It’s all wishful thinking, so go crazy.

  • Kcap@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • mriormro@lemmy.zip
    227·
    7 days ago

    None. Stop with the fucking sequels and prequels and spinoffs already.

    Your nostalgia will never be placated.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    142·
    7 days ago

    Children of Men is the best movie ever for the plot and atmosphere more than the one shot extravaganzas. In terms of what the sequel plot should be, I think further advance in the collapse and despair of the world even if a new pregnancy in the world occurs. Perhaps from the perspective of the rulership leveraging despair for corruption gains.

    • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      I dunno, I love that the ending is so ambiguous. My headcannon is that there have always been new children, but they are all saved and hidden by the resistance movement, on an island to protect them from the world.

      Making an actual sequel would require them to make so many decision about their world, and similarly to the Mass Effect sequel I think it can only disappoint.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        1·
        6 days ago

        For sequel, Clive could have survived. The Human Project should have had other success in protecting children from establishment, There could have been a lot of children on that Island if fertile mothers were also taken there. Teenagers from that island could be a studio-friendly plot line. There is massive plot possibilities, but the uniqueness of the original was global despair from a lack of human sustainability. In an older more decayed world, the low hanging fruit for plot is a corrupt dead end establishment clinging to power instead of enabling the human project.

        Don’t look up had very poor plot around theme, except for “I am for the jobs the comet will provide” line. It was still a worthwhile movie. If the bar is better than original or disappointment, then ok, but it’s easy to be much better than don’t look up, IMO.

        • simsalabim@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          For sequel, Clive could have survived.

          Ugh, that would make the original movie actively worse. Don’t do that.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Sinthesis@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    Stand by Me. The movie came out in 1986 but it is set in 1959…so 40 years later, the sequel is set in 1999. If anyone could write an awesome sequel, it’d be Stephen King.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
    83·
    7 days ago

    I would love to see a sequel to Chappie, I don’t think no one talks about it enough, the plt has a couple of holes, but the movie as a whole was perfect in my opinion.

  • C1pher@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    Megamind. That SLOP they tried to sell as a TV series was just a cashgrab. Talentless cashgrab.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    62·
    7 days ago

    I really want to say Secret of NIMH but another company jumped on the coattails of the original and produced a terrible sequel.

    I also can’t say Zootopia since it already got their sequel. Same with Legend of Hei, so I’m running out of good ideas.

    So maybe I’ll just go with something wacky and magical like Who Framed Rodger Rabbit. Probably wouldn’t be anywhere near as good, but would still be fun to watch.

      • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
        41·
        7 days ago

        Christopher Lloyd was Judge Doom, a toon in disguise. Maybe we can get some ridiculous actor to play an AI creation in disguise. Jim Carrey? Jack Black? You need someone over the top that can do weird faces.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I really want to say Secret of NIMH but another company jumped on the coattails of the original and produced a terrible sequel.

      I didn’t know that there was a movie, but if you haven’t read the books, there’s more story there.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Predator 2, Aliens, Terminator 2. Fox was on a roll with those films. Too bad they lost their charm right after.

      Besides that we have The Dark Knight, Toy Story 2, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, Evil Dead 2 (if you consider a reboot is okay), Army of Darkness (if you consider Evil Dead 2 to be its own start), Godfather 2, Paddington 2, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze.

        • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I guess chronologically speaking it’s more of a prequel. Maybe The Last Crusade fits the bill a little better. Both are excellent films nonetheless.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        49·
        6 days ago

        Of your 3 first examples, 2 are terrible and the other is forgetful, while all of them are good movies, they’re terrible sequels. I have seen Predator 2, but all I remember is that it’s set in a city; Aliens is clearly a cash grab that undermines the first movie, it switched from Terror to Action, and it’s essentially the same reason that Colonial Marines is worse than Isolation; Terminator 2 is my personal pet peeve, because it completely destroys the first movie plot. How does time work in Terminator? Easy, it’s cyclical, meaning you can’t change the past. But Terminator 2 introduces the concept that the past can be changed, but if the past can be changed then there is an original timeline without any time travel, and if that’s the case John doesn’t exist there, and if he doesn’t exist the terminator doesn’t go back and Reese doesn’t go after him and John is never born. The only way Terminator makes sense is if Reese always went back, which means the past can’t be changed.