Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.
Sadly Dredd didn’t make enough money to recoup their production costs, while it was in theaters. It’s been estimated that Dredd made around $20 million in the Home Market. This means how many DVD and Blu-ray sales they made. I wasn’t able to find any info on streaming numbers unfortunately.
I still hold out hope that a sequel is made and released before the end of the decade.
If Dredd is the movie I’m thinking of, I would assume VHS sales outpaced both Bluray and dvd sales combined! Didn’t that movie come out in 1995?
That was Judge Dredd. They’re talking about the remake, I think.
Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.
It’s probably because I was drunk when I watched Judge Dredd in the theater, but I seem to remember liking Stallone in that. I thought that Dredd was just a worse rip-off of The Raid, but then I read somewhere that they basically co-evolved to a similar thing.
Judge Dread was a fine movie for people who are into that sort of movie (and I am) but it was a pretty terrible adaptation of the comics.
As a Stallone movie it’s entertaining in a “brain off eat popcorn” way, same sorta feel as Demolition Man (which was fun). It’s only once you understand the material that it’s supposed to be adapting that you feel like you were cheated.
That makes sense. I enjoyed the first Tom Cruz Reacher movie. Then I read a handful of the books, and was just very disappointed in the casting.
It also depends on your ability to not leave when Rob Schneider shows up and starts Rob Schneidering all over the damn screen.
District 9
I might be in the minority but Chappie was a really good movie. It’s a real bummer Die Antword were so horrible to work with that the director kinda gave up on it.
I saw Chappie for the first time last week and was moderately devastated to find out there isn’t going to be sequels. It had so much style, humor and personality!
I remember reading that they were trying to get District 10 done?
Yeah, but before the director made several more movies that were all bad. I don’t know how he keeps getting work.
And yet M. Night still makes movies. You can’t explain that!
Bloody prawns!
I really wanted Spaceballs II, the Search for More Money.
Well you’re in luck!
Ooooh, thanks for the link. I’m cautiously optimistic.
And I was going to say “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, but apparenly a sequel for that is coming out too.
They’ve officially ran out of new ideas lol.
More streetcar conspiracy, please! A half-cartoon about good urbanism isn’t the movie we deserve, but it’s the movie we need.
They lost me at Josh Gad
Writing duo Samit and Hernandez are best known for their work as screenwriters for “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” “Pokemon Detective Pikachu,” “Addams Family 2,” and the upcoming Disney+/Lucasfilm special “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy.”
Hooooo boy.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It did quite well when it came out, and it felt like there was potential for sequels
I’m surprised nobody has done a modern TV version. All five books have been successfully adapted for radio, the scripts are done, it’s already blocked out into well-paced individual episodes. It’s just sitting there waiting to be made. You just need a good cast and a show runner who isn’t going to monkey with the source material. It’s already proven to be popular and long-lived. Seems like a no-brainer.
All five books have been successfully adapted for radio
As far as I’m aware, the first two radio series predate the books. So, in fact, they were successfully adapted into print.
show runner who isn’t going to monkey with the source material
When’s the last time THAT happened?
They know they could never top the existing tv series
Which I didn’t like at all, it felt too much like an audiobook to me, reading all the guide bits, not like an adaptation. Looks like you can never satisfy all fans at once.
Ohh that’s a good one. The other books afterwards were great too.
Would’ve loved a sequel and would honestly not mind them artistically fudging it a bit to pick back up with an older Arthur Dent
The Man from UNCLE. And because of Armie Hammer it’ll never happen
That was a hell of a Wikipedia read.
Came to post exactly this
Master and Commander. It was such a great adaptation of a hugely popular series, I expected it to do better at the box office than it did.
I would have loved a sequel, too. That movie would probably have done better if it had not have to compete to The Return of the King that year.
It was a great try, visually stunning and true to the overall feel of the book, but it didn’t have a very cohesive story. They tried to cover too much ground. It would have been better if they had just stuck to the first book.
It’s a phenomenal movie with lots of actually reasonable depictions of sailing in the era.
Matrix
Yeah, would have been nice to find out what happened after Neo flew away. At least Rage was playing.
But seriously: it was a perfect ending. Now he’s Superman, kicks everyone’s ass, frees mankind. The sequels were not only shit but completely unnecessary.
Is this a joke? Matrix has 3 terrible sequels.
Kung pow! They even had a silly thing after the credits that i thought was real but it never came to fruition =(
updates have been coming out all the way up to 2022, so who knows?
I’d also love to see this sequel.
It’s one of the projects I check every year or so, kung pow still makes me laugh.
As a fan of genuine hong kong kung fu cinema growing up, this remains one of the few films I had to stop watching about 15 minutes in—was clear whoever made the movie had never actually seen a kung fu film. To add insult to injury the dvd decided to hide itself under a pile of magazines causing me and my brother to pay extra on a massive late fee because of it. I hate that movie.
Wow that’s the worst reason to hate a movie i have ever seen. “as a fan of star wars, it was clear that the makers of spaceballs have no idea how to make a scifi movie.”
It was completely devoid of humor, and was clearly written by someone who had never actually watched the thing they were satirizing. I feel like that’s a pretty good reason to not like it.
There are a million genuine articles of badly dubbed, stupid and hilariously cheap kung fu movies out there, Kung Pow was like if Coke decided to make an off-brand Mr. Pibb.
It’s a bit odd to claim the guy who reedited and remixed an entire existing kung fu film never watched a kung fu film. Like his work or not, he pretty evidently saw the thing.
Warcraft
Like the video game. It was actually a pretty good introduction to the lore, (which I only know surface level from playing the games and not digging real deep. So there may have been mistakes) and it was just about to get good, but, there just wasn’t enough interest to sink more money in the franchise.
