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[deckardcanine]

As I'm sure you all know, sequels rarely win the Academy Award for Best Picture. What I didn't realize until pretty recently is that Best Pictures rarely get sequels either. There's The Silence of the Lambs, the first two Godfather parts, The French Connection, possibly In the Heat of the Night, and of course Rocky, but I think that's it. As a rule, few even leave room for a sequel. Consider:


2006 The Departed -- Several important deaths near the end.
2005 Crash -- Bunch of different plots that come together only briefly in places. Has any movie like that ever been sequelized?
2004 Million Dollar Baby -- Death.
2003 The Return of the King -- End of a trilogy. Tolkien wrote some more history after that, but just try to film it.
2002 Chicago -- Musicals and movies based on plays rarely get sequels, Grease notwithstanding. Besides, with the trials over, how much more can they do?
2001 A Beautiful Mind -- The guy's old at the end of the bio. I'm pretty sure the rest of his life isn't interesting.
2000 Gladiator -- Death.
1999 American Beauty -- Death.
1998 Shakespeare in Love -- A fictitious chapter in the real man's life, leading up to his authorship of Romeo and Juliet. What do you do for an encore? Shakespeare Paranoid for his authorship of Timon of Athens?
1997 Titanic -- You get the picture.


And lest you think it's only the newer stuff, take a look at the complete list and judge for yourself.

Comments

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

I heard somewhere that they wanted to do a sequel to Titanic with Rose working on the Britannic, but that was just a schoolyard rumour.

As for the other Tolkein stuff, someone once said that his historical material is only understandable if you read it backwards. I suppose they could sign Ian Holm to do The Hobbit as a prequel, but that opens a huge Tolkein estate can of worms.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

And either MAD or Cracked had its own set of ideas for Titanic sequels. Except that most weren't sequels so much as re-envisionings.

I had no trouble reading The Hobbit before The Lord of the Rings. Not sure about The Silmarilion. Anyway, there has been talk of a Hobbit movie coming up, but Peter Jackson probably will not direct it.

[tabeal.livejournal.com]

"I never cared for the God father."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqr2BuillY

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Heh. And a couple weeks ago, I was pointed to the movie's most glaring weakness: Sonny's fighting.

[tabeal.livejournal.com]

the list is soooo....whimpy. How Come not one, of the Terminator series or Escape New York made it?