I'm going to be totally radical here and freak everyne out -- I think "Evil Dead II" is a totally uneeded sequel. However, it's also a great movie and IMHO better than "Evil Dead 1." But basically, it's a remake of the first one, just with better production and more comedy! I've never even been able to figure out the continuity between ED1 and ED2, but I think that's part of the "thing." So basically I'm saying if you're talking sequels that weren't needed due to the plot of the first one, ED2 would have to be high on my list. It still kicks ass though.

I AM IN SHOCK that no one has mentioned:



Anyone remotely associated with making a Wizard of Oz II should be dealt with in the strongest means humanly possible.

--LVM

I must admit that I enjoyed the superior-to-Turbulence Airport series. At least they got big name stars every time, for the most part. Who doesn't love the one recurring character: George Patroni aka George Kennedy?

--LVM

I can't help but laugh when I see Airport movies. Just because Airplane! is perhaps one of my favorite films ever, and it lampoons those films so well.

I'd throw in The Evening Star as a wholely unecessary sequel. I'll bring it up because I had to watch it. Terms of Endearment = decent movie, it's sequel = utter trash.

1.Teen Wolf Too-if 1 wasnt bad enough we get part Too but with boxing this time,one of the worst movies ever.
2.Revenge of the Nerds 2:Nerds in Paradise
3.Porkys Revenge
4.Porkys 3
5.Children of the Corn 2-4
6.Criters 2 and 3 in space
7.Pet Cemetary 2
8.Carrie 2

Cruel Intentions 2

Airplane! is my favorite film of all time. It is # 1 on my list, bar none.

If you laugh when you see Airport, you have GOT to see Zero Hour!, which was the film that was the ENTIRE bases of Airplane.

In fact, the guys (ZAZ) had to buy the rights to the film in order to make Airplane! (as you probably already know, they discuss Zero HOur! extensively on the commentary to Airplane!).

Imagine Airplane!, but played perfectly straight as a serious drama, in black and white, in 1957 with Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove) and Dana Andrews (Airport '75).

I hope one day Zero Hour makes it to DVD (maybe with an Airplane 2 disc SE one day). It is truly a must see for an Airplane! lover.

--LVM

Land Before Time 2-40

Dumb and Dumberer
The Son of the Mask
Cruel Intentions 2
Dirty Dancing II
The Whole Nine 'n' Half Yards (Sequel to Bruce Willis / Mathhew Perry film)

The Son Of the Mask........


Why????

And then if, Titanic 2 comes out...... i will believe the end is near..

Endless summer 2, I mean if its endless then why would they need a sequel.

Little Girl: I like my coffee black...like my men.

I am still regretting not knowing that this movie played back to back with "Airplane!" on AMC (i think) a few months ago. I really have got to see this Zero Hour! movie....its like a quest in life.

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I hope one day Zero Hour makes it to DVD (maybe with an Airplane 2 disc SE one day). It is truly a must see for an Airplane! lover.

Hopefully we get an SE that includes the scenes that were added for TV (like the little kids talking more).

I can't help but laugh when Airplane! is on because of a conversation at work some years ago. Airplane! was on and a co-worker said she had never seen the movie to which one of the mangers replied.

"You've never seen Airplane? What are you, a communist?"

Some of my favorites:

When A Stranger Calls Back
Sometimes They Come Back Again

Really, you couldn't make up better sequel titles. I'm still waiting for:

Casblanca II
The Return Of The Return Of The King
Son Of Pulp Fiction

I totally disagree. Should no one ever make another Oz film because the 1939 classic is so great?

L. Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books and Return to Oz is based on the second (The Marvelous Land of Oz) and the third (Ozma of Oz). Plus it's far more faithful to Baum than the original. Also, I think it is quite good and enormously underrated.

Anyway, I consider Return to be more an adaptation of those Oz books than a sequel to the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz.

How about Highlander? For God's sake, they say "There can be only one" about a million times in the film...and then there is only one! That's pretty much it!

I love the original, but there was no need for a sequel.

Definitely Star Wars Episodes I and II. It proves that me that as long as you have eye-candy and a popular franchise's name behind your movie, you could make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Why do people constantly claim ED2 to be a remake of the first? ED2 is as much of a remake of ED 1 as Army of Darkness is a remake of ED2. ED2 continues the story, which is pretty much the definition of a sequel. I guess there's confusion with people thinking Ash is going back to the cabin at the start of ED2, when he isn't. That part is just recapping what happened in the first one, while lopping off the non-Linda characters. That's why 15 minutes into the movie they have the shot that ended Evil Dead in Evil Dead 2, because it continues on from that point.

If ED2 was just a remake of ED1, where was Henrietta in ED1, where was the Chainsaw hand? Where was the portal to the past? Where were the other characters? Where was the hilarious scene with the laughing furniture? They weren't there, because Evil Dead 2 wasn't a remake.

I agree with Raimi when I say you can lop off the beginning of ED2, and Army of Darkness to make one 5 hour movie. Granted there are many stylistic differences, but it still follows Ash all the way through his story.

Halloween III proves that you can make a movie that doesn't have anything in common with the movie (or in this case movies) it is suppoed to be a sequel to...except for the name.

Halloween III. That was a waste of a rental back in the day (VHS).

It is the only of the Halloween series that I have ZERO desire to own. Completely pointless.

Regarding RTO, I realize that there was more faithfulness to the book in RTO. That is not what I was referring to. WOO is such a part of true "epic" Americana, that making a sequal to it just seems, to me anyway, disrespectful. There are just some films that are best left alone.

Regarding Airplane and Zero Hour, you are correct. It played on AMC and TCM at different points. I do believe it is a public domain film at this point (but I could be wrong), so you might be able to find someone selling it on VHS if you look good.

Good luck!

Things change....my kids and my kids friends actually like RTO more then WOO.

Has anyone mentioned the dreadful Mummy series yet?

My God, LOOK at the Puppet Horse/Donkey thing!! How many minutes and cents do you think it took to put that together?


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i actually liked Mummy 2. But the horrible Rock spinoff, I could have done without.

Do we really need a sequel to Dirty Dancing?

Exactly! Heard many a groans during this preview in the theater.

They were just being true to the story as it was written.

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"The first thing required for the machine," said he, "is a body big enough to carry the entire party. This sofa is the biggest thing we have, and might be used for a body. But, should the machine ever tip sideways, we would all slide off and fall to the ground."

"Why not use two sofas?" asked Tip. "There's another one just like this down stairs."

The two sofas were now bound firmly together with ropes and clothes-lines, and then Nick Chopper fastened the Gump's head to one end.

"These great palm-leaves, for which I have endangered my life seven times, must serve us as wings."

So he fastened the palm-leaves to the sofas, two on each side.

"Stop a moment!" exclaimed Jack." Are you not going to use my broom?"

"What for?" asked the Scarecrow.

"Why, it can be fastened to the back end for a tail," answered the Pumpkinhead. "Surely you would not call the Thing complete without a tail."
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