# Have you ever watched a movie and knew just by the way it ended there'd be a sequel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240 "2004-09-05T18:20:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/1 "2004-09-05T18:20:16Z")
When I watched “The Bride of Chuckie” the way the movie ended I just knew there would be a sequel and in October “Seed of Chuckie” will be in theatres. I also suspect that Freddy and Jason could have another duel. Have you ever watched a movie and knew\* just\* by the way it ended there would be a sequel? ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/2 "2004-09-05T18:21:58Z")
I messed up the title…Moderators mind changing it? Thanks 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/3 "2004-09-05T18:24:54Z")
Well, some movies set themselves up so well for a sequek that you’d be an idiot to NOT think there would be one. Examples include: The Empire Strikes Back X-Men 2 Spiderman 2 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/4 "2004-09-05T18:35:05Z")
Alien and Aliens were bloody obvious. Alien 3 was a bit trickier. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/5 "2004-09-05T19:21:38Z")
> [@START](#): > > Have you ever watched a movie and knew\* just\* by the way it ended there would be a sequel? Boy oh boy, yes! When I saw _Gone With the Wind_, I just **knew** we’d soon be seeing [_Scarlett_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108915/combined). ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/6 "2004-09-05T19:31:02Z")
The first movie I ever saw where I knew durn good and well there would be a sequel was _Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan_. I’m sorry, but that death scene… followed by the funeral… followed by the lingering shot of Spock’s coffin on the Genesis planet… I mean, the only thing missing was a hand pushing the coffin lid open right before the credit crawl. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/7 "2004-09-05T19:40:25Z")
At the end of _Kill Bill, Vol. I_, I said to myself, “Hmmm… Maybe there’ll be a Volume II.” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/8 "2004-09-05T19:42:10Z")
Ah, but one must be careful there – remember, there was no sequel made to _History of the World, Part One_. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/9 "2004-09-05T19:52:33Z")
And _Leonard Part 6_ confused me to no end. Not only no Part 7, but no parts one through five, either… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/10 "2004-09-05T19:53:42Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#): > > And _Leonard Part 6_ confused me to no end. Not only no Part 7, but no parts one through five, either… And, man, am I disappointed! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/11 "2004-09-05T20:08:49Z")
Evil Dead 2 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/12 "2004-09-05T20:11:01Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Boy oh boy, yes! When I saw _Gone With the Wind_, I just **knew** we’d soon be seeing [_Scarlett_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108915/combined). A bit ironic considering Scarlett was esstienally fan-fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/13 "2004-09-05T20:12:04Z")
The American-made Godzilla movie had an end that certainly looked like it was trying to set itself up for a sequel, but then the budget didn’t come through, thus sparing us from the yet-unnamed atrocity. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/14 "2004-09-05T20:39:22Z")
Personally, I thought that the title “The First Pokemon Movie” was a dead giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/15 "2004-09-05T20:39:58Z")
Obviously _Spiderman_’s ending, with Peter’s buddy (what was his name? Harry?) swearing revenge on Spidey. _Piranha_! If I remember correctly, the original movie ended with… …the piranha escaping into the ocean… …so you gotta know them fishes were gon’ be back and itching for human flesh. I haven’t seen the sequel, thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/16 "2004-09-05T21:55:37Z")
I think “Silence of the Lambs” was pretty much a given. Now, if they just could have kept the same cast. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/17 "2004-09-05T22:37:52Z")
The ending of the recent “reimagining” of _Planet of the Apes_ all but screamed, “To be continued…” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/18 "2004-09-05T22:49:29Z")
Thwey sure set up a sequel possibility for _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_. If only it hadn’t been so awful and lost so much money. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/19 "2004-09-05T22:52:02Z")
Star Wars set itself up (Darth Vader escaped), which was a gamble on Lucas’s part, since movies did not necessarily automatically spawn sequels in that time. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240/20 "2004-09-05T22:59:06Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#): > > And _Leonard Part 6_ confused me to no end. Not only no Part 7, but no parts one through five, either… And I’ve never seen the first six films in _The Magnificent_ series. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-watched-a-movie-and-knew-just-by-the-way-it-ended-thered-be-a-sequel/263240.md?page=2)