Fast and the Furious.
The title for the sequel could be some kind of pun on how the film is faster and/or more furious than what would be reasonable under normal circumstances
Amazing!
I’m way too late on this one but I’m going with Battle Angel Alita.
Matrix
Is this a joke? Matrix has 3 terrible sequels.
Yeah, would have been nice to find out what happened after Neo flew away. At least Rage was playing.
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But seriously: it was a perfect ending. Now he’s Superman, kicks everyone’s ass, frees mankind. The sequels were not only shit but completely unnecessary.
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“Great” is a massive overstatement. They were passable movies that suffered from bad pacing and exposition dumping. I don’t hate reloaded or revolutions, but I’m not going to go out of my way to watch them like I do for the first one.
Matrix sequels underrated crew rise up!
Say what you will about the Wachowskis, they never fail to push boundaries and try something weird and interesting with every film.
I’m very glad that the people who don’t appreciate that haven’t stopped them from doing what they do. What a bunch of wet blankets.
The biggest problem with those two movies is that the pacing was awful. You had exhausting fight and chase scenes followed by scenes that had way too much mumbo jumbo dialogue. Every scene could have been made shorter without losing any plot points.
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I understood them all just fine… Still poor pacing. The first movie was basically half buildup for the second half’s continuous action. Two and three both suffered from the abrupt slow down after the action scenes that I personally feel never really got “better.”
I mean, I’ve got them all so I’m not going to pretend they’re as bad as other movies that we pretend didn’t get sequels but they just worse than the first one.
That said, I would regularly rewatch a cut that was just all the action scenes.
Titanic.
I remember there being a joke about a sequel where Jack is found frozen, revived, then has to make sense of all the merchandising and romanticism around what to him was a very real and recent tragedy.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/
Spoiler
Yes
Downfall (Der Untergang), 2004
Didn’t the main actor die? Also, he died in the movie, so a tough sequel.
Maybe spinoff would work better. Using the worldbuilding and asking what happened next. I was told once that The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), 2006 is set in the same universe and the same country, but this might be head canon, donno
Bruno Gans, Swiss, he was great in 'Wings of Desire".
Ninja Assassin. Okay, not a great film but it made a profit in the box office, the fight scenes were pretty sick, and it hinted at a little bit of world building with the mention of other clans.
If you like ninjas, may I suggest House of ninjas
For a long time, I would have said Unbreakable. I’m glad that he ended up continuing the story, eventually.
I never knew it was supposed to be a series until they announced Split
Me neither. Actually, I didn’t realize Split was in the same “universe” until the very end, when David was watching the news on TV. That was an awesome surprise!
It’s referred to as the Eastrail 177 Trilogy now
I like them, too
Fight Club
There’s a fight club 2 comic.
Dracula untold. Masterpiece of a movie.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It did quite well when it came out, and it felt like there was potential for sequels
Ohh that’s a good one. The other books afterwards were great too.
Would’ve loved a sequel and would honestly not mind them artistically fudging it a bit to pick back up with an older Arthur Dent
The movie wasn’t living up to the book though…
I believe Adams himself considered each different medium to be “it’s own story” though just as he added and changed things from the radio play for the book, he also added and changed things in the movie screen play… When he was involved in it. I’m not going to pretend it was all his work but it was it’s own thing.
And the book wasn’t living up to the original radio series
Mostly kidding on that
I agree that I like the book better, initially I disliked the movie, but I’ve come around on it, some things from the radio series were changed for the book, and so it just kind of feels right they’d further change things for the movie. Playing a little fast and loose with it feels very in the Douglass Adams spirit to me.
But does it live up to the text adventure?
Yep
Get analgesic.
This guy gets it
(the analgesic)
But you didn’t hang your towel up before pressing the button.
Not really, but it got me to read the books. And it could’ve been so much worse.
Most don’t but that’s ok :) I still liked it
Douglas Adams writing doesn’t translate well to film I think, a bit like Pratchett’s. It can be done (Good Omens was a great adaptation of Pratchett) but it’s probably super hard to do well and keep the original feeling/spirit
The 1981 TV series did a fine job, likely in no small part thanks to having Adams himself around and involved.