I just watched it this weekend and it was far better than I expected.
Now Borderlands… That’s a different story.
I saw Warcraft in theaters when it came out. I left the theater thinking that it was 6/10 at best.
Fast forward to 2021. I Saw that it had gotten better reviews since years ago, and I was thirsty for some nostalgia and was willing to give it another try. Turns out, I liked it more this time around. I believe that I had my expectations really high when I went to see it. Seconded watch, I gave it a 7.5/10.
I really liked how neither the Orcs or Humans were the bad guys. They painted both teams as equally sympathetic.
When we were following the Humans I was like “Yeah! Let’s crush those Orcs!” But then we start following the Orcs and I’m like “Watch out! Those asshole Humans are coming for you!”
I recently watched this and was surprised how much I enjoyed it, I expected it to be terrible based on the reviews.
I find this comment reassuring as I have said movie on my watchlist.
(My Warcraft knowledge is about almost finishing Warcraft III, for some reason I always leave it close at the end, or at least I think I am close.)
I got hooked on the franchise in Warcraft 2, played everything since.
We’re like evil twins! I haven’t played any Warcraft SINCE Warcraft 2!
But did you put the disk in a CD player for bitchin’ driving tunes?
Only for the secret disco track
What what what what what do you want?
Why do you keep touching me?
I said that on my wedding night.
My bride, “Zug zug”.
I think going back to warcraft 1 was ultimately a mistake. If they did a part closer to where the wow story was it would have done better.
I thought the exact same thing after I watched it. Sadly, that same thought made me especially excited for the sequel… that never came.
I understand why they did it, but there’s just too much to absorb. I was a fan, and although I recognized some of the names, I wasn’t familiar with any of the characters besides Gul’dan.
The entire first movie should have been a 5-10 minute exposition. “It’s been X years since we came through the portal…” And instead we follow Thrall and Grom, and Uther while two factions battle for dominance! (and it’s been a while, so I forget what all happens in Warcraft 2)
Now that I’ve typed it all out, I’ve decided that if they could only make one Warcraft movie, but I got to pick which era, it would definitely be Arthas and the Lich King. That’s a good story.
Kind of a downer ending though for mainstream audiences
Or the Warcraft III story, so good.
I never played wow and thought the movie was pretty good. Especially for a video game adaptation
Jumper. It was setting up an interesting world with more depth than the first movie could delve. I loved that one of the characters was so cool that the author of the original novel went out and wrote another book just about the movie’s character and it rocked.
In a similar vein, Chronicle. I absolutely love that film
I’ll make a note to check Chronicle out.
I loved Chronicle, but I’m not sure I would have loved a sequel.
Holy fucking shit that movie was good
The novel Jumper by Steven Gould, on which the film Jumper was based, spawned a continuing series that went on for a while and kept being pretty good. For the hell of it the author also wrote Jumper: Griffin’s Story which wasn’t part of his novels’ continuity, instead it was a prequel to the movie.
You should check out the porn parody, Humper
Buckaroo Banzai
Big Trouble in Little China
Freaking loved big trouble in little China. Cult classic to the max. I thought the magic was so cool!
Big Trouble in Little China
The problem was the story itself was so self-contained any sequel they tried would have clearly been nothing but a huge cash grab.
But they supposedly are making a sequel, starring The Rock 🫤
Is this the one where he plays the physically fit, yet somewhat goofy protagonist with corny jokes and facial expressions?
If they cast the rock in a Big Trouble sequel, I’m becoming a terrorist. He will ruin any franchise with his ego.
I was so ready to see Buckaroo Banzai take on the World Crime League.
There is a book, but it wasn’t very good. :(
1st book adapts the movie:
Return of the Jedi. Episode 7 is not a sequel but a remake. Episodes 8 and 9 are bullshit.
I mean, if we’re talking release order, then Return of the Jedi did get a sequel! It was called The Phantom Menace and ahh
Ahahaha hahahahahahahaha. I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I almost made it through with a straight face.
Constantine, I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to even talk about a sequel.
One of my favorites, the the series was excellent too. I’m not entirely sure which actor I liked best in the role
I loved the series, the movie not that much
He had some great animated movies. Unlike the movie with the worst casting decision in the history of comic book movies.
Amazed no one else has mentioned The Fifth Element. It was planned at one point I think but got cancelled.
The fifth element is a perfect self contained story. I’m not sure how you could up the stakes for a sequel. You could tell other stories in that world maybe, but I don’t think a sequel featuring the original characters would be good.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was something of a spiritual sequel by the same filmmaker, but it turned out to be an unentertaining bag of cinematic butt.
I found it to be rather entertaining, I liked the action, I liked the design and I liked some of the charactets. Unfortunately both the main characters and the plot seemed rather underdeveloped to me, so it kind of did turn out to be a bag of cinematic butt.
The leads were supposed to be flirty and romantic, but they came off as siblings. Any romance felt weird.
Yes, they did come off as siblings! It would be so much better if they were just friends. The sibling chemistry was there. I also found it strange that in the end the leading guy was supposed to finally stop playing it by the book, but he never really did during the whole film. That was a whole missing arch. And the bad guys were sleeping most of the time.
Oh my goodness. I loved The Fifth Element! I strongly believe that it’s a great example of movie pacing.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Crimson Skies and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow have somewhat-similar settings, if you’re jonesing for Sky Captain dieselpunk American alt-history interwar air-carrier content and are not aware of it. Was just talking about Crimson Skies with someone on here the other day.
Funny story. I happen to have a bunch of Crimson Skies toys sitting in a box, all unopened. There was a comic shop near my job and they had a clear-out table that sold unpopular items at a steep discount. I got a bunch of T-shirts and other stuff, and liked the Crimson Skies stuff. For a buck each, why not?
