Dredd with Karl Urban
I found Dredd to be uninteresting violence pornography, but the generic story and characters would make a series of films for a niche audience possible.
The Stallone Dredd was silly and the sidekick was annoying at best, but I like it.
But Stallone took the helmet off, so it’s bad.
The thing most of us like about it, was that it was very true to the comic book.
The Matrix
I agree, it was a good movie, hopefully it does not get destroyed with sequels
I’m also surprised that the Terminator series never got a third instalment. Or Aliens, for that matter.
I was really sad about the Aliens franchise ending after two movies. I was really looking forward to seeing what Newt, Ripley, and Hicks got up to in the next installment.
I heard some asshole was peddling a script that killed off Newt and Hicks in the first 2 minutes. Luckily they burned it…
Michael Biehn is a favorite of mine
Shame, that
No kidding. Same way I feel about Bill and Ted. Oddly, bot have Keanu.
Personally, I’m hanging out for Fast & Furious 27.
“Not like this” intensifies with every sequel
District 9
If I remember correctly, a sequel has been in development hell for years.
What would they call that, District 9 2?
District 9 3/4
Sonofabitch stole my line
District 3³ 1/3
District 9½ weeks
Electric Boogaloo
District 9 Days Later
Tristrict 9
District Nein.
Christoph Waltz would be lead.
District 9 + 1
Yes!
District 10
Constantine. Keanu Reeves has said he would like to do it, and there is a ton of story material to draw from between the Constantine series and all of the Hellblazers, not to mention cameos in other series.
Apparently they are working on a part 2. Peter stormare is confirmed to return as well.
Heck yes!
Ok, now I am interested.
Edge of Tomorrow. Not a huge Tom Cruise fan, but that one really gets me. Emily Blunt is awesome in it. Went in not expecting much, but I was blown away.
Watched it last year and immediately searched to see if there was sequel in the pipe. Development hell.
I would love more, but how? It was a rather self contained story.
In the book there are some references to Rita (Emily Blunt) fighting in various places and I think her getting her start in South America. Might be remembering that one wrong, but a prequel with her learning how to fight the monsters would have been good if they stuck more to the book.
Wrap a much larger time loop around the first movie.
The Fifth Element
I’m glad it didn’t get a sequel because it is such a good stand alone movie. I’m just shocked the studio didn’t try to milk it for everything it had.
It was a European production. We don’t do it that way.
The Transporter intensifies
Ironically, Luc Besson himself made two sequels to Arthur and the Invisibles, both novels and films.
Well,you got me,I lied. 😞
Unfortunately, Bruce Willis has a severe form of dementia.
He did have his face/voice/body (???) mapped for AI/CGI (???) future movies and signed the release of it though, so it’s possible.
A sequel to Fifth Element would probably suit a futuristic, CGI(ish) style too.
How about The Sixth Element?
That’s exactly what the title would be. What’s the plot? That Corben Dallas is also somehow a magical destined one? Ruby Rhod is now a monk?
Ruby Rhod is imprisoned for being a child sex trafficker.
Carbon?
Stupidity
Still waiting on Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
I liked Rick Moranis’s idea for it, Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II.
I feel like you can modify it to include both ideas Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money
Thanks-killing did that, skipped a sequal and the third film was about destroying the second (that dosent exist).
They’d have trouble fitting all the gags about repetition and nostalgia in a reasonable running time.
Mel Brooks is 97, good luck!
he just made a history of the world part 2 show earlier this year i believe
Pretty sure he’s not needed if it’s the search for more money. It won’t be any good, but if they think it will make money…
They can AI gen Yogurt just like they did with Admiral Tarkin.
They did History of the World Part 2 finally, so there’s a chance!
Can we get Jews in space and Hitler on ice. I mean technically space balls was the former but what would be the latter.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
It was good. It was written by Douglas Adams. He also wrote screenplays for the next 2 books to be made into movies.
And despite it making a couple million more than it cost, the first one was considered a flop. :(
Thay movie was awful. As a huge fan of the series, I don’t know how anyone can watch it and understand the plot without being familiar with it beforehand.
