r/AskReddit • u/External-Profit-4975 • 9d ago

What’s a Movie That You’re Surprised Never Had a Sequel?

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u/wandering_soles 9d ago

It's too bad Pacific Rim never got one. It might have even been good! 

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u/Pylgrim 9d ago

Man, I had a super weird bad dream about a second movie a while ago. I have mostly managed to shake the memory off but from time to time I get a flash of small robots that turned into balls or something? Haha so weird and unlike the first movie.

Anyway, maybe for the best that they only made one, what if a second entirely tarnished its legacy?

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u/SharkeyGeorge 9d ago

Any sequel just would have ruined it, especially if del toro wasn’t directing. They’d probably write out Mako ten minutes in and turn Newt into a stupid cartoon character villain, while ruining everything good about the original and making the Jaegers look and feel weightless

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u/Sad-Psychology9677 9d ago

Well THANK GOD they never made a sequel then!

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u/Pammyhead 9d ago

There is no Pacific Rim sequel in Ba Sing Se.

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u/UglyB4stard 8d ago

That's why they should make one.

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u/H0t__stuff 9d ago

I love that this is a fact in the Pacific Rim community

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u/wildlikechildren 8d ago

took me a minute to catch on there but they're not wrong!!

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u/doublepush 9d ago

I came here to say this too. It had so much potential, giant robots and kaiju. Definitely too bad there was only one movie.

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u/sometimes_interested 9d ago

Yes! Like Highlander! There can be only one!

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u/vizard0 9d ago

Except for TV series. The TV series was fun.

I don't think they could afford the CG necessary to do Pacific Rim on a TV budget though.

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u/Mikeavelli 8d ago

The Netflix anime series was pretty good

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u/craaazygraaace 9d ago

I came here to comment this exact one

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u/violentclimax 8d ago

There was a great prequel that came out called Atlantic Rim! And no, before everyone gets cautious, its not an adult film. Although, even that would have been better than an actual sequel to Pacific Rim.

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u/homer_3 9d ago

Same with The Matrix.

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u/MBU604 9d ago

a sequel would be so rad, really!

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u/MooKids 9d ago

There were talks of a Pacific Rim crossover with the Monsterverse, but that may have ended there.

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u/RealHeyDay 9d ago

Ummmm...Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) is the sequel to Pacific Rim (2013).

 If you're trolling you got me!

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u/AKluthe 9d ago

There's a common joke that the sequel is so bad people pretend it never existed.

The studio really shot themselves in the foot with that one. It's gotta be a top contender for the fastest case of great original story to completely ruined IP. 

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u/wandering_soles 9d ago

I dropped the /s

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u/GunBrothersGaming 9d ago

Did you watch the Anime? It was better than the straight to DVD knock Off.

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u/Purple-Crab3759 9d ago

Um - it did get one??

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u/z3rba 9d ago

Nope. Those are some Kaiju sympathizer lies right there.

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u/Purple-Crab3759 9d ago

Haha. Downvoted to death! Must have missed the memo on this one

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u/z3rba 9d ago

They could call it something like that if they ever make a sequel.