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[–] [email protected] 127 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Sadly Dredd didn't make enough money to recoup their production costs, while it was in theaters. It's been estimated that Dredd made around $20 million in the Home Market. This means how many DVD and Blu-ray sales they made. I wasn't able to find any info on streaming numbers unfortunately.

I still hold out hope that a sequel is made and released before the end of the decade.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago (16 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I might be in the minority but Chappie was a really good movie. It’s a real bummer Die Antword were so horrible to work with that the director kinda gave up on it.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, a real shame, that

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Jurassic Park

.... can we just pretend? Please?

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I really wanted Spaceballs II, the Search for More Money.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (15 children)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It did quite well when it came out, and it felt like there was potential for sequels

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm surprised nobody has done a modern TV version. All five books have been successfully adapted for radio, the scripts are done, it's already blocked out into well-paced individual episodes. It's just sitting there waiting to be made. You just need a good cast and a show runner who isn't going to monkey with the source material. It's already proven to be popular and long-lived. Seems like a no-brainer.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Master and Commander. It was such a great adaptation of a hugely popular series, I expected it to do better at the box office than it did.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The Man from UNCLE. And because of Armie Hammer it’ll never happen

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, would have been nice to find out what happened after Neo flew away. At least Rage was playing.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Jumper. It was setting up an interesting world with more depth than the first movie could delve. I loved that one of the characters was so cool that the author of the original novel went out and wrote another book just about the movie's character and it rocked.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Kung pow! They even had a silly thing after the credits that i thought was real but it never came to fruition =(

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Return of the Jedi. Episode 7 is not a sequel but a remake. Episodes 8 and 9 are bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Constantine, I'm surprised it's taken them this long to even talk about a sequel.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Amazed no one else has mentioned The Fifth Element. It was planned at one point I think but got cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The fifth element is a perfect self contained story. I’m not sure how you could up the stakes for a sequel. You could tell other stories in that world maybe, but I don’t think a sequel featuring the original characters would be good.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Beetlejuice. It was such a popular movie that spawned a musical, a cartoon, various video games, etc yet there's only been the one movie. There's been talks about a sequel over the years but nothing has materialized yet.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Either this is a joke that whooshed over me, or you’re going to have a fine time next month - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049403/

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Jonn Dies at the End

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

A sequel to Prometheus that actually focused on getting answers from the engineers. Covenant had an interesting performance from Fassbender but nothing else.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The Road to El Dorado was the pilot for an animated series that never got greenlit. Massive missed opportunity, I would love to see "the continuing adventures of three latin rogues and a horse"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Excellent, fun movie. Huge universe to built on. Shame they're probably not continuing the series

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

They even teased it man... Pretty sure every kid has an existential crisis when they searched for that sequel in Google and found out it didn't exist.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure that I would want to see it, but I was surprised that True Lies didn't turn into a franchise.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

For a long time, I would have said Unbreakable. I’m glad that he ended up continuing the story, eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Although there were a lot of problems with Ender's Game, I was a little surprised that they didn't adapt any of the sequels. I mean I wouldn't have watched them, but it seemed like they went pretty all in on that first one to not at least try the second with a significantly reduced budget.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Salt (Angelina Jolie)

I thought it was a pretty decent film..

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Flash Gordon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (12 children)

The Golden Compass

There's a whole series of books.

Though there is a TV series now....

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