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Movies that didn't have sequels, but deserved one or more


Any great movies you wish had a sequel because the story or characters were so good?

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Well, I wish Lars von Trier had completed his USA Trilogy. He made Dogville and Manderlay, and had a script prepared for a film called Wasington, but Manderlay didn't do well enough with critics or at the box office, so Wasington wasn't considered to be financially viable. I think von Trier was also bored of that soundstage style by then too. He made Antichrist instead.

In the main though, I don't crave sequels to anything really. I wish fewer films had sequels and -- especially if a film was great -- I just to tend to think 'Please leave it alone now.' But American media corporations never seem able.

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I think Top Gun could have done with one a lot sooner.

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Agreed.
Maverick is a really fun movie btw, we really liked it👍

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Dredd and Edge of Tomorrow. EoT could maybe get a sequel someday, but I'm not counting on it.

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Dredd is the one I thought of immediately. Wow, what an action movie!

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There were rumours of Tom returning for the sequel last year.

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Dredd, I would love a sequel for, EoT to me, was great as is. I feel like I'm in the minority, but I don't want a sequel for it.

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I came here to say Dredd too.

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Titanic, wait no.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

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I wonder what happens, lol.

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Will this ship suffer the same fate as her namesake?


HMMM. I WONDER.

God, I hope it's a film about a perfectly pleasant and uneventful ocean journey. 'We wanted to play with the audience's expectations.'

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1.6 on IMDb - looks promising.

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Steven Segal should have starred in this. 😀

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Napoleon Dynamite

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That is most overrated and unfunny movie of the last 25 years so I’m going to say no.

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$400K budget vs. $46 million gross…apparently people really loved it.

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It all depends on if your high school experience was relatable or not.

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THAT IS NOT TRUE...IT MAY HAVE BEEN OVERRATED UPON IT'S RELEASE...BUT IT IS VERY FUNNY.

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This is why you, Kowalski from moviechat, are confirmed as the worst. There's no denying it now.

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FUCK YOU MUSHROOM DICK...NAPOLEON DYNAMITE IS FUCKING HILARIOUS...IT'S STUPID...BUT IT'S HILARIOUS...PLUS...NOBODY HAS EVER CALLED ME THE WORST...YOU HOWEVER ARE THE CONFIRMED WORST™️....I HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTING IT FOR YEARS NOW.

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I think I had a few mild chuckles in the movie and that's it. My friends I went to see it with in theaters were stoned while watching it. That should tell you something about the quality of the movie.

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SAME SITUATION DIFFERENT REACTION OVER HERE.

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I remember watching it in a roomful of people, extended family and some of their friends (Can't remember for what occasion now)...

... wide variety of ages from about 13 up to about 50, and the biggest laugh any of us got was when it ended and someone in the room sighed and said 'I hope they didn't use celluloid.'

Comedy: highly subjective, innit.

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Tell me what the movie is about. I'll wait.

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IT'S A SLICE OF LIFE COMEDY...NAPOLEAN MAKING FRIENDS AND DANCING HIS ASS OFF AT THE TALENT SHOW ALL IN THE ABSENCE OF HIS GRANDMOTHER AND KIND OF UNDER THE WATCH OF UNCLE RICO...VOTE FOR PEDRO.

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That's a lot of words to say it's about nothing.

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LIKE SEINFELD?...ONE OF THE GREATEST COMEDY SHOWS EVER?...GOOD POINT,CHONGO.

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It's a show about a comedian who gets into various dilemmas with his quirky friends while living in an apartment in New York. Napoleon Dynamite is just some kids who goes to high school with absolutely no character structure. He's not even likable.

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Napoleon Dynamite is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. In addition to the many laugh-out-loud moments in it, I loved the attention to authentic details, such as:

The ridiculously long and tangled handset cord. Those 25' (or even longer) cords were the ticket for more freedom to roam before cordless phones were a thing, but they were always getting tangled up and people tended to trip over them or get caught up in them as someone on the phone walked past them.

The double-exposure Olan Mills type portraits of Kip and Napoleon on the wall (double-exposure portraits were an extra-cost, "deluxe" option fad when I was a kid).

The "Vote For Pedro" T-shirts being made exactly the way cheap one-off or small-order custom T-shirts were commonly made when I was a kid, i.e., pre-cut vinyl letters, Cooper typeface, applied with a heat press, somewhat crooked, on a ringer T-shirt. You could get those made at full-service laundromats and various other places for around $5 (a couple dollars for the blank T-shirt and then they charged by the letter, with Cooper letters from Stahls typically being the default).

In any case, I don't think it needed a sequel. I can't think of any sequel to a comedy that was funnier than, or even as funny as, the original. I do wish they would have included the deleted kickball game scene though, since it was hilarious.

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THANK YOU...I AGREE WITH YOU.

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I’d certainly watch a movie about his hot sister in law Shondrella Avery, damn was she smoking hot!

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She changed Kipp’s life.

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‘Well, we chat online for like, two hours a day, so I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.’
😄

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“I'm just getting kinda TO'd. I mean, she hasn't even sent me a full body shot yet.”

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I'd rather see writers focus on inventing all new stuff, keep things interesting, and varied.
feels like 50% of the movies out there are sequels. meaning, there are thousands of unique, interesting, better stories out there that are getting passed over BECAUSE they are not a sequel.

But, there is a reason McDonalds is the most successful food chain on Earth.

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McDonald’s is more than $5 billion short in annual sales behind Starbucks. All you had to do was to look it up before you posted.
But, noooo . . .

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Starbucks is not exactly a food chain. Except if you eat your coffee.

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Sequels are a very legitimate thing. It's the remakes that need to stop.

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that's a decent point. people want to see new stuff with same people in it. Still, we are most likely missing out on some pretty amazing stories we'll never get to see

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the ending setup the possibilities for sequels and still wishing that could happen.

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Not "great", but I enjoyed them:

The Last Airbender
Prince of Persia

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