Movies that should have never had a sequel

[Atiba Applebum]

Sicario

I haven't seen the second one, maybe it's good. But I just can't see why it was necessary, let alone love up to the original

Necessary?   Sure, I think there’s room in the world for another movie about that subject.   It certainly hasn’t gone away.   

What wasn’t necessary was taking the story the direction they did (when they lost Villeneuve) and made it about terrorists partnering with the cartels to get across the border.


I would love to live in that dread and fear of the first one again.   I was lucky enough to go to a screening of Sicario and Ex Machina months before they came out, so I had no idea what I was in for and had never even heard of the movies before.   I wish I could go into more movies completely blind.   Unfortunately caught a Civil War trailer the other day

[botefdunn]

Alive 2: the second helping

[Stab n Kill]

The Strangers with Liv Tyler was a decent horror movie, but the sequel was garbage.  Also, The French Connection was such an amazing film, and the book is a real page turner.  The sequel was ok, but forgettable. 

[Atiba Applebum]

Very curious about Gladiator 2 later this year.  Its not the bonkers Nick Cave script that would have Maximus return, but Denzel Washington is an intriguing choice (he’s always worked with Tony not Ridley) and it has Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal

[Atiba Applebum]

The Strangers with Liv Tyler was a decent horror movie, but the sequel was garbage.  Also, The French Connection was such an amazing film, and the book is a real page turner.  The sequel was ok, but forgettable.

Strangers is getting rebooted this year.    I believe that’s how they’re phrasing it rather than making it a sequel

[Steely Daniel]

Sicario

I haven't seen the second one, maybe it's good. But I just can't see why it was necessary, let alone love up to the original

It is decidedly not good. Don't waste your time.

[layzieyez]

Donnie Darko

[Dad_Brains]

The Fugitive did not need the sequel nor does it need the remake that was due out 5 years back. Still not sure how they made a 4 season show about it in the 60’s so maybe I should watch it.

[dunc]

Back to the future was so good. I pretend the others don't exist. 
When did Mad Max crap out? Was that after the first one?
Thank fuck there wasn't a sequel to Independence Day. I walked out of that over hyped Hollywood garbage.

[Atiba Applebum]

Back to the future was so good. I pretend the others don't exist. 
When did Mad Max crap out? Was that after the first one?
Thank fuck there wasn't a sequel to Independence Day. I walked out of that over hyped Hollywood garbage.

There was a sequel to Independence Day.   

Your Mad Max take is fascinating.   Never met anyone to be dismissive of Road Warrior AND Fury Road.  Thunderdome is fine

[dunc]

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Back to the future was so good. I pretend the others don't exist. 
When did Mad Max crap out? Was that after the first one?
Thank fuck there wasn't a sequel to Independence Day. I walked out of that over hyped Hollywood garbage.

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There was a sequel to Independence Day.   

Your Mad Max take is fascinating.   Never met anyone to be dismissive of Road Warrior AND Fury Road.  Thunderdome is fine

Yeah I'm old. I forget what they were like. You're probably right.
Independence day 2 Good lord!
A sequel that I loved was toy story 2 .

[Newphone]

Which has a better track record, sequels or remakes?

Seems hollywood needs to make more original movies overall, one do the winners at the Oscars was saying make 20 $10m movies not one 200 mil movie please.  I like that idea.

[Atiba Applebum]

Which has a better track record, sequels or remakes?

Seems hollywood needs to make more original movies overall, one do the winners at the Oscars was saying make 20 $10m movies not one 200 mil movie please.  I like that idea.

They do that already.   They’re called horror films

[Atiba Applebum]

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Back to the future was so good. I pretend the others don't exist. 
When did Mad Max crap out? Was that after the first one?
Thank fuck there wasn't a sequel to Independence Day. I walked out of that over hyped Hollywood garbage.

[close]

There was a sequel to Independence Day.   

Your Mad Max take is fascinating.   Never met anyone to be dismissive of Road Warrior AND Fury Road.  Thunderdome is fine

[close]

Yeah I'm old. I forget what they were like. You're probably right.
Independence day 2 Good lord!
A sequel that I loved was toy story 2 .

Interesting thing about Toy Story 2 was that it was meant to be a direct to video release, then they realized it was too good for that, but at the same time, it wasn’t good enough to be a theatrical release so they had to work hard to beef it up. 


There’s also a famous story where there was a computer error that erased the movie off of their servers at Pixar and the only way the movie was saved was that one employee had a copy of it at home they were working on through sick leave

[GardenSkater77]

Robocop left no questions to be answered.

[rawbertson.]

oh yeah ,i did not mean to intend this was a new phenomenon. Instead of "Straight to Netflix" we just had "straight to TV" in the genrations before. they have probably been doing that since the 60s or maybe even before that. 

[gumsole]

tons shouldn't

but that absolutely have one is Maximum Overdrive.

[Filip]

Trailer for the CROW remake just came out. Im not even gonna post that shit, it sucks so much.

The original movie is such a classic, that all the sequels and this remake can just go fuck off. Im glad people in youtube comments section agree with me.

[caiiro]

a jarhead sequel where they show the lives of the remaining characters after their deployment would've been nice, but they instead just made a straight-to-dvd junk movie with none of the characters from the original.