It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Constantine
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
They need to team up with Ash from The Evil Dead
Shu. Up. I can only get so erect.
Tucker & Dale vs Harold & Kumar.
How did nobody mention “Master and Commander”? It’s so good!
Wasn’t this a book series?
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.
The correct answer is District 9.
I dunno. I love that movie but I also think that Neill Blomkamp hasn’t made a truly great movie after that. Elysium was fun, but the last act was trash. The short stories on YouTube were great. But I think that he’s already given us the best of what he can deliver and be probably should concentrate on VFX and leave the field to better directors.
You kinda lost me by starting your post with “the correct answer is…” 🤢
Noted, thanks for your feedback.
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.
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.
For sequel, Clive could have survived.
Ugh, that would make the original movie actively worse. Don’t do that.
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
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.
Megamind. That SLOP they tried to sell as a TV series was just a cashgrab. Talentless cashgrab.
Wait, there was a TV series?
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.
Titanic. Rose Dawson struggling to make it as an actress while staying under the radar of Cal and her mother.
Good Will hunting.
Fight club.
Truman show
Fight club.
Wait, what? Like, why? It said everything there is to say about capitalism and alpha/dude-bro culture.
He fell into the fantasy of fighting and destroying society as we know it. Then at the end he became disillusioned with that. So where does he go next? Back to work? He can’t just hook up with Marla the rest of his life. I feel there could be another chapter there.
So where does he go next?
Prison. Because he’s a fucking terrorist.
Weird trilogy already.
Really bright kid learns math, goes crazy, and is put in an asylum under constant supervision.
Jumper
I always wondered what a Grandma’s Boy sequel could look like.
