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The Fifth Element. And I hope it stays tat way.
Coming this summer: Rob Schneider is the 6th Element!!
Nice try, Hollywood!
Star Wars sequel trilogy. Hollywood really needs to remake all of them. Interestingly, there are two viable options:
- Actually make them good this time. Hire the Andor team to get it right.
- Modernize them even further, so much so that the entire franchise finally dies for good. Make GPT write the script if you want to go all the way. Sink then billion dollars into this train wreck. When you run out of money, sell the Star Wars IP to Netflix or whatever. Then Netflix will bury it for good.
The first thing that comes to mind is everything Studio Ghibli. They are mostly great films, and have no sequels or remakes yet and I hope it stays that way.
I'm sure there has to be live action examples but I can't think of any right now.
Inception? I'm always surprised about it getting left alone as it should.
Anytime somebody starts eyeing the rights to it, they get incepted to leave it alone.
Nice one, yes
- The Big Lebowski
- Pulp Fiction
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Tropic Thunder
- Super Bad
- Interstellar
- Forest Gump
- ~~2001 A Space Odyssey~~
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
- Event Horizon
2001 A Space Odyssey has a sequel
Oh, didn't realize that. BTW I'm adding more movies as I think of them
What would a Pan's Labyrinth sequel even look like?
Event Horizon has a sequel in spirit: The Warhammer 40k universe. (Nevermind that 40k was first)
The big Lebowski kind of has a sequel in The Jesus Rolls
It's a popular theory that a lot of Tarantino movies take place in the same universe, and other of his movies are movies that exist in that universe, like Kill Bill may be the pilot that Mia Wallace starred in. I don't believe any of that is outright confirmed, but again kind of a sequel if you buy into that theory.
There was a Napoleon dynamite cartoon series made at one point if you want to count that
Forest Gump was based on a book, and there was a sequel book made- Gump & Co, and I never read it myself but I've been told that the sequel book is actually more of a sequel to the movie than to the original book
Kung Fury
District 9 -.-
He said he's currently working on District 10
Galaxy Quest
trolling
The Matrix.
I mean, there are plenty of highly-rated movies that don't have a sequel (and probably that's a good thing).
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The Shawshank Redemption
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12 Angry Men
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Schindler's List
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Pulp Fiction
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Fight Club
12 angry men was remade
A remake isn't a sequel
Not sure if it was possibly edited, but OP did specify sequel or remake
Good point, though the person you're responding to only said it didn't have a sequel.
Thanks, but was an error on my part; was trying to list stuff that didn't have a sequel or remake. Hadn't ever heard of them, but apparently there were two Indian film remakes and a television remake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_(1957_film)
The 1986 Hindi film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla ("a pending decision") and 2012 Kannada film Dashamukha ("ten faces") are Indian remakes of the film, with almost identical storylines. The former has been adapted as another Indian Bengali film Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei which was released in January 2025.[71]
In 1997, a television remake of the film under the same title was directed by William Friedkin and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the newer version, the judge is a woman, four of the jurors are black, and the ninth juror is not the only senior citizen, but the overall plot remains intact. Modernizations include not smoking in the jury room, changes in references to pop culture and sports figures and income, references to execution by lethal injection as opposed to the electric chair, more race-related dialogue, and casual profanity.
Master and Commander
Titanic
Does have a sequel:
How they going to bring the iceberg back? That bad boy is melted for sure.
🎶 my heart will go on! 🎶
Elderly Rose as she jumps off the ship: lol, not fucking likely!
Chronicle
Always been a fan of the found footage format
Lost in translation
Dark City. And it needs neither.
The Dark Crystal
Had a prequel series.
Was superb too.
Anyone who tries to remake or sequel The Princess Bride will have a special place in hell reserved for them.
Demolition Man.
The Big Lebowski
I always thought the ending to Close Encounters was made for a sequel.
Best is suggestive. It's a weird movie but I wish there was more of David Cronenberg's eXistenZ. Maybe a sequel since the movie ended on that possibility. But it's probably going to end up repetitive, if not recursive.
And its an idea that has been explored in different other movies and series anyway. So as much as I liked the style of that movie, upon reflection, maybe it should just stay where it was left.
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