It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    21 hours ago

    Valerian and the city of a thousand planets. It’s an amazing setting and if you put some leads with actual chemistry in a sequel it could do well.

  • Kcap@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • C1pher@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 hours ago

    Megamind. That SLOP they tried to sell as a TV series was just a cashgrab. Talentless cashgrab.

  • Sinthesis@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Stand by Me. The movie came out in 1986 but it is set in 1959…so 40 years later, the sequel is set in 1999. If anyone could write an awesome sequel, it’d be Stephen King.

  • mriormro@lemmy.zip
    206·
    1 day ago

    None. Stop with the fucking sequels and prequels and spinoffs already.

    Your nostalgia will never be placated.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    112·
    2 days ago

    Children of Men is the best movie ever for the plot and atmosphere more than the one shot extravaganzas. In terms of what the sequel plot should be, I think further advance in the collapse and despair of the world even if a new pregnancy in the world occurs. Perhaps from the perspective of the rulership leveraging despair for corruption gains.

    • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I dunno, I love that the ending is so ambiguous. My headcannon is that there have always been new children, but they are all saved and hidden by the resistance movement, on an island to protect them from the world.

      Making an actual sequel would require them to make so many decision about their world, and similarly to the Mass Effect sequel I think it can only disappoint.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        1·
        21 hours ago

        For sequel, Clive could have survived. The Human Project should have had other success in protecting children from establishment, There could have been a lot of children on that Island if fertile mothers were also taken there. Teenagers from that island could be a studio-friendly plot line. There is massive plot possibilities, but the uniqueness of the original was global despair from a lack of human sustainability. In an older more decayed world, the low hanging fruit for plot is a corrupt dead end establishment clinging to power instead of enabling the human project.

        Don’t look up had very poor plot around theme, except for “I am for the jobs the comet will provide” line. It was still a worthwhile movie. If the bar is better than original or disappointment, then ok, but it’s easy to be much better than don’t look up, IMO.

        • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          21 hours ago

          For sequel, Clive could have survived.

          Ugh, that would make the original movie actively worse. Don’t do that.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Predator 2, Aliens, Terminator 2. Fox was on a roll with those films. Too bad they lost their charm right after.

      Besides that we have The Dark Knight, Toy Story 2, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, Evil Dead 2 (if you consider a reboot is okay), Army of Darkness (if you consider Evil Dead 2 to be its own start), Godfather 2, Paddington 2, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze.

        • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          I guess chronologically speaking it’s more of a prequel. Maybe The Last Crusade fits the bill a little better. Both are excellent films nonetheless.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        49·
        1 day ago

        Of your 3 first examples, 2 are terrible and the other is forgetful, while all of them are good movies, they’re terrible sequels. I have seen Predator 2, but all I remember is that it’s set in a city; Aliens is clearly a cash grab that undermines the first movie, it switched from Terror to Action, and it’s essentially the same reason that Colonial Marines is worse than Isolation; Terminator 2 is my personal pet peeve, because it completely destroys the first movie plot. How does time work in Terminator? Easy, it’s cyclical, meaning you can’t change the past. But Terminator 2 introduces the concept that the past can be changed, but if the past can be changed then there is an original timeline without any time travel, and if that’s the case John doesn’t exist there, and if he doesn’t exist the terminator doesn’t go back and Reese doesn’t go after him and John is never born. The only way Terminator makes sense is if Reese always went back, which means the past can’t be changed.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    782·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    531·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
    582·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      There was originally plans for a sequel but I think there where some issues with casting it 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.

      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 day ago

        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.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
    73·
    1 day ago

    I would love to see a sequel to Chappie, I don’t think no one talks about it enough, the plt has a couple of holes, but the movie as a whole was perfect in my opinion.

    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      2 days ago

      Only if Kathryn Bigelow is involved. I dread someone trying this and ending up with someone worse than Point Break.