# 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:** 4
**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, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/61 "2004-09-25T02:17:22Z")
Hmmm… Well, there was a film version of _Ulysses_ made. Be kinda hard to make a sequel. June 17th, 1904? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/62 "2004-09-25T02:18:11Z")
The Usual Suspects. ---
**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, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/63 "2004-09-25T02:27:40Z")
Nah, that’d be easy. _The Hunt For Keyser Soze_ _Brazil?_ ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/64 "2004-09-25T02:37:42Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > Any Bible movie, practically. It’d be kinda hard to make a sequel to a film about the life of Jesus. [Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/) ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/65 "2004-09-25T02:47:09Z")
> [@Julius Henry](#): > > I don’t know. They blew up the Earth at the end of \*Beneath the Planet of the Apes \* and were still able to make three more sequels. And a TV series. And a cartoon series. And a remake. And . . . Refresh my memory. Were they worth a shit? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/66 "2004-09-25T02:50:04Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Curse you, **trandallt**! Takin’ my ideas… > > Unless the sequel was **Hell Comes to Frogtown**. > > Daniel Or perhaps “Extreme Makeovers in Bear Creek?” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/67 "2004-09-25T03:10:37Z")
What was the plot of the sequal (only went as far as an outline, iirc) to Casablanca? Named for the town wre Rick and Louie were heading, which I forgot. By a mystery novelist, whose name I also forgot… Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/68 "2004-09-25T03:54:02Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > [Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/) I still can’t believe that movie’s real. I saw it in a catalogue three years ago and was convinced it’s a joke. Anyhoo, on to the unsequelable movies. \*A Man Apart \* (I hope) _The Last Samurai_ _The Last Emperor_ \*Ricki-Oh! The Story of Ricki \* (I hope) _I Shot Andy Warhol_ _Girl, Interrupted_ _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/69 "2004-09-25T05:04:14Z")
> [@Julius Henry](#): > > I don’t know. They blew up the Earth at the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes and were still able to make three more sequels. And a TV series. And a cartoon series. And a remake. And . . . > [@trandallt](#): > > Refresh my memory. Were they worth a shit? Refresh my memory. When did \*that \* become a requirement in this thread? ---
**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, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/70 "2004-09-25T05:07:26Z")
What about _Back Door Sluts Eight?_ ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/71 "2004-09-25T07:18:56Z")
> [@Shirt Ninja 13](#): > > the power of Christ impales you! Good one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/72 "2004-09-25T08:41:55Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > What about _Back Door Sluts Eight?_ Not to mention _Fisting Firemen Nine_. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/73 "2004-09-25T08:44:38Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > Any Bible movie, practically. It’d be kinda hard to make a sequel to a film about the life of Jesus. How about _Passion of the Christ 2: Judgement Day_? “They thought they had killed him. They were wrong, and this time, it’s Biblical!” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/74 "2004-09-25T09:54:19Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > They’ve made jokes about doing it to “Gandhi” and “Godfather III”. \ "He was a man of peace … then they took his country … his life … and he became war. This Summer, the Rock is the Mahatma in… GANDHI II: HINDU AVENGER" \ > [@](#): > > They brought back Holmes from Reichenbach Falls. That wasn’t a movie. Conan Doyle did it. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/75 "2004-09-25T11:49:18Z")
What is a sequel anyway? A proper definition please. ---
**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, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/76 "2004-09-25T12:00:24Z")
I’d put **Home Alone** into the class of movies that _shouldn’t_ have had sequels. In the first movie, the screenwriters actually managed to make it fairly plausible that little Kevin would be accidentally left behind when his family went away for a Christmas vacation. This relied on a string of mishaps and coincidences, but nothing too far-fetched. That anything like this would ever happen again in a family not otherwise protrayed as being negligent strains credibility even for a kiddie flick. And that’s _before_ little Kevin runs into his old enemies the Wet Bandits once again. . . ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/77 "2004-09-25T16:17:09Z")
> [@Julius Henry](#): > > Refresh my memory. When did \*that \* become a requirement in this thread? Sorry. That was a bit rude. I suppose any movie can have a sequel if continuity is not an issue. My memory of the various **Ape** sequels is that they simply used the idea of a planet ruled by apes and went from there. I suppose you could make \*\*The Ten Commandents ll \*\* and have it be about a roller derby in Israel but would that qualify as a sequel? I read the OP as assuming that _some_ movies could not be made into sequels, and chose one where the world is (presumably) destroyed. What would be a reasonable thesis for **Dr. Strangelove ll** considering that all of the characters from the original, as well as most of the rest of the world’s people, are dead? Again, I apologise for the snippy tone in the previous post. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/78 "2004-09-25T19:56:09Z")
> [@trandallt](#): > > What would be a reasonable thesis for **Dr. Strangelove ll**. **Makabuk Studios Presents** **Dr. Strangelove II: We’ll Meet Again** Fifty years have passed since the Soviet Doomsday Device sent dozens of leading American soldiers and politicians (along with hundreds the the most sexually appealling women of the day) into hiding deep into the depths of America’s most secure mine shafts. Now, a whole new generation is prepared to retake the planet. Led by Cooter and Wiggie Muffley (Greg Kinnear and Jeff Daniels), twin grandsons of the former President of the former United States of America, assisted by their uncle “Ox” Turgidson (William Shatner), things go well until they discover a few thousand people on the next continent stockpiling weapons of mass flouridation. > [@trandallt](#): > > I apologise for the snippy tone in the previous post. I got over it. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/79 "2004-09-25T20:15:08Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > \ > > "He was a man of peace … then they took his country … his life … and he became war. This Summer, the Rock is the Mahatma in… > > GANDHI II: HINDU AVENGER" > > \ I personally like Crocodile Ghandi II much better. \ “THE FAST IS OVER! NOW I’M GONNA FILL ALL OF YOU WITH LEAD!”(Begins firing a machine gun in random directions) \ ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895/80 "2004-09-25T20:56:53Z")
> [@Booker57](#): > > What is a sequel anyway? > > A proper definition please. **sequel** - _n._ A work of fiction which purports to have something in common with a previous work and takes place at a later date, but was created primarily for earning more money from the previous work’s reputation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsequelable-movies/265895.md?page=5)