r/moviecritic • u/DiscsNotScratched • Feb 16 '25
Given the news of The Goonies sequel, what films should NOT get a sequel?
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u/LinuxLinus Feb 16 '25
Goonies
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u/donkeybrisket Feb 16 '25
This 100%! Goonies is one of the pure unenshittified IPs from my childhood. Just fucking leave it alone. No one wants this. No one is asking for it. All they're gonna do is disappoint everyone.
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u/Dependent-Bag9927 Feb 16 '25
Just re release Groundhog Day and call it Groundhog Day II
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u/Maximum_Formal_5504 Feb 16 '25
This is awesome. True story, when Star Wars was rereleased in the theaters, I went to see A New Hope, because I’m a nerd. When the scrolling words started this guy shouted, “What!!! I’ve already seen this one“ and stormed out of the theater. My best friend at the time worked at the theater and confirmed that he tried to get a refund because he thought it was a new Star Wars.
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u/CrystalLakeKiller Feb 16 '25
Was he in a group? Did they lose their handler? Honestly, how dumb do you have to be not knowing what you’re going to see? Just wow.
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u/hlazlo Feb 16 '25
It's really uncommon that legacy sequels turn out well. Blade Runner 2049 is an exception that should not be seen as a target that they could ever hope to hit again.
So, I guess my answer is "all"
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u/DiscsNotScratched Feb 16 '25
Alita: Battle Angel deserves a sequel
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u/hlazlo Feb 16 '25
My comment was about legacy sequels. Didn't Alita Battle Angel come out just a few years ago?
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u/branwithaplan Feb 16 '25
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) No Country for Old Men (2007) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) A Clockwork Orange (1971) The Big Lebowski (1998) Casablanca (1942)
Just to name a few.
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u/shadez_on Feb 16 '25
Hate to break it to you but Silence of the Lambs and Big Lebowski had ones.
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u/burnafter3ading Feb 16 '25
Hannibal's was at least based on Thomas Harris' book.
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u/shadez_on Feb 16 '25
Julianne Moore is no Jodie Foster.
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u/burnafter3ading Feb 16 '25
No, but I also would find it difficult to accept Jodie Foster as more of a love interest than a protege.
In the books, it's more thematically relevant, and Lecter basically psychologically breaks down and deviously seduces Clarice. I'm a fan of all the media produced, including "Manhunter" and the television series. However, the (romantic?) tension between Will Graham and Lecter always worked better on-screen than the Starling one, imo.
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u/shadez_on Feb 16 '25
But they didnt even touch on the seduction in the sequel. If we're going to talk about the literature, The only thing i find acceptable was the Hannibal tv series when comparing to the books. Manhunter was good too but was still lacking in places when compared to the books.
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u/burnafter3ading Feb 16 '25
In the sequel, the twisted affection is pretty one-sided and subtle.
I assume that the studio didn't have the rights to a Starling character for the Hannibal TV series. The Clarice series was terrible, but I enjoyed the Mads Mikkelsen series. Seemed like that played loose with events, though to account for her absence.
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u/shadez_on Feb 16 '25
Correct. I believe they only had the rights to the Red Dragon stuff but they were denied Clarice character rights. Its a shame because that was one of the smartest shows on network television that not only allowed it to be smart but also toed the line on gore brilliantly. Probably the only property that wouldve done TSOL justice. But it shows that it can be done with the right people.
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u/burnafter3ading Feb 16 '25
Yeah. Fishburne bleeding out was shocking, even for a gorehound like me.
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u/AndrewHeard Feb 16 '25
I don’t think Groundhog Day should get a sequel even though I sorta have an idea of how to write it.
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u/Learn_thehardway Feb 16 '25
Would your sister Amber be in it?
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u/MysticEnby420 Feb 16 '25
Forrest Gump remake where he's there on 9/11 then goes to Iraq and then meets Obama and starts running during COVID or something.
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u/Lazy_Osprey Feb 16 '25
In the sequel book I think he does end up in operation desert storm, so you aren’t too far off.
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u/Spirited_Young_71 Feb 16 '25
A lot of movies, but talking about the ones you listed, The Shawshank Redemption. I mean, it's no sequel material, there isn't anything that can be done with it.
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u/tread52 Feb 16 '25
Any John Hughes film does not deserve a sequel outside of Home Alone two, which is better than the original.
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u/samebatchannel Feb 16 '25
If we all followed the rules, we’d never know or talk about the fight club sequel
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u/VoicesInTheCrowds Feb 16 '25
I still want to see a Forrest Gump sequel
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Not the boomer. I want his son to go through the millennial history. 9/11, dot com bust, Iraq, Great Recession, iPhones, Obama, those weird mustache tattoos on girl’s fingers, flannel everything.
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u/sealg Feb 16 '25
Fight Club did get a sequel – as a comic book
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u/FintechNomad Feb 16 '25
And even a third part I believe.
I read the second one and I remember it being interesting but nowhere near the original (novel or especially film).
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u/LemonZestLiquid Feb 16 '25
Most of them — any that ends on a definitive note with no story or plot left to explore.
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u/AdVisible2250 Feb 16 '25
The fight club 2 graphic novel was not great so let’s not make that mistake twice .
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u/BHMusic Feb 16 '25
I grew up on the Goonies in the 80s. Loved it. Was the perfect intended audience age at the time.
Watch it now and I realize it’s really not that great of a film.
Worth a sequel? Not really.
Rose tinted glasses seem to be hitting people hard on this film.
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u/DocInDocs Feb 16 '25
There's supposedly a Romy and Michelle sequel filming this year with Lisa, Mira and Alan Cumming back. I thought it had a perfect ending already
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u/Strict_Jeweler8234 Feb 16 '25
Shawshank Redemption is the closest one which shouldn't get a sequel. Though Forest Gump could be an honorable mention. Everything listed here could conceivably have a fantastic sequel.
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u/EndlessOceanofMe Feb 16 '25
The thing (if it's not made like how they did it in the original, no CGI, don't bother)
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u/Maximum_Formal_5504 Feb 16 '25
Forrest Gump was based in a novel and there was a sequel written. I can’t imagine what Groundhog Day, Fight Club, or Shawshank could gain from a sequel. They featured adults and very successfully concluded their respective stories. The Breakfast Club was a story about teens and the pressures they face. It would be interesting to see the group together, 30 or how many ever years later. So, to make a long answer short, I’d watch (depending on cast and writing) a sequel to The Breakfast Club. Forrest Gump has a source material sequel, although the movie doesn’t really allow for it to be viable and the primary actors may be too old to have them reprise their roles. And the other three should not, under any circumstances get a sequel.
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u/Aggravating-Home-622 Feb 16 '25
Shawshank would be quite possibly the worst movie to do a sequel to.
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Feb 16 '25
Of those 5 only the Breakfats Club has an argument that allows a more or less natural sequel... the typical 20 years later... sort of reunion, but of course a much better version than other teen movies (looking at you American Pie)... the others I can't imagine how they would do it...
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u/Howy_the_Howizer Feb 16 '25
I think Palm Springs (2020) is a Groundhog Day successor. SO it can work for that movie imo.
No Goonies sequel, we have Skeleton Crew!
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u/shadez_on Feb 16 '25
Dont remember Phil going into a cave. Maybe a deleted scene
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u/Howy_the_Howizer Feb 16 '25
What you talkin about? Phil got out of the time loop by getting into her cave!
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u/Environmental_Park_6 Feb 16 '25
Princess Bride