I feel like any future HHG adaptation would need to be TV rather than theatrical film. That universe is just too full to condense meaningfully into a 90-minute blockbuster meant to keep the Hollywood lowest common denominator in their seats. You need room for all the multilayered apparently-random stuff interacting with each other in the particularly bizarre ways Adams was so good at pulling off, and it needs to capture the whimsy of the source material without devolving into the unremarkable formulaic stuff the latest attempt to do Dirk Gently on TV turned out to be.
I’m surprised nobody has done a modern TV version. All five books have been successfully adapted for radio, the scripts are done, it’s already blocked out into well-paced individual episodes. It’s just sitting there waiting to be made. You just need a good cast and a show runner who isn’t going to monkey with the source material. It’s already proven to be popular and long-lived. Seems like a no-brainer.
They know they could never top the existing tv series
Which I didn’t like at all, it felt too much like an audiobook to me, reading all the guide bits, not like an adaptation. Looks like you can never satisfy all fans at once.
show runner who isn’t going to monkey with the source material
When’s the last time THAT happened?
All five books have been successfully adapted for radio
As far as I’m aware, the first two radio series predate the books. So, in fact, they were successfully adapted into print.
I blame Douglas Adams’ extended tax evasion scheme. I think they were already struggling to finish the first one.
Buckaroo Banzai
Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China
The problem was the story itself was so self-contained any sequel they tried would have clearly been nothing but a huge cash grab.
But they supposedly are making a sequel, starring The Rock 🫤
Is this the one where he plays the physically fit, yet somewhat goofy protagonist with corny jokes and facial expressions?
If they cast the rock in a Big Trouble sequel, I’m becoming a terrorist. He will ruin any franchise with his ego.
Freaking loved big trouble in little China. Cult classic to the max. I thought the magic was so cool!
I was so ready to see Buckaroo Banzai take on the World Crime League.
There is a book, but it wasn’t very good. :(
1st book adapts the movie:
The Road to El Dorado was the pilot for an animated series that never got greenlit. Massive missed opportunity, I would love to see “the continuing adventures of three latin rogues and a horse”
At the time animated series didn’t have the same quality they do today, I suspect it’s reputation is so good because there’s no subsequent animated series.
“What happens when the party is 2 bards and a rogue.”
Kung pow! They even had a silly thing after the credits that i thought was real but it never came to fruition =(
As a fan of genuine hong kong kung fu cinema growing up, this remains one of the few films I had to stop watching about 15 minutes in—was clear whoever made the movie had never actually seen a kung fu film. To add insult to injury the dvd decided to hide itself under a pile of magazines causing me and my brother to pay extra on a massive late fee because of it. I hate that movie.
It’s a bit odd to claim the guy who reedited and remixed an entire existing kung fu film never watched a kung fu film. Like his work or not, he pretty evidently saw the thing.
Wow that’s the worst reason to hate a movie i have ever seen. “as a fan of star wars, it was clear that the makers of spaceballs have no idea how to make a scifi movie.”
It was completely devoid of humor, and was clearly written by someone who had never actually watched the thing they were satirizing. I feel like that’s a pretty good reason to not like it.
There are a million genuine articles of badly dubbed, stupid and hilariously cheap kung fu movies out there, Kung Pow was like if Coke decided to make an off-brand Mr. Pibb.
updates have been coming out all the way up to 2022, so who knows?
I’d also love to see this sequel.
It’s one of the projects I check every year or so, kung pow still makes me laugh.
Flash Gordon.
Jumper. It was setting up an interesting world with more depth than the first movie could delve. I loved that one of the characters was so cool that the author of the original novel went out and wrote another book just about the movie’s character and it rocked.
In a similar vein, Chronicle. I absolutely love that film
I’ll make a note to check Chronicle out.
I loved Chronicle, but I’m not sure I would have loved a sequel.
Holy fucking shit that movie was good
You should check out the porn parody, Humper
The novel Jumper by Steven Gould, on which the film Jumper was based, spawned a continuing series that went on for a while and kept being pretty good. For the hell of it the author also wrote Jumper: Griffin’s Story which wasn’t part of his novels’ continuity, instead it was a prequel to the movie.
