We can dream right

I'd trade the fast and furious series for a pack of cigarettes and a sixer.

And I don't even smoke or drink
We can just throw the series away. No trade necessary.
I’d trade them for a swift slap on the ass

This person is the kind of person that would keep wishing on a monkey paw. The rest of Niell Blomkamp's movies have been not great, and a sequel would probably be so bad to make the original worse.

What the FUCK did you just say about Chappie???
- Chappie was bad, and I say that as a Die Antwoord enjoyer.
- In comparison to District 9, Chappie was pretty awful. I was VERY excited for it but left disappointed. It was so campy and...unrealistic? That sounds stupid to say in the same breath as praise for District 9 but I don't mean the settings, I mean the stories. The character writing and plot were just not great.
- It was nothing original, just Short Circuit with guns
Not great doesn't mean bad. I had fun with Gran Turismo

I would trade six monkey paws for Hollywood to stop being so risk averse

But that’s where all the rich people pour their money dude
WON’T SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE RICH PEOPLE 😂
- Privately owned studios should all be run at a loss as a point of pride among the wealthy. "Oh, you're funding a popular film? For profit? How embarrassing for you."
[edit] I misinterpreted the intent of this comment to mean the complete opposite - the person I am replying to is NOT saying that there's no sequel because Hollywood is risk averse so my first paragraph is arguing a point they're not making, my bad
~~I agree with the statement but I feel like you have it backwards. Introducing a new cast and story is a risk, remaking or filming a sequel of a beloved movie is the safe bet they keep falling back on.~~
Maybe I'm in the minority here but I'm content that there's no sequel to District 9. The story was told well and had a proper ending. I loved the characters and world building but I don't need another story set there unless it was planned that way from the start.
Maybe it'd be good. I'd love to be wrong. I've just been burned way too many times by hamfisted sequels to get excited anymore - especially when the original came out as long as this one
- I agree with everything you said, so I'm not sure what I've got backwards ?
- (instead of editing it, Lemmy decided to post my edited comment as a separate comment and I just deleted it. Sorry for pinging your inbox!)

Why? The first one was very experimental. They release a second one they are given two bad choices. They continue the original cinematic vision but being a sequel the plot suffers and it fails or they try something new and it falls flat.

Why ruin a perfectly, self contained, what I would consider masterpiece by trying to expand the universe.

I would be ok with exploring the world some more but maybe in more traditional heros tale type outline. Even then half the audience will think your getting, excuse the bad joke, "district 10."

Most sequels are sub-par, agreed. But this story does seem half-finished at the end of the film, a sequel would practically write itself.
- Tbh, the sequel is the aliens come back and conquer humanity, but since the whole thing is a metaphor for apartheid politics, the sequel plays into a bit of a different narrative than anti-racism.
  Though it'd honestly be pretty great if the sequel was the aliens don't come back, but Earth tears itself apart worrying about what will happen if they do.
- They said before making mortal combat annihilation
Not just experimental, but an afterthought made with leftovers of a partially made movie that production failed on.
The location, props, cgi, and even parts of the story were the scraps of the Halo movie that Peter Jackson started to make before abandoning it.
The result was an excellent movie, but the circumstances of slapping a new coat of paint onto a half produced film make for a very unique and hard to replicate product.

I raise you the complete Marvel trash heap and several individual "sequels" made in the last 5 or so years. Neill Blomkamp has so many ideas, literally dozens of teasers are on YouTube. Most of them are seriously awesome. Do we really have to wait until all the geriatric Hollywood dinosaurs are dead? And with then their talentless and greedy "protégés"?

You're not thinking this through. Bring the Krill into the F&F movies.

And they can all be a big happy FAMILY !!!

I’d really like them to make a sequel to “The Matrix”

Me too buddy, me too.
2&3 are good. they expanded the lore to be much more interesting, made agent smith a much more compelling character, threw away the stupid "chosen one" and "freedom fighter" cliches in favor of making the movies more about humanity's ability to choose rather than compliance and accepting inevitability, and had amazing scenes. i honestly don't know what people were expecting to see from those movies, but i bet every idea they would come up with instead would be stupid or redundant.

I was so excited for Elysium because I thought it would be the spiritual sequel.

