# They made a sequel to that!?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015 "2006-04-17T16:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/21 "2006-04-18T01:11:21Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > _Sin City 2_ is now in pre-production. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/) And this is bad how? I loved the original, and it did pretty well at the box office. Admittedly, I don’t think it could be as good, but it has to be better than all the sequels for American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/22 "2006-04-18T03:19:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > the reigning Heavyweight Champion, Mason “The Line” Dixon. Mason Dixon? Seriously? Someone needs to be permanently breadlined. Honest to Og… ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/23 "2006-04-18T03:25:53Z")
I vauguely recall there being a sequel to “The Last Seduction,” perhaps titled “the Last Seduction, _and This Time We Mean It!_” Conversely, I must have missed the full title of a movie that had no sequel: “Remo Wiliams: The Adventure Begins…and Then Just Sort of Lies There.” ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/24 "2006-04-18T04:02:28Z")
**Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2** Released five years after **Baby Geniuses** … both films with name actors … both films given wide theatrical release … both films earning a 0% rating at Rotten Tomatoes … Now _that’s_ something special. Truth be told, I haven’t seen either of them, so I’ll grant that it’s possible I’m being grossly unfair to a pair of widely misunderstood gems … but probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/25 "2006-04-18T04:18:35Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > _Sin City 2_ is now in pre-production. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/) I’m not sure why that fits in this thread. It wasn’t a bad movie, or a bomb, and it wasn’t a work of art that stands alone, only to be diminished by sequels. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/26 "2006-04-18T04:22:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > _Sin City 2_ is now in pre-production. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/) Furthermore, Sin City is based on a series of comic books and graphic novels, so there are already several interlacing stories told with the same characters. The first movie combined the first, third, and fourth Sin City stories by Frank Miller, but the second story (“A Dame To Kill For”), takes place before the first chronologically. It teams up Marv (Mickey Rourke, who died in the first story/movie) and Dwight (Clive Owen), so it will almost definitely be the centerpiece for the second movie. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/27 "2006-04-18T04:28:44Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > _Sin City 2_ is now in pre-production. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/) 😕 _Sin City_ was a remarkable adaptation and a great film – and there’s enough extant source material for another installment. Seems natural enough. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/28 "2006-04-18T08:00:40Z")
For me, when I read the OP, the first movie that came to mind was [The Stepford Wives](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/). First the wives sought [Revenge](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081423/), then [The Children](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094036/) and [The Husbands](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117741/) got their own movies. Heck this was all before Frank Oz decided to do a campy darkly comic remake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/29 "2006-04-18T08:57:24Z")
[Cruel Intentions 2](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196267/) It’s called Cruel Intentions 2, yet it’s somehow the prequel to Cruel Intentions. 😕 Contains none of the actors from the original. I think this is where the series turned into softcore porn. [Cruel Intentions 3](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196267/) I don’t think this one even tried to recycle any of the characters, let alone the actors. Probably more softcore porn. ---
**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/30 "2006-04-18T10:01:00Z")
I know Disney has been guilty of making sub-standard direct-to-video sequels to its recent films such as _Lion King_ and _Aladdin_ but I was surprised to learn of _Cinderella II_. Ugh. I would have thought that Disney would have more sense than to devalue a strong brand with such dreck. The songs are inane, the story uncompelling, and the animation quality has more in common with Scooby-Doo than the original Disney films - bland backgrounds, characters’ eyes moving separately from the rest of their heads, the works. There was no compelling artistic reason to continue the story in place of “happily ever after”, but I have seen it done successfully in films like _Shrek II_. This, however, was nothing more than a cash-in. The sad thing is that my kids seemed to enjoy it on a par with the original and clearly the money men understand that kids aren’t discerning enough to spot the drop in quality. On the positive side, I have heard that there are more sensible artistic decisions afoot at Disney, as a Dumbo sequel and _Toy Story III_ both seem to have been quashed. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/31 "2006-04-18T11:08:15Z")
