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.
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 never understood why they thought it would be a good idea to have them in it. It’s not like they are known well enough to have a huge pull
I actually watched the movie because of them.
Stumbled upon the band on youtube, and I’d never heard anything like it before.Plus, their music videos are fucking sick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXlZfc1TrD0I used to love them until the stories of them being fucking horrible people came out. They’ve been accused of rape, human trafficking and slavery.
so, average Cape Town citizens
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 people keep giving Snyder money to make movies for stupid teenage boys.
Yeah, that’s another that makes no sense to me. People largely dislike all his recent works. “Let’s give him a huge budget for a two part star wars fan fic!”
Snyder has an amazing eye for action. Sucker Punch, 300, and Watchmen were all amazing visual/auditory feasts. Everything else about his movies is just average to below average, though.
Giving him a Star Wars makes perfect sense when you consider what Disney thinks of the Star Wars audience. “Just give them laser sword and space ships and explosions and they’ll be happy.”
Blomkamp is better in every way. I think he got blacklisted because the money guys didn’t like his social commentary.
I personally wouldn’t put him above Snyder in the visuals category, but I respect your opinion and I don’t think you’re way off or anything. I can see having that preference.
His stuff at least manages to make money somehow, so that makes some kind of sense from a money worship point of view. I doubt Blomkamp’s movies raked in as much cash though.
I mean, stupid teenage boys will spend what money they have to hang out with their friends… So, it’s a viable audience.
And yet M. Night still makes movies. You can’t explain that!
Bloody prawns!
The Matrix
Yeah, a real shame, that
Jurassic Park
… can we just pretend? Please?
Unpopular opinion, I actually really like the third one
…uhhhhhhh, I would ask your mom if she smoked while pregnant with you. There’s clearly something wrong with the development of how your brain came out.
Look, I’m not saying any of them come close to the original, but imo it’s the second best of the series (including all the dogshit jurassic worlds) because it sticks to what made the first one great; small amount of people trapped on an island with dinos. The Lost World was like half that but then it turns in to some weird almost king kong-esq thing. Also i love me some Goldblum but he’s better as a foil imo and Chris Pratt has nowhere near the gravitas as Sam Neil. Like really besides the annoying parents what do you not like about the third one?
U can just say Téa Leoni is hot
Sure she is, but not in that movie :D
What was wrong with the second movie?
It became a parody of Godzilla movies for no real reason. And it came out of nowhere. I call it the movies 4th act.
Jurassic World is a guilty pleasure of mine.
It’s good enough to grip you and at the same time so predictable and full of clichés it’s also funny.
Plus, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are both hot as hell.Promised Neverland s1
I think you wanted to post a top level comment.
I did not.
spoiler
The matrix, jurrasic park, and promised Neverland all got sequels that most people think are shit.
Why pretend? There’s never were a sequel. Fanfic, yes, not sequel.
What’s up with denying the trilogy? The shitty PC era movie I get it. But the sequels were excellent, the symbolism and how smith is defeated it’s brilliant. I bet you wanted a copy of the first movie.
You call it a trilogy because you reject the fourth one
I call it trilogy because I reject the first one
We are not the same
Jokes aside, I would call 2&3 a long movie, which makes it a trilogy again. One mistake is to see them as separate
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.
Galaxy Quest.
There was a script for one but Alan Rickman passed away (😭😭😭) and it got shelved. There are always rumors circling about still but nothing concrete.
Aren’t they currently developing a show based on GQ?
Off and on for 15 years.
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.
It’s a phenomenal movie with lots of actually reasonable depictions of sailing in the era.
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.
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.
Nice try Disney.
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 7
Do I need to have seen Big Hero 1 thru 5 to appreciate this one?
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.
They know they could never top the existing tv series
I blame Douglas Adams’ extended tax evasion scheme. I think they were already struggling to finish the first one.
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 movie wasn’t living up to the book though…
And the book wasn’t living up to the original radio series
Mostly kidding on that
I agree that I like the book better, initially I disliked the movie, but I’ve come around on it, some things from the radio series were changed for the book, and so it just kind of feels right they’d further change things for the movie. Playing a little fast and loose with it feels very in the Douglass Adams spirit to me.
But does it live up to the text adventure?
Yep
Get analgesic.
This guy gets it
(the analgesic)
But you didn’t hang your towel up before pressing the button.
Douglas Adams writing doesn’t translate well to film I think, a bit like Pratchett’s. It can be done (Good Omens was a great adaptation of Pratchett) but it’s probably super hard to do well and keep the original feeling/spirit
I believe Adams himself considered each different medium to be “it’s own story” though just as he added and changed things from the radio play for the book, he also added and changed things in the movie screen play… When he was involved in it. I’m not going to pretend it was all his work but it was it’s own thing.
Most don’t but that’s ok :) I still liked it
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
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!
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:
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.
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.
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
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.
Dude, it has sequels. I especially loved revolutions.
Reloaded and revolution?
I know it’s a joke. But is bad, especially since those movies were great and made money.
“Great” is a massive overstatement. They were passable movies that suffered from bad pacing and exposition dumping. I don’t hate reloaded or revolutions, but I’m not going to go out of my way to watch them like I do for the first one.
Matrix sequels underrated crew rise up!
Say what you will about the Wachowskis, they never fail to push boundaries and try something weird and interesting with every film.
I’m very glad that the people who don’t appreciate that haven’t stopped them from doing what they do. What a bunch of wet blankets.
The biggest problem with those two movies is that the pacing was awful. You had exhausting fight and chase scenes followed by scenes that had way too much mumbo jumbo dialogue. Every scene could have been made shorter without losing any plot points.
Is only mumbo jumbo if you don’t understand them. I got them just fine. And the action scenes were groundbreaking, nobody else tried something like that before in Hollywood movies, it was a delight to see
I understood them all just fine… Still poor pacing. The first movie was basically half buildup for the second half’s continuous action. Two and three both suffered from the abrupt slow down after the action scenes that I personally feel never really got “better.”
I mean, I’ve got them all so I’m not going to pretend they’re as bad as other movies that we pretend didn’t get sequels but they just worse than the first one.
That said, I would regularly rewatch a cut that was just all the action scenes.
Jonn Dies at the End