The BBC series is much better, and goes up to Book 3 iirc.
I disagree. I loved the film. I remember it fondly.
Do you like the books? I find that people who like or have read the books tend not to like the movie and vice versa. I do not like the books.
I personally enjoyed the movie, the books, and the BBC series.
Yeah the way I see it is that even Douglas himself didn’t quite have a single vision in his mind about the story, which is why there are so many iterations (radio, book, movie, tv series, musical? Am I forgetting anything?)
The funny thing about THHGttG is that it exists several times simultaneously with wildly different canons. The original BBC radio show was the original, then they did the TV miniseries with much of the same talent (Mostly replacing Susan Sheridan with Sandra Dickenson as Trillian), THEN the book pentology, THEN the 2005 movie. They all start pretty similarly with Arthur’s house and the pub and the Vogons, but then they go into all kinds of different directions in different orders.
For me personally, the plot doesn’t matter all that much anyway. What I love is Douglas Adams’ prose - the plot’s mostly just a vehicle for that - and I feel that doesn’t really translate to film. The perfect example:
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
It’s funny. It’s succinct. It’s very descriptive. It doesn’t just tell you that the ships were hovering, it draws comparison to bricks which conjures up images of blocky, inelegant ships, and it gives the impression that the way they’re just stationary in the sky is somewhat unsettling or surreal. I think it’s quite impressive how much such a short sentence manages to convey really!
Translating it to film, and having shot of some blocky, inelegant ships hanging in the sky, doesn’t manage to capture the same humour or feeling that that short sentence in the book does, at least for me. And it’s the same throughout the whole series, but that line is probably the easiest example to bring up. Some books translate really well to film and the imagery in the film ends up being far better than what I could imagine myself on the fly, but that’s not the case with Hitchhiker’s Guide at all.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide radio series has a fair amount of narration so the prose still shines through in that.
I had similar issues with the various Dirk Gently adaptations, too. And I find I have the same issue with screen adaptations of Terry Pratchett’s work for similar reasons. Without Adams’ or Pratchett’s wonderful prose, it often tends to feel very B-movie-esque to me.
Agreed. Second-worst date movie ever. She was shellshocked and missed all the humour cues.
Agreed, I fell asleep. In a movie theater.
It was ok. Didn’t understand the side story with John Malkovich at all, pointless. And Zoey Deschanel was terrible as Trillen, like criminally awful at the role to the point she ruined it for me. Sam Rockwell was perfect casting though, same with mos Def and Martin Freeman
Sam Rockwell is cast perfectly in just about everything. Phenomenal actor. Kinda surprised we don’t see him more.
No one else could have asked kids if they want regulars or menthols in the 1990 TMNT movie.
Ok, maybe not that one.
Yeah I was just joking with that. It just blows my mind that he was played by Sam Rockwell.
I’m surprised it’s never been made into a decent TV show. The entire thing has already been made into half-hour radio shows, so the scripts are there and road tested. It’s basically halfway done already.
I weirdly enjoyed the 1981 BBC series:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker’s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series)
I’m not necessarily surprised this one didn’t get a sequel, but I really wish it had!
Event Horizon (1997)
I like the fan theory that Event Horizon is a prequel of sorts to the Warhammer universe.
Oh, I’ve never heard that, I’ll have to look it up!
The theory is basically that in 40k ftl works by sending the ship through the warp (hell). Humans use a Gellar field to keep a bubble of reality around the ship while in the warp. The theory is this is humanities firstf tll so they don’t know they need a Gellar field.
It’s fun but other then the ftl is hell doesn’t fit at all with the rest of 40k lore.
Apparently there was a directors cut that got lost somehow…
It was apparently too intense for test audiences, and this was in the pre-DVD-special-features era when no one bothered to keep cut footage. Maybe they cut too much. I watched it recently because I had heard fantastic things and I was just… generally unimpressed. It was an interesting concept that really wasn’t very well explored, and the writing was so stiff.
I would love to see some sort of remastered directors cut of that movie. It has definitely started showing its age, but it’s still high up on my list of great movies.