> [@snorlax](#): > > The songs are inane, the story uncompelling, and the animation quality has more in common with Scooby-Doo than the original Disney films - bland backgrounds, characters’ eyes moving separately from the rest of their heads, the works. Disney farms direct-to-video sequels out to its TV division, which, judging from the animation quality, is made up of retired Hanna-Barbera animators. ---
**Author:** ![FenneF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@FenneF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FenneF)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/32 "2006-04-18T11:25:58Z")
[Baby Geniuses 2](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270846/). What were they thinking?! ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/33 "2006-04-18T11:37:12Z")
[Here’s the trailer for Titanic Two the Surface](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD4OnHCRd_4) It’s a joke, but very well done. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/34 "2006-04-18T11:41:33Z")
> [@snorlax](#): > > I know Disney has been guilty of making sub-standard direct-to-video sequels to its recent films such as _Lion King_ and _Aladdin_ but I was surprised to learn of _Cinderella II_. There are at least two _Aladdin_ sequels. _Aladdin II: the Return of Jaffar_ was decent enough. It set up the animated series that came out around that time. (The movie introduced the villain Abys Mal, and it explained why Iago was now hanging out with the good guys.) I never saw the third one. Maybe I’ll add it to my Netflix queue. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/35 "2006-04-18T11:44:58Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > What issues were brought up in _Miss Congeniality_ that required a sequel to flesh out? So many unanswered questions… I am somewhat surprised no one has mentioned [Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430912/). I’ll take it that you weren’t aware of its existence, which I can only assume is a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/36 "2006-04-18T12:08:33Z")
I actually kinda liked **Return of the Livinf Dead** , but didn’t think it great. It spawned a sequel with the dumbest name since “The Neverending Story II”, **Return of the Living Dead, Part Two**. There was a Part 3, too. I’m still amazed that there was a sequel to **They Call me Bruce** : > **[They Call Me Bruce (1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084786/)** > > They Call Me Bruce: Directed by Elliott Hong. With Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway, Raf Mauro, Pam Huntington. A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee. called **They Still Call me Bruce** : > **[They Still Call Me Bruce (1987) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094131/)** > > They Still Call Me Bruce: Directed by James Orr, Johnny Yune. With Johnny Yune, David Mendenhall, Pat Paulsen, Joey Travolta. A Korean man comes to America to thank the American GI who saved his life, but instead winds up running a struggling karate... ERven more astonishing, Bruce Campbell has taken the title for a movie he’s making right now: > **[My Name Is Bruce (2007) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489235/)** > > My Name Is Bruce: Directed by Bruce Campbell. With Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Taylor Sharpe, Ted Raimi. Mistaken for his character Ash from the 'Evil Dead' trilogy, Bruce Campbell is forced to fight a real monster in a small Oregon town. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/37 "2006-04-18T12:39:41Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I never saw the third one. Maybe I’ll add it to my Netflix queue. It’s actually pretty good, with an “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” tale woven in, and Robin Williams returns to be the voice of the Genie. Worth a look. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/38 "2006-04-18T12:52:46Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Unfortunetly, I can’t find any information as to whether the movie was filmed using 2nd Edition rules, or 3.0 rules. Well, it had [darkmantles](http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/y/x/yxf4/DND/images/Darkmantle.jpg) in it. Anyone know what edition those got made up for? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/39 "2006-04-18T13:23:40Z")
Apparently there’s a coupla sequals to _Mortal Kombat_. Now, the first Mortal Kombat definitely isn’t good, but it’s okay, escapist fun. Enjoyable enough way to spend a lazy afternoon (so long as it’s on TV - please don’t pay for this). I’ve only seen small parts of (I believe) the second one, and it’s neither okay, nor fun, nor enjoyable enough. “Awful,” I think, pretty much covers it. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015/40 "2006-04-18T13:37:31Z")
I too was amazed to see posters for _Scary Movie 4_ (Especially since the tagline for the first one was “No Mercy, No Shame, No Sequel”). I recall there was a _Scary Movie 2_ with Tim Curry in it, but a third one? A fourth? Smegging hell. Apparently there’s a _Species 2_, an _American Psycho 2_, and several _Wild Things_ sequels (all of which can safely be considered softcore porn, I’m reliably informed), too… :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-sequel-to-that/353015.md?page=3)