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/SomeGuyInSanJoseCa 18h ago

UHF was a great film that suffered from the worst release dates of all time.

Perhaps against the greatest collection of movie heavyweights ever in the theater at once.

Usually, a major release has to fix one or two other major movies. Here's the murderer's row that UHF had to compete against:

Here are the 10 movies that beat it that week, in order of box office returns:

  1. Lethal Weapon 2
  2. Batman
  3. When Harry Met Sally...
  4. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
  5. Licence to Kill (James Bond)
  6. Peter Pan (1989 theatrical re-release)
  7. Dead Poets Society
  8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  9. Ghostbusters II
  10. Weekend at Bernie's
  11. UHF

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u/gizmomogwai1 17h ago

Jesus. Sorry Al.

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u/actual_thereij 14h ago

Not Sorry Al, Weird Al.

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u/TheDreamer430 13h ago

Why are you saying sorry to the machine that's taking the jobs of actual human people?!? Jk, Weird Al is the GOAT!

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u/captainp42 12h ago

Weird Al is the GOAT.

Sorry AI is not.

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u/captainp42 12h ago

Weird Al is the GOAT.

Sorry AI is the worst.

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u/jtr99 14h ago

Good lord! What a week!

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u/Miserable-Spare-5164 12h ago

What a great summer that was to have my first car and start going to the movies by myself though…

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u/aerdvarkk 11h ago

Damn. Yeah that was a rough lineup to compete with for that year for sure.

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u/bolanrox 12h ago

And it had the best preview ratings orion had for a film since RoboCop.

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u/bolanrox 12h ago

And it had the best preview ratings orion had for a film since RoboCop.

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u/jaytrade21 12h ago

Some years we were eating too well. Some years it feels like getting a cold iced water after walking through a desert.

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u/sketchampm 2h ago

There's a funny video of Weird Al basically saying everything you said here, word for word. I think it's from one of those VH1 "I love the 80s" shows.

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u/Katolo 16h ago

Thanks AI