This Friday , the prequel to The Thing comes out , and we ’re pass to get to detect out all about what bechance before John Carpenter ’s totally ego - contained pic . Will Hollywood never kibosh tacking on prequels to the get-go of movies that do n’t need them ? Probably not .
But here are 10 classical motion-picture show that utterly do not call for prequels . Please .
Actually , this past summer examine that prequels did n’t have to be awful — X - man : First Class and Rise of the Planet of the Apes were both astonishingly enough , maybe partly because they did n’t try too hard to establish continuity with the other films in their various serial publication .
10 . Galaxy Quest
We ’d still love to see a Galaxy Quest sequel , but a prequel ? aside from the fact that it would require Tim Allen to wear some really insane wigs and/or intend recasting some of the main role , it just seems like a terrible idea . We could comply the heyday of the original Galaxy Quest show , while also witnessing Sarris ’ rise to power , and see all of the jokes from the first motion picture run into the flat coat .
9 . The Matrix
I think The Animatrix covered some of this hooey anyway — but a movie about the ascent of the machines to power , and the tumble of manhood into becoming pod - dwelling batteries living in a imitation virtual world , would probably make the two Matrix sequel seem coherent and logical by comparability .
8 . District 9
in reality , I remember there were rumor that this one might in reality happen . We could regain out just how the dismal office in the original movie came to be , and just how the aliens add up to be trapped in this shanty town . On the one paw , it could give us an sixth sense into the aliens ’ society , include why they all seem to be actor / soldier aliens — but a sequel could do that , too . And witnessing the irksome chute into a dreadful muss would n’t be nearly as interesting as seeing the final result .
7 . Brazil
Speaking of witnessing the slide into dystopia — in worldwide , the inquiry of how things became dystopian is usually not as interesting as how the dystopia functions , and what it does to hoi polloi living in it . Plus there ’s no path a movie that attempted to trace a path from our man to Terry Gilliam ’s absurdist nightmare of a bureaucratic - fascist realm would be as full - on wild , or as memorable . Oh , and we could see the blood of Harry Tuttle ! ( And Buttle . )
6 . Tron
Instead of another Tron sequel , we could have a prequel , in which we go back and see how the programme in the Encom system first gained sense , and their very first attempt at fancy out how to confound a frisbee with lethal event . We could see how the MCP develop out of a chess curriculum ! We could witness the nativity of Bit . And we could see Tron and Clu as young programs , running from the glowing cyber - tank car . Err … no .
5 . Ghostbusters
Instead of a third movie that Bill Murray seems to oppose violently , you could make a prequel focus on the early solar day of Venkman , Stantz and Spengler at Columbia University , teach parapsychology and getting into fuss with the Dean and the Department Chair for their antic . It would be like Animal House crossed with the original Ghostbusters . With a sizeable dose of Revenge of the Nerds . Ack . I think we just found something scarier than any ghost .
4 . E.T. : The Extraterrestrial
How did E.T. come to get lost on this major planet ? ( Assuming you do n’t bribe theRobot Chicken account , that is . ) Where did E.T. come from , and why did he decide to visit Earth ? Meanwhile we could also find out where Elliot study to call people “ penis breath . ”
3 . RoboCop
Just how did OCP get to be so potent , and get such a throttlehold on the city of Detroit ? A prequel could show us the early years of OCP ’s rise , and we could also key out just how they create the ED-209 , and what the first 208 models were like . We could also seem in on the immature Alex Murphy , and witness his career as a non - cyborg policeman .
2 . piranha
Carl Weathers and Arnold Schwarzenegger had all this chronicle together that we never got to see — but in a prequel we could see it all . ( Arnie still looks young enough to make for his immature self , veracious ? ) Meanwhile , we could see the Predators studying the homo from a distance and decide to charge one marauder to Earth to hunt in South America . Maybe the Predators were keep an oculus on Arnie all along , and jazz that he would be the most life-threatening game ? perchance they had a bond with Arnie , even before their first meeting .
We already get to see the early days of “ Doc ” Brown in the original trilogy , as Marty visits the fifties and meets the young version of the Doc . But that still does n’t explain how Doc went about inventing a time machine , and what his early failed attempts were like . For all we know , he sent several other teenager on doomed time trips in a Corvette or a Jaguar , before really finding a metre automobile and a teenager that could make the trip . With a prequel , we could see “ Doc ” Brown soldering with another immature man — whom he then direct to a fiery expiry in a sentence machine that ’s not quite perfected , yet . obviate your eyes , Einstein !
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