flawed polls are cool.

other?

How 'bout School of Rock 2: The School of Death Metal! I'd pay to see 12-year olds playing Carcass.

Here's how the sequel could be great.

The kids who Jack Black taught in the first film have grown up, their dreams and aspiration crushed by the cruel music industry. The Man has gotten them down.

Summer has turned to hard drugs and alcohol and one evening meets a pimp who talks her into turning tricks for him.

Enter Dewey, still a huge fat loser. He goes cruising for hookers and sees Summer on a street corner, and recognizes her, albeit he is unsure from where. Still, that familiarity plucks at his heartstrings and he picks her up.

Post-coital, Dewey breaks down in a haze of half memories and heroin fueled tears. He let's slip his once glorious days a music teacher, and something clicks in the barely functioning brain festering inside Summer's skull. She needs to take a shit.

A few weeks later though, while at a parlor getting her clit pierced she remembers who Dewey is and bursts out, still pantless, to call him on the nearest payphone. Inspired by Summer's still zealous attitude, Dewey tried to get the original School of Rock band back together.

A new battle of the bands is looming on the horizon, and all competitors are faceless products of the emo trend, but they're still much better than our heroes who haven't played in ages.

Try as they might to improve, the band goes nowhere. They are, however, unaware of just how bad they are, and they therefore still play in the competition, where they are subsequently booed off stage.

In the climactic final scene, Dewey sets fire the the building in a drunken rage, not knowing Summer, with whom he has become smitten, is still inside. Tortured by his actions, he picks up a nearby guitar discarded by a running young man in women's pants and thick eyeliner, he funnels his every emotion into what could very well be a decent song.

The End.

this post suks im not going to use bad words but u suck jb is the best actor ever and can make anything funny

I would be all for it, as long as they have Mike White and Jables involved. Linklater would be the cherry on the sundae but I don't know if he's interested.

School of Rock one was great but I don't think that a sequel is needed.

I love JB and School of Rock, but no thank you.

Yes they should. What a bias survey.

Pretty much agreeing with everyone else here - School of Rock was a lot of fun, and a sequel is totally unnecessary. Totally. Please don't do it.

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Nah, I enjoyed the first but let it be.

Comedy movies rarely call for a sequel and SoR is definitely one of those that doesn't need one. These type of movies are fun as stand-alones and they should be left as that.

Can we at least get a one-line synopsis before judgement is passed? Seriously. Has the film-geek community has become so cynical and jaded that it's writing off films before they've even left the scriptwriter's head?

This week we've already had the condeming of Tarantino and Rob Zombie's new film without even a single frame shot.... and yet people seem to be genuinely excited about a Transformer's sequel. I must be getting old but I'm starting to miss the gold old days when a film would come out, you'd watch it and THEN you'd talk about it.

agreed M&Co

I would agree that School of Rock 2 probably never needs to happen, but I'm a bit dissapointed that it was such a bias poll. Did you think that maybe you guys would be wrong for a change and half of your viewers might like to see one? I say new poll, with at least a "maybe" involved. You know what? Now I wanna watch the Tenacious D movie. Great stuff.

If you wanna start a poll about sequels never needed to be made, start with There Will Be Blood and move on from there.

If School of Rock 2 looks like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hml0Nu3X0s

We will reconsider. Rectangles are great.

Haha damn, I'm s.o.l. on this one seeing as I like pro wrestling. Scorpio is one of the best black wrestlers of all time.

I just like movies with Jack Black that are about music, so even if it was a sequel I'd probably still enjoy it, but I wouldn't cry. At least not again anyway.

Give me news, not your biased opinions.

Geez, could your poll be any more ridiculous?

Alot of people liked School of Rock. Just because Hunter "Holier-than-thou" Stevenson didn't like it [because you're too busy trying to be an artsy-fartsy film snob], doesn't mean you have to belittle everything about it.

I liked School of Rock. I hope they do make a sequel. And I hope Hunter stops posting. Seriously. You make me not want to read this site. Normally I completely skip your posts and read about it a different site. One not so childly biased.

@ Frank

Note to self: In the future look out for "childly bias."

