# What other '80s (or thereabouts) movies might make good sequels? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366 "2009-05-05T00:35:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366/21 "2009-06-22T16:49:00Z")
_Red Dawn II_ - Teenagers are forced to become plucky Minnesota partisans after Muslim armies mine through the earth and suddenly break through in a sneak attack all across the northern United States (aided by Canada, naturally). ---
**Author:** ![whatami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85f322/32.png) [@whatami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatami)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366/22 "2009-06-22T18:17:18Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Similarly, I was going to suggest that maybe it’s time to do a third installment of the _Aliens_ franchise. I recently heard that they are going to do a pre-quel version of this. I assume the landing of the ship or something. Haven’t heard anything since, IMDB does have a small page devoted to it. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/) > [@Jophiel](#): > > Red Dawn II - Teenagers are forced to become plucky Minnesota partisans after Muslim armies mine through the earth and suddenly break through in a sneak attack all across the northern United States (aided by Canada, naturally). You may or may not have heard that Red Dawn is being remade. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/) ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366/23 "2009-06-22T20:13:17Z")
North Shore. Turtle takes over as legendary board maker and surf Yoda. He has a dozen little half-breed kids with Kiani, because she sent the wave-pool wuss back to Arizona. A new haole comes to Hawaii to try his luck and spends half of the movie trying to translate Turtle’s half-baked wisdom. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366/24 "2009-06-22T21:26:31Z")
_Sons of the Goonies_. The grown-up Mikey just got fired from his job as curator of the One-Eyed Willy museum because it’s losing money. To save it from being turned into a schlock amusement-park ride, Mikey’s son and the assorted offspring of the original Goonies hijack The Inferno, but soon find it holds clues to even more treasure. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366/25 "2009-06-22T21:47:12Z")
_The First Starfighter_, about Alex Rogan rebuilding the Rylan Star League. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366/26 "2009-06-22T22:17:38Z")
TRADING PLACES 2: Following the government’s $250 billion bailout of Duke & Duke, leadership of the “too big to fail” firm is chosen by a reality show in which Billy Ray Valentine, Louis K. Winthorpe IV is chosen to be CEO. Unfortunately his son, Louis K. Winthorpe V, who sided with his mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the nasty split up, has him framed and disposessed, so old pal Billy Ray Valentine (now dictator of a small country in South America) must come rescue Louis and the economy. But ultimately he decides not too because after a successful cornering of the commodities market he and Louis realized they had next to nothing in common to build a friendship on and thus it’s a very short movie (about 8 minutes). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-80s-or-thereabouts-movies-might-make-good-sequels/495366.md?page=1)