It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.
The correct answer is District 9.
However, I find I’m often disappointed by sequels to great movies. I feel like there are far more mediocre movies that failed to fully explore the depths of a good concept, where a sequel (perhaps in a different genre) would retroactivel make the first movie better.
For that, I also choose Johnny Mnemonic.
Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.
I also think now would be a great time for a Galaxy Quest sequel. There’s a lot of fertile sci-fi tropes that could make for another hilarious movie. Like, after the end of the revival of the original show, there’s a Next Generation spin-off that overshadows the original, plus a bunch of expanded universe content. The Thermians and other aliens keep replicating the nonsense as real technology. What remains of the OG crew has to convince the new cast and writers/showrunners to stop being so lazy in their hand-wavy rushed bullshit, because there are very real consequences to poorly executed cash grabs full of plot holes and dangling threads. Maybe there’s a prequel series that creates a schism in the Thermian society, with the older generation following the Never Give Up, Never Surrender idealism, and the younger generation believing in a grittier, cynical imperialistic ideology.
Johnny Mnemonic is based of a short story of the same name by William Gibson. It’s set in the same world as Neuromancer and his other cyberpunk. If you want to see it explored more, I recommend reading those.
Huh, I read Neuromancer a long time ago, but I forget almost everything about it. Would that make a good film?
It was one of the main inspirations for the Matrix so it sort of has been made.
But yeah I could see a Neuromancer movie being good too! I can’t remember exactly how similar Neuro was to the Matrix because it has been so long but it did have the concept of “plugging in” to the network at least
edit Neuromancer TV series is coming soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(TV_series)
I think it is funny that Keanu is the lead in both movies, one where a bunch of data is shoved in his head and another where he is shoved into a bunch of data.
It would take one hell of a director but maybe. The descriptions of a lot of things in the book are abstract and weird. Things and ideas are sometimes described as if you are already familiar with them and the world. It would take someone with vision. I’m also worried that if it were done well, it may not have a wide enough appeal to please the execs at the box office.
Apple is making it into a TV show right now, and I’m expecting to be disappointed. Most media has been too Netflixified.
I hadn’t hear about that, but I think of all the streaming content producers, Apple has the best track record for producing quality content. But yeah, the fact that I barely remember reading Neuromancer, and what I do remember was confusion, I bet that’s a tough needle to thread.
https://thedirect.com/article/district-10-movie-sequel
A District 9 sequel is in the works.
“In the works” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. They’ve been saying that for a decade. I’ll believe it when they actually start filming.
Being ‘in the works’ for over 10 years is development hell.
The correct answer is District 9.
I dunno. I love that movie but I also think that Neill Blomkamp hasn’t made a truly great movie after that. Elysium was fun, but the last act was trash. The short stories on YouTube were great. But I think that he’s already given us the best of what he can deliver and be probably should concentrate on VFX and leave the field to better directors.
Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.
I even have the perfect movie title: Out of Time
Or maybe Just In Time. Time Out. Time Bandits, no that’s taken. Taken Out, no that was my spec script for the finale to the Taken franchise. Time and Again.
You kinda lost me by starting your post with “the correct answer is…” 🤢
Noted, thanks for your feedback.
The Fifth Element. So much untapped potential in that dystopia. It could be a direct sequel following up on Korben and Leeloo, or a spin-off following Ruby Rod, or a prequel around the previous time the Evil threatened the world, or a thousand other possibilities.
There was originally plans for a sequel but I think there where some issues with
castingit under performing in the box office. Also, it would need to be with someone else leading as Bruce Willis is too sick to act any more.Yeah, I know it couldn’t happen now, not with the original actors reprising the same roles at least. Still would have loved to see more of that universe though.
Bruce Willis is too sick to act any more.
So is Chris Tucker but in a completely different way
Constantine.
I know it may not have checked all the boxes for comic fans but it was a great movie with great characters and atmosphere.
I’ve thought about this several times since its release. Apparently I’m not the only one. Keanu was asked a similar question last year but about his own catalogue and he said the same thing, he wishes there had been a sequel.
A few months after that, I think I read a sequel might be coming.
I never saw the movie, but the 2014 TV show was awesome and I wish it had gotten another season. Having the same actor make a few lame crossovers with the Arrowverse did not suffice.
