The novel Love Story had a vastly inferior sequel called Oliver’s Story. The film Love Story had a vastly inferior sequel called Oliver’s Story. The film sequel went even further into the inferior column by dumbing down the already not-so-hot novel, cutting out the best subplots and changing the nature of the central relationship to the point that it’s poignancy and heart were entirely stripped away. Making that movie was crass and criminal.
The ones I always get a kick out of are the really bad movies that show up at odd hours on Sci-Fi with titles like “Flying Swamp Snakes 3”*, and I’ll think to myself “You mean there are two more of these things out there?”.
*Not a real movie title, as far as I know. But maybe it is…
Oh, I just thought of one.
The Omen had a second sequel. Most know about Damien: Omen II, but there was a third movie called The Final Conflict, in which Sam Neill played Damien. No one I’ve talked to has heard of it, I assume because they didn’t use “omen” in the title.
There are eight Hellraiser films.
I’ve seen Omen III: The Final Conflict, They called it that in the UK at least - They generally show all 3 films over 3 consecutive weeks on UK TV - i’ve seen them do that at least twice in the last 10 years.
Ah, but one that people know even less about is “The Omen IV: The Awakening”, a made for TV movie in 1991. A couple of years ago I got the entire boxed set of “The Omen” movies and watched this movie. Very horrible.
I was surprised to learn of all the sequels to “The Amityville Horror”. There’s at least eight, one of them “Amityville: 3D”.
Yeah, I remember reading that. The producers ran the actors through scenes enough for two movies without telling them that’s what they were doing. The actors had to sue to be paid for the second movie.
A word of advice to all in this thread. Stay far away from Hypercube.
It’s terrible and ignores everything great about the original.
I’ll bet everyone knew of this film, but only today did I find out that *2001: A Space Odyssey * has a sequel, called 2010:The Year we Make Contact. D’oh!
Was it big, when released?
I like reading the blurb on the back; “Burke Snerden (Jungle Attack of the Lemur People, Clone Armies of the Thaargons 2 - The Return) stars as Zip Jiggers, outlaw flying swamp snake hunter, whose life is changed when he meets Reena Beepton (Jennifer Dinkerson - Evil Zombie Wolf Women of the Endless Night 3, Mortal Death of the Soul-Killers of Doom)…”
Actually they just divided the story into two movies rather then make one long mega movie. It’s actually one of the best Muskateer movies ever made with Heston making a decent villain and the fight between Lee and York at the end was fantastic.
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One of the greatest movies of all time, Mister Roberts, had a sequel that wasn’t so great. Ensign Pulver starring Robert Walker Jr as Jack Lemmons character. Also starring Burl Ives as the captain and Walter Matthau as Doc.
I’m not sure if it was big, but it wasn’t that bad of a movie. Sure, it was no 2001, but how could it have been? It was based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke and it was about Heywood Floyd and some Soviet astronauts exploring the abandoned ship near Jupiter. HAL is brought “back to life” by his old programer to see if they can get any information.
There was a Son of Kong.
I’ve never seen it.
From Dust 'Til Dawn ?
What, is that a movie about the virtues of using Dawn dishwashing liquid on your old dusty dishes?
American Psycho 2 staring the annoying girl from That 70s Show.
There is also a Cruel Intentions 2.
Was Starship Troopers 2 a cutting satire?
Only if you are smart enough to understand it.
**Cruel Intentions 2 ** is actually the straight to video release of the TV pilot for the televison version of Cruel Intentions. FOX never aired it.
There’s also the wretchedly awful made-for-TV movie based on the hideously bad best-nonseller Scarlett: The Sequel to Margret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind (Yes, that’s the title.). I never saw the film, or read the book, but I did read exerpts from it. Eye bleedingly bad, doesn’t even begin to describe it. I was working for Waldenbooks when the book was being published, and all the trade publications which had been given advanced copies of the book, didn’t merely pan it, they basically questioned the parentage of anyone involved with the book. As the release date got closer and closer, magazines which devote a large portion of their content to culture, also came out and said that if someone had handed Gutenberg a copy of the book before he’d invented movable type, he’d have killed himself on the spot. Naturally, Wallyworld had to buy a hundred million copies of the thing, and they all just sat around gathering dust. Even when the book was remaindered, people didn’t buy it.
Evidently, the made-for-TV movie deal was inked before the book was written, and the entire cast signed up, before anyone had any idea of how bad the book was. I think the ratings for the movie were some of the lowest in TV history.
The makers of which clearly hadn’t even seen the original film, as the whole movie is based on
Bateman not having made up all the events of the first movie.
It’s a prequel, as opposed to Cruel Intentions 3.
How is it that Americans seem to miss all these DTV sequels? There’s not a film of the last 20 years in this thread that I didn’t know about, and many of them are prominently displayed in UK rental shops.