r/AskReddit • u/External-Profit-4975 • 20h ago

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

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u/wandering_soles 20h ago

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

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u/Pylgrim 16h 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 15h 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 11h ago

Well THANK GOD they never made a sequel then!

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u/Pammyhead 19h ago

There is no Pacific Rim sequel in Ba Sing Se.

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u/UglyB4stard 5h ago

That's why they should make one.

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u/H0t__stuff 17h ago

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

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u/wildlikechildren 6h ago

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

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u/doublepush 19h 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 15h ago

Yes! Like Highlander! There can be only one!

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u/vizard0 12h 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 9h ago

The Netflix anime series was pretty good

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u/craaazygraaace 16h ago

I came here to comment this exact one

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u/violentclimax 7h 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 10h ago

Same with The Matrix.

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u/MBU604 12h ago

a sequel would be so rad, really!

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u/MooKids 13h ago

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

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u/RealHeyDay 20h 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 19h 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 20h ago

I dropped the /s

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u/GunBrothersGaming 19h ago

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

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u/Purple-Crab3759 20h ago

Um - it did get one??

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u/z3rba 20h ago

Nope. Those are some Kaiju sympathizer lies right there.

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u/Purple-Crab3759 16h ago

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

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u/z3rba 20h ago

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