Do yourself a favour and give the movie a whirl. I’m in the minority but as a long time fan of Hellblazer (original run of 300! comics) I was happy with the movie, thought it was adequately close to the material (for a movie, how can you fit the scope of the source material into 1.5 hours…) and a good old romp overall.
The TV show was excellent, quite close in look and feel and Matt Ryan nailed it (also his characterization in Legends but the writing there was lesser for the character, even though I enjoy Legends for their goofy, campy fun, Constantine wasn’t a good fit), totally want some more.
To this day I’m not sure how to feel about their trolling attempt on how to pronounce the name Constantine. Which in the comics is “Constantine, like clementine”, but in the show and the movie it’s the other way.
“Constantine, like clementine”
But…that can be pronounced two ways? Isn’t that the point?
Wait, what? Damn, today I learned…
Keanu said he’d jump at the opportunity to make a sequel as well and he’s been pushing for it for a while
They’re working on a script, last I looked up.
The worst part about Constantine was the main cast.
Keanu playing an emotionally arrested dude was pretty spot on.
And although not a main character, but Peter Stomaire’s Lucifer was pretty haunting.
Tilda Swinton was great too. I was t familiar with the character from the comics, but I still remember her role from when I saw it at first release.
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
They need to team up with Ash from The Evil Dead
Shu. Up. I can only get so erect.
Tucker & Dale vs Harold & Kumar.
Dredd. The movie was only so-so but it was a really good setup for a sequel. Karl Urban also knocked it out of the park. The Stallone version was good for what it was but it didn’t really feel like Judge Dredd.
You are the first person I’ve ever seen refer to Dredd as anything less than an action masterpiece.
The heavy use of slow motion kind of ruined it for me a little bit. If it was symbolic in some way my unsophisticated brain didn’t get it.
When they remade Total Recall, I thought the OG was better because I am an action fan and the Swrtzenegger one is jam packed with action.
I went into Dredd kinda expecting a similar thing, but nah. It’s way better than the Stallone one as a action movie. The Stallone one I now consider a comedy, instead. “Eat recycled food. It’s good for the environment and OK for you.”
For Total Recall, the point was that the state of the film was ambiguious. Were the events on screen the memories bought and paid for, or was it a real spy thriller.
The remake answeres that question and ruins the entire premice of the film. This is a key example on why these Hollywoo “remakes” are widely panned, they usually miss the point of the origional art and audiences are dumber for it.
Dredd (2012) was a techically proficient, but ultimately mediocre piece of uncritical copraganda action schlock, and a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995). i will die on this hill.
a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995)
Now that is a SPICY take, and I applaud your bravery.
I mean the nostalgia runs deep for the 1995 one cause I was a child, but I highly recommend posting this on unpopular opinion.
I’ll give you this, the old one felt more comic bookish. But if they do go back to the campy, please give me some dark judges!
I don’t remember watching either of these two movies so I have no skin in the game, but I love it when someone is this passionate about a controversial opinion like this.
I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call it copaganda, but it’s definitely true that it downplayed the anti-fascist satire of the original source material
The Matrix
I haven’t seen the fourth, but I don’t think that the second and third movies were that bad. It wasn’t Phantom Menace for Star Wars, where the movie just targeted a completely different demographic.
I also didn’t think the 2nd & 3rd were that bad. There’s no such thing as the 4th movie though unless you count the parody movie pretending to be a sequel.
I enjoyed the 4th a lot more than the 2nd and the 3rd movies. They just felt bloated and pretentious. However, with the 4th I felt that the last act was completely unnecessary. I was so bored by the action and I thought it would have been much better if they had found a way to end the movie without such a large action set piece.
The Matrix Resurrections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)
The Matrix is an American cyberpunk[2] media franchise consisting of four feature films, beginning with The Matrix (1999) and continuing with three sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021).
Smith: Things have changed. The market’s tough. I’m sure you can understand why our beloved parent company, Warner Brothers, has decided to make a sequel to the trilogy.
Neo: What?
Smith: They informed me they’re gonna to do it with or without us.
Neo: I thought they couldn’t do that?
Smith: Oh, they can, and they made it clear they would kill our contract if we didn’t cooperate.
Everything you need to know about the movie. I strongly suspect that Lana Wachowski deliberately made the movie as dogshit as she could plausibly get away with so as to properly kill the franchise once and for all, or at least until she’s dead and someone else can try to pick up the pieces and reboot the whole thing in a few decades.
