Prequels sound like a silly idea and I am glad no one has ever actualy put them into practice, not once and certainly not 3 of them.
I’ve wondered that myself. But wasn’t it a great movie, though? And a very sad ending.
I like the immediate sequel, too – you know, the one where they go back in time to save the whales. Except they never explained how Spock came back to life.
The Hustler was a great movie and Gleason did give a fine preformance. Yet another movie we’re fortunate they never tried to make a sequel to.
Burt Reynolds wasn’t available for a Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, so it never got made. It’s a good thing they didn’t try to make one without him and try to get by with just a brief and pathetic cameo. Now, that would have been a disaster.
Hockey fans have heard the legend of a movie called Slap Shot 2, which was supposedly released direct-to-video and supposedly had a theme of right-wingers sanitizing the game of hockey into the Globetrotters on ice.
Fortunately, no hockey fan has ever been able to find such a movie.
Makes perfect sense to me. Star Trek II was the sequel to Star Trek, the TV series. 
I gotta disagree with ya here. Or more in the spirit of the thread…
I’m glad that when they made Starship Troopers, they didn’t even claim to be adapting Heinlen’s book – which would have been an outrage – but rather went with a completely different route that integrated Paul Verhoeven’s dry sense of humor, a mind-blowing array of action sequences, and the only co-ed military shower scene in Hollywood history.
I mean, it’s a good thing they left Heinlen out of it, because his fascinating political treatise was stoooopid!!
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Ocean’s Eleven (the 2001 version), was such a fantasic movie, and it wrapped up so well, don’t you think? Can you imagine what worthless dreck might have arisen out of any attempts to follow up this great film?
I’m glad that Gone With The Wind was such a classic with such perfect actors for the roles that nobody ever considered making a sequel, what with Margaret Mitchell dying without writing a sequel to the book.
Talking of Star Trek, ISTR that the Romulans come from a twin-planet system? It would be really neat if there was a film about that - although they’d have to steer clear of ripping any ideas off from The Wrath of Khan, such as some godawful planet-destroying weapon or an heroic act of self-sacrifice from the one crew-member able to evaluate the situation utterly logically (after having made sure his consciousness was backed up, of course).
I heard there were talks about doing a sequel to Carrie. Luckily King’s artistic integrity prevailed over greed and the idea was soundly mocked and later dropped.
I can only imagine what kind of crap that would be.
I’m certainly glad that they didn’t try to make a sequel to the Sting, especially since they couldn’t get the original actors to reprise their roles.
You’d think that if they could at least get the original screenwriter, David S, Ward, they might make a decent sequel. Surely HE wouldn’t screw up his own work.
I’m also glad they never made a sequel to the original King Kong, once they found they had neither the time nor the money. God knows, it would be mostly padding!
The only thing that would be worse would be a sequel to that godawful 1976 Dine de Laurentiis version of King Kong. That would be a TRULY AWFUL film.
It took MAS*H 11 years to end the Korean War. I was so glad when it was over and we were done with it.
Though I do have to admit that "Trapper John MD’ which not having Elliot Gould or Wayne Rogers reprise the role, was good with Pernell Roberts.
I heard the next Spiderman is going to have Venom in it. It should be pretty cool.
It’s tragic how Ice Cube was gunned down shortly after making Friday, so he never got to make any sequels and he certainly never moved on to slapstick family fare.
On the bright side, at least Eddie Murphy retired from the movie business 20 years ago and hasn’t been seen since.
I’m glad they stopped making Friday the 13th films after part 4.
Any more probably would have sucked.
A terminator Ripley… I kind of like that idea, actually.
I’m so pleased that the people who made “Pirates of the Caribbean” followed the lead of “The Matrix”, “Star Wars”, and “Ghostbusters” and stopped when they had made a perfect popcorn movie.
What a shame the third of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy was never filmed. Think of the fantastic scenes in “The Return of the King” we have missed out on: Merry & Eowyn killing the Witch-King after his showdown with Gandalf; Denethor’s great mad scene as he burns himself alive, along with his Palantir; Faramir’s romance with Eowyn; and most of all the hobbits’ return to a shattered Shire, showing that no place is innocent enough to escape the madness of war, followed by Frodo’s growing torment of guilt and despair. Ah well.
A Day at the Races wasn’t the Marx Brothers’ best movie, but I’m glad Chico got his gambling under control and they went out relatively on top. In fact, I’ve always felt they might have had one more good movie in them if they’d set it somewhere exotic, like Casablanca.
Remember Grease, with all those 30-somethings playing high school students who later graduated? A sequel would have been ridiculous.
I’m sure amazed that no one has decided to tap the market of 70’s nostalgia by paying homage to some wonderfully epic sci fi classics…just think what you could do with Planet of the Apes, or Rollerball, given today’s budgets and effects. Why, it would be impossible to go wrong…