# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/41 "2004-09-24T21:54:39Z")
**Bridge over the River Kwai** wouldn’t work as a sequel. It would feel like a remake. \*\*Blazing saddles \*\* probably wouldn’t work either. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/42 "2004-09-24T21:57:32Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Didn’t a cable channel do a show called just ‘Oz’. 😛 > > The Whole 9 yards shouldn’t have had a sequel. I might have watched it Willis had killed Matthew Perry at some point. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/43 "2004-09-24T21:59:28Z")
That should be “if Bruce Willis had killed Matthew Perry”. ---
**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, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/44 "2004-09-24T22:00:59Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > I don’t get it. “Kill Chuck?” Why is that funny? One assumes a convention of two-syllable rhyming titles has been established. ---
**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 24, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/45 "2004-09-24T22:11:18Z")
Videodrome. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/46 "2004-09-24T22:11:21Z")
> [@detop](#): > > Actually, that idea is not so far-fetched. I remember reading about a reporter (I don’t remember his name, unfortunately) who survived the Titanic sinking and being on board (and surviving) the Lusitania sinking. He died by drowning while crossing a stream in the late 50s IIRC. How Ironic. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/47 "2004-09-24T22:22:07Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > pretty much any John Waters movie Waters wrote and [published](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560251271/qid=1096064444/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-0745925-2432622?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) a script for “Flamingos Forever”, a sequel to “Pink Flamingos”. Quite funny. Unfortunately, Divine passed away before Waters could scrape up the financing to film it. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/48 "2004-09-24T23:26:50Z")
Y’know, I liked _Return to Oz_, too. Even when I was a kid, when it scared the living crap out of me. (Now that I’m older, it only scares the snot out of me.) Most or all of Hitchcock’s films. _Awakenings_ _Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein_ _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ _Max_ _Miracle Mile_ _Last Night_ _Iceman_ ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/49 "2004-09-24T23:48:42Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Videodrome. Are you kididng? David Cronenberg movies tend to have this bizarre “I’ve just dropped a tab of acid” atmophere/plot anyway, so why not? Sure a sequel wouldn’t make any sense, but niether did Videodrome after the first hour. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/50 "2004-09-24T23:57:29Z")
Someone proposed that a **Titanic** sequel should be a macho-guy movie, to make up for all the men who got dragged to see the original. The premise: Jack’s frozen body washes up on the New Jersy shore in modern times. He is revived from suspended animation, and learns to his horror about the Titanic disaster. With uncontrolled rage, he finds the modern-day headquarters of the White Flag Shipping Fleet (or whatever the company behind the _Titanic_ was), then goes nuts on a blood-soaked rampage. ---
**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 25, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/51 "2004-09-25T00:10:39Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Sure a sequel wouldn’t make any sense, but niether did Videodrome after the first hour. It could, actually. “Long live the New Flesh” implied an expectation of continued existence in a new form. Maybe as an electro-magnetic entity that creeps into broadcasts, subverting the signal and infecting viewers. The Videodrome carrier was only on a narrow-band, heavily-encrypted signal carrying content that would appeal to a very select few of nasty brutish people – because it was still experimental. Suppose Max, in his incorporeal form, masterminded a more ambitious network (say _Vulpes Videonews_) that would appeal to the great _masses_ of nasty brutish people… ---
**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:** [September 25, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/52 "2004-09-25T00:14:55Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I’m a little disappointed that _Return to Oz_ used so many elements of _The Marvelous Land of Oz_, because TMLOO is way overdue for a faithful adaptation. There was one. It was a made for TV animated movie. Several of the books were done. I remember: [ul] [li]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz[/li][li]The Marvelous Land of Oz and[/li][li]Ozma of Oz[/li][/ul] There might have been others that I forgot. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/53 "2004-09-25T00:40:27Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > _Reservoir Dogs_: Right out. Beat me to it. (Although I could really get into a prequel about the Tim Roth character.) ---
**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 25, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/54 "2004-09-25T00:45:41Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Maybe as an electro-magnetic entity that creeps into broadcasts, subverting the signal and infecting viewers. Like _Survivor_ or _Friends_? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/55 "2004-09-25T00:49:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Dr. Strangelove. > > Well nigh impossible to make a sequel. Hey, come on, they blew up the entire world t the end of **Beneath the Planet of the Apes** an they _still_ got three more sequels out of the franchise. **There is _NO_ movie that can’t be "sequelized"** They did it to **Gone with the Wind**. They’ve made jokes about doing it to “Gandhi” and “Godfather III”. Death is no obstacle – look at Spock. They brought back Holmes from Reichenbach Falls. Charles Dickens brought back a dead girl for a sequel. You could say an entire season of a TV series is a dream – they’ve done it more than once. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/56 "2004-09-25T00:55:12Z")
😛 Sorry If this is a repeat, but “The Wizard of Oz” Cannot and sould not be repeated. Old fart # 69 “There is no place like home” ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/57 "2004-09-25T02:08:34Z")
_Memento_ _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind/_ _Being John Malkovich_ _The Usual Suspects_ _Shawshank Redemption_ _Saving Private Ryan_ _Papillon_ ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/58 "2004-09-25T02:10:18Z")
**Shock Treatment** is only a sequel to **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** in the loosest possible sense. The hero and heroine are named Brad and Janet and they live in Denton, but they are not played by the same actors as in **RHPS** and no reference is made to their previous adventures. It’s not clear that they’re even supposed to be the same people. The actors who played Riff-Raff, Magenta, and Columbia appear in supporting roles, but they’re not the same characters. Richard O’Brien planned at least two different versions of a sequel (involving the original **RHPS** characters and others, including Janet’s son by Frank) and made it through the rough draft stages, but they were never completed. However, songs written for one of these wound up in **Shock Treatment**. I believe the “Little Black Dress” number was meant for the revitalized Frank, not Janet getting ready to go on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/59 "2004-09-25T02:12:47Z")
Any Bible movie, practically. It’d be kinda hard to make a sequel to a film about the life of Jesus. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/60 "2004-09-25T02:14:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Any Bible movie, practically. It’d be kinda hard to make a sequel to a film about the life of Jesus. _au contraire_. The TV miniseries **A.D.** was precisely that – they basically did the Acts of the Apostles as a follow-up t the TV series **Jesus o Nazareth** , IIRC. And after that — the Letters of Paul. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895.md?page=4)