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.
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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.
I never saw the movie, but the 2014 TV show was awesome and I wish it had gotten another season. Having the same actor make a few lame crossovers with the Arrowverse did not suffice.
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Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Tucker & Dale vs Harold & Kumar.
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.
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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.
You are the first person I've ever seen refer to Dredd as anything less than an action masterpiece.
When they remade Total Recall, I thought the OG was better because I am an action fan and the Swrtzenegger one is jam packed with action.
I went into Dredd kinda expecting a similar thing, but nah. It's way better than the Stallone one as a action movie. The Stallone one I now consider a comedy, instead. "Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and OK for you."
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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
dead pirate
I should very much hope not (((;ꏿ_ꏿ;)))
He’s only mostly dead.
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None. Stop with the fucking sequels and prequels and spinoffs already.
Your nostalgia will never be placated.
Stop having fun!
Just one more Ghostbusters movie and I can die happy...
How did nobody mention "Master and Commander"? It's so good!
Wasn't this a book series?
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.
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Primer
Except it would probably end up being a sequel and prequel at the same time...
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.
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.
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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.
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I would love to see a sequel to the Warcraft movie.
You're not going to fool us into doing your only job MGM/HBO/Disney/Paramount/...
Joke's on you, we're already in pre-production for sequels to every movie from 1959-1999
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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.
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