# Unsequelable movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895 "2004-09-24T16:57:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/1 "2004-09-24T16:57:40Z")
Which movies do you think cannot or should not have sequels made? My co-workers and I all thought _Independence Day_ shouldn’t have a sequel made after it. Other movies I think are best left alone are _Rain Man_ and _Falling Down_ (any movie in which the main chracter dies at the end would qualify, sorry for the mini unboxed spoiler). Also, I think we can all agree that _Titanic_ would not be served well to have a sequel. Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/2 "2004-09-24T17:16:30Z")
A **Love Story** sequel would have been a let down. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/3 "2004-09-24T17:19:45Z")
Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/4 "2004-09-24T17:20:29Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > A **Love Story** sequel would have been a let down. Of course, this didn’t prevent them from doing it: [link.](http://imdb.com/title/tt0078024/) The first one to come to mind for me was **The Wizard of Oz.** ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/5 "2004-09-24T17:21:10Z")
Farenheit 9/11, Fight Club, Brazil, Pixote, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Car Wash and Citizen Kane. almost any bio-pic. I think a follow-up movie to Clerks is a terrible idea and hope there are no more 1980s “Versus” amalgamated franchises in the works, a la Alien ves. Predator and Freddy vs. Jason. What’s next? Ash versus Indiana Jones? … actually, that’d be kinda cool… ---
**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:** [September 24, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/6 "2004-09-24T17:21:14Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Star Wars. The sequels were OK. The _prequels_ sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/7 "2004-09-24T17:28:56Z")
The Ten Commandments. Gladiator. Dances with Wolves. Hidalgo. The Lord of the Rings. The Abyss. Ghostbusters. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/8 "2004-09-24T17:38:18Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Of course, this didn’t prevent them from doing it: [link.](http://imdb.com/title/tt0078024/) I didn’t know. Great tagline: It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/9 "2004-09-24T17:43:02Z")
Highlander had no sequels or series derived from it. There were only evil demonspawn masquerading as sequels to fool the innocent. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/10 "2004-09-24T17:58:00Z")
_Reservoir Dogs_: Right out. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/11 "2004-09-24T18:02:56Z")
I don’t think we can expect to see **Kill Bill: Vol. 3** ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/12 "2004-09-24T18:05:16Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > The first one to come to mind for me was **The Wizard of Oz.** Well, they DID do “The Wiz”. But that aside, there was a whole series of Oz books. Frank Baum wrote 14 of them, and after his death Ruth Plumley Thompson wrote 19 more. I’m actually surprised that there wasn’t an entire series of films done. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/13 "2004-09-24T18:10:30Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Well, they DID do “The Wiz”. But that aside, there was a whole series of Oz books. Frank Baum wrote 14 of them, and after his death Ruth Plumley Thompson wrote 19 more. I’m actually surprised that there wasn’t an entire series of films done. Not gonna post the links, but trust me, they’re there: Return to Oz (1964) (TV) Journey Back to Oz (1974) Return to Oz (1985) “Lost in Oz” (2002) ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/14 "2004-09-24T18:13:04Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I don’t think we can expect to see **Kill Bill: Vol. 3** ``` Ahh, but there will be. ``` It will be about Bill’s brother… Chuck! 😛 ``` Once the groaning stops, I once read that there were people who thought that Titanic should have a sequel. I wonder how they would do that. They show Kate Winslet's character living her life after the wreck, every now and then they cut to a shot of Leo's character on the bottom of the ocean, being eaten by fishies! ``` ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/15 "2004-09-24T18:18:19Z")
The Wiz isn’t a sequel. It’s an ethnically themed remake, like those colorblind casted multicultural Shakespearian plays or Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex plays transfigured into a gospel extravaganza. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/16 "2004-09-24T18:18:54Z")
Dr. Strangelove. Well nigh impossible to make a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/17 "2004-09-24T18:23:22Z")
To clarify – I was thinking more about what happened to Dorothy after she returned to Kansas, not other goings-on in Oz. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/18 "2004-09-24T18:26:22Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > My co-workers and I all thought _Independence Day_ shouldn’t have a sequel made after it. Well, IMO, not even the first _Independence Day_ should have been made. I think it’d be hard to do a sequel to “the Shining” or “Apocalipse Now.” It’d be pretty hard to do a sequel to “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid” or “Easy Rider”. I was told once that there _is_ a sequel to “the Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Though I’ve never seen any credible info on it. Anyone know about this? ---
**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 24, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/19 "2004-09-24T18:31:56Z")
_The Wizard_. Besides that a sequel would just be difficult to do for a movie like that, no follow-up could possibly live up to the original. _Pi_’s sequel potential is pretty slim, considering Max’s situation. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/20 "2004-09-24T18:35:18Z")
Schindler’s List 2: Electric Boogaloo …See you all in hell for that one, sorry! 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895.md?page=2)