Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.
Sadly Dredd didn’t make enough money to recoup their production costs, while it was in theaters. It’s been estimated that Dredd made around $20 million in the Home Market. This means how many DVD and Blu-ray sales they made. I wasn’t able to find any info on streaming numbers unfortunately.
I still hold out hope that a sequel is made and released before the end of the decade.
If Dredd is the movie I’m thinking of, I would assume VHS sales outpaced both Bluray and dvd sales combined! Didn’t that movie come out in 1995?
That was Judge Dredd. They’re talking about the remake, I think.
Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.
It’s probably because I was drunk when I watched Judge Dredd in the theater, but I seem to remember liking Stallone in that. I thought that Dredd was just a worse rip-off of The Raid, but then I read somewhere that they basically co-evolved to a similar thing.
Judge Dread was a fine movie for people who are into that sort of movie (and I am) but it was a pretty terrible adaptation of the comics.
As a Stallone movie it’s entertaining in a “brain off eat popcorn” way, same sorta feel as Demolition Man (which was fun). It’s only once you understand the material that it’s supposed to be adapting that you feel like you were cheated.
It also depends on your ability to not leave when Rob Schneider shows up and starts Rob Schneidering all over the damn screen.
That makes sense. I enjoyed the first Tom Cruz Reacher movie. Then I read a handful of the books, and was just very disappointed in the casting.
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".
Flash Gordon.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Excellent, fun movie. Huge universe to built on. Shame they’re probably not continuing the series
I’m still waiting to learn what happened to Ridley, Marina, and Snails.
Wait is it confirmed they’re not picking that back up? I thought that movie was pretty solid! Really felt ripe for franchising. Could either continue that party, or same actors different campaign, etc… so much potential!
I don’t think it did well in theatres. It was also released around the time of the GPL fiasco, so lots D&D fans were still boycotting it.
Beetlejuice. It was such a popular movie that spawned a musical, a cartoon, various video games, etc yet there’s only been the one movie. There’s been talks about a sequel over the years but nothing has materialized yet.
Either this is a joke that whooshed over me, or you’re going to have a fine time next month - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049403/
I didn’t realize there was a sequel coming out next month. Don’t know how I missed that.
Jumper
They did the series impulse which is in the same universe but only 2 seasons if I’m not mistaken.
The movie was cool
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 the novel continuity, instead it was a prequel to the movie.
Constantine, I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to even talk about a sequel.
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He had some great animated movies. Unlike the movie with the worst casting decision in the history of comic book movies.
One of my favorites, the the series was excellent too. I’m not entirely sure which actor I liked best in the role
I loved the series, the movie not that much
I’m gonna answer a slightly different question, What film am I surprised didn’t get a sequel sooner? The Incredibles. Sure, it was a self-contained story, but it could’ve gone anywhere after that. The last scene with the undertaker was just teasing another Incredibles adventure. But instead we just kept getting toy stories.
By the time they did announce a sequel, it had been so long that I wasn’t confident that it could live up to the original - and I was pretty much right, it wasn’t a bad movie but I’ve never felt the desire to watch it again like I have the first a few dozen times. So yeah, that’s one movie where I’m like “why didn’t they ever make a sequ- … oh, that’s right they did”
I think an incredibles series would be awesome to give a story more breathing room. The monsters Inc series has been great. The last toy story should have been a series of shorts.
Buckaroo Bonzai, they even advertised it at the end of the first one.
Matrix
Yeah, would have been nice to find out what happened after Neo flew away. At least Rage was playing.
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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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.
“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.
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.
Is this a joke? Matrix has 3 terrible sequels.
The Man from UNCLE. And because of Armie Hammer it’ll never happen
That was a hell of a Wikipedia read.
Came to post exactly this
Return of the Jedi. Episode 7 is not a sequel but a remake. Episodes 8 and 9 are bullshit.
I mean, if we’re talking release order, then Return of the Jedi did get a sequel! It was called The Phantom Menace and ahh
Ahahaha hahahahahahahaha. I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I almost made it through with a straight face.
The David Fincher version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
The Matrix
Yeah, a real shame, that
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You call it a trilogy because you reject the fourth one
I call it trilogy because I reject the first one
We are not the same
Jokes aside, I would call 2&3 a long movie, which makes it a trilogy again. One mistake is to see them as separate
The thing is that “excellent” is something they are not… Look I enjoyed the movies too, they can be quite fun. Some aspects are great, the action and stunt work is in my opinion flawless for the time. Some other things were great too and some others not so much. But in general, really they are not good movies if we try to be a bit neutral, and at the very least they can’t follow the complexity of the theme from the first movie while making it look so simple like that one did. It may just be the case of standing too close to the sun, the movies as part of the trilogy just can’t compare. So people have a feeling of rejection to them. And probably the one thing people find it tough to come to grips with is the fact that the first movie had great action, that helped the movie go forward, while the others just seem to have random action scenes that are just not part of the story. It’s just about how they are added into the story.
But don’t let that bother you, enjoy the movies, I still do, they are just not the masterpieces the first one was.
And no, its not about wanting the first one again, in essence, I wish the movies would have managed to expand the story in a refreshing way like the Animatrix did. But they just fall flat instead, simple mindless fun that kinda finish the storyline quite OK for me.
Now the fourth part… That was brilliant, a brilliant crap, but brilliant nonetheless. If my guess is not wrong, it was a great middle finger to the movie execs that wanted to squeeze more money out of the movies.
I really don’t get the hate for the second two.
There was a bit more to the story and required paying attention. The second two had more action that’s wasn’t directly related to the story but was still good.
As much as I tried to like 4 it was crap.
Jurassic Park
… can we just pretend? Please?
Jurassic World is a guilty pleasure of mine.
It’s good enough to grip you and at the same time so predictable and full of clichés it’s also funny.
Plus, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are both hot as hell.What was wrong with the second movie?
It became a parody of Godzilla movies for no real reason. And it came out of nowhere. I call it the movies 4th act.
Promised Neverland s1
I think you wanted to post a top level comment.
I did not.
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The matrix, jurrasic park, and promised Neverland all got sequels that most people think are shit.
Why pretend? There’s never were a sequel. Fanfic, yes, not sequel.
Unpopular opinion, I actually really like the third one
…uhhhhhhh, I would ask your mom if she smoked while pregnant with you. There’s clearly something wrong with the development of how your brain came out.
Look, I’m not saying any of them come close to the original, but imo it’s the second best of the series (including all the dogshit jurassic worlds) because it sticks to what made the first one great; small amount of people trapped on an island with dinos. The Lost World was like half that but then it turns in to some weird almost king kong-esq thing. Also i love me some Goldblum but he’s better as a foil imo and Chris Pratt has nowhere near the gravitas as Sam Neil. Like really besides the annoying parents what do you not like about the third one?
U can just say Téa Leoni is hot
Sure she is, but not in that movie :D
Chronicle 😭
OMG I just mentioned that elsewhere in this thread. So good!
While I love this film, I feel like a sequel would just kinda ruin the ending.
