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
Downfall (Der Untergang), 2004
Didn’t the main actor die? Also, he died in the movie, so a tough sequel.
Bruno Gans, Swiss, he was great in 'Wings of Desire".
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
Although there were a lot of problems with Ender’s Game, I was a little surprised that they didn’t adapt any of the sequels. I mean I wouldn’t have watched them, but it seemed like they went pretty all in on that first one to not at least try the second with a significantly reduced budget.
The first and second books are really nothing alike. Only linked by main character and the events of the first. Everything is different about them.
I think the sequels might be to philosophical compared to the first one
Dracula untold. Masterpiece of a movie.
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No to Princess Bride. It’s perfect…. Leave it alone.
Titanic
What do you mean? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II_(film)
Oh f**k, missed that one. Zombies?
From the wiki: “it is not a sequal but a mockbuster”
Jumper
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.
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 Matrix
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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.
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
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.
Yeah, a real shame, that
Jurassic Park
… can we just pretend? Please?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
It also depends on your ability to not leave when Rob Schneider shows up and starts Rob Schneidering all over the damn screen.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
They even teased it man… Pretty sure every kid has an existential crisis when they searched for that sequel in Google and found out it didn’t exist.
What???
An I just finding out that there will be no sequel to that? I remember that were planning, and planning, and planning, and it was too come out in 20XX, and then 20XX etc (can’t remember the years)
What happened? Not enough funding, or was bullshit all along?? I feel so… Duped…
Omg! Same! That is my favorite movie that NOBODY seems to have ever heard of!
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How dare you!
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 loved Chronicle, but I’m not sure I would have loved a sequel.
I’ll make a note to check Chronicle out.
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.
Rock N Rolla
I hadn’t heard of this movie before. Seems interesting. added
If you like it you should check out Guy Ritchie’s previous film, 2005’s Revolver. It’s a little more “experimental” I’d say, but some of the film’s choices are really cool, especially how it depicts how some characters remember and interpret events differently than others.
I mean, even though they’re not explicitly connected, Guy Ritchie has made a number of movies with similar tone/vibe and London Crime setting. I’m choosing to believe they’re happening in the same universe
- Lock, Stock and a smoking barrel
- Snatch
- Revolver
- The gentlemen (which was also derived as a decent Netflix show)
There’s also Layer Cake from Matthew Vaughn which scratches the same itch.
Agree with the sentiment but wanting Kill Bill 3 is not the same as getting “another Tarantino movie”.
True, true
I can’t see anyone mentioning Titan A.E. man I love that movie, the mix of hand drawn animation and CGI was great for the time and I really enjoyed the world building.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Excellent, fun movie. Huge universe to built on. Shame they’re probably not continuing the series
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.
I’m still waiting to learn what happened to Ridley, Marina, and Snails.
The Golden Compass
There’s a whole series of books.
Though there is a TV series now…
Where can you watch the TV series? I really liked that movie.
Definitely worth seeking out the TV show, it’s much much better than the movie IMO.
That’s kind of a low bar, but yeah, the series is pretty good
That’s kind of a low bar
Well, yeah, I agree - but the person I was replying to liked the movie, so I didn’t want to be rude! ;-)
How nice of you :D
Max, it’s called His Dark Materials.
As far as I can remember the Movie did terrible, especially since it didn’t really stick to the source material
Daemons and talking polar bears. I was sold.
I personally am not bothered by sticking to the source material or not. Books and movies are fundamentally different.
I’m usually fine with not everything from the book making it to the movie, but changes to the plot need to be very well reasoned for. There were for example a lot of changes to the structure of LotR when Jackson adapted it, but they didn’t change the overall plot or message, mostly just restructured it.
The trouble with the movie was that the studio got scared out of continuing by fundamentalist Christian groups who really objected to the central premise of the books; namely that God can be killed and all life will be better off for it.
They then fumbled the shit out of it, editing it so poorly that what they did make was a jumble of shit that no one who wasn’t familiar with the stories would care to see, and no one who loved the books would be happy with. For me it was shit like revealing Lyra’s parentage right at the beginning, rather than it being a huge surprise as in the books.
It was a massive shame though, because the casting was damn near perfect. If they’d got Sam Elliott back to reprise the role of Lee Scorseby for the BBC adaptation, I’d have been as happy as a pig in shit. To my mind he is Lee. Lin Manuel Miranda was fine, but lacked the essential taciturn nature of the character as written. And Sir Ian McKellan as Iorek? Perfect.
The TV series is so good. Forget about the movie.
I’ve never read the series but the His Dark Materials television show is really well produced. Not sure how closely it follows the books but as far as I understand it’s pretty faithfully executed.
