What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?

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?

I never understood why they thought it would be a good idea to have them in it. It's not like they are known well enough to have a huge pull

I saw Chappie for the first time last week and was moderately devastated to find out there isn't going to be sequels. It had so much style, humor and personality!

Yeah, but before the director made several more movies that were all bad. I don't know how he keeps getting work.

Unpopular opinion, I actually really like the third one

What was wrong with the second movie?

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.

Promised Neverland s1

Why pretend? There's never were a sequel. Fanfic, yes, not sequel.

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.

Ooooh, thanks for the link. I'm cautiously optimistic.

They lost me at Josh Gad

Aren't they currently developing a show based on GQ?

All five books have been successfully adapted for radio

As far as I’m aware, the first two radio series predate the books. So, in fact, they were successfully adapted into print.

show runner who isn’t going to monkey with the source material

When's the last time THAT happened?

They know they could never top the existing tv series

The movie wasn't living up to the book though...

Big Hero 7

Do I need to have seen Big Hero 1 thru 5 to appreciate this one?

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.

Dude, it has sequels. I especially loved revolutions.

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.

Now Borderlands.... That's a different story.

I really liked how neither the Orcs or Humans were the bad guys. They painted both teams as equally sympathetic.

When we were following the Humans I was like "Yeah! Let's crush those Orcs!" But then we start following the Orcs and I'm like "Watch out! Those asshole Humans are coming for you!"

I got hooked on the franchise in Warcraft 2, played everything since.

I thought the exact same thing after I watched it. Sadly, that same thought made me especially excited for the sequel.... that never came.

I understand why they did it, but there's just too much to absorb. I was a fan, and although I recognized some of the names, I wasn't familiar with any of the characters besides Gul'dan.

The entire first movie should have been a 5-10 minute exposition. "It's been X years since we came through the portal..." And instead we follow Thrall and Grom, and Uther while two factions battle for dominance! (and it's been a while, so I forget what all happens in Warcraft 2)

Now that I've typed it all out, I've decided that if they could only make one Warcraft movie, but I got to pick which era, it would definitely be Arthas and the Lich King. That's a good story.

Or the Warcraft III story, so good.

Wow that's the worst reason to hate a movie i have ever seen. "as a fan of star wars, it was clear that the makers of spaceballs have no idea how to make a scifi movie."

It's a bit odd to claim the guy who reedited and remixed an entire existing kung fu film never watched a kung fu film. Like his work or not, he pretty evidently saw the thing.

I'll make a note to check Chronicle out.

I loved Chronicle, but I'm not sure I would have loved a sequel.

Holy fucking shit that movie was good

There is a book, but it wasn't very good. :(

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671976/buckaroo-banzai-against-the-world-crime-league-et-al-a-compendium-of-evils-by-written-by-em-rauch/

1st book adapts the movie:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Adventures-of-Buckaroo-Banzai/Earl-Mac-Rauch/9780743442480

Is this the one where he plays the physically fit, yet somewhat goofy protagonist with corny jokes and facial expressions?

If they cast the rock in a Big Trouble sequel, I’m becoming a terrorist. He will ruin any franchise with his ego.

I loved the series, the movie not that much

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was something of a spiritual sequel by the same filmmaker, but it turned out to be an unentertaining bag of cinematic butt.

Funny story. I happen to have a bunch of Crimson Skies toys sitting in a box, all unopened. There was a comic shop near my job and they had a clear-out table that sold unpopular items at a steep discount. I got a bunch of T-shirts and other stuff, and liked the Crimson Skies stuff. For a buck each, why not?

I didn't realize there was a sequel coming out next month. Don't know how I missed that.

I was always under the impression that Midway was in the bag thanks to the Americans breaking the Japanese codes.

So, this is getting outside the movie itself, but...

That gave the US a major advantage relative to where they would have otherwise been -- they otherwise would have probably had at most just two carriers instead of three, and an unprepared island garrison versus the four Japanese carriers (and large follow-up surface fleet that was coming behind). Japan's intention was to force a lopsided battle with the American carriers. Japan had a picket line of submarines that would have had a shot at the US's carriers if they sortied from Hawaii; because the Americans moved early, the carriers were already past the submarines by the time that they were in place.