There’s an XKCD for everything
Kung Pow!
Aw so cute bye bye
A. The Princess Bride. More likely a spinoff with Inigo becoming the dead pirate Roberts
B. Pacific rim. Because we all agree that there is no sequel
B. Pacific rim. Because we all agree that there is no sequel
There’s always Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant.
I should really get around to those books. Though, I think the author has said that their main (partially spite-fuelled) mecha inspiration is Darling in the FranXX?
There’s the author’s truth, and then there’s my headcannon 😇
A. The Princess Bride. More likely a spinoff with Inigo becoming the dead pirate Roberts
Counterpoint:
Léon: The Professional
Did she grow up to be a nice girl or a cleaner?
Colombiana (2011) started its life as a sequel before it changed.
She became queen of somewhere far far away, actually. I don’t remember the details; it was a long long time ago.
Heard she became a pedo herself.
Hurt-people, hurt people.
I know it was based on the movie that predated Léon, but I always took La Femme Nikita (the TV show) as a sequel of sorts to Léon. I mean, both movies were Luc Besson, and both covered similar ground, so it’s easy enough to conceive of Mathilda taking a new name and identity and carrying on Léon’s line of work.
That said, I’ve not seen La Femme Nikita since it originally broadcast, so I could be remembering it wildly wrong.
dont recall natalie portman ever being in an action flick
Does Thor count as an action flick? Or Star Wars?
i completely forgot about thor…don’t recall her doing much proper action though (the movie was fucking terrible, i try to forget it in general).
guess i should have said “any action flicks since star wars”
Hey, she wasn’t just in Thor. She was also in Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Love and Thunder!
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She was in Heat , but not in an action role.
Titanic. Rose Dawson struggling to make it as an actress while staying under the radar of Cal and her mother.
And then 25 years later she books passage on the Hindenburg because she’s afraid of ships.
It could be fun to watch a sequel of her getting PTSD’d by yet another mode of transportation after getting railed by some lower class riffraff.
Already done 🫠 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/
1.7/10, nice
There are several of these. Like https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0081400/
and drowning her bf.
Trick question. A good standalone movie doesn’t need or want a sequel.
I feel like too often people end up making sequels to good and popular things that never needed to be expanded upon, and they end up really bad.
A second problem is that if a much beloved movie (or video game) comes out, there’s a window of time where you can make a sequel with the same team, actors that are about at the same age, and so forth.
But if you let 20 years go by, that team is gone. Some may be retired, some are doing other things and won’t come back, actors will have aged, etc. You’re going to have a hard time assembling a group with the same chemistry again.
I think that in many cases, it’s better to do a similar work. Like, okay, say you like a space opera like Battlestar Galactica or Firefly or something. I liked both. But…trying to do more of same is going to be a tall order. A lot of times a new team tries to get continuity by lots of in-jokes or allusions to the original that the original team probably wouldn’t have, and I think that that can be a negative. If it’s a live movie, it’s probably going to be hard to get ahold of props from the original and such any more. Like, I’d rather just have someone go do a new, good space opera in the same vein that tries to emulate the good bits of what I liked about the original. A spiritual successor rather than an actual one.
I’m not saying that it has never been the case that there have been good sequels done by other people. I like the Fallout video game series, and it’s had a variety of teams and companies that have done entries. But I think that there have been a large proportion of attempts to build on past IP using a new team that just don’t work out.
Crouching Tiger 2 was a terrible idea
Agreed. There are a lot of posts in here about movies that are great as standalone movies.
I can’t believe they didn’t make a second Superbad. The plot line wrote itself. Seth goes to visit Evan and Fogel one weekend at Dartmouth. The cops have been fired and are now working as lowly campus security officers. Hi-jinks ensue. Call it Superbadder. Boom done.
Feckin eh!
The Matrix
You mean they should make a 5th one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)/
No, they should make a second one.
I am of course referring to the old joke where people deny the existence of the sequels. Not that I was aware of a fourth.
Ah, sorry. I was out of the loop
None. Stop with the fucking sequels and prequels and spinoffs already.
Your nostalgia will never be placated.
Stop having fun!
Just one more Ghostbusters movie and I can die happy…
You’re not going to fool us into doing your only job MGM/HBO/Disney/Paramount/…
Joke’s on you, we’re already in pre-production for sequels to every movie from 1959-1999