Also (and I don't know if this news has yet to reach all areas of the internet yet or not), there's one important fact here:

Nobody owns the movie except the people who own the movie (and that's not you). If Mike White wants to write a sequel to his movie, then he can and you can't stop him. If Producer X wants to remake a movie you consider "classic" and "sacred" and he has the technical rights to do so... guess what? You can't stop him. He/she/they are entitled to do whatever they want with their movies, their stories, their characters, their money, and their time. You don't own anything to do with School of Rock or Robocop or Halloween or Star Wars. So acting as if the mere fact that you disagree with some bit of news represents a great transgression against your fragile genius psyche and subsequently motivates you to attempt to rally more to your opinionated cause is a pathetic waste of time and -- especially from a "I'm an against-the-mainstream-grain internet movie cynic" -- rather unoriginal.

Bitching and moaning about these sorts of things just casts more attention on something you claim to despise and/or oppose (while also giving it more exposure and publicity). Now, if it was some sort of empirical mistake or logical contradiction or someone involved with a movie said one thing and then did another, that would be news for the mere fact that it was worth pointing out. But writing pieces about "me and my friends don't like the idea of this -- agree with us!" is just completely negating the purpose of a site like /Film, which is designed to educate and connect people to stories, not force-feed subjective thoughts to those who are seeking information.

A much better course of action would have been to post the news "Mike White has written a sequel to School of Rock" and then MAYBE had a poll (with enough choices to cover all possible reactions) and then asked people to respond, in the comments, as to how they felt about this news.

M&Co. made a great point: motherfuckers, you haven't even the slightest clue as to what the movie is ABOUT (not to mention: who's in it, who's directing it, etc). And even once you have that information, there's a really good chance that you STILL won't have any idea about what the final product will resemble.

Report the NEWS (this person signed on, this movie comes out on this date, here's a new poster, here's some pictures, here's a blog post from the director), fairly poll readers' feelings about upcoming projects/people/ideas, and wait until you've seen a movie before writing about its quality.

Oh, and just for the record: if a movie looks SO bad to you/offends your sensibilities so much, as a film watcher... um, maybe don't give them free publicity by posting about it on a highly-trafficked site?

@ Justin

Brilliant! Do you have a flying contraption you'd like to sell?

Hang on, I'm going to poll all my friends and then determine whether or not I think selling you a flying contraption is a good idea (my money's on "no").

I though S.o.R. Part 1 was quite entertaining. But there's no room for a sequel.

I thought Hunter Stephenson understood the majesty of rock; the pageantry of roll. But he doesn't even get the crowing of the cock; the running of the foal.

Wow, Justin must be a citizen of Contradiction City.

"Their movie? They can do what they want"

Their blog? They can do what they want.

Sucks don't it?

The first film was probably the best film I've EVER SEEN but I don't see where they could go with a sequel.

Although if White/Black/Linklater were involved, I can't see how it could result in a bad film.

Undoubtedly the first pointless news story ever posted on this site.

Well done Hunter - how about leaving all the writing to Peter from now on?

I just feel sorry for the dude that spent time writing a script for this. Flush those months down the toilet. Bwoooooosh!

At Ben Franklin: Love your work man, but it's a movie site. Its ALL pointless.

I absolutely loved School of Rock and I'm guilty as charged for weeping at the end when they rip the stage up.

All that said, I don't necessarily crave a sequel, but I'd still see it.

this one had better open with jack black shooting heroin into his dick.

Man, feeling the Hunter hate this morning. You'd think he trashed
some piece of classic cinema. LoL

School of Rock was a mediocre film. I've seen it a couple of times, and hey, my kid finds it entertaining.

Sequel for this flick? My opinion, PLEASE NO! When is a sequel ever
a truly good idea? We've had some luck with comic/fantasy movies, but every other genre typically fails in their attempt to capitalize on the success of the first.

I can't believe how many cockmongers are whining about the biased poll.

Boo-fucking-hoo. Why do you give a shit? Honestly.

If you want there to be a sequel than good for you factotum (get the joke? GET IT?), but Hunter doesn't and he can say whatever he wants on his blog.

You're wasting your time bitching about this shit here. It's pointless, it's a harmless poll meant to be funny.


Of course, School of Rock's fanbase is pretty much pre-teens anyway, so to expect logic in their responses is lunacy.

And this is why I love this site. High five Hunter.

it could work if it's like the blues bros