Great movies which didnt produce a sequel

Either because they werent successful at the box-office or they were great as standalone movies.
Discuss
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Most times a great film that has no sequel because it's a historical drama or simply cannot have a sequel because the story has ended.

Gladiator is an example.

 

Swingers
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Numerous Martin Scorsese movies

 

E.T.

 

I agree.

 

I would like to have seen a sequel to The Truman Show.

Underrated film that one. I loved it.

I would liked to have seen Truman adjust to life outside the show, find his girl, sue the Network etc.

 

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Blade Runner
Inception

 

Heat

 

There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Third Man
Casablanca
The Deer Hunter


Weird thread, tbh.

 

Titanic.

 

Doesn´t really qualify: the main character died at the end. :scratcher:

 

Doesn´t count: is an historical biopic and the main ´character´....sank. ::

 

Not really. In an age where sequels pretty much are all money-based and common-as-fuck - why not explore the opposite end of the scale?

 

The bad guy main character did. Easily could have done another one with Pacino.

 

I dunno...maybe they could have explored Pacino´s troubled-cop charcater but I felt Heat was all about the De Niro:
"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

Micheal Mann movies tend to have that tie-up-the-loose-ends feel about them anyway...

 

That is the first one that came to my mind. Even though Spielberg promised a sequel to be titled 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind' he never went back to it. Then after 'E.T.' he said he was done with CE3K and wanted to do more children stuff.

The sequel is currently filming

no need to make a sequel for this. It would suck anyway.

 

:: Like this is going to be any good.
Who makes a fucking sequel 30 years after the original?!

Will be horrendously bad

 

Lol

 

A huge majority of great films don't produce sequels :dunno:

 

Yeah, your gritty Northern housing-estate-based Ken Loach human-condition dramas don't count, kid.

 

Fuck off you insufferable bellend

 

´And now, the long-awaited sequel by revered director, Ken Roach, which details a recovering alcoholic smack-addicted, Orange-walker from a council estate in Glasgow whose Mum works for the social, and has a part-time job on Saturday afternoonns selling puke-pies and piss-coffee along with blowing hapless footie-scum at Celtic Park.
Against the backdrop of modern-post-referendum depression, a chance encounter with the now, seriously fucked-by-Parkinson´s Disease Billeh Connery, this is a harrowing yet honest tale of life in the sickly North, and the long-journey of a free-thinking hero across boglands and grimy streets and across the Oirish Sea to finally meet the legendary, Jimmeh ´Mick´ Granton and decipher the secrets of the Revolutionary Workers Gang´

....ahhh fuck off!!!

 

Shawshank Redemption
Color Purple

 

I know you have this and others like it on your mind at the moment.

 

This little film deserves a sequel.

 

So what was Empire Strikes Back?

 

Taxi for magus

 

Would've been a great standalone movie!