Master and Commander. It’s atmospheric and fun, and I’m sad they didn’t make more with that cast.
I read something about that a while ago. If I recall correctly, it was intended to be a franchise, but Master and Commander was so incredibly expensive that they decided against it.
Worth every penny, IMO.
I responded to this on another comment but from what I remember they got torpedoed by the MCU and thought they wouldn’t be able to compete against them…however reading these comments here gives me hope as everyone seems to be over the CGIverse now.
That’s surprising. Master and Commander came out in 2003, years before the first MCU film was released.
I really liked the books. I thought the movie was good, but it didn’t scratch the same itch the books did.
I’d love to see them make the books into a series of movies like with Sharpe or Hornblower.
In 2021 there was some planning/writing done for a prequel, but I don’t think anything came of it.
That film is having a bit of a cultural comeback, so there’s still hope.
That’s good to hear. I haven’t read any of the books (not my preferred literary genre) so I didn’t have a preconception of the Aubrey character. This sadly left me loving Russell Crow as Aubrey, and I’ll have a hard time with anyone else playing him. Crow is 59, now; he might still be able to get away with it.
Favourite movie of all time!
Alita: Battle Angel. I’ve heard there is a sequel planned, but it’s been a few years since the first movie. James Cameron is still involved as a producer, but I guess his blue-skinned money machine has kept him busy lately.
it took ten years for avatar to get one
And he’d been working on it through that period, too — whereas poor Alita ain’t getting that same treatment. 🥹
I think Alita is the better movie, honestly
The manga is leagues beyond both. 🤗
Firefly.
I mean more series, uh episodes.
Really? The movie was the handout for the people who were pissed the series didn’t last longer. Asking for a second movie is a nonstarter, even if the first was good.
Wouldn’t watch anything from Joss at this point anyways. 10 years ago I would have been all over a Firefly reboot or another movie, but Joss kinda dug his own grave on that by being a total piece of shit. And then after rewatching Buffy/ Angel, and Firefly so many times I realized that they are just the same stories and same characters with some different actors.
Serenity was the best thing Joss ever wrote and it was essentially a pity fuck.
Which, honestly, to be 100 percent honest, it wasn’t. I hated the movie. I understand its my fatal flaw, but I look at works holistically. One of the things that got me into firefly was it’s pacing; the promise that everything was going to have room to breathe. I would rather just have the first season; the movie crammed plot threads and character arcs meant to sustain an entire 5 season series into a 2 hour movie. Except its worse, because I got to see what the slow burn was like.
Still waiting for the Zootopia sequel. Genuinely good and creative movie that used the format to talk about tricky topics with some cushion and then became a cult favorite. They added some extra stuff under Zootopia+, they tee’d up the buddy cop format, did all this world building and then… what, Disney, this is the one IP you’re not going to squeeze for all its worth? Where’s the next one?
They are making a sequel to it.
Hopefully, we’ll find out who is getting milked to make the ice cream.
I’m holding out for a movie and Frozone.
Master and commander… They had the ship built already too - why not make a sequel? There’s about 20 books worth of material.
Pacific Rim, such a great fun mechs vs monsters movie that had a gritty feeling to it. Not over the top fantastical bullshit with flips or garish colors, just solid, slow, huge mechs fighting solid, slowish, sea monsters.
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No.
Let’s just pretend that film never released.
That movie was so bad
It’s like they took everything in the original that made it work and threw it out.
For people wondering how much impact a film director makes, this is a prime example.
I point to those two movies to illustrate a great director as opposed to an average one.
Pacific Rim is a brilliant film that pays homage to multiple films and genres.
Pacific Rim: Uprising is a terrible film that completely missed the point of the first movie.
Sicario 1 and 2 as well except it’s an example of an amazing director vs. a competent one.
At least Sicario 2 is quite watchable and has some amazing scenes. Can’t say the same for Pacific Rim 2. That one’s just bad and not even in a fun way. As you say, all the things that made the original work. It managed to miss all of them.
Beat me to it. Hahaha.
Godzilla vs Kaiju