Yeah and I feel its problem was on the writing and directing. The concept was there but you just didn’t care about characters. They should’ve made the first half a romance, and then the second half about vengeance/redemption.
- And it was...pretty one-dimensional.
  I feel like the "rich live in the sky, poor live on the wasted earth" was over the top. As opposed to S1 of Altered Carbon which was way better at addressing this trope. The meths were depraved, but you could kinda understand it --- they've been alive for so long, but want to continue to "feel alive" through ever more extreme experiences.

guess you're not family.

They are making a district 10.

There's been vague rumours for 15 years now. I'll believe it when I see it.
So I saw a blurb about this recently and it seems unfounded. Only 1 place was reporting anything and nowhere else online would corroborate it.
The last known news before that was the project is currently on hold for an unknown length of time. It may or may not get made. It's far from certain yet.
Like irl or a movie?

Let's not dream about that. Lately, all the remakes and reenvisions have been nothing but a quick cash grab and extreme disappointment to all those who loved original works.

i did always want a sequel where the aliens came back and wrecked shit with their actual military so i can cheer them on

A sequel called District 10 has been written. About a year ago Neill Blomkamp said he’s unsure about making it now but believes it might be made in the future.

Part 2 is happening irl right now in occupied Palestine.

Christopher Nolan disagrees.

Yes, google it, I was amazed too.

Huh?
- google search

@01010101011

what was the movie?

No thanks. I've seen the rest of his movies.

... wait... you guys wouldn't trade Fury & Fastest movies for free?

Turn back from family (and their 58 gear manual car transmissions) and return to space monke!

Didn't what's his butt say he'd never make a sequel? Or am I misconstruing memories on Terantino lying about how he was only going to ever make 7 movies (or what ever the number was exactly).

@01010101011 https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3896050201/?playlistId=tt1136608&ref=ttprovvi

Oh fuck yes! Any time!

I really really want a super 8 sequel or triology in general (so 2 more movies)

Think it could be pretty good but maybe they didn’t think it out that far.

Anyone got a list of sci fi movies based off a book series that just never made another movie after the first before I ask GPT? lol

Does he have different eyeballs.

In this scene, yes

What movie is this?

District 9

Absolutely agreed.

Just don't make it as awful as Chappie was. Damn, what a infuriatingly bad flick.

I liked Chappie, it was good
- It was one of my most favourite movie of all time

This movie was okay, but I don’t really consider it to be sci-fi. It’s more a political drama.

If your sci fi isn't making some sort of social or political statement, its not sci fi - its just sparkling futurism.
- ... wow, "sparkling futurism" is the phrase I didn't know t needed, thx.
  \ It classifies so much stuff perfectly!
- Disagree.
Yeah, it's not a-political like real sci fi like Star Trek
- What was the allegory of the original Stargate movie, actually? Something about the working class overcoming monarchy, maybe? TBH it kind of played off as US Military intervention in the Middle East propaganda... Yeah that's probably it.
How dare sci-fi explore political issues, like the tendency of humanity to resort to othering people that make them uncomfortable.
- I’m fine with it, it’s just that the sci-fi is a thin veneer for the political message.
It can be both.
counter point: cool robots
I ... actually kinda agree with you.
\ I get that 'if alien then sci-fi' is the norm for designating sci-fi (like, if it contains science fiction then it's sci-fi, regardless of the plots focus, the entire thing is classified by the setting).
But my head-canon also focuses on what the story is about.
\ If I could take out the sci-fi elements & the story wouldn't change (ie could be set in today's Earth), then I only see it as -fi. But also the story could be set on today's Earth but with one single smol sci-fi element (a piece of tech of sorts), and if the entire plot focuses on it, then I understand it as sci-fi.
The most controversial example of this (just in my head) wound be Star Wars. Much later in the extended universe things changed, but the movies started out as pure westerns, like, the same story could have been told as a western and especially the screenplay parts wouldn't have to change, just the backdrop (Im not being literal, but not far from it).
Space sci-fi in general has the tendency to use the dimensions in space like if everything was happening on Earth.

Boring ass movie

Idk why everyone like this movie the main character was a pos until the very last sec and did a good thing in the end which costs him nothing much, i mean that is not a bad thing as sometimes lead's being bad good be cool but the movie really want everyone to feel for him and like him fuck him, fuck that and fuck the movie .