Unsequelable movies

Hmmm… Well, there was a film version of Ulysses made. Be kinda hard to make a sequel. June 17th, 1904?

The Usual Suspects.

Nah, that’d be easy. The Hunt For Keyser Soze

Brazil?

Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter

Refresh my memory. Were they worth a shit?

Or perhaps “Extreme Makeovers in Bear Creek?”

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

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

Refresh my memory. When did *that * become a requirement in this thread?

What about Back Door Sluts Eight?

Good one! :smiley:

Not to mention Fisting Firemen Nine.

How about Passion of the Christ 2: Judgement Day?

“They thought they had killed him. They were wrong, and this time, it’s Biblical!”

<trailer guy voice>

"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"

</trailer guy voice>

That wasn’t a movie. Conan Doyle did it.

What is a sequel anyway?

A proper definition please.

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. . .

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.

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.

I got over it.

I personally like Crocodile Ghandi II much better.

<Kirk Douglas voice>

“THE FAST IS OVER! NOW I’M GONNA FILL ALL OF YOU WITH LEAD!”(Begins firing a machine gun in random directions)

</Kirk Douglas voice>

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.