Eh, I wouldn’t classify this as a sequel so much as a reboot.
I nominate The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Sergio Leone’s pièce de résistance.
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days was fairly decent. Tom Berenger is a good enough actor and resembled Paul Newman, to boot. William Katt was OK, before getting typecast as the Greatest American Hero.
I thought The Scorpion King wasn’t bad for what it was.
It does and I thought it was a good movie as far as the Tremors franchise goes.
How about The Muppet Movie? Is that a prequel?
All the other Batman movies? If it’s a “reboot” rather than a prequel, what’s the distinction?
There was no obligation to follow the continuity of any earlier *Batman *movie, and they didn’t.
Caprica isn’t bad.
Well, there’s no connection between Christian Bale’s Batman/Bruce and the Batman/Bruce as portrayed by Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney, nor any connection between Heath Ledger’s Joker (in the Batman Begins sequel) and Jack Nicholson’s, nor Aaron Eckhart’s Two-Face and Tommy Lee Jones’. The various origin stories are at odds and no attempt was made to link them. The events of Batman Begins (and The Dark Knight) cannot be plausibly argued to eventually lead to the 1989 Batman.
If there’s no distinction to be made, then the Robert Downy Sherlock Holmes must be considered a prequel to all other Holmes films in which the character was older (i.e. portrayed by Christopher Lee, Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone, etc.)
Some of the Animatrix shorts could be considered prequels (specifically The Second Renaissance, parts I and II) and were kinda cool.
The “Old Republic” era of the Star Wars setting could be called a meta-prequel, and has some pretty good stories in it.
Now that you mention it, the recent Battlestar Galactica is a very good prequel
I know It’s a stretch but the new BSG took place 150,000 years ago while the original 70’s BSG took place in modern times. “All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again”. Clearly the remaining humans on Caprica rebuilt to become the cheesy 70’s characters in the original show.
I guess I thought we had more or less ruled out “reboots”. I mean, it has no connection to any other Batman movie and it introduces the Joker at the end…who was killed in the 1989 Batman movie.
Actually, what is it a prequel to?
Heh, the Muppet Movie is the Muppets getting togeather to watch a movie within a movie that’s stars the Muppets and is supposed to depict how the Muppets got togeather to start their television show, which itself is a behind the scenes view of a fictional TV show staring the Muppets . I never really thought how meta the whole thing was until now, but I’m not going to even start to try and disentangle whether that counts as a prequel or not.
I’d call it a prequel, with a framing gimmick.
The Barber of Seville? I actually don’t know in which order the stories were written, but Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” came before Rossini’s “Barber”.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes?
The Magician’s Nephew, arguably the best of the Narnia books.
I loved Red Dragon. Everyone put in a great performance, and the story was pretty interesting.
Hmmmm. Is it really a prequel? I’m on the fence here.
While it is true that Red Dragon the movie was made after Silence of The Lambs - Red Dragon the book came first.
The Hobbit has its admirers.