It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.
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.
Johnny Mnemonic is based of a short story of the same name by William Gibson. It’s set in the same world as Neuromancer and his other cyberpunk. If you want to see it explored more, I recommend reading those.
Huh, I read Neuromancer a long time ago, but I forget almost everything about it. Would that make a good film?
It was one of the main inspirations for the Matrix so it sort of has been made.
But yeah I could see a Neuromancer movie being good too! I can’t remember exactly how similar Neuro was to the Matrix because it has been so long but it did have the concept of “plugging in” to the network at least
edit Neuromancer TV series is coming soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(TV_series)
I think it is funny that Keanu is the lead in both movies, one where a bunch of data is shoved in his head and another where he is shoved into a bunch of data.
It would take one hell of a director but maybe. The descriptions of a lot of things in the book are abstract and weird. Things and ideas are sometimes described as if you are already familiar with them and the world. It would take someone with vision. I’m also worried that if it were done well, it may not have a wide enough appeal to please the execs at the box office.
Apple is making it into a TV show right now, and I’m expecting to be disappointed. Most media has been too Netflixified.
I hadn’t hear about that, but I think of all the streaming content producers, Apple has the best track record for producing quality content. But yeah, the fact that I barely remember reading Neuromancer, and what I do remember was confusion, I bet that’s a tough needle to thread.
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.
https://thedirect.com/article/district-10-movie-sequel
A District 9 sequel is in the works.
“In the works” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. They’ve been saying that for a decade. I’ll believe it when they actually start filming.
Being ‘in the works’ for over 10 years is development hell.
Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.
I even have the perfect movie title: Out of Time
Or maybe Just In Time. Time Out. Time Bandits, no that’s taken. Taken Out, no that was my spec script for the finale to the Taken franchise. Time and Again.
You kinda lost me by starting your post with “the correct answer is…” 🤢
Noted, thanks for your feedback.
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.
Feckin eh!
The Fifth Element. So much untapped potential in that dystopia. It could be a direct sequel following up on Korben and Leeloo, or a spin-off following Ruby Rod, or a prequel around the previous time the Evil threatened the world, or a thousand other possibilities.
There was originally plans for a sequel but I think there where some issues with
castingit under performing in the box office. Also, it would need to be with someone else leading as Bruce Willis is too sick to act any more.Bruce Willis is too sick to act any more.
So is Chris Tucker but in a completely different way
Yeah, I know it couldn’t happen now, not with the original actors reprising the same roles at least. Still would have loved to see more of that universe though.
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.
Constantine.
I know it may not have checked all the boxes for comic fans but it was a great movie with great characters and atmosphere.
I’ve thought about this several times since its release. Apparently I’m not the only one. Keanu was asked a similar question last year but about his own catalogue and he said the same thing, he wishes there had been a sequel.
A few months after that, I think I read a sequel might be coming.
I never saw the movie, but the 2014 TV show was awesome and I wish it had gotten another season. Having the same actor make a few lame crossovers with the Arrowverse did not suffice.
To this day I’m not sure how to feel about their trolling attempt on how to pronounce the name Constantine. Which in the comics is “Constantine, like clementine”, but in the show and the movie it’s the other way.
“Constantine, like clementine”
But…that can be pronounced two ways? Isn’t that the point?
Wait, what? Damn, today I learned…
Do yourself a favour and give the movie a whirl. I’m in the minority but as a long time fan of Hellblazer (original run of 300! comics) I was happy with the movie, thought it was adequately close to the material (for a movie, how can you fit the scope of the source material into 1.5 hours…) and a good old romp overall.
The TV show was excellent, quite close in look and feel and Matt Ryan nailed it (also his characterization in Legends but the writing there was lesser for the character, even though I enjoy Legends for their goofy, campy fun, Constantine wasn’t a good fit), totally want some more.
Keanu said he’d jump at the opportunity to make a sequel as well and he’s been pushing for it for a while
They’re working on a script, last I looked up.
The worst part about Constantine was the main cast.
Keanu playing an emotionally arrested dude was pretty spot on.
And although not a main character, but Peter Stomaire’s Lucifer was pretty haunting.
Tilda Swinton was great too. I was t familiar with the character from the comics, but I still remember her role from when I saw it at first release.
How did nobody mention “Master and Commander”? It’s so good!
Wasn’t this a book series?
Constantine
Good thing it didn’t also get a shitty tv show though
I liked Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine in Sandman.
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.
