everybody keeps saying this is a sequel, but to what film?????? i gotta know!
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It's a sequel to "The Fugitive", Tommy Lee Jones plays the same character.
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I believe everyone is entitled to my opinion.
This film is not a sequel to any film. It is based on the same characters as in The Fugitive, it is like an EPISODE, not really a sequel.
Protective, Detective, Electric Eye
Its a sequal. It takes place a bit after the fugitive.
shareIf this is a sequel to The Fugitive then where is Harrison Ford?
shareHarrison Ford wasn't a US Marshal...
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So, The first movie is about the Fugitive, (Harrison Ford), and this one is about the US Marshals... How can it be a sequel? I believe that a sequel is like the Omen: Damian is the center character; surrounding characters change, and it is the same story going on and on...
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I guess morons know the definition of sequel.
Just having the same characters (Marshals) does not qualify.
It is like another episode, not a continuance, it's a different plot, even though it's another innocent guy being pursued.
Episode? WTF? Did you just make that up? Maybe it is you that is the moron that doesn't know the definition of a sequel. If it is another movie set in the same "universe," with the same characters, it is a sequel. Idiot...
shareWhat are you saing?
How can someone with such bad grammar have the nerve to call someone else morons? Hahahaha!
Besides, I didn't saw that russian movie.... what's the name again? "Fugivitv"?; so I can't tell wether or not it is a Sequel to that one... but I doubt it.
Protective, Detective, Electric Eye
Harrison Ford was the Fugitive but
Gerard (Jones) was the U.S Marshal hunting him down.
It probably is a Spinoff more than sequel but The Fugitive and U.S Marshals are related.
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More like a spinoff.
Otherwise, the Jefferson's would be a Sequel to All in the Family. I think not.
IT SURE IS A SEQUEL.
shareAccording to Merriam-Webster, this is NOT a sequel;
Pronunciation: 'sE-kw&l also -"kwel
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French sequelle, from Latin sequela, from sequi to follow -- more at SUE
1 : CONSEQUENCE, RESULT
2 a : subsequent development b : the next installment (as of a speech or story); especially : a literary or cinematic work continuing the course of a story begun in a preceding one
and according to this post, I AM a dork.
Actually, that definition says it's a sequel.
shareWrong: according to the definition, this does not qualify as a sequel
Protective, Detective, Electric Eye
If U.S. Marshalls is a sequel to The Fugitive, then one can assume that the t.v. show Joey is a sequel to Friends.
I beleive we're looking for the word "spin-off" here people.
If you discard U.S. Marshals as being a sequel, you must also discard Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Terminator II: Judgment Day, which are both considered sequels.
shareTaken from the IMDb trivia page:
Unusually, this is a movie spun-off from a film (The Fugitive (1993)) which was a remake of a TV series ("The Fugitive" (1963)).
You're still completely disregarding the fact that both Jurassic Park II and Terminator II are "spin offs" yet considered sequels by all.
I think you are wrong, Monk:
I can't say much about Jurassic Park, but Terminator IS a sequel. The main plot is the same: Sarah Connor running away from hi tech cyborgs in the attemp to kill John Connor, the only one capable of fight back in the future.
US Marshals is not a sequel because the plot is different in the Fugitive an in this one.
First of all, the Fugitive is about a Fugitive, while US Marshals is about the US Marshals
The fugitive is based ona TV Show, while US Marshals is not
The things that happened in The Fugitive does not impact on US Marshals
Take Patriot Games, Hunt for the Red October, Clear and present danger, Sum of all fears.... are they sequels? I don't think so.... it is the same thing...
Protective, Detective, Electric Eye
How is the plot of US Marshals any different than that of The Fugitive? Tommy Lee Jones' character had almost as much screen time as Ford in the first one, and it's pretty much the same thing for US Marshals where Snipes has as much screen time as Jones. The only difference is that it's "officially" from the point of view of the US Marhsals, but it's not all that different from the first one.
The plots of Terminator I and II are about as similar as US Marshals is to The Fugitive. Sarah Connor was the star of the first one, running from the terminator to protect her unborn child. In the second, John Connor is now the one running away.
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD:
The plot of the Fugitive is a man trying to prove his innocense despite of the efforts of local police and US marshals to catch him, and the attemps of the medical group to stop him of doing that. As you can see, in this film, the main character and plot remains on the fugitive (this can be seen at the beginning of the film in which the first name that appears, is Harrison Ford's)
The plot of US Marshals is The group of US marshals being involved in a case and performing an investigation while trying to catch a fugitive. The result of this investigation is the proof of the fugitive's innocence. As you can see, in this film, the attention is focused on the US Marshals (this can be seen at the credits screen, where Tommy Lee Jones name is the first character to appear)
I can very clearly see that US Marshals is inspired in the plot and characters of The Fugitive, but as the films develop, we can see that they are NOT sequels.
