# films that should have no sequel... ever!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974 "2019-07-12T16:30:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/21 "2019-07-12T20:10:28Z")
Schindler’s List. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/22 "2019-07-12T20:17:05Z")
_Apollo 13_. (Especially not _Apollo 13 3: The Search For Lovell_.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/23 "2019-07-12T20:18:53Z")
I teach a class that’s known to be full of tangents _(“Design Fundamentals, and Making ADHD Work For You!”)._ One day the students got talking about movies that should never be remade or have a sequel. They asked me for an example, I realized what I was wearing and I said “I gotcher example right HERE!” And ripped my shirt open to reveal my _ **Goonies** _ t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/24 "2019-07-12T20:21:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The **Alien** series should’ve stopped with the second, too. **Aliens** was a great flick. No point in having **Alien[sup]3[/sup]** or **Alien Resurrection** or the **Alien v. Predator** movies or the loathsome **Prometheus** series. When Aliens vs Predator came out, it sounded so stupid to me. The only reason I watched it was because my room mate at the time rented it. I actually wound up liking that movie. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/25 "2019-07-12T20:24:35Z")
Star Wars. The original was a fun little romp, it revitalized the science-fiction genre, helped launch the “used future” trope, and stood very nicely as a complete story all on its own. None of the sequels has matched it, and a few of them rank among the worst major Hollywood features ever made. Most either attempt to rehash the themes of the original, or just pile explosions and pointless effects shots on top of ludicrous plots. None of them have any real heart, and all were made (to say nothing of the shit-tons of merch) simply to extract cash from the fans who had been entranced by the magic of the original. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/26 "2019-07-12T20:34:21Z")
_The Matrix_ ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/27 "2019-07-12T20:40:26Z")
_Casablanca_ has avoided the sequel/remake curse so far.\* Ditto _The Graduate_. Spoofed in a bit in _The Player_. The original novel’s writer wrote a sequel that took a while to get published but no apparent interest in more. The final shot on the bus where It All Starts to Sink In on the faces of Elaine and Benjamin has to be the end of it all. - OTOH we _do_ need a sequel to _The Caine Mutiny: Caine’s Revenge_. Turns out he’s a master at throwing those ball bearings and starts taking out all the people who ate his strawberries. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/28 "2019-07-12T20:54:58Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Ditto _The Graduate_. Spoofed in a bit in _The Player_. The original novel’s writer wrote a sequel that took a while to get published but no apparent interest in more. > > The final shot on the bus where It All Starts to Sink In on the faces of Elaine and Benjamin has to be the end of it all. A Jennifer Aniston movie from 2005 called [_Rumor Has It_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumor_Has_It_(film)) was sort-of a sequel or follow-on to _The Graduate_. It wasn’t great or even good. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/29 "2019-07-12T20:56:50Z")
_Donnie Darko._ ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/30 "2019-07-12T20:57:08Z")
Citizen Kane. Sequel: Son of Kane, ghost of Rosebud. And Buck Henry was the one who did the pitch for _The Graduate_ sequel in _The Player._ ---
**Author:** ![AlphaOmegaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@AlphaOmegaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlphaOmegaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/31 "2019-07-12T20:58:20Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Ditto _The Graduate_. Spoofed in a bit in _The Player_. The original novel’s writer wrote a sequel that took a while to get published but no apparent interest in more. > > The final shot on the bus where It All Starts to Sink In on the faces of Elaine and Benjamin has to be the end of it all. Rumor Has It… is a meta sequel. ---
**Author:** ![AlphaOmegaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@AlphaOmegaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlphaOmegaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/32 "2019-07-12T20:59:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > A Jennifer Aniston movie from 2005 called [_Rumor Has It_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumor_Has_It_(film)) was sort-of a sequel or follow-on to _The Graduate_. It wasn’t great or even good. Got me by minutes. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/33 "2019-07-12T22:00:22Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > _Casablanca_ has avoided the sequel/remake curse so far. No such luck. 2 remakes: _Caboblanco_, starring Charles Bronson, and _Havana_, starring Robert Redford. 1 sequel novel: _As Time Goes By_, by Michael Walsh. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/34 "2019-07-12T22:17:13Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > No such luck. > > 2 remakes: _Caboblanco_, starring Charles Bronson… Whaaaaa? See, this is what I love about media. They can make bad stuff, I can ignore it, and\* poof!\* it never existed. Star Trek 5, Highlander 2, the prequels (except the Darth Maul duel), that sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, David Lee Roth’s bluegrass phase… nope, in my brain, they don’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/35 "2019-07-12T22:19:52Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Whaaaaa? See, this is what I love about media. They can make bad stuff, I can ignore it, and poof! it never existed. > > Star Trek 5, Highlander 2, the prequels (except the Darth Maul duel), that sequel to Mockingbird… nope, in my brain, they don’t exist. Most of those are on my list, too, as well as: - The only “sequel” to The Matrix that ever got made was the Ani-Matrix - There’s only one Pirates of the Caribbean movie - The Hobbit movies? Never happened 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mr.Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Bill)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/36 "2019-07-12T22:47:25Z")
> [@digs](#): > > … David Lee Roth’s bluegrass phase… nope, in my brain, they don’t exist. David Lee Roth had a bluegrass phase??? I pray to God it isn’t so.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/37 "2019-07-12T23:04:53Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > _Casablanca_ has avoided the sequel/remake curse so far.\* > > Ditto _The Graduate_. Spoofed in a bit in _The Player_. The original novel’s writer wrote a sequel that took a while to get published but no apparent interest in more. > > The final shot on the bus where It All Starts to Sink In on the faces of Elaine and Benjamin has to be the end of it all. > > - OTOH we _do_ need a sequel to _The Caine Mutiny: Caine’s Revenge_. Turns out he’s a master at throwing those ball bearings and starts taking out all the people who ate his strawberries. That would be “Queeg’s Revenge” wouldn’t it? Caine was the name of the ship. I can see it now: Jose Ferrer’s character is murdered, and eventually Fred McMurray’s character is arrested. Big courtroom scene, and now District Attorney Queeg is prosecuting. The twist is that McMurray’s character is innocent, it’s actually the judge that did it, and the courtroom descends into chaos as the judge takes off his robe and starts dancing across the bench with his maracas showing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/38 "2019-07-13T01:32:00Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > No such luck. > > 2 remakes: _Caboblanco_, starring Charles Bronson, and _Havana_, starring Robert Redford. And don’t forget Barb Wire, which borrows the plot wholly from Casablanca, and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, which sort of borrows the plot (for no reason, as the source short story had no such Casablanca theme). They aren’t good remakes, but they are remakes. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/39 "2019-07-13T01:39:00Z")
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension …oh, wait…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974/40 "2019-07-13T01:43:37Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > That would be “Queeg’s Revenge” wouldn’t it? Caine was the name of the ship. No, this one stars David Carradine, using left over footage from _Kung Fu_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-should-have-no-sequel-ever/836974.md?page=3)