so what’s the next step? Why, to extend the franchise and create a sequel to cash in, of course! While there are several examples of sequels that meet or exceed the high demands of their excellent predecessors (e.g., The Godfather, Part 2), most do a terrible job recreating the original magic. Below, we present the 15 most egregious examples of bad movie sequels.
Cover songs have a long and colored history — as long as people have been making music, other folks have been thinking they can do a better job. In most cases, it’s the original inspiration that endures and cover songs are mere imitations. But every so often a musician reinterprets and reimagines the melody, taking it to an entirely different level in the process. The following 10 songs are all recordings we think are better than the original, ranked in rough order of by how much better than the original they are.
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When I think about the greatest music of all time, the ten year period between 1966 and 1976 comes to mind. But if asked to choose a particular decade where rock’n’roll reached its most glorious height, the 1970s takes the guitar cake. The Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame could be filled with acts just from this [...]
Call me Scrooge or Grinch, but I don’t like Christmas. So when the editors here at The Pulp List asked me to write a Christmas movie list, I objected (normally, I get to choose my own topics). To make this job much easier and deliberately get revenge on them, I decided to make a list [...]
Every year, writers and fans, alike descend onto their computers in an attempt to highlight and comment on the “year’s best” in sports. Those athletes have a special distinction of being MVPs, MOPs or what ever other acronym the sporting world uses to define the best. Taking this a step further we have decided to [...]
To make it in Hollywood, leading men need to fit the archetype: tall, (mostly) dark and handsome. It’s tough to project that special combination of sexual mastery, ironic intelligence, poise and vulnerability that creates the greatest male stars without the onscreen gravitas that comes from being taller than his average co-stars.
Think of one you’ve [...]