A sequel would be: The US Marshals asking for Kimble's help in investigating Devlin Mc. Gregor Pharmaceuticals. THIS IS A SEQUEL, not a completely different case.
This is why Terminator qualifies as a sequel, because it is the same story that develops, but these two films do not.
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SPOILERS AHEAD
Oh, yes, it has to be: otherwise is an EPISODE: the focus on all Lethal Weapon movies are the characters of Riggs and Murtaugh, their story and how good they are in solving hard cases, as their lives develop. On Lethal Weapon 2, you are dealing with what was causing Riggs to be mad and out of control in the first one. These qualify.
As for the Batman movies, I don't really think of them as sequels, except for Batman and Batman and Robin, because you can say one is the first, and the other is the last (because Batman and Robin are supposed to be together now, and there are no more films with these two characters on)... but the ones in the middle, which comes after which (not talking about release date, but timeframe)? Do we know what happened to Vicky Vale anywhere in the next films of Batman? or isn't that important?
By the way, wasn't Batman and Robin with Val Kilmer and Chris O´Donnel on the good side, and Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carey on the bad?
Again, think about the Jack Ryan films.... Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Sum of All Fears, Hunt for the Red October.... are they sequels?
Protective, Detective, Electric Eye
It is a Sequel.
U.S. Marshalls
Also Known As:
The Fugitive Part II (USA) (working title)
Nuff said
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You're right: I was thinking about Batman Forever....
Protective, Detective, Electric Eye
It's not a sequel, it's a spinoff.
Dante has been seriously wounded, but the soul still burns..
It's both
& neither.
Kimball had extensive plastic surgery & got a job for the CIA; it was just a coincidence that the authorities looking for him were the same one's looking for him earlier.
And again he was innocent.
A crossover of characters?
In the same movie universe.
True, because "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World" are all about Jurassic Park and the dinosaurs that were grown there. "The Fugitive" and "U.S. Marshals" has nearly the same plot, only one same character, and have different titles to prove that it is the same canon, but not a sequel.
shareWhat a twat.
WHO GIVES A SH!T! They are both crap, so lets please end this right here.
shareHA HA HA HA HA! oh geez......
.... I'm sorry.... heh heh .....
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this IS a sequal to the fugitive,
in the first one tommy lee jones character hunted down harrision ford
in the second he hunted down wesley snipes
simple as that
i get the idea why this isn't considered a sequel, but why terminator, lethal weapon, and jurassic park are... stick with me.
in most sequels, the story is continued in that you have the same character_S_ - both protagonist and antagonist (or at least someone seen before). In Jurassic Park, you have team of scientists against dinosaurs; in Jurassic Park II and III, you have members of that original team against dinosaurs - already introduced characters, on either side. Same with Terminator - you always have the Connors's, and you always have the machines.
But when you take only one character, it has a different feel, more like one of a spinoff, like everyone keeps saying. You have the ongoing but still separate story of just one character against a different adversary, in a different situation...
and i know that doesn't work for all cases and there are tons of exceptions... but thats just the reason i get the 'spinoff' vibe from this particular movie, and not JP or the others mentioned.
Yes, it is a spinoff.
shareIt's not only one character that is kept from the fugitive, it’s the hole U.S Marshal team from The Fugitive that appears in U.S Marshals
shareU.S Marshals is more of a re-imagining of The Fugitive than a sequel. Don't you think that it would sound REALLY stupid to call it a direct sequel if the guy was stupid enough to not realise again that he was going after an innocent man. Or would that just be purely coincidental?
Yeah didn't think so...
This is a sequel. Enough evidence has been supporting this in the past, such as a working title being "The fugitive part II" and Tommy Lee Jones and his team still being prominent players. The Jurassic Park series is a good example of this.
Also, about the Batmans (pre-Batman Begins) they are all definitely sequels. Batman Returns has Bruce telling Alfred off about leting Vicki Vale into the bat cave, which happened in the first, and it was as if it was only a bit before the events in batman returns when he said it. You can argue about Batman Returns and Forever being sequels, the most I notice is the same Alfred and Commissioner Gordon... I guess Harvey Dent is back also from the first Batman though, but Batman and Robin follows Forever pretty much directly.
First Blood also Had 2 Rambo sequels...now 3, and they are all sequels, even though Rambo 2 was Rambo 2 and the first movie was "First Blood." You don't have to have the same protagonist and antagonist, Rambo certainly doesn't fight the same person, or same with John McClane in the 4 die hard films.
US Marshals is like that, you can call Lee Jones hunting the suspects "fighting" if that helps.