It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    802·
    23 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.

  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
    592·
    23 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·
      22 days 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·
        22 days 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.

  • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    541·
    23 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.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    372·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
      27·
      23 days ago

      You are the first person I’ve ever seen refer to Dredd as anything less than an action masterpiece.

      • juliebean@lemmy.zip
        72·
        23 days ago

        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.

        • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
          9·
          23 days ago

          a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995)

          Now that is a SPICY take, and I applaud your bravery.

        • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
          6·
          23 days ago

          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!

        • Lumidaub@feddit.org
          4·
          23 days ago

          I just watched Dredd the other day again and while I had an excellent time with the action, I had indeed forgotten how ultimately uncritical of police it is, apart from hints at some bad apples. We should all be so lucky to be protected and where necessary judged by these fine and for the most part incorruptible women and men.

          (I don’t know if I’d call the old one superior though)

        • EvenOdds@lemmy.zip
          2·
          22 days ago

          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.

        • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
          1·
          22 days ago

          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

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 days ago

        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.

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
    281·
    23 days ago

    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

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      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.

      • Googlies@lemmy.world
        31·
        22 days ago

        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.

      • GraniteM@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 days ago

        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.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      7·
      23 days ago

      She became queen of somewhere far far away, actually. I don’t remember the details; it was a long long time ago.

    • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      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.

  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
    201·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      22 days ago

      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.

  • Kcap@lemmy.world
    16·
    22 days 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.

  • mriormro@lemmy.zip
    207·
    22 days ago

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

    Your nostalgia will never be placated.

  • aaravchen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    131·
    23 days ago

    You’re not going to fool us into doing your only job MGM/HBO/Disney/Paramount/…