But it was by no means in the bag simply because of the intelligence. That intelligence was probably necessary for the US to have done what it did at the Battle of Midway, but not alone sufficient. The Japanese and American carrier air wings, even with the US doing emergency patch-up to get an extra carrier into the fight, were close in size. Midway's garrison absorbed the initial Japanese air attack, but even with the US putting every aircraft it could on the island, the land-based air arm didn't do much to the Japanese fleet (though a bomb or two from a land-based aircraft falling differently could also have significantly affected the outcome; Lady Luck played her role on both sides). The Japanese fleet did detect the American carriers and had been on the verge of launching a strike against them, and were only boxed out by minutes. That boxing out only happened because of an extraordinary series of lucky events for the US -- various groups of American aircraft showing up at the right times to prevent Japan from launching strikes; the USS Nautilus being held down by the Japanese destroyer Arashi; McClusky leading USS Enterprise's strike group -- which did a huge amount of the damage and was going to miss the Japanese fleet -- seeing Arashi and deciding to fly ahead of its path in the hopes that it was heading for the Japanese carriers; and Yorktown's and Enterprise's dive bomber groups actually hitting with their weapons after poor earlier performance from some other -- often much-less-experienced -- air groups. Normally, the weapon one would want to use against a carrier or other large ships were torpeoes; the American torpedo bombers generally weren't able to land hits and at that point in the war, American torpedoes had a number of technical problems. The Japanese pilots in the fleet in the early war were generally much-better trained than the American pilots, and had performed significantly better; had the Japanese managed to get that strike off, the American carriers would have been in trouble.

One reason that the Battle of Midway makes for a cinema-friendly movie is because events that happened in a short period of time did a great deal to drastically determine the battle's outcome. It could very easily have been a lopsided battle in the other direction.

A better statement is that, with what we know today, the US probably more-or-less had the war in the bag, albeit not that battle. It's difficult to see how Japan could have won the war; their war plan, Kantai Kessen, was gambling on one great Japanese naval victory over the US, a resultant collapse in American public support for the war, and for the US to give up when it realistically had a great deal of ability to continue a war and strong long-term advantage. In general, I think that planners in most countries drastically-underestimated the willingness of publics in various countries to continue and sustain a war effort. My own guess -- and I want to be clear here that I am not echoing any expert analysis that I have read -- is that this had a lot to do with war planners in a number of countries focusing on Russia's collapse in World War I (and in Japan's case, Russia's loss in the Russo-Japanese War; their actions looked in many ways similar to attempting a repeat of their attack on Russia there) and believing that it could be extrapolated to other countries and other times. The right lesson, I think, was probably that Imperial Russia had a lot of very serious political problems around the time of those wars, not that it was particularly easy to defeat major powers.

As for the Battle of Midway itself, the best sources in terms of understanding the battle are probably in text form, but if one wants to watch a pretty good -- in my opinion -- documentary-style set of videos, I'd recommend Montemayor's series of three YouTube videos on Midway. They don't have fantastic production values, have the occasional capitalization error, but the history is solid, and they do a good job of talking about most of the actual factors that determined the battle. And they keep maps visible, so one can see what's happening.

The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective (1/3)

The Battle of Midway: Hiryu's Counterstrike (2/3)

The Battle of Midway: The American Perspective and The Strategic Consequences of the Battle (3/3)

Montemayor also doesn't talk about Mitscher, though it's also not as if he actively avoids that; he does cover American organizational problems effectively in his video on the Battle of Savo Island: "Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's Worst Naval Defeat".

How dare you!

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.

Just as they say Starbucks coffee is coffee for people who don't like coffee, I've concluded that Prometheus was an Alien film for people who don't like Alien films.

The movies ruined the horror part of the franchise long before Prometheus.

Me neither. Actually, I didn’t realize Split was in the same “universe” until the very end, when David was watching the news on TV. That was an awesome surprise!