When they remade Total Recall, I thought the OG was better because I am an action fan and the Swrtzenegger one is jam packed with action.
I went into Dredd kinda expecting a similar thing, but nah. It’s way better than the Stallone one as a action movie. The Stallone one I now consider a comedy, instead. “Eat recycled food. It’s good for the environment and OK for you.”
For Total Recall, the point was that the state of the film was ambiguious. Were the events on screen the memories bought and paid for, or was it a real spy thriller.
The remake answeres that question and ruins the entire premice of the film. This is a key example on why these Hollywoo “remakes” are widely panned, they usually miss the point of the origional art and audiences are dumber for it.
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.
a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995)
Now that is a SPICY take, and I applaud your bravery.
I mean the nostalgia runs deep for the 1995 one cause I was a child, but I highly recommend posting this on unpopular opinion.
I’ll give you this, the old one felt more comic bookish. But if they do go back to the campy, please give me some dark judges!
I just watched Dredd the other day again and while I had an excellent time with the action, I had indeed forgotten how ultimately uncritical of police it is, apart from hints at some bad apples. We should all be so lucky to be protected and where necessary judged by these fine and for the most part incorruptible women and men.
(I don’t know if I’d call the old one superior though)
Eh, it wasn’t super critical of the police in context of the distopian society, but the society as a whole was obviously horrific, so I don’t think it needed to be. If you ignore the opening chase and the very end, about half the police shown were corrupt. Anderson was a judge, but she was explicitly trying to do good in the world. She was constantly going against the rigid rules of being a judge and ignoring what she “should” have done as a judge. This was presented as a good thing. The movie ends with her giving up her badge (or at least attempting to). I don’t see the movie as pro police.
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.
I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call it copaganda, but it’s definitely true that it downplayed the anti-fascist satire of the original source material
None. Stop with the fucking sequels and prequels and spinoffs already.
Your nostalgia will never be placated.
Stop having fun!
Just one more Ghostbusters movie and I can die happy…
The Matrix
There’s an XKCD for everything
I haven’t seen the fourth, but I don’t think that the second and third movies were that bad. It wasn’t Phantom Menace for Star Wars, where the movie just targeted a completely different demographic.
I also didn’t think the 2nd & 3rd were that bad. There’s no such thing as the 4th movie though unless you count the parody movie pretending to be a sequel.
I enjoyed the 4th a lot more than the 2nd and the 3rd movies. They just felt bloated and pretentious. However, with the 4th I felt that the last act was completely unnecessary. I was so bored by the action and I thought it would have been much better if they had found a way to end the movie without such a large action set piece.
The Matrix Resurrections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)
The Matrix is an American cyberpunk[2] media franchise consisting of four feature films, beginning with The Matrix (1999) and continuing with three sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021).
Smith: Things have changed. The market’s tough. I’m sure you can understand why our beloved parent company, Warner Brothers, has decided to make a sequel to the trilogy.
Neo: What?
Smith: They informed me they’re gonna to do it with or without us.
Neo: I thought they couldn’t do that?
Smith: Oh, they can, and they made it clear they would kill our contract if we didn’t cooperate.
Everything you need to know about the movie. I strongly suspect that Lana Wachowski deliberately made the movie as dogshit as she could plausibly get away with so as to properly kill the franchise once and for all, or at least until she’s dead and someone else can try to pick up the pieces and reboot the whole thing in a few decades.
A. The Princess Bride. More likely a spinoff with Inigo becoming the dead pirate Roberts
B. Pacific rim. Because we all agree that there is no sequel
dead pirate
I should very much hope not (((;ꏿ_ꏿ;)))
He’s only mostly dead.
A. The Princess Bride. More likely a spinoff with Inigo becoming the dead pirate Roberts
Counterpoint:
B. Pacific rim. Because we all agree that there is no sequel
There’s always Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant.
I should really get around to those books. Though, I think the author has said that their main (partially spite-fuelled) mecha inspiration is Darling in the FranXX?
There’s the author’s truth, and then there’s my headcannon 😇
I would love to see a sequel to the Warcraft movie.
Kung Pow!
Ewwwewwwewwewwoooooo
THATS A LOT OF NUTS!
bettie…
I could dance like that… If i felt like it
Aw so cute bye bye
The Matrix
You mean they should make a 5th one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)/
No, they should make a second one.
I am of course referring to the old joke where people deny the existence of the sequels. Not that I was aware of a fourth.
Ah, sorry. I was out of the loop
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.
I read the graphic novels instead of watching the movie and they were